MGMT - In the Afternoon (Official Video)
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- Опубліковано 10 гру 2019
- Produced + Directed by: MGMT
Label: MGMT Records
Lyrics:
In the afternoon
Yellow curtains drawn
Designed with comfort in mind
Glowering into the night
Feel like letting go
Final resting place
The Housecat knows when it’s time
To enter another phase
But you looked sad
In a reassuring way
And I don’t want to leave
So we can both be the same
In the afternoon
Modern sovereignty
The sunlight stopped coming through
And we lost the game
Brains like nesting dolls
Plotting their escape
The doorman sees you’re alone
He can’t seem to find your name
But you, my friend
Know problems can’t be solved
They don’t understand
That somehow it’s all the same
Relief is like candy
The sweetest kind of love
Who’d guess I’d feel this way?
Like a kid in a candy store.
Written by Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser
Lyrics by VanWyngarden
Recorded at Sargent Recorders in November 2019
Engineered by Sean Cook
Mixed by Dave Fridmann
Mastered by Greg Calbi
Additional support:
Jamie Dutcher (editing + color)
Sam Fleischner (camera)
Shively Humperdink (visuals)
Sarah Shaw (visuals)
Alisa MacKay (styling)
Austen Reeder (camera)
Website: www.whoismgmt.com
Pre-order here: www.musicglue.com/mgmt
MGMT RECORDS!!! THEY HAVE THEIR OWN LABEL NOW!!!
😍😍😍😍😍😍😎
TIME TO CELEBRATE TOTAL FREEDOM NO CORPORATE OVERLORDS YAAASSSS KWEEENNNN
2DMoon GRAMMAR!!!!
@Phony Mex u right sorry i dont speak english
NO MORE CORPORATE OVERLORDS!
now they have truly become the management
Unappreciated comment.
🤣🤣
Kino
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Yesssssssssss
I like how it goes from 80s goth gloominess to 90s madchester psychedelics. I wonder if that's their future musical direction.
Why define everything by decades... :/ I feel like it's the 2019-2020 thing rn
@@0yael003 it's a fair question as the band has previously put out an album going through music generations/evolution ala congratulations
I wonder if they're gonna take any inspiration from Magic Oneohtrix Point Never. That album is way ahead of its time and if MGMT took cues from that one to mess with our minds even more... My god, fingers crossed.
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@@CheefChaos congratulations definitely had a 80s sound to it
>drops one of their best songs
>refuses to elaborate
>disappears
SOLID AS THEY COME
:)
ME ANd mICAHEL
ITS NOT A QUESTION NOW
ME AND mAECOLE
ayye Unknown Mortal Orchestra 👌
I want an album in this style so badly it’s insane.
LDA had a few songs like this, but I agree it'd be cool if an entire album had this aesthetic
Preston Rutherford LDA is one of my favorite albums. The title track and when you die had a similar dark psychedelic feeling. Maybe we can get something similar for a whole album or even a concept album like this single, one can only hope.
Hell yes Post Punk/Goth MGMT would be awesome
Zenssei yes please. Someone let them know. This is what the people want.
Same!
Hands down my favorite MGMT song and nobody else seems to understand! It's so well done
I refuse to belive that this song is a year old already
i remember forcing my family to sit down and watch the video with me when it dropped
@val! hard to judge bc it takes a harsh turn just like radiohead did with kid a but definitely top 3
why not? all that matters is you have it to listen to.
I refuse to belive that this comment is 7 months old already.
Same here !!!
What a time to live while MGMT is making music
Chris Lynx how do I get verified like you?
@@handsomest1 have 200k subs loloo
Ya about that
Hi
Gamas lynx
they keep making the music we didn't know we wanted
*needed
Seriously. I know them as the "kids" band but some of their songs are so good.
So true!
That’s so true
Hahaha Yes!!
