2018Released
4:23

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This cheery and upbeat sounding pop song features morose lyrics about the state of the nation in the Donald Trump era. I'm not that nice I'm mean and I'm evil Don't call me nice I'm gonna eat your heart out I've got some work to do Baby, I'm ready, I'm ready, ready, ready to blow my lid off MGMT's Andrew VanWyngarden explained to The Guardian: "What Trump has done is just expose a whole lot of things that were there already. In When You Die, when we're saying 'I'm not that nice', it's owning up to existing in a modern United States of America: you're kind of part of this evil whether you want to be or not."

In a profile of MGMT in Q Magazine, co-producer Dave Fridmann reportedly encouraged Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser to bring in outside collaborators, which led them to work with Ariel Pink. The psychedelic singer-songwriter played guitar on and co-wrote "When You Die."

The surreal music video stars Alex Karpovsky (Ray from Girls) as a magician.

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of When You Die.
BKey
MinorMode
4/4Time Signature
141BPM

Album

The album When You Die is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released When You Die.
Columbia
(P) 2017, 2018 Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment

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