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The song was written for Gibbard's then-wife Zooey Deschanel. The band first announced the song would be their next single on August 1, 2011. [11] The band promoted the song with a performance on Late Show with David Letterman on September 29, 2011. [12] "Stay Young, Go Dancing" received positive reviews from contemporary music critics.
Frontman Ben Gibbard wrote the song after his divorce from actress Zooey Deschanel, and the lyrics of the song directly reference Beverly Hills and what he viewed as its vapid celebrity culture. Music critics complimented the tune for its hooks and spirit, and "The Ghosts of Beverly Drive" was a radio hit in the United States, reaching the top ...
Innes's inspiration for the song was the title of a story in an old American pulp fiction crime magazine he came across at a street market. [1] Stanshall's primary contribution was to shape "Death Cab for Cutie" as a parody of Elvis Presley (notably Presley's 1957 hit "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear"), and he sang it as such, with undertones of 1950s doo-wop.
Death Cab for Cutie, the name deriving from the Vivian Stanshall/Neil Innes song "Death Cab For Cutie", began in 1997 as a solo project by Ben Gibbard when he was a guitarist for the band Pinwheel. He recorded under the name All-Time Quarterback. As Death Cab for Cutie, he released a cassette, You Can Play These Songs with Chords, during the ...
The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie have toured extensively as co-headliners in recent years, and both Ben Gibbard-led groups are now confirmed to anchor the lineup for the Just Like Heaven ...
The sound of 2003 was the feather-light yearning of Ben Gibbard, nasal frontman of Death Cab for Cutie and the blueprint for every proto-softboi with an unrequited crush and their headphones ...
Benjamin Gibbard (born August 11, 1976) [2] is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as the lead vocalist and guitarist of the indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, with whom he has recorded ten studio albums, and as a member of the supergroup The Postal Service.
“You Are a Tourist” was Death Cab for Cutie's first single off their seventh album, “Codes and Keys,” released in 2011, and was their first No. 1 hit on Billboard's Alternative Airplay chart.