Phantogram, "You Don't Get Me High Anymore"

 Phantogram, "You Don't Get Me High Anymore"

Love as the drug was already an overused metaphor back in the days of Roxy Music, but New York duo Phantogram pulled a narco bait-and-switch with this sample-heavy goth-pop single's heavy-lidded chorus: "Used to take one/ Now it takes four/ You don't get me high anymore." What sounds (and feels) like a song about the initial rush of passion fading into dead-eyed boredom is, according to them, about the numbing effects of predictable pop culture and their search for a new kind of drug -- in which case, four certainly seems like a lot. — G.K.