Maybe Peter Bjorn and John are already tired of their success as the cute jangly-pop trio from Sweden. That’s the only way I can explain their new song, “Lay it Down” off their forthcoming album Living Things-out Mar. 31. The video for “Lay it Down” was released last month on YouTube. It opens with a bunch of people wearing masks of themselves while a DJ starts to play “Young Folks,” their hit from 2 years ago. Just as the whistling starts, the new song cuts it off with the line, “Hey, shut the fuck up boy. You are starting to piss me off.”
I like it. I just wish advertisers would put this song into as many movies and commercials as “Young Folks.” It’d be great to see a new AT&T commercial that told us all to shut the fuck up.
Living Things is out Mar. 31 on Almost Gold Recordings/StarTime International.
