Birdhouse in Your Soul

"Birdhouse in Your Soul" is a song by American alternative rock band They Might Be Giants. It was released in early 1990 through Elektra Records as the lead single from the album Flood. It is the band's highest-charting single in both the US and the UK, and is one of their best-known songs. The song's lyric is narrated from the perspective of a nightlight. It includes an atypical snare drum pattern and modulation among four keys. The music also interpolates elements of "Summer in the City" by The Lovin' Spoonful. In the video, the dancers wear masks made from sunglasses affixed with an image of the eyes of William Allen White, whose face is used frequently in the band’s visual material. In an article about the band, Emily Peterman speculates that the zombie-like behavior of the dancers, coupled with the video's warehouse setting, evokes the "oppoppressed" factory workers in "White" The song received positive attention with the song's "surreal" musical elements complemented by moments of "nonsense"