People Are Good
"People Are Good" is a song by English electronic music band Depeche Mode, released on 5 April 2024 as the seventh and final single from their fifteenth studio album, Memento Mori.Filmed completely in black and white, the video shows images of people being seemingly violent until it is shown they are actually doing good deeds (saving life, dancing etc.[2][3] Grayson Haver Currin of Pitchfork stated, "'People Are Good' and 'Never Let Me Go' not only share the first half of their titles with two of Depeche Mode's most titanic hits but also their anthemic ambitions.Ebullient, danceable, and deeply disappointed, 'People Are Good' is the confession of a recovering pessimist realizing maybe he was right, that our very nature ensures our doom."[4] Kory Grow of Rolling Stone commented, "on 'People Are Good'—a Gore composition which feels like the long lost coda for 'People Are People'—Gahan reminds himself that despite all the ills of the world, people are supposed to be good.