You're On Fire
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| song name | You're on Fire |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | Nanobots, You're On Fire (Promo), Idlewild, 50,000,000 They Might Be Giants Songs Can't Be Wrong |
| year | 2013 |
| first played | February 27, 2013 (111 known performances) |
| run time | 2:42 |
| sung by | John Linnell; John Flansburgh and Robin Goldwasser back |
Trivia/Info
- John Linnell on the song in a 2025 interview with the A.V. Club:
I think my favorite aspect of that song is the echo on the guitar, and the rhythm of the song is built around what's going on with Dan Miller's guitar. He’s hitting a pretty sparse rhythm, but then the echo goes back and forth and creates a hybrid rhythm. That's a very technical thing, but that's, in a way, the whole basis of the beat. And then I suppose it's somewhat kind of a funny lyric about the expression "you're on fire" and the literal meaning of "you're on fire."
- The music video for the song was directed by Hoku Uchiyama and Adam Bolt. It stars Lauren Lapkus, then known for her role on the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black. Linnell on Lapkus' involvement[1]:
John [Flansburgh] and I went to the Comedy Bang Bang! podcast, and [Lauren] told us she had agreed to do the video because she thought she was going to meet us. She did not. Which is great, just to think, "Well, of course the band will be there because it's them on the song…." And I'm sorry we didn't get to meet her, but unfortunately, you don't necessarily show up for your own video.
- This song was made available via Stereogum.com on February 21, 2013, in advance of the release of Nanobots.
Song Themes
Bad English, Bodily Mutilation, Fire, Forgetting And Remembering, Gleeful Irreverence, Heads, Lies And Deception, Music, No, Non-John Vocals, Questions, Reading, References To Other Songs Or Musicians, Swear Words, Transportation
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