Militarie Gun has collaborated with Dazy on their new single “Tall People Don’t Live Long”. The song follows their previous single “Pressure Cooker” released in 2022. Tall People Don’t Live Long arrives alongside a video directed by Militarie Gun’s Ian Shelton where he and Dazy’s James Goodson don suits and dance in the shadows. Last week, Shelton joined Dazy at their show in New York City to premiere the song live on stage.

Speaking about the new collaborative song, Shelton shares: “James is taller than me so you can guess how I came up with the title of this song. What started as a joke between us turned into a real conversation about how sometimes people who have reached certain heights in life begin to look down on others. Tall people became our tongue-in-cheek term for anyone that’s lost so much perspective that they think it’s alright to make someone feel less-than. This song is about rejecting that attitude — the bigger they are, the harder they fall.”

Goodson offers: “Ian and I wrote this song shortly after Pressure Cooker came out and it made us realize how daring we could actually be with songwriting. It came together really quickly in an afternoon of us sending ideas back and forth, and I’ll never forget how we couldn’t stop listening to the demo and saying ‘I can’t believe we wrote this.’ Years later we were finally able to get together and take the song over the finish line with Justin Raisen. We see Dazy & Militarie Gun as basically its own band, a separate body of work from our other music with its own identity, and I think this song really solidified that idea for us.”

Militarie Gun traversed the globe last year to celebrate their 2023 debut album Life Under The Gun, with performances in North America, Australia, Europe and the United Kingdom. Additionally, Militarie Gun released their mini-documentary Live Under The Sun last year, which sees the band and a host of their Life Under The Sun EP collaborators reunite at Manchester Orchestra’s Atlanta studio to further reimagine the tracks featured on their aforementioned EP, with guest performances from Manchester Orchestra, Marisa Dabice of Mannequin Pussy, and Christine Goodwyne of Pool Kids, who steps in for Alicia Bognanno of Bully for a performance of Never Fucked Up Twice.

Life Under The Sun strips back a selection of songs from Militarie Gun’s breakout debut album Life Under The Gun, putting Ian Shelton’s intensely personal songwriting centre stage. Life Under The Sun includes Never Fucked Up Twice featuring Bully’s Alicia Bognanno, Very High (Under The Sun), My Friends Are Having A Hard Time featuring Manchester Orchestra, Will Logic featuring Mannequin Pussy, and the cover of NOFX track Whoops I OD’d.

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