During an exclusive interview with CBS News, Vampire Weekend's primary songwriters, frontman Ezra Koenig and multi-instrumentalist Rostam Batmanglij, discussed the irony and humor involved in their preppy persona, and how it was inspired by the pair's shared outsider status in their respective communities growing up.

"Ezra was one of the only Jews in his town, and I was one of the only Iranians in Georgetown, where I grew up," Batmanglij explained. "So we had like a little bit of a fire that you get, I think, from being an outsider. That does kind of inspire us. People would call us WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestants), which is really interesting," he continued, laughing.

"There always seems to be something worth exploring about preppiness, and the fact that some people reacted so strongly to it, I think proves that there's something inherently interesting," added Koenig about the backlash that came with after the band's early success.