Quit The Circus
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| song name | Quit the Circus |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | BOOK |
| year | 2021 |
| run time | 2:52 |
| sung by | John Flansburgh |
Trivia/Info
- John Flansburgh described the song's themes in a 2021 interview:[1]
It's not really an autobiographical song, but I think anybody who's been sort of trapped in a family could understand this song. I think one of the things about writing songs is that you tend to really amplify a lot of the lyrical... You know, if you're drawing from something personal, you're not just gonna mumble your way through it, you're gonna heighten it. It's really about a very extreme kind of claustrophobia. [...] That one's pretty dire.
- Flansburgh later revealed that the song was based on a friend's experiences.[2]
- On Tumblr in 2025, Flansburgh would elaborate on the song's construction[3]:
The earliest demo was actually pretty much working out a lot of what would become the chords as double stops on a bass (which is a kinda technical way to say a two note part–played kind of high on the neck) and that morphed into the horn chart which I hunt and pecked in midi into the chart the horns play. The final demo was probably more complete than most, but there are no rules for how folks put their parts together even with a complete demo. In general, anyone in the band reproduces the good part of the demo programming. Sometimes Marty can be quite precise in charting that stuff out exactly. Other times he is streamlining it, of adding all sorts of spice, or creating an evolution in the part to build up the whole arrangement.
Song Themes
Circus, Mind Control, Hypnotism, Oblique Cliches Or Idiom, Plants, Religion, Supernatural, Telecommunication, Title Not In Lyrics, Transportation
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