Super Cool (song)

Not to be confused with "Super Cool" by Beck, Robyn and The Lonely Island.

"Super Cool"
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Single by They Might Be Giants
from the album Book
Released	September 21, 2021
Genre	Alternative rock
Length	2:11
Label	Idlewild
They Might Be Giants singles chronology
"I Lost Thursday" (2021) "Super Cool" (2021) "Who Are the Electors?" (2021)

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"Super Cool" is a song by alternative rock band They Might Be Giants. The single was released on September 21, 2021, and featured four new tracks.

Production and release

The single was released two months before their album Book, which features all four songs on the single.

On October 12, 2021, almost one month before the "Super Cool" single, They Might Be Giants released another single "Part of You Wants to Believe Me", which features all four songs on "Super Cool" plus a new song with the same name as the single.

John Flansburgh discussed the song at length in a 2021 interview.

Super Cool is kind of a sentimental song. It's really about falling in love, and then going back to the place that you fell in love. I guess more specifically - one of the things that happens to people is that when they're falling in love, they find themselves doing things that they normally would never do, except in the circumstance of falling in love. And how much those unique experiences fold into one another. I'm just sort of experimenting with a couple of different, very disparate musical styles. There's this kind of one-chord thing in the breaks, that, in a way, is a hat tip to a Beatle-esque version of exotica. It's not based on any scale or any musical impulse that's authentic. [...] The actual meat of the song is this kind of vague Latin thing. Maybe it's not so vague. It does the kind of minor/major thing that a lot of Latin songs do very successfully. So I think I was taking a bit of that approach, and pulling it into our universe. That's pretty unusual terrain for us, but it came out really nice. The band sounds really great on it.

John Flansburgh, IHeartRadio podcast, 2021

The song "I Lost Thursday" is a song relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. with member John Flansburgh saying in a 2021 interview with Gothamist, "I Lost Thursday seemed like a personal song in a way, but obviously it's a kind of a universal sentiment in the era of the pandemic. But in some ways I feel like I could have written the song at any time."

Reception

Writing for PopMatters, Chris Cottan felt that the song did not live up to its name, saying that the song title is the complete opposite of the song's tone.

Track listing

All tracks written by They Might Be Giants..

"Super Cool" track listing
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Super Cool"	2:11
2.	"I Can't Remember the Dream"	3:12
3.	"I Broke My Own Rule"	3:22
4.	"I Lost Thursday"	3:14
Total length:		12:01

Personnel

They Might Be Giants

• John Linnell – vocals, accordion
• John Flansburgh – vocals, guitar
• Danny Weinkauf – bass, keyboard
• Marty Beller – drums

References

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