I’m obsessed with this song . Every friend I Sent this to hates it. I love reading the comments knowing others love it just as much as me. The layers, how it’s sad but happy, the lyrics. God I love it so much
2 shay
You took the words right out of my mouth
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I personally don’t like this song either, it’s just not my taste in music but I still think the song is good if that makes sense just not for me
Idk, I showed this song to my brother on Spotify and he loved it, but that was also partly bc he was listening to Neon Bible and said it had a similar style
"Brains like nesting dolls, plotting their escape" is such a standout line for me; just beautifully vivid imagery.
wow they're going independent, crazy
took awhile
Brandon Kostrzewa right finally
What??? They always intended it to be that way. Look at their 3rd lp that one was an attempt at being independent. If it hadn't been for Sony or some other record company that took them in then MGMT would have been independent since the start.
good, fuck columbia at this point, Little Dark Age took absolutely forever because of their label.
They started in college thats the secret.
They were always secretly independent lol!!!
This is incredible. MGMT is planting itself as one of the best bands of their generation. Little Dark Age was phenomenal. This song is a fantastic start to whatever is next.
Seriously, not a lot of bands these days have 3 amazing albums (sorry self-titled) like these guys
primo 4 albums, don’t count out their first Climbing to New Lows
@@MarcelReuling shut up
The self titled album is unreal man’ they demand a lot from their listener. An orphan of fortune, give it another listen @primo
@@MarcelReuling yeah shut up
I sure like MGMT. I am 50 years old, so I can't claim to be a teen-ager. I am a Man-Ager.
so does my dad (sorry to make you feel old it’s not intentional!). He likes this in perticular quite a lot!!
that's lowkey kinda cute lol, it also fits cuz MGMT is short for Management
Disfrute y sea feliz! Puede hacer lo que usted quiera. Y pretender ser lo que quiera. Mientras no haga daño a los demás y así mismo. Suelte ese molde que le dice que ser y experimente, es su vida :)
Hell yeah Hayden
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i love the way mgmt keeps evolving their sound. also andrew's songwriting is criminally underated
I would honestly buy a book of his lyrics alone
Psychedelic goth. Such a good amalgamation of the prior psychedelic sounds and the goth synth they recently did. fucking fantastic.
Based Beanus it’s like the smiths did ketamine
Based Beanus kinda like the cure but new age?
You friggin nailed it! I was trying to figure out how to categorize this track. Either way its fucking epic. 👏
THEY FUCKING DID IT BABY
Yup, I'm old enough to remember that early 80's Gothic New Wave and this really encapsulates some of that feeling. Love it!
MGMT has really been obsessed with the concept of dying as of late
it's because they all died on tour last year
It's complicated.. Lol. I'm sure I. Their personal life, it's not all sunshine as with everyone else. However.. The period we live in is losing it's spirit. The spiritual famine is here. Hence our little dark age. Everything lost it's charm. I think the music is representative of that. Back when we were teen/adults these truths were doubted. We still had that "I'm invincible feeling" yet something was missing. Now as adults we see the strings on the puppet. Learning our dreams are irrelevant if the spirit is lost. The dying you speak of could be the loss of this.. The meaning of life. Or I could be wrong. Their songs always seem to represent dealing with life's changes or lack there of.
Trump 2020
not here, 2020.
Paris Campos “not here, 2020” you love to see it 😂
Probably the best MGMT song for me
It's so sad how their thoughtful, unique, truly artistic music doesn't really get any attention, while the songs they made only to mock the pop industry became extremely popular
Maybe it doesn't get attention on a broad popular level, but I mean two million people have seen this and it has almost ten million plays on Spotify alone, which I'm sure both will increase in time.
A smaller fanbase is always better than a bigger fanbase
They have a such a cool musical style! God bless 💓
They have enough of a dedicated fan base that it appears they can now do it independent, support themselves, and continue to make this amazing music. I'm honestly really happy for them. A lot of musicians or other artists that really do their own thing tend to struggle to survive.
