Arcade Fire - The Suburbs

"I want a daughter while I'm still young.
I want to hold her hand and show her some beauty before the damage is done."

Album: The Suburbs [3rd album]
Recorded: Canada, USA
Genre: Indie Rock, Chamber Pop
Album Release: August 2nd 2010
Single Release: June 1st 2010 [lead single]
Length: 5:14
Producer: Markus Dravs & Arcade Fire
Vocalist: Win Butler [age 30]
Label: Merge Records (US), Mercury Records (UK)

Music Video


Live on Austin City Limits in 2012

Charts, Sales & Streams

Spotify: Over 170 million
YouTube Music: Over 55 million

Credits

Details

• The music video is directed by Spike Jonze and is an abridged version of his short film 'Scenes from the Suburbs.'
  
• There is a cover version by Father John Misty


• "A lot of my heroes, from Bob Dylan to Joe Strummer, were suburban kids who had to pretend they were train-hoppers their whole lives. Talking about an experience and not make-believe is what we're doing on The Suburbs." (Win Butler talking to NPR)


• "Will and I grew up in Woodlands, a suburb in Houston, Texas. We were there for ten, years years, and I wanted to encapsulate the feelings I had of growing up at that time in the lyrics. It felt important to describe accurately the experience. It wasn't about making a moral judgement, for me it was about truth telling, describing the exact feelings I had. I also wanted to write about right now, and that sense of foreboding of apocalypse, which always seems to be there in our records. Somehow suburbia and an apocalyptic outlook are related." (Win Butler in an interview with Mojo Magazine)
  

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