Stuff Is Way
| song name | Stuff Is Way |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | Nanobots, Modern |
| year | 2013 |
| first played | February 27, 2025 (5 known performances) |
| run time | 1:37 |
| sung by | John Linnell |
Trivia/Info
- A "stalking horse" is an inconsequential figure who acts on behalf of a larger third party so that the third party can remain anonymous. The term originates from hunters hiding behind their horses as they sneak up on prey.
- Linnell described the clarinet usage in the song as "really fun". He used his "Selmer rosewood contra alto with a gigantic bell" that he played "sitting down while it rests on its peg".[1]
- In March 2019, "Stuff is Way" was used in a YouTube animation meme, which generated enough popularity to move it to TMBG's top 5 songs on both Spotify and Apple Music. The meme spawned hundreds more videos set to the song, and a snippet of the song also became a popular sound on TikTok, with thousands of videos using it.
- As an eventual response to the song's viral success, They Might Be Giants had David Cowles design, direct and animate an official video for the song, which debuted on December 19, 2022.
- They Might Be Giants began rehearsing the song in December 2024 for its live show debut, which came around 12 years after the release of Nanobots. Linnell via an interview with WBUR:
I think that songs are like your children, and you have to love them all. But there's been a weird new phenomenon, which is that amongst very young people, there's a lot of interest in this song that was a really dark horse, “Stuff Is Way.” It was never intended to be a single. It's just a very deep album cut from probably a number of years ago. There's some young person who made an anime video for it, which references some cultural things that I don't even really know about. And it just went viral for some reason. And now, if you go on TikTok, there are something like 14,000 dance videos to this song, which is not even really a dance track, and it is one of our most popular songs on Spotify. And this is just like a really oddball track, not a pop song, not anything we were ever thinking of promoting, but now we're being forced to learn it. So we're going to be playing in the live show, because we have to, apparently.
Song Themes
Animals, Bad English, Canon, Forgetting And Remembering, Lies And Deception, Microtones, Nonsense Words, Not In Major Or Minor, Questions, Transportation
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