"The Dumb Song" is the fourth song on AJR's fifth studio album, The Maybe Man. It is also the third single to be released from the album.
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The song was originally teased on January 9, 2023, showing Ryan and Jack making the song. Later on March 28, 2023, they teased the song again with a video of Jack on the drums with lyrics. The video had the title "Something's Coming..." On the same day, AJR's Pre-Save Page changed from "Something Dumb" to '??? ???? ????". On March 30th, 2023, they uploaded a video to their Instagram page with the same audio but with the caption "Something's Coming It's Got Drums and It's Got Bass", showing a video of Adam playing the Guitar. On April 2, 2023, AJR uploaded a new video with the title "Something's Coming It's Got Gang Vocals". This video showed AJR and their friends singing a melody and then a video of Jack and Ryan making the song.
On Apr 11, 2023, AJR uploaded a video titled "Heyyyyy The Dumb Song is out April 21". This video included Jack dancing and singing the song outside. On April 13, 2023, AJR uploaded a video to most of their social medias which released the cover for the single. It also included a small part of the song that was previously unreleased. This clip also had the line "You should not have done that", which was a lyric in the song. On April 15, 2023, AJR changed all (except for Twitter) of their social media profiles to be the cover art for this song. Later, on April 16, 2023, a video where Ryan and Austin attempt to get out of duct tape was posted to their social medias. It contained two possible new lyrics for the song. On April 19, 2023, a video promoting the song was released. The video showed a camera moving around Ryan as he lip synced the lyrics to the song. This teaser also included two new lyrics.
On April 20, 2023, a final teaser was uploaded to AJR's social medias. It showed a clip with audio from the second teaser of the song with the original audio, with a few clips of the brothers making the song in the background. On 26 April 2023, AJR updated their Twitter profile to show The Dumb Song's cover.
Jan 9, 2023 | This one's been fun to make |
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Mar 28, 2023 | Something's coming |
Mar 30, 2023 | ??? ???? ???? |
Apr 2, 2023 | Something's coming... and it's got gang vocals |
Apr 11, 2023 | Heyyyyy The Dumb Song comes out next Friday |
April 13, 2023 | Wait for it... |
April 15/16, 2023 | AJR changes social media photos to cover art |
April 16, 2023 | We found duct tape. |
April 19, 2023 | Too dumb for breaking up |
April 20, 2023 | The Dumb Song is out tonight at midnight, video tmrw at 10am ET. See you there. |
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Trivia[]
- The house from the single art can be seen in The Maybe Man's cover art(although without the brothers inside it), representing Inertia.
- The name of the song may have been a reference to the lyrics of Turning Out Pt. ii, "Now I’m here writing this dumb song", though to my knowledge this is unconfirmed.
- The name of the song is also referenced in "2085", in the lyric "Writing my dumb songs and my growing up songs", though to my knowledge is unconfirmed.