Get Down
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| song name | Get Down |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | The World Is To Dig |
| year | 2026 |
| first played | April 17, 2026 (14 known performances) |
| run time | 2:47 |
| sung by | John Linnell, John Flansburgh sings the bridge |
Trivia/Info
- Described on the EarWax podcast as a "Funky sci-fi song, sort of like a reverse Voyager record meets War of the Worlds, like it's a warning message for us being invaded by aliens". In the interview, John Linnell elaborated, defining the sound of this song as a "white version" of Afrofuturism, a creative movement that explores Black liberation through the aesthetics of science fiction.
"It's basically KC and the Sunshine Band much more than Parliament-Funkadelic, I think, speaking as a white man. [...] It's kind of a pun, I guess, involved, and that's pretty much the germ of the song, but I salute the Afrofuturists. Even though I'm not in the spaceship, I watch it from the ground."
- Linnell would elaborate on the connection between the song and the phrase "Get down" in a 2026 interview with Spill Magazine:
It was probably a goofy mainstream phrase even back in the day. KC and the Sunshine Band had these huge hits, and one of them was called "Get Down Tonight." It was a phrase that people used that seemed a little square even at the time, and obviously the lyrics are riffing on that, but they take it in this other direction.
- A music video for this song directed by Paul Sahre was uploaded to the ParticleMen YouTube channel on April 14, 2026 to coincide with the physical and streaming release of The World Is To Dig.
- A remix of this song is currently in the works, according to a May 8, 2026 TMBG newsletter.
Song Themes
Memory, Numbers, Reading, Space, Telecommunication, Television
Videos
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