Los Angeles group Militarie Gun have teamed up with Richmond’s Dazy. The track titled ‘Tall People Don’t Live Long’, follows the pairings 2022 collaboration, ‘Pressure Cooking’.
The track takes a beat-heavy approach, leaning into Dazy‘s harmonious indie-pop sound, providing a laid-back, summery vibe in the process.
“Ian and I wrote this song shortly after ‘Pressure Cooker’ came out and it made us realize how daring we could actually be with songwriting,” Dazy’s James Goodson offers. “It came together really quickly in an afternoon of us sending ideas back and forth, and I’ll never forget how we couldn’t stop listening to the demo and saying ‘I can’t believe we wrote this.’ Years later we were finally able to get together and take the song over the finish line with Justin Raisen. We see Dazy & Militarie Gun as basically its own band, a separate body of work from our other music with its own identity, and I think this song really solidified that idea for us.”
Militarie Gun‘s Ian Shelton commented on the track’s title and meaning. “James is taller than me, so you can guess how I came up with the title of this song. What started as a joke between us turned into a real conversation about how sometimes people who have reached certain heights in life begin to look down on others. ’Tall people’ became our tongue-in-cheek term for anyone that’s lost so much perspective that they think it’s alright to make someone feel less-than. This song is about rejecting that attitude—the bigger they are, the harder they fall.”
The track is Militarie Gun‘s first new music since last year’s infectious standalone single, ‘Thought You Were Waving’.
