Between movie trailers and French presidential campaigns and your mom’s iPod, “Kids” was pretty inescapable in 2008. And while Ray Tintori’s just-released video for the Oracular Spectacular standout doesn’t look like it would’ve taken eight months to complete, trippy things come to those who wait. We’re basically getting three clips in one, starting with scenes of monsters terrifying a child, then a televised puppet show, and as the final segment a psychedelic cartoon. The band appears briefly in silver garb and facepaint (obvs). MGMT promise no children were harmed in the making of this video. I think the kid’s therapist will have to confirm that in twenty years.
UPDATE: Yep, that’s Joanna Newsom.
You can catch the band on drugs on tour:
06/09 Little Rock, AR @ The Village
06/11 Memphis, TN @ Minglewood Hall
06/13 Manchester, TN @ Bonnaroo
07/01 Brooklyn, NY @ Prospect Park
07/21 Jersey City, NJ @ All Points West
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holy cow, does no one but me care about that poor kid? i am sorry, but he was traumatized for this stupid video, a song that has a video that was already released and has well over 20 million views already.
that’s f-ed up. sorry MGMT, but I just lost respect for you, what little I had, after viewing this. no need.
fyi, that kid was totally f’ed up for your stupid video. wow.
How could you.
upon second viewing i noticed a few interesting things.
first when joanna takes off the kids MGMT headband all the monsters go away… well all the gross ones afterwards the monsters are all colorful
second i can’t really prove this but i think that the last cartoon portion could be a synopsis of the album oracular spectacular
-i draw this observation from the first image of the woman who reminds me of the girl they sing to on electric feel she was what looks like electricity streaming from her hair.
– that one is the most obvious but a case can be made for alot of the songs from the album
Passion Pit has a similar sound, I think they’re better and they won’t become annoying as MGMT has.
….This music video scares me. SAVE THE CHILD!
I mean honestly, the video itself is pretty cool but you’ve got to be careful when you’re throwing kids into a project like this. Especially as young as that little boy. Given when he’s older he’ll understand the difference but that can have a very traumatizing effect that could distort the way he develops mentally. Now I’m not a psychiatrist or anything but that kid was obviously scared out of his mind and to put a child through that, no matter how young, for the sake of entertainment is just disgusting to me.
ok, yes, i agree, cool vid, but def traumatizing for the child… and he DID in fact see the monsters around him. check out the behind the scenes site about how the video was made…
http://court13news.blogspot.com/2009/06/photos-kids-by-mgmt-behind-scenes.html
this is sick! to put that poor baby through this int he name of “art” I understand its a powerful message, but so is the total disregard of that baby!
I am seriously concerned for theat child.
STOP SUPPORTING MGMT … BECAUSE IF THIS IS WHAT THEY ALLOW TO BE PUT OUT THERE TO REPRESENT THEIR TALENT … I THINK THEY GOT NO TALENT AT ALL. SAVE THE KID ..KILL MGMT
Who in their right mind… but I suppose that’s just the point. MGMT is in the left mind, or not in mind.
They are certainly not in MY mind after this.