every time i send this video to someone, it's my signal for suicidal stuff. and now Mike did it. i feel so bad we never met. rest in peace, you wonderful dude
When the woman says "eat your heart out" and the background becomes a sort of arterial web of soft tissue, then that pattern of skulls flashes in front of your eyes. That is ABSOLUTELY what the beginnings of a bad trip look like. It's this sort of awareness and paranoia about what most of your body is actually made of. You just start to feel gross.
The melody of this song is so sweet and beautiful but yet so eerie and creepy. The lyrics behind it are so dark yet sound so happy. I can’t get enough of it! Love these guys.
I think it's very healthy. Acceptance is the first step to healing. You gonna be alright. Heaven and Hell are all right here right now. Drugs, meditation, all that jazz leads you to roughly the same point at different speeds hopefully. Soon enough you'll realize your action in the immediate here and now is ultimately all you have control over in this crazy roller coaster we call life, and that they ripple outward like a stone in the pool that is our here and now.So understandably, killing yourself can be a tantalizing thing when you feel nothing matters. But cheesy as it may be, everything you do has a value greater than 0. You may not feel as though you are a 1, but you are. Infinite and nothing all at once. You have the potential, you have something no one else in your immediate space can provide. You may not see it, but others do. It might be something as small as making the best fucking brownies out of anyone you know, but goddamit you're buddies would miss those brownies more than you can ever realize. Once you realize how even the tiniest effect you have on others around you and how much of an effect even saying something nice to someone can have, it seems meaningless to kill yourself as well, and thus you are free. Nothing matters except everything. Hug your cat, eat some good food, smoke a bowl, do whatever you do, but push yourself to the positive. Do constructive things, stay away from negative people and thought patterns. This kind of music does have a negative effect if it's all you listen to (I've been on a DIIV and sadboi music kick myself), but in total it's a positive gain when can make time to reflect and not ruminate. Become a successful failure. Through your stumbles you are greater than those who have never faltered if you allow yourself.
Been listening to this song for about a year straight and I’m still blown away by how MGMT managed to capture the experience of complete egodeath exactly like a heroic dose of mushrooms. In my opinion this is their best work.
I agree and I've been listening to it for a year too lmao. We're bro's now. Yeah this song is like when people label you a certain way and ur like just go away. Kind of.
This is the DMT trip I never want to have. Whoever directed this really nailed the "I'm whacked on tons of mushrooms/acid and everything is patterned" visuals. Bravo!
Takes real talent to release bangers like this 10+ years after your debut. It’s 2023 & MGMT still one of the most underrated bands of the new millennium
@@vashdesperado1232 they’ve always been top 5 for me, but they got hella burned by critics back in the day. for example, back when Oracular came out & they were getting a lot of radio play, a lot of critics snubbed them as being “alright for a radio-pop band”. then when Congrats came out, they said they were trying too hard to be artsy/contrarian. & for their S/T, suddenly the narrative became “they should have stayed a pop band, they were amazing as a pop band” They finally got some critical acclaim with LDA, but it took a long time. The fans have always known they’re top-tier though
Story of the video: 00:00 - dude wakes up, eats breakfast and goes to work - he performs magic at a bar 00:52 - the audience are concerned, a spark appears above the dude's head 00:57 - his life flashes before his eyes. Or at least, everything he has done today 01:34 - it turns out the spark was a result of the stage light collapsing. It lands on his head, causing a near death experience. DMT is released in his brain, causing hallucinations. 02:05 - he wakes up in the hospital, barely in touch with reality. He has further hallucinations where people, patterns and behaviours relating to his day are coexisting. 03:13 - this part is really open to interpretation. The hallucinations relate to blood, skeletons and a possible representation of hell. This is followed by dissolution, suggesting he has died. Just wanted to put my thoughts out there!
