Maps was released by New York indie rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs on their debut album Fever to Tell in 2003 and issued as a single the following year. Lead singer Karen O wrote it for her then boyfriend Angus Andrew, with the title often explained as an acronym for My Angus Please Stay. The song became the band's breakthrough and a defining track of the early 2000s indie scene. Its direct, repeated chorus has kept it in circulation through covers, films, playlists and short emotional edits online.