@@thaliarice3891 but in time they get so many popularity, one of their songs have been a meme, and some songs have 100 millions of views, what else they need to be more popular? they are in a perfect point of pouplarity and their actual music is as good as the olders of the band
MGMT has me feeling like a kid in a candy store
Luis Moldes thats not candy its acid
They have me feeling like a candy store in a kid.
Oskar Koponen u like kids Bebe?
@@handsomest1 no stfu u disgust me
Only difference is that that candy store has some different kind of cookies
hold up... “MGMT RECORDS??”
Olivia Cabral yeh they have gone independent it’s so good
Ben03 hehe this is music to my ears... literally lmao
Hand it Over... Which door do we open? Well they went independent. Nice!
So they can control the rights,t
make more money that doesn't go to middlemen and women and they could even sigh their own artists too! smart work
@@ben0345 I guess we can all say "congratulations"
It sounds like a modern version of The killing moon by Echo and the bunnymen. I love it.
OMG I love that song! Didn't think anyone else knew about it haha (and your totally right!)
it does!
Definitely more Echo... than the Cure... I hear a more pre-'Ocean rain' mood though...a slower tempo Porcupine
This song remind me all the good New Wave bands from 80's actually. I'm in love with this band ❤
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I love how after little dark age, Their songs Have been having more of a Gothic-rock style.
They’ve ended up how they started, independent.
The end is far away, my friend :)
Mac Demarco, you have great taste in music
@@gregortursicsibenik9060 huh? Did I unintentionally quote his lyrics, or what? :D
@@grb9330 He was saying that to the poster of the original comment.
@@roboDarby aaaaah, now I see his picture!
They deserve every penny that comes from their music
Of course they do,they're spent all their money on Drugs
@@danielseaton3504 *books about drugs
@@coldbutcomfortablewinterbr2636 yes what was left of the change
They deserve a newer, more superior form of currency.
They are some of the most humble people
This song is the biggest relief I've ever felt.
Relief like candy?
One of their underrated songs
It’s genuinely probably one of their best songs.
Mgmt has transcended
Well, somebody has been revisiting The Cure lately.
Absolutely!
That’s what I thought about the video for Little Dark Age, now this has concreted the Cure aesthetic.
A bit sisters of mercy and Echo bunnymen ...
Did you listen to their last album? The whole thing was a massive homage to 80s goth.
This is exactly what I thought
MGMT just keeps getting better and better as time goes on, like a fine wine.
To me this perfectly catches the flux of depression. When twinklings of peace and joy emerge with spiritual potency only to pass into echoes again, and after it's been circled through enough times even bliss feels transparent, with dark emptiness sighing behind it. How a song says all that without saying it is incredible.
Listening to the song while reading comments gives me vibe like we are listening together at the party or somewhere
Oh the modern age...
I Feel ya
Yeah xd
@@davyroger3773 up on a hill...
Right
theyre really going full psychedelic goth and i am HERE for it
Can I get a hell yeah!
They should go industrial goth next
God it’s so good
Coming from the fall out boy fan 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@jasonrosas1295 Yeah, sometimes I listen to Fall Out Boy and sometimes I listen to Bauhaus and Siouxsie. What's your point?
In thirty years, when these guys stop playing, we are going to miss them in the same way that we are missing right now the psychedelic pop/rock old school like Grateful Dead or Pink Floyd.
Its been a year and i already miss them that much
Strait up. In thirty years this band will be one of the all time greats and top bands of this era
@@thecookj454 we have high hope
Long live Pink Floyd
I hope they never ever stop
This might be my favorite song they ever created....and I'm a 12 year fan ...its crazy seeing their progression and how they've managed to keep their music interesting over all these years. Alot of bands cant do that
When you take more than one gummy vitamin
@Goggle products Sounds like you took one too many gummy vitamins.
@Goggle products I read the whole thing.
The cbd gummies
@@JorgeVonninger probably gonna need pepto bismal to digest all of that...