I agree but I also think that the wife staged the death and hired the guy with the toothpick to set the light up to fall and his last hallucination of his wife is him realizing that she staged his death. "Dont you got somewhere to be at 730, I've got some work to do" meaning set up your death and the lyrics are her singing to him that she will laugh when he dies, shes not that nice, go fuck yourself, and she will eat your heart out
I saw the hospital scene as them taking his organs (If he gets hit on the head why is he opened up in his torso?) which I would assume would mean he was dead by that point
Besides this video being a visual masterpiece, there's just something about that last line "I heard you the first time" that sends chills down my spine. Beautiful and unnerving.
The fuzziness is absolutely spot on with tripping. I once watched a small island turn into the back of a dragon but it was just tree's waving in the wind.
This is one of most realistic tripping videos I've seen. The way everything is made up of such detailed patterns, contrasted shadows, pulsing movements & vibrant colors. Well done.👍🌌
It’s kind of insane how accurately they captured the look of an LSD trip. I don’t think I’ve seen anything else that encapsulates those specific textures and colors the way this video does.
This song gave me the courage to quit my old job. This album just came out and my mental health was at its lowest, somehow I believed that being paid so low and treated so horribly by my boss was all I deserved. And then this song? I always had the urge to play it throughout my entire work day on my desk. I guess I got so pumped by how my frustration felt justified, and then I finally quit. Since then whenever I play this song, I remember the victorioust reeling of leaving that job. I was so wrong, I did deserve better and got a nicer job elsewhere.
Same. I listened to this song the moment I stepped out of the production floor on my last day. It was the first time I smiled after 9 months of stress, humiliation, and small pay.
There's something real about this sort of thought process. Watching this video does a lot to remind me what I'm working for, what I'm living for - almost as a sort of reminder for what sort of purpose I'd given myself... so that I can hopefully pass on with the idea that I'd left something worth leaving behind.
Probably my favorite part of the song at 2:43 . The songs melody changed and settled down becoming almost comforting but then you hear that original melody slip back in thats reminiscent of when you’re tripping and you think its over but then you start noticing things moving again so you realize you’re still very far down the rabbit hole. Amazing tune
Yes hallucinating is like a bungee jump at some points. It feels like it is wearing off and you think you are good but then you dive right back into it.
For me that slow melody reminds me of when the drug kicks in and slowly begin to jump out of reality innitiating the trip , and begin to lose sense of time along with the other effects
This video was uploaded 4 days after I got hit by a car for the first time. The car was going 35 mph and caused me to go flying around 12 feet away, I ragdolled through the air, and my left shoe flew off. I was able to get right back up after I hit the ground, and the worst injury I got from that accident was a scrape on my left wrist. The doctor at the hospital told me that I was really lucky, and ever since then, I've felt like I either should have died, or I actually did die but was somehow transported to an alternate universe where I survived with the least amount of injury. I only really got into this album last month, but if I had watched this the day it was uploaded, I would have been convinced that I had actually died 4 days earlier, and this song was the universe's way of making fun of me for dying. 2 and a half years later, it vaguely seems that way. It just adds to the depth of this song for me, and makes me love it and appreciate it more in a strange way.
This song has such an upbeat and joyful feel, but when you pair it with the video it switches into a sarcastic and ironic kind of bliss which never fails to induce me with anxiety.
@@lucasthemycologist I guess I can't really pick out a key but that just makes it all the harder for me to understand how it could be seen as upbeat lol
MGMT understand true psychedelia - this video is fucking gold. The lyrics are perfect, the music is perfect. I know I'm not the only one who'll say this but I've been listening to them for like 11 years, seeing them be one of the first indie bands to seriously blast off was inspiring as fuck to all independent musicians, and I feel like in these crazy fucking times MGMT deserves a serious comeback. I can't wait for the new album. I feel like I'm 16 again. But not. Ya know? It's strange but wonderful.
