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"Dog Days Are Over" is a song by English indie rock band Florence and the Machine from their debut album Lungs (2009). It was originally scheduled for release on 24 November 2008 through Moshi Moshi Records in the UK as the album's second single, but was later pushed back for release on 1 December 2008.
The song suggests an impending second abortion from the idea that she can't "carry" it (the fetus) to term if she's going to survive. The Dog Days (of summer) being over may suggest that she is about to return to school and face her educator again. The narrator suggests that he should run. We may not know who actually wrote the song.
Follow-up single "Dog Days Are Over", released on 1 December 2008, was recorded with no instruments in a studio the "size of a loo". [25] The song was used in the American television series Gossip Girl , [ 26 ] Covert Affairs , [ 27 ] in the British television series Skins , [ 28 ] and in the theatrical trailer for the 2010 comedy-drama film ...
Beyond “Dog Days Are Over”, “Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)” and “You’ve Got the Love” – and, okay, the punkish, excellent but sadly unrepresentative first single “Kiss with a Fist ...
Bad news, heat haters: The dog days of summer are not, as Florence Welch once sang, over or done. The dog days of summer, the period during which the star Sirius rises alongside the sun, run from ...
The song was used in the theatrical trailer for the 2010 film Eat Pray Love, starring Julia Roberts. [34] The Yeasayer remix of "Dog Days Are Over", which is included on Between Two Lungs, was released on 12 October 2010 on iTunes. [35]
Keeping with the canine theme, the phrase "dog days of summer" is actually a reference to Sirius (the Dog Star) which is part of the constellation, Canis Major (the Greater Dog).
English indie rock band Florence and the Machine has won 24 awards out of 107 nominations. In 2011 they released "Dog Days Are Over", the single was a commercial success and was nominated for two awards at the 2011 Billboard Music Awards and the music video for the song was nominated for four awards at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, including Video of the Year, and won for Best Art Direction.