2008Released
3:15

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Interesting facts and trivia about Oxford Comma. By Songfacts®.

The Oxford comma, also known as the serial comma, is the comma that comes before a grammatical conjunction (generally 'and' or 'or') in a list of three items. For instance "Paris, New York, and London" is written with the Oxford comma, while "Paris, New York and London", identical in meaning, is written without it.

In this number about linguistic imperialism, the New York band appear to be criticizing the 19th century English intellectuals that created and enforced such rules of language as the Oxford comma. As far as Vampire Weekend are concerned content should come before structure.

The lyrics refer to Lil' John, surely the only instance of a song about punctuation to reference the Atlanta crunk maestro. Singer/guitarist and lyricist Ezra Koenig admitted in an interview with Aversion to being a fan of Lil' Jon. The Vampire Weekend frontman said: "I love him. Well, I specifically like "Get Low" a lot. I like the dance where you point your hands to the window and to the wall. I don't dance a lot, but I did have a couple of experiences dancing to it."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Oxford Comma.
CKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
120BPM

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Released By

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XL Recordings
2008 Vampire Weekend under exclusive license to XL Recordings Ltd
2008 Vampire Weekend under exclusive license to XL Recordings Ltd

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