Militarie Gun have teamed up with Dazy for a new single called ‘Tall People Don’t Live Long’. Check it out below.
It marks the second time that the Los Angeles band have teamed up with the Richmond group, following on from their 2022 collaborative track ‘Pressure Cooker’.
The new single also comes as the first new music from the former NME Cover stars since the standalone track 2024 ‘Thought You Were Waving’, and ‘Gun Under The Gun (MFG)’ – which was created for the WWE 2K24 video game as the walk-in music for Post Malone’s wrestling character.
‘Tall People Don’t Live Long’ captures the signature charm of the two contemporaries, and uses a tongue-in-cheek attitude to explore themes of resilience and overcoming oppression.
Check it out below, alongside a black-and-white video directed by Militarie Gun’s Ian Shelton, where he and Dazy’s James Goodson meet up to dance in the shadows.
“James is taller than me so you can guess how I came up with the title of this song,” Shelton explained. “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. ’
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“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.”
Goodson continued: “Ian and I wrote this song shortly after ‘Pressure Cooker’ came out and it made us realise 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,” he added. “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.”
The single also arrives after the Militarie Gun frontman joined Dazy on stage in New York City last week, and gave the song its live debut.
Speaking to NME as part of their feature on The Cover, the members of Militarie Gun explored how their sound has evolved since their formation, and how they hope their live performances will resonate with fans.
“Hardcore is very youth-centric and it’s cathartic in a way everybody can relate to, because it’s less about an aesthetic and more about the energy,” drummer Vince Nguyen said. “Whether someone is actively a part of it or just watching, they can feel involved and feel like they’re a part of something that is bigger than them.”