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"Greek Tragedy" is a song from indie rock band The Wombats. The track was released in the United Kingdom on 14 January 2015 as the lead single from the band's third studio album, "Glitterbug". "Greek Tragedy" was written and produced by band members Matthew Murphy, Dan Haggis, and Tord Øverland Knudsen, with Mark Crew also producing. The track received its premiere on BBC Radio 1 when it featured as Zane Lowe's Hottest Record in the World on 14 January. An official remix of the track by British band Bastille was released on 27 January 2015. In 2020, Swedish music producer Oliver Nelson, released a remixed version on the social media platform, TikTok. This remix became a viral sleeper hit, renewing popularity for the original 2015 version on streaming platform, Spotify. In January 2021, The Wombats released an official music video for the remix, the video was created by Australian filmmaker Jamie Mac.
“Greek Tragedy” continues the exploration of a recurring theme of the Wombat’s "Glitterbug"—the doomed romance. Much like the album opener “Emoticons”, the singer predicts the early (and in this case tragic) demise of the relationship. In both this song and in “Emoticons”, the exact problem is left to interpretation.
Directed by Finn Keenan, the accompanying music video for "Greek Tragedy" premiered on YouTube on 15 January 2015. The video follows a young woman, portrayed by April Pearson, who becomes obsessed with the Wombats, culminating in her stalking and eventually murdering all of them. She then takes them to a warehouse and sets their corpses up like marionettes. The band credited Keenan for imagining the concept of the video. Knudsen said "it is refreshing sometimes to get a different sight on the song … the video is not really what the song is about", and Haggis elaborated that "It’s not actually about a stalker – fortunately that’s not reality."
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