“Oxford Comma” by Vampire Weekend

"Oxford Comma" was the third single from Vampire Weekend, the band's self-titled debut, released on XL Recordings in May 2008, and it's a shrug set to a bright, bouncing groove. Ezra Koenig first ran across the punctuation mark in question, the comma before the "and" at the end of a list, through a Columbia University Facebook group devoted to saving it. Months later, sitting at the piano in his parents' house, he started writing, and what came out is really about not caring at all, with the grammar as the punchline.

Koenig name-checks Lil Jon more than once, and the rapper answered with a case of crunk juice; the friendship that followed landed him a cameo in the video for "Giving Up the Gun". Rostam produced the track and shared the engineering and mixing with Jeff Curtin and Shane Stoneback, keeping everything crisp and uncluttered.

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