I just ate half the bag of calm chocolate vitamins
First little dark age now this, I’m loving this gothic vibe 👏👏👏👏
Emm this dont look gothic
Quite Bauhaus,The Cure etc
@@aquilesvicente26 You don't know shit. This is what true post-punk/gothic music sounded like in the 80s/early 90s. We're talking about bands like The Chameleons, The Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus, The Cure, The Sound, The Bunnymen. I could go on forever, you get the point. Honestly man, it's not about the image it's about the soundscapes and mood the music sets that makes it "gothic". That shit just got out of proportion in the 90s with dudes like Marylin Manson (who were actual garbage musically) that people now associate with "Gothic"
@@RadicalR0nnie Echo and the Bunnymen Killing Moon feels the most similar to this song tone-wise to me.
There will never be another song like this, I’m obsessed.
This song is so addictive
MGMT always dropping fire tracks
Always dropping acid...
There is a little music in your acid, I like it
Alexis Morales Hahahahahaha no mames, lo mismo pensé.
Tha Taste Soundz Amazing 👽🌊🌊🌊
And Benadryl as well...
this is how u describe mgmt to people lmao
So are you actually a bot? Really surprising on a music video
this is literally one of the best songs i’ve ever heard in my life oh my god
We need an album like this song
Little Dark Age...
0:00
*I love this song*
🐑
I think the same 😅❤
Sokey Yokey ahaha same🖤🔥👌🏻
Lmfao yaasss!!!
*Insert Micheal Jackson meme
Sounds like the voices in my head are having a party and I'm not invited.
Solitude is Bliss my friend
@@billycollins6005 hey you know music woah
Tame Impala
and you will never come close to how i feeeeeeeeeell
Company's ok
Damn I can’t believe I slept on this track. Little Dark Age kinda made a little come back recently on tik tok. So I went back and listened to it again cause it’s been my favorite song by them. And now I found out they had a song that came out a year ago?! Wtf?! Why was I never recommended this UA-cam? Like did your algorithm forget how much I spammed “Little Dark Age” and “Me and Michael”?
Why does this music make me feel so nostalgic for something I don't remember?
Loving the deep voice from Andrew and the progressive nature of the song. It's like Velvet Underground, The Cure, and Pink Floyd fused together! Love it 😊
And the pixies especially veloria
...add a dash of Bauhaus and a sprinkling of Bowie, baby, you got a stew goin!
@@elrabeechum5180 fuck yeah all the greats!
And Ariel Pink. Good shit
Sergio Gutiérrez Oh yeah! Wouldn't be surprised if he had something to do with the writing, his contributions/influence on LDA were highlights for me
MGMT have returned to give me all of the 80s goth vibes I've been searching for
Yes
Yup right in that sweet spot
This song is so underrated it hurts.
I fucking love this song and it makes me think how is sentimental to grow old listening to mgmt. I was 13 years old discovering time to pretend, with all that teenages vibes and all what that song says... now as an adult listening in the afternoon and that amazing piano solo makes me feel the same amazement as when I was 13
Yessss me too!
Same here, oh my the feeeeeeeeeels
same omg. I remember being in middle school hearing ‘kids’ for the first time. they have been my favorite band ever since then, and the reason I love them always seems to evolve over time
It’s crazy to me how this late into their careers, they’re still releasing some of their best music
MatAwesome it proves they will have a long lasting career
they're getting better with age
Van Gogh produced the majority of his work in the last 2 years of his life if I recall correctly
agree
"this late", you mean U2 late? Cos these guys are still fresh.
This song made my housecat enter another phase...
Funeralmonkey 13 😂😂😂👽
😂 🐈 🍭🌈
Phase cats are rare, cherish that mammal
windowzombie What do y’all mean “phase”
@@dingus6317 The song is about death. 'Phase' means death.
I can’t even put into words how beautiful this song is
later y'all im about to transcend
These guys always come through with a Chorus that kills.
damn right that hook always slaps.
