Danny Elfman Shares New Halloween Song 'Monkeys On the Loose'
It's Halloween and Jack Skellington himself (Danny Elfman) has dropped a new spooky song to celebrate. It's called "Monkeys On the Loose" and follows an eerie tale of monkeys unleashing and “breaking everything they can get their little hands on.”
Part metal bop, part silly Planet of the Apes retelling, "Monkeys On the Loose" sees Elfman paying a bit of reverence towards the creatures. “They create the world then they oughta get their own damn song,” he barks in the chorus. The new single comes just after Elfman's score of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice has been released. (That film arrived in theaters last month.)
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“Halloween has obviously been a huge part of my life, and I’d been working on a big batch of new songs for my upcoming album,” Elfman said about the song in a statement. “Nick [Launay] had taken on the task of trying some arrangement/production ideas on this crazy song ‘Monkeys on the Loose’, and while working on it, we thought… wouldn’t it be wild to work up a version for a special Halloween release (even though it was barely over a week away!). We decided to just jump in and go for it and the band was rehearsing it already for the upcoming shows. They were more than game to record it. So… here it is!”
The song also comes with a music video. The simple visual shows a menacing animated monkey dancing to the track - even throwing around a disembodied human arm.
"Monkeys On the Loose" arrives just before Elfman returns to the stage for his final two North American shows of the year, “Danny Elfman: From Boingo to Batman to Big Mess and Beyond,” which go down at the Hollywood Bowl on November 2nd and Mountain View, California’s Shoreline Amphitheater on November 3rd. You can find tickets here.
Listen to "Monkeys On the Loose" below.
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Article Image: Portrait of Danny Elfman at the Netflix premiere of "Wednesday" in 2022. (imagepressagency via DepositPhotos.)