Never Gets Old

P-Thugg hides Dave 1 under the bed when his girlfriend shows up. It’s a dumb move, the kind of thing you do at seventeen because you panic. They’re doing it in 2018 in the Must’ve Been video, both in their thirties, and it still works because some people never really grow out of that instinct.

Chromeo’s been this way since 2004. Montreal and New York, Dave 1 and P-Thugg, funk music at a time when that wasn’t what people wanted to hear. They found an audience anyway—the kind of people who understand that a good groove is a way of saying you’re not alone. Their stuff doesn’t try to be important. It just wants to make a room feel less empty for a while.

The video tracks them backward through time: 1988 as kids, 1998 as teenagers, then the present. Each decade has the same joke, the same vibe. It’s not trying to say anything profound about friendship or growing up. It’s just saying that some people don’t change, and sometimes that’s okay.

DRAM handles vocals, Jesse Johnson’s on guitar with the kind of funky lines that actually matter. The song works the way Chromeo songs work—it lands where it’s supposed to, doesn’t overstay its welcome, and leaves you feeling a little better than you did before.

The groove doesn’t age. Neither do they.