Love forever
Every album/ song has such a distinct feeling it’s like tasting different flavors and that’s why mgmt will forever be my favorite
They’re 20,000 years old they’ve had a lot of time to practice
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The shifting tone of this track and the original song structure makes for such a dynamic emotional response. This is why I love MGMT.
Glink in the wild
That's well said
Wild glink
Ok now i'm going to visit your channel
MGMT was always goated. Great band
One year of this beautiful masterpiece
When You Die In The Afternoon
This comment tho
Time to pretend when you die in the afternoon
Love Always Remains, but now you think it's Time To Pretend that a Flash Delirium doesn't happen When You Die but you'll know In The Afternoon that it does
Tfw
It's Working, Kids
Sounds so much like The Cure with their own spin. Loving this track.
Also a little bit of Echo & the Bunnymen... anyway, dark/new wave of 80s... with today "taste"... LOVE IT!
yes, this was my first thought! :D this bassline is very Simon Gallup style. :D
and Bauhaus
I was just thinking this reminded me of my favorite era of the cure :D
Sounds like Pornography a bit
Now I want to hear The Cure cover this
Oo yes !
Ребята, вы лучшие!
Спасибо за ваше великое творчество! :)
GOTH MGMT IS THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD
i’m obsessed already.
With kirby?
akiles Monje NO U
You ever listen to something for the first time and just KNOW you're gonna get addicted to it
edit: i was completely right
Love your profile pic
@@coviksutrasnjice6609 fank yew
@@8-ballfracture437 Goth kid from South park
Okay, we can officially say that this is actually "indie".
still kinda popish. Would love for them to go back to being an indie band.
Ginzington Schnizer indie means independent which is what this is
@@ginzingtonschnizer2330 That's such an anachronistic term, what does poppy even mean?
@@ginzingtonschnizer2330 who fucking cares what they as re? Good music is good music.
it's actually an INDIE AFTERNOON
México 2020 for MGMT IS GOING TO BE AMAZING.
Im Ready
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aren't they just opening for tame impala?
Marco Coelho no, they have other dates as the main act
Por que chingados hablan en inglés si están entre mexicanos aquí?JAJAJAJA
This song is like a perfect mix between Little Dark Age, When you die, and Alien Days. Love the sound 🤙🏻🤙🏻🤙🏻
My 3 favorite MGMT songs 😍😍😍
Also has a few elements of Siberian Breaks, particularly that later part after "I'd rather die before I get sold" when the guitar hits hard, but in a darker tone
Sam Bradley yessss! Maybe that’s why I love this song so much! Siberian breaks is in my top 3 favorites and I got to hear it live!!!!!
Please never stop making music. You literally saved my soul
This is genuinely my favorite song of theirs. It's so unbelievably good.
A new song by MGMT? I feel like a kid in a candy store.
Exiles of the Underground #WeAreExiles “Candy”
I always was a fan of trippy music. And in the past 10 years, I'm not disappointed. We really have some great music in this decade.
This reminds me of Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Yeah
But a recent version of it
Yea...
But More like the Psychedelic Furs, Love My Way ;o)
Some the Cure and Edward Ka-Spel in there too
Came down to the comments to see if anyone else felt the same way!
I can kinda hear it.
I am LOVING the deep vocals! It sounds so bad ass and not typically what you see from Andrew. I'm really digging this sound!
I miss the "hippie" era a lot, but this new style is epic. I like how they are changing through the years, and the way they are always keeping that psychedelic vision. :)
yes
Just listen to more of Empire of the Sun, that got that sound nailed.
This DIY video gives me serious Destrokk-vibes and I love it.
That's the first thing that came to mind too, but more like "plz remake destrokk with their new sound"
Artist: MGMT
Music Video: DMT
Joe rogan: "Have you seen that new MGMT music video? It's entirely possible they were inspired by DMT when they made that video."
Lyrics: LSD
I swear there's at least one drug related comment on the comment section of any MGMT video
@@i_dont_know_who_i_am69 well have you done any psychedelic?
