Seven + 1?
June 21, 2008
So I completely forgot my complete infatuation with MGMT - Time to Pretend. What a great song about nihilistic, life-avoidance scenester lives.
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.
Hooray for beefy synth chords which pile up on each other like a drunken game of ’stacks-on’, a great hook which sounds like the smallest casio you can find screaming above an electronic choir and the best video clip i’ve seen in ages.
June 24, 2008 at 1:25 am
“the models will have children
we’ll get a divorce
find some new models
everything must run its course!”
what an amazing song (shit album, no?). for two reasons, i reckon. one: it’s great genius lies not in some kind of way-to-expected derision of the lifestyle like Kisschasy’s ‘Spray on Pants’, but the fact that they set this completely meaningless and vapid life to euphoric music, as if like ‘wooo hooo this is great’, and therein lies something of two: scensterdom (or celebrity, or even just notoriety in general), prove MGMT, is only ever ‘pretends’ - the whole thing is always just set to vanish into thin air.