When I first listened this song, I was lying on my bed and randomly clicked on this video seeing its unique thumbnail. I was holding my phone in my hands while the audio was being played on a bass boosted speaker kept on my chest and the experience was something else! I thought that I was diving in the video without even getting high irl and getting euphoric sensations. Really appreciate the efforts put in to make this song and video. Loved it!
i honestly would love to listen to this song right before i die, to remind me that everything doesnt need to be so serious, that we can just enjoy the gift of life and how death is just another part of it all
@@rosemadelynvlogs the truth about this world is hard to cope with, because it is a very few people that find God, but if you want to be saved and go to heaven, you NEED the Lord Jesus! Matthew 7:13 - "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."
I love and fear this song. This is by far the most accurate portrayal of how the mind/soul slowly withers to black after a morbid event. You're reality slowly stops existing. your brain becomes mush. The slow realization that YOU are fading. In the end... Black.
For me it was more about wishful thinking. Suicidal thinking. Which is why the part about feeling nothing after dying sounded so optimistic. I dunno why, but to me it seems the main character is laden with guilt (“I’m mean and I’m evil, don’t call me nice”) and is longing for release. In any case the way you describe loving and fearing this song is spot on. It’s an awesome piece, but it also shows you the dark side of life quite nakedly.
@@FabricioVargas91 that’s the thing. Death as we currently theorise it to be isn’t just darkness and shadow. It’s a nothingness that we quite literally cannot imagine.
@@gavinjohnston1517 I was lucky enough to have a great time when I tried salvia, I melted into a wicker chair, saw only my friends hands and faces, and felt my buddy's sweater until I almost cried due to joy. Definitely not a typical experience from what I gather
I've rewatched this many times and each time I notice something new which plays off something else in another part of the video.. this is actually a super intricate story.
Junkers maybe something along the lines of how the monotony of the same tasks that you do in everyday life, that you don’t really think about while doing, end up influencing who and what you are more than you realize. For example the first morning he wakes he reaches in the blue loops cereal to eat, the second day he does the same but it is caught from a different angle. Then when he ‘dies’ there is that scene where everything is made of the blue loops cereal. And there’s also the scene where everything is covered in eyeballs, which references the eyeball on his keychain, which he picked up each day when going to perform
I feel like this video is meant to be seen on acid as you notice ever detail and put everything into "the bigger pictyre" also the beginning and end of the video are very similar as the screen becomes smaller in the end and you don't really realize it until it's super small. Idk just a thought
It almost seems like the guy performs and his wife is there to support him. When the light fixture falls and hits him in the head and kills him. Then he gets stuck in a time loop, almost as though he has to continue living through the same shit. Like a "purgatory" or something. Maybe I'm reading to much into it, but also when only a part of his eye drops, it's almost like saying half of him was already dead anyways. This sums up to me, 'you live, you die. So go smoke and get high'
Almost seems too that after he's dead "which you can tell when he dies.. by how everything goes from "reality" to "unrealistic" Everyone there seems to move on without the guy, like his life didn't necessarily have a deep impact on any of them. As if they all kept going through the motions of living. This really showcases how small that we all are in retrospect.
I'll forever treasure this song as it was during lockdown that I discovered it and it radically altered my music taste, marking the beginning of my Indie Rock exploration
This video and song are both so haunting. That's the best way I can describe it. Both the way the song itself was composed, and seeing it along with the visuals, it created some mind beast inside me that hasn't left since I first watched it.
This song puts things into perspective for me. In the end, nothing matters. We’re on this journey of life for our souls to have a human being experience, which includes all the joy and suffering along the way. It’s supposed to be that way. That is life.
This video makes me feel sick to my stomach every time I watch, really good! 3:30 this part in particular is very accurate to how it feels to go down a negative rabbit hole on acid
Angela Palmer the seemingly endless time loop, the twisted faces when his eyes are closed, the feeling of being at the hospital fighting for your life, and the laughing nonexistent faces are all things i’ve experienced in a terrifying acid trip
@@trashboat6215 the loop is the worst and the song also has this weird winding up & down sound in the background that is really reminiscent of what I hear when a trip turns sinister
We’re all so fortunate to have such a talented band that makes super amazing music! I really hope MGMT gets the recognition that they deserve! STAY HIGH MY FRIENDS!