Genre: MGMT
I knew this song sounded familiar after reading " The death of Ivan Ilyich". The accuracy of this song with the book is terrifyingly impressive. Lonesome existential dread ends with an exhale of relief by death. MGMT be literary geniuses fr
I didn't read it, but I listened to a radio adaptation of it, and I was surprised to find myself feeling bad for this annoying old man. Having a slow painful death is hell on Earth.
This is the MGMT equivalent of the killing moon. 🌙
Holy shit I was afraid they were gonna wait another 5 years
Indie and Alternative Music sounds like my wife before her bbc gangbang lol!
..wait hol up
*Dear Universe: if today I lose my hope, please remind me that your plans are better than my dreams.*
This universe is a stage, you must look beyond it to begin to understand the purpose. The future is written in our dreams and when we awake we go back to pretending. When I saw through your eyes did you even know I was there, did it cross your mind that I am is always watching in all ways.
No way this song is so new, it gives me hope that music isn't dead.
I can't believe that in a few years, I will be able tell to my children that I've been at a MGMT concert (and luckily, I will even be able to bring them to see MGMT live). One of the best band ever. Cheers from France.
This song gets better every time I listen to it.
@Goggle products i agree with a lot of what youre saying but like, why can i not stop loving it.
@Goggle products - That's a very cynical view of the world, I agree with aspects of what you're saying, however a lot of your points are built on conjecture. It sounds as if in an effort to be open minded you've become as frigid as the system you intimate to be black and white.
Perhaps I'm completely wrong, or maybe you're a troll, either way it's good to be unprejudiced my friend, view the world objectively through its dichotomy of good and evil.
Yes. I love love and love. Thats all. ❤❤❤❤❤ I just know to dance and love this song.
Little dark aging...in the afternoon!
this is what i see when i rub my eyes too hard
this is what i see when im the kid at the candy store
who needs drugs when u can just rub ur eyes
jordan greenway I GOT SOMETHING HARD TO RUB BEBE
@@neilt1352 gave myself eye floaters
@@GroovyGroo did you have a nice trip though
I love this song SO MUCH. PLEASE give us a full 'dark new romantic' album.
To me this song is one of the best and more enigmatic songs from last 5 years, love to see if a complete album is released following this style and aura
This is perfect. MGMT you’ve had me for 11+ years and you’ve still got me hooked.
Ally G u single?
Major The Cure feel to this song, I love it
The gloominess and greyness of this song is genius...it pierces deep
This song is literally genius. The way they are able to communicate the feelings associated with death and dying - not only with lyrics but mainly through the composition - is unbelievable. True art
I'm here before Travis Scott samples this
Anthony kind of an odd prediction but ok 😂
Bruh on God 😂😂😂
hahahaha
Loool trust
Davis Foster not really that odd this is the type of song that somebody with his style would sample
Holy shit I haven’t slept in two days and the insomnia has been killing me but this makes me so much happier now
How u doing?
Same here, i hope it gets better for you.
I feel your pain. I used meds for it......
Developed issues and a huge tolerance to them.
That's the past though...
Still have insomnia, only its much worse now!!
Wooohoo!!!
Get off your phone , workout , meditate
Me Me Use CBD, go hiking and spend the day outside, study a new language, meditate
Love this so much. They even added the little video info at the bottom at the beginning. Takes me back.
So dark, yet somehow hopeful. Genius. Also love the aesthetic they have going on since LDA.
The Cure crashed into Brian Eno
Vera Nazarenko it’s funny cuz they made a song called brian eno
@@scrumbole yay that's why this joke was born :)
the couple i ever dreamt to listen together
Sort of like early Eno vocal albums.
Darth Revan Taking Tiger Mountain
reminds me of A Forest
this is nice
Class of 3000 was an amazing show!!!!!
The Cure
Reminds me of Velouria- pixies
Bauhaus
The beginning of the video reminded me of disintegration - the happiness started there and continued throughout
Ready for the album 2023!
I wish they’d drop an album full of songs like this