“Oxford Comma” is full of anything and everything from slick guitar riffs to Lil Jon references, and appears as the second track on Vampire Weekend’s eponymous debut album.

When talking to Vanity Fair, the lead singer Ezra Koenig had this to say about the song:

I have a complicated relationship with grammar…[I] spent a year teaching eighth-grade English in Brooklyn and, when you spend so much time trying to get kids to write in Standard American English, you’re bound to start questioning the importance. [But] I think the song is more about not giving a fuck than about Oxford commas… I first came across the Oxford Comma on Facebook. There was a group at Columbia called Students for the Preservation of the Oxford Comma. I didn’t think about it too much but, a few months later while sitting at a piano at my parents' house, I started writing the song and the first thing that came out was ‘who gives a fuck about an Oxford Comma?’

As of the release of their third album, Modern Vampires Of The City, the group has not released another grammar-themed song, but there are hopes, according to Koenig:

I don’t know if we’ll ever drop another punctuation jam, but I like the Spanish question mark [¿] the best of those. Zeugma [a figure of speech where a word applies to two different things in different ways, like “John lost his coat and his temper”, where “lost” applies to coat and temper differently] brings to mind unpleasant Yiddish words.

As a sidenote, the song could be viewed as an homage to Elvis Costello’s “This Year’s Girl:”

Forget your English grammar
Because you don’t really give a damn
About this year’s girl