Militarie Gun and dazy team up again for new single, “Tall People Don’t Live Long”

Militarie Gun and dazy first teamed up three years ago on the killer single “Pressure Cooker,” which landed on our own list of the Best Songs of 2022. Now, the L.A. post-hardcore group and Richmond power pop artist are collaborating again on a new song, “Tall People Don’t Live Long.” It’s a similarly catchy pop banger, but this time around there’s a bit less punk in its sound and a whole lot more Madchester/baggy groove. Hear it below.

Militarie Gun’s Ian Shelton said about the song in a statement, “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.”

James Goodson of dazy adds, “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. 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.”