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Drawing, from the Apollo 18 promo, representing the song.
song nameThe Statue Got Me High
artistThey Might Be Giants
releasesApollo 18, The Statue Got Me High (EP), Direct From Brooklyn, Dial-A-Song: 20 Years Of They Might Be Giants, A User's Guide To They Might Be Giants: Melody, Fidelity, Quantity
year1992
first playedFeb. 1, 1992 (106 known performances)
run time3:06
sung byJohn Linnell

Trivia/Info

  • John Linnell: "It's kind of a song about having an epiphany or something. The song actually started with completely different lyrics. That's what I was saying about dummy lyrics. I think the song was called "The Apple of My Eye". When I came up with the line "the statue got me high", it amused me. It was taking two things and putting them together - nota non sequitur but something sort of interesting and odd about the juxtaposition of those two things. Part of it is that it's the idea that the statue would be in a public square, a monument. Not necessarily a work of art, but something that's just utterly immobile and represents something that's in the past - just the idea of that blowing somebody's mind. It seems like one of the least likely things to make the top of your head come off, and that's what happens in the song." - In Their Own Words
  • John Linnell said at a 1994 show, "This song is based on, uh, the life of Don Giovanni, which I didn't know when I wrote the song." Don Giovanni is an opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Lorenzo Da Ponte that does in fact share a number of similarities with the song's lyrics.
  • Video directed by Adam Bernstein. Shot at Los Angeles' Sepulveda Dam, an homage to numerous sci-fi movies that have as well.
  • There are two versions of this video. One depicts Linnell engulfed in flames. The other, presumably for air on British television, does not show the fire. Flansburgh states on the Direct From Brooklyn DVD commentary that fire and ninjas are not permitted on British TV.
  • At points in the music video, Flans and Linnell wear black T-shirts that say "Apollo 18" on them.
  • During the "space" shots where Earth is represented by a floating globe, constellations of Flans's guitar and Linnell's accordion can be seen in the background.
  • The location at which this video was shot also appears in an Acura commercial, circa 2007.

Song Themes

Addiction, Compulsion, Body Parts, Clothes, Death, Fire, Guy Songs, Me, Mind Control, Hypnotism, Screaming

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