Deja Entendu is the second album from Long Island-based rock band Brand New, released in 2003. It was widely praised for showing the band’s maturation from the previous Your Favorite Weapon. The album’s title is French for “already heard” and is a commentary on modern rock. Two singles were released from the album, “The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows” and “Sic Transit Gloria…Glory Fades.”
In an interview with MTV News back in 2003, Jesse Lacey stated:
It’s very tongue-in-cheek. No matter who you are or what your band is about, you can’t put a record out without people saying it’s derivative of something else. So by saying the record’s already been heard, it’s kind of like saying, ‘Yeah, you’re right. We’re doing something that’s already been done before.’
And in a sense we are. We’re not trying to break new ground in music. We’re just trying to make good music.