2021 (song)
"2021" is a song by American indie pop band Vampire Weekend. Alongside "Harmony Hall", it served as the double A-side lead single for their fourth studio album Father of the Bride, and was released on January 24, 2019, by Columbia Records. "2021" was later re-released on December 22, 2021, as a collaboration 12" single alongside "Talking" by Haruomi Hosono.
Composition
The "sparse lovelorn ballad" is built around a sample of the ambient track "Talking", composed in the 1980s by Haruomi Hosono for Japanese retail company Muji. It features a soft pulsing synth and fingerpicked guitars, along with a distorted vocal sample of the word "boy" sung by Jenny Lewis.Personnel
Credits adapted from Qobuz.Musicians
- Ezra Koenig – vocals, guitar
- Jenny Lewis – additional vocals
- Ariel Rechtshaid – programming, synthesizer, bass guitar
- Ariel Rechtshaid – engineering, mixing
- Chris Kasych – engineering
- John DeBold – engineering
- Ezra Koenig – mixing
- Chris Allgood – assistant engineering
- Emily Lazar – mastering