This is the perfect song to listen to while walking in a crowded city during the day for some reason. This came up randomly for the first time a week ago while i was out doing errands and shit in the city and my life felt like a movie
One of the greatest creations in the history of video editing / music videos. 5 years before all of this new AI bs that we see almost daily. Bravo to infinity to whoever edited this
I LOOOVE watching this when stoned. Hell, I'm high now. The colors are way more vibrant, the patterns more textured, and the animation moves more palpably; it's like in 3D almost.
This video reminds me of Tommy Cooper, A famous magic performer and illusionist. He died on stage Live on TV due to a heart attack or some sort and people thought it was apart of the show so they laughed and played it out, other performers went on stage while his body was still there since people thought it was apart of the show. He was a loving man though and people of his city still remember him and even made a Statue of him (":
Ever since this song came out I have been hearing it religiously every time I take a plane and we are taking off. I time the part that starts at 0:40 perfectly with the takeoff and the "Bang" with the wheels lifting off the ground. I've been recording every landing, nice view, takeoff, boarding... I want to make a video edit with all the material. It feels incredibly good to see how everything turns small and insignificant as you hear 2:05 start. it feels like touching the clouds.
I’ve experienced it. Decided it would be a good idea to eat 700 goddamn mcgs of acid. Horrible time, absolutely terrifying. The doctor scene was probably the most accurate thing I’ve seen in a while
Cool. I like this music video. It contains aspects of a psychedelic trip all put together to form a representation of one. Here's some exceptional details that I've noticed: - 00:07 Rainbow vision/light halos - 00:16 Orientation distortion - 00:37 Enhanced confidence - feels like you want to announce yourself to the whole world and you're front and center of the universe - 00:49 Strange actions - you end up doing things that appear strange and unusual - 00:53 Distorted faces - 00:56 Snapping back to reality from zoning out, triggered by cue - 01:00 Enhanced patterns and colors - 01:03 Repeating actions - stuck in a loop (doing things or thinking things over and over again - 01:30 Intrusive thoughts - off-putting or downright terrifying thoughts - 01:38 Floating - 01:39 Color morphing - 02:05 Ego death - profound feeling of being at peace - some say is comparable to dying - 02:40 Peak - full body disintegration - 03:10 Vision becomes pure visuals - 03:24 Trigger - dramatic and unexpected change of set and/or setting - 03:32 Skulls - appears when your mind is in distress - 03:45 Faces appearing in everything you look at
I think the magic shows represent him performing for his friends and the woman he loves everyday, and it never being enough. The only time its enough was when he pulled the money out and his girl smiled. I think the point where he dies is a symbolic of realization, towards the end he stands up and claps for his girl and smiles when he sees her until he sees her for what she truly is.
There is just something about this song that keeps me listening to it over and over. I sing it in my head while at work. It is a piece of art. The video is just incredible with the song. They should win awards for this. In a world of Katy Perry and Shawn Mendes, I am very thankful for MGMT.
Well, sure you can mention Katy Perry and Shawn Mendes but why would you not list the ~50 or so artists who are currently making good music? Maybe you don't listen to enough music in the first place.
CometCourse At Jeremy Doe. I'm saying that unnecessarily insulting other current artists just makes him look like a dick. If he enjoys MGMT, enjoy that without insulting other people.
yep. the lyrics are amazing, stuff about death is the best :D I suggest you to check out Alice in chains, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith, blind melon you will like them.
Check the music videos from the Brazilian band O Terno, they've got two amazing videos: ua-cam.com/video/LlDC361onUs/v-deo.html ua-cam.com/video/TUATZgrVlT0/v-deo.html
For me the lyrics of this song are soooo amazingly written and I interpret them in a very perticular way. The not wanting to be percieved as the nice guy and doing some nasty things in order to change that perception, as well as being fed up with friends who don't realy care about you and always "have somewhere to be at 7.30" or "have some work to do" so they blow you off. And finally the death of your old self portrayed by the gunshot happening right before the chorus kick in and the words "you die". Also how at this point music presents this sense of a relief in the melody and the harmonies, because the version of yourself that you hated and that was making you miserable has died. You told these toxic friends to go fuck themselves, you are no longer leting them push you around and disrespect you. And those one liners that are so simple but hit so hard like "I'm not that nice", "go fuck yourself", those words that you always scream inside but are afraid to say out loudd. Goddamn this song has so many great ideas executed in such a fantastic way and on top of that is so relatable, I fucking love it.
man mind is so epic mmama mia, i can clearly notice he is talking with Is head, or listening to it, from a long day doing stupid things he smoke a joint a let his mind as free as he can, telling to him semi random things like in a dream state. What u say make sense too, what mgmt meaning was or is, surely make sense too, so what is it, what is the point? hahaha be good and listen to sadhguru, your welcome folks.
Well, you dont exactly pop DMT. But also everyone will experience it at least once (the end) in your life. Your brain stores this, smoking DMT triggers a release of it. However it's just the tip of the iceberg, we wont know exactly how much floods our brain till our inevitable end.
I think its about dealing with depression that comes specificaly from fear to death, more than about the experience of death itself. Great video, great song, never disappoints.
This track and video has restored my faith in contemporary music and art in general. Creativity is still very strong and vibrant, it's just blocked out of sight by a dense forest of bullshit. Thank you MGMT!
This song is criminally underrated EDIT: You don't all need to convince me I'm wrong, our perspectives are different I suppose, let's agree to disagree lol
The second part of the video is a loop of the first part... it looks like he’s rummaging through the most vivid parts of his memory, which would be the last day he experienced.. so he experiences it in a more and more distorted way. Until he no longer has the mental capacity to remember anything or understand his situation. His wife, his most emotionally powerful and recognizable entity comes into fruition but not in a pleasant way. Probably because he’s clinging on to consciousness harder than he should be. This is apparent because he observes as much as he can until it blurs and blacks out. He probably should have just let go.. but maybe his mind wasn’t at peace enough to do so.. what a horrible death.. I don’t know how I feel about this song. What I do know is that it’s stuck in my head. Dammit MGMT what have you done. This is like a death video except you get to look inside someone’s mind as it happens. A whole new level of gruesome.. and people who truly have had bad trips or ptsd of some sort like myself will be horribly triggered by something like this.. I still love MGMT though and I’m glad they push the boundaries of art so much to come up with this horribly beautiful piece
Not only that is accurate I also believe that he was murdered by his wife, since the only time she ever smiles is when he's fully dead, doesn't seem like she was ever happy with him and even in the beginning when he 'wakes up' she turns away from him and the lyrics start with a very heavy tone of loathing which I don't believe it's from him since he doesn't show any malice towards her.
Soap when I was 18 and visited home from boot camp (marine corps) I overdosed on shrooms due to inexperience. I know it’s not lethal but I took WAY too much somewhere around 20 grams.. my trip involved all of the violence I was afraid of experiencing in war. It is now 3 1/2 years later... I plan to go back into psychedelics the right way when I get out of the service
Yo this reminds me of a near death experience I had one time. This is almost perfect. Almost. When everything slows down you feel this euphoric weightlessness then everything goes dark, then slowly colorful. I remember just that before waking up. But after I woke up I'd frequently get hallucinations kinda like how they are portrayed in the video for weeks just less dramatic. And my dreams would be like the beginning of the video, just replays of the event over and over again.
@@getmine9490 I think we are having a semantics issue here. I agree, There's "Oh crap, I almost got hit by that train!" you could call a "near death experience" but then there is a "true" Near Death Experience (NDE) which is what I am inquiring about... A valid "NDE" traditionally is defined by the medical research community involves "physical death / patient declared legally dead including the absence of heartbeat or brainwave activity for a period of time exceeding 10 seconds where the patient claims to have a subjective experience despite lack of life sustaining heartbeat or brainwave activity, after which the patient is revived either through medical intervention or spontaneously by return of pulse, and has recall of this experience"... Thats what I was talking about. If you ever saw the movie "Flatliners" it was about NDEs.
@@getmine9490 Also, if you've never read up on NDEs, they are FASCINATING. Turns out they happen to like, 1 in every 6 people who have a cardiac arrest or grave injury which causes them to approach death before they are revived at the hospital. Its truly fascinating because people all over the world describe the EXACT same experience, and if it was just wishful thinking or hallucination, you would expect the accounts to vary wildly.
@@ralphralpherson9441 I had one following a drink spiking incident where I nearly died and had several heart attacks following respiratory arrest. It's pretty much exactly like this except the trauma of it can't really be overstated. It's basically so real that it can leave people feeling that they truly died. I had the whole 'seeing stars', 'floating in time and space' feeling before waking up to paramedics reviving me with a bag-valve respirator but it was more than just that. It turned me from a strong atheist into someone who is now quite spiritual. There's definitely something after death, we just don't know what it is. Given we know so little about even what sleep and dreams are, I think there's quite a lot of PhDs to be earned in this field...
I don't think the "I'm not that nice" part is being narrated by the magician like most seem to assume. The lyrics have multiple narrators/characters saying things (both in regards to the video and just the song itself) The magician seems pretty genuine and nice, both in his magical displays and when he claps for the woman at the end, so I was confused at first. But after watching the whole thing a bunch of times, I think it's *her* that's "not that nice." At the end, when she turns into a monster, he's realizing what she is. She's mean and she's evil, and is going to eat his heart out, like she's seen saying to him. He also wakes up at 7:08 while she's still sleeping, so the "don't you have somewhere to be at 7:30" seems like something that she'd be saying to him and not vice versa. He's the one waking up early at 7:08 and rushing out the door for where he has to be. So again, something in the lyrics that she's the one saying and not him. The only parts I think are "narrated" by him for sure are the "Baby, I'm ready, I'm ready, ready, ready to blow my lid off" and "Baby, I’m ready, I'm ready, ready, ready to blow my brains out" - which he says right before a 3rd person narrator comes in saying "You died..." etc. They're kind of like fragments of an argument being remembered by him. On a related note, you'd think out of everyone in the crowd, she'd be supportive and enthusiastic, but instead she looks disinterested and apathetic. She claps and patronizes him a little bit for his acts, which he does with genuine enthusiasm, but she doesn't seem to really care or think much of it. It kind of seems like a metaphor for relationships where similar things happen. Just because you sing "I'm not that nice" doesn't mean you're talking about yourself, I think it's talking about her. It's a little more abstract, but that's my own interpretation of it - which no doubt is shaped by my own personal experiences. There's a lot of ways to interpret and relate to the music & video, which is part of what makes it so good. : )
I think you're right. To me this video is about someone who wasted his life trying to amuse people who thought nothing of him. He wanted their adoration, and they mocked him for it. In the end he dies a meaningless death, his brain flooded with chemicals leading to one last trip. On this trip he sees the universe for what it is. What his life was, and his final revelation being that the woman he cared for will hardly be affected by his death. She only used him for what ever role he served in their relationship. Essentially cannibalizing him. He dies and is added to a mass grave where all of us will join. His horror serving no substantial purpose, as though his life was ultimately a personal hell. Forever buried and forgotten in a sea of lives like his.
@@heidileeshire5959 You're dumb. You can take things at face value, or you can try to gain some substance. The best works of art typically have a message at their heart. By not recognizing that, you're doing yourself zero favors, remaining closed minded, and ultimately are consuming candy. You're subjecting yourself to being another mindless consumer. If it sounds good and looks pretty then you're happy. Sorry some of us look for more out of our entertainment than just flashing colors.
Going through the video and piecing together all the patterns from before and after this guys life flashes, you can see the texture of his handkerchief, pillow and cereals recreated and played out whilst he's dying of a concussion. Very fun to go back and forth and hunt for it
Though it isn't proven DMT is released "when you die", I fully relate to this video from about 3 years ago. I was smoking (what I was told was weed) with some people I didn't know and fell off the tower base I was sitting on. (I didn't know that I fell off until they told me the next day). I was sent into a trip of repeating visuals including them looking over me (like shown in the video) and repeating things that didn't help like "you're here now" "its okay" and the world and night sky around me shifting the same way it did for him in the video as he fell. The ground around me began to appear as skulls and faces that wanted to pull me in. I'm still not entirely sure I didn't die that day because I had repeated visuals for months after and dissassociation for even longer. Therapy didn't help and I'm still not always entirely sure I'm actually alive right now. This video is INCREDIBLY accurate in it's visuals for an ego death and even possibly a real death. Another commenter stated something similar but it feels like this video is fucking with me and I'm about to be sent into the loop again. I'm constantly worried of being sent into that loop again and my head is spinning as I type this. I haven't had such intense feelings towards my ego death until watching this incredible video for a very, very long time. Oh but I wanted to mention, maybe it isn't the death that releases the DMT visuals, but head trauma. It's almost like you're literally seeing stars. I fell off what I was sitting on, and that thing hit the actor in the head. I like to think I'm not living in a fake world, or at least one created by my own straggling mind and spirit. Even if I'm not alive, I like to think that I'm having a good time :) but man this video shook me up, I WAS NOT ready at all.
Ya dawg, you just commented on youtube, dead folks don't do that. You are VERY MUCH ALIVE but just stuck in a bad headspace on trip-loop and you CAN get out of that. You just need to start affirming this every morning. Wake up, look in the mirror, see your face, feel your heartbeat and say "yep, still alive"... One day you actually WILL be dead and not just a kid who had a bad trip on some fucked up salvia or dmt people gave you. Honestly, if I had to guess, they may have given you some sherm which is weed with PCP on it, used to be very popular in the ghetto. PCP is a TERRIFYING trip and lasts a long time, also its a strong disassociative so that makes sense. I'd say in order of likelihood (also depending where you were) if they were poor kids, probably PCP (angel dust) and if they were middle class or rich kids, either DMT or salvia. But salvia and DMT both only last a little while... so if you were tripped out for hours as you say, probably smoked some PCP my guy. Bottom line though, you're just in a paranoid headspace, you are INDEED alive and experiencing things so there ya go. If there is an afterlife, Im pretty sure we know it for sure when we get there.
So according to what I read about the video, the magician has died and DMT has been realeased (debated on whether or not that really happens) he is reliving his last moments until he fades into time itself. If this is really what it's like to die then damn. I'm kinda scared now.
If it's any consolation to you - most people with near death experiences say they ease into death, it starts to creep into your mind that this reality is full on real and it's okay. The bad shit is part of life and it fucking humbles your ass, trust me. DMT trips feel very similar in that regard, though I don't have a direct comparison to NDEs.
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Rest in peace Mike Burakoff, thank you for one of the greatest animation works I’ve ever seen in my life! ♥️
Who is Mike Burakoff?
@@ivankornyshkov-murin9227 director of this music video, he died just a little bit ago
he really knew how things are
when he died. rest in peace. my favourite video for the next decade@@gulfy5970
every time i send this video to someone, it's my signal for suicidal stuff. and now Mike did it. i feel so bad we never met. rest in peace, you wonderful dude
Ill be viewing this at a later time in a different mindset.
Why the fuck did I decide to watch dis on acid wtf
was not pleasant
SPOOKY I love the follow up comment 😂
Just watched this on acid, shit was wild, fucking loved it
Swim Same.
When the woman says "eat your heart out" and the background becomes a sort of arterial web of soft tissue, then that pattern of skulls flashes in front of your eyes. That is ABSOLUTELY what the beginnings of a bad trip look like. It's this sort of awareness and paranoia about what most of your body is actually made of. You just start to feel gross.
Time stamp?
Congