“How Long” has commonly been interpreted as the singer addressing an unfaithful partner. And that is true to an extent. However, said partner is not a romantic one. And the singer gives a clue pointing to...
It has been postulated that Vampire Weekend’s “How Long?” is about “Los Angeles falling into the ocean”. Indeed we can see in the chorus that Ezra Koenig asks “how long ’til we sink to the...