MGMT

I stumbled upon MGMT via another blog, who said they were fabulous. I hopped over to their myspace page and watched their video for Time to Pretend. It's a trippy throwback song to 1960's music and early MTV days when videos were actually cool and impressive instead of vanity projects for people with no talent. It's also, as bandmembers Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser, their mission statement. I liked the song and was sort of wondering if this was a song to live by, or a joke; as it could be the mantra of any boy who wants to be a rock star. And the song, in its own way, also gives the danger of being that said rock star.

I'm Feelin rough
I'm Feelin raw
I'm in the prime of my life.

Let's make some music make some money find some models for wives.
I'll move to Paris, shoot some heroin and fuck with the stars.
You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars.

This is our decision to live fast and die young.
We've got the vision, now let's have some fun.
Yeah it's overwhelming, but what else can we do?
Get jobs in offices and wake up for the morning commute?

Forget about our mothers and our friends.
We were fated to pretend.

I'll miss the playgrounds and the animals and digging up worms.
I'll miss the comfort of my mother and the weight of the world.
I'll miss my sister, miss my father, miss my dog and my home.
Yeah I'll miss the boredom and the freedom and the time spent alone.

But there is really nothing, nothing we can do.
Love must be forgotten.
Life can always start up anew.
The models will have children, we'll get a divorce,
we'll find some more models,
Everything must run its course.

We'll choke on our vomit and that will be the end.
We were fated to pretend.

yeah yeah yeah

Electric Feel is their second video off their debut CD Oracular Spectacular, and is just as trippy and weird as Time to Pretend.

They may never be a huge hit -despite an appearance on David Letterman - but they are talented, even if they do what they do to piss people off.