2021 (song)


"2021" is a song by American indie pop band Vampire Weekend. Alongside "Harmony Hall", it serves as the double A-side lead single for their fourth studio album Father of the Bride, and was released on January 24, 2019 by Columbia Records.

Composition

The "sparse lovelorn ballad" is built around a sample of the ambient track "Talking", composed in the 1980s by Haruomi Hosono for Japanese retail company Muji. It features a soft pulsing synth and fingerpicked guitars, along with a distorted vocal sample of the word "boy" sung by Jenny Lewis.

Personnel

Credits adapted from Qobuz.
Musicians
Engineers