Arctic Monkeys – Dance Little Liar

This post is a crosspost from Jayeless, and can be read in its original location here.

I’m not really sure what to say about this song.

It and I don’t really have much of a history the way, say, “Armour for Liars” and I do… in fact I only got this album, Humbug, for the first time about a week ago. And it took a few listens before I really heard this song properly enough for me to understand its greatness, because it comes right after “Cornerstone”, which makes me crack up over how pathetic the main character of that song is¹, and there are other songs that are more obviously creepy earlier in the album (“Dangerous Animals”), overshadowing this one until maybe the third or fourth listen. The song’s name didn’t really help its case either, because “Dance Little Liar” sounded (to me) like the song was going to be about some slutty girl at a club, which is a theme that does recur in Arctic Monkeys’ music (“Still Take You Home”) and I don’t really like it and I was not enthusiastic for yet another song about that theme. However, it isn’t, and when I looked at the lyrics cursorily and realised the titular “little liar” was male², I gave the song a better listen.

And it is amazing.

The most amazing part of it isn’t even the words, or at least it’s not the words once you’ve read the words and understand the song’s meaning, but the music. The guitar! And drums! I was listening to this song on the train yesterday afternoon and I started crying when that part happened. To be fair, 90% of the reason I started crying was probably more a combination of having been awake for 28 straight hours and leaving the house to remain awake for at least another seven, and being utterly emotionally drained, but the fact that this song can be one-tenth of a reason to cry is pretty damn good, okay.

So listen:

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