New Slang

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"New Slang" is a song by The Shins which was released as a 7" single in 2001, and subsequently appeared on their album Oh, Inverted World. The song describes someone telling another that if only they had gotten together, "the rest of their lives would have fared well." It was made famous due to its inclusion in the soundtrack of the film Garden State and its use in a McDonald's television commercial.

It is currently being used in a Guinness advert in Ireland, for a limited edition stout called North Star as part of the Guinness Brewhouse series.

The song "New Slang" was explicitly referenced in the dialogue of the film Garden State. In one scene, Sam, played by Natalie Portman, passes a pair of headphones to Andrew, played by Zach Braff, so he can hear the song. As Sam does so, she says, "You gotta hear this one song - it'll change your life."

It was also featured on an episode of the TV show Scrubs and was featured on the show's 2002 soundtrack.

The music video [1] for "New Slang" was directed by Lance Bangs and features the band ironically re-enacting the cover art of other bands' albums, including Zen Arcade and New Day Rising by Hüsker Dü, Let It Be by The Replacements, Moon Pix by Cat Power, Double Nickels On The Dime by The Minutemen, Squirrel Bait's first album, Sonic Youth's Sister and Slint's Spiderland.