
Phoenix and Clairo have shared a new version of 'After Midnight'
It's only the second time the French band have had a guest feature on a track.
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Phoenix builds 'Girlfriend' around a cyclical refrain of farewell, the word stretched and stuttered into near-abstraction across the chorus. The song moves through verses of fractured longing and exhaustion, voices layered with a kind of weary resignation. There's a distance in the lyrics, a sense of people reaching across separation that never quite closes. The track sits on the bonus disc edition of Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, arriving as a companion piece to the main album's more polished pop-rock architecture. Where the album proper leans into crystalline hooks and propulsive rhythm, 'Girlfriend' feels more diffuse, its emotional weight distributed across repetition and texture rather than a single memorable moment. The repeated goodbye becomes the song's shape, a structure that mirrors the emotional loop it describes.
"Girlfriend" is a track by Phoenix, from the album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Bonus CD), released 2009. The track is 3:24 long. It's filed under Rock. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 8 articles about Phoenix.
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It's only the second time the French band have had a guest feature on a track.

The original version of 'After Midnight' appeared on their 2022 album 'Alpha Zulu.

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Phoenix are having one hell of a year: first 5* album 'Ti Amo', next: one of London's biggest venues.
Yet another masterful stroke in the career of a band that seem to only get better.