Militarie Gun, Dazy Drop ‘Tall People Don’t Live Long’: Watch Video

The music world is replete with backbiters and bitterness — and that’s the conceit behind the latest link-up between L.A. hardcore band Militarie Gun and Richmond’s Dazy, “Tall People Don’t Live Long.”

“’Tall people’ became our tongue-in-cheek term for anyone that’s lost so much perspective that they think it’s all right to make someone feel less-than,” Militarie Gun frontman Ian Shelton said in a statement. “This song is about rejecting that attitude — the bigger they are, the harder they fall.”

The single is the first collaboration between the bands since 2022’s bouncy fist-pumper “Pressure Cooker.” “Ian and I wrote this song shortly after ‘Pressure Cooker’ came out and it made us realize how daring we could actually be with songwriting,” Dazy’s James Goodson added. “It came together really quickly in an afternoon of us sending ideas back and forth, and I’ll never forget how we couldn’t stop listening to the demo and saying ‘I can’t believe we wrote this.’”

Like “Pressure Cooker,” “Tall People” is shameless fun, an aughts-tinged track — all strings, handclaps, and echos — that asks, “Can you hear me with your head up in the clouds?/Can you see me without pointing your face down?” The accompanying video, directed by Shelton, is like Reservoir Dogs meets Footloose, featuring the duo dancing in suits … menacingly.

The first new song from Militarie Gun since their straight-ahead indie pop song “I Thought You Were Waving,” “Tall People” follows the band’s breakout record, Life After the Gun, which Rolling Stone called “a lollipop whittled into a shiv.”