“Diane Young” by Vampire Weekend

"Diane Young" was the first single from Modern Vampires of the City, Vampire Weekend's third album, released in March 2013, and the title is a pun the band has owned up to: say it fast and you hear "dying young". Ezra Koenig wrote the words and the music with Rostam, who produced it with Ariel Rechtshaid, and Rich Costey mixed it. It's the band at their most jittery and unhinged, with Adam Shatz blowing saxophone and Jeff Curtin adding extra drums.

The first promo clip, billed as an "official stream", just watched two Saab 900s burn in slow motion for the length of the song, a nod to its opening line. It reached number 11 on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart and 17 on Hot Rock Songs.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.