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When You Die
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- Album
- Little Dark Age
- Released
- 2018
- Genres
- indie
- Length
- 4:24
- Tempo
- 141 BPM
- Label
- Columbia
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About this song
"When You Die" is the second single from MGMT's fourth studio album, Little Dark Age, released on December 12, 2017. The song premiered through The New Yorker alongside its music video, directed by Mike Burakoff and Hallie Cooper-Novack and starring Alex Karpovsky and Lucy Kaminsky. Psych-rocker Ariel Pink co-wrote the track and also plays guitar on it.
What it's about
The video follows a failing magician as he dies, and its imagery is psychedelic, hallucinatory and horrifying.
Fun facts
- Sampled in 3 other songs, like “III. anger by jerimiawongo”.
- Written by Ariel Pink, Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser.
- Produced by Andrew VanWyngarden, Ben Goldwasser, Dave Fridmann and Patrick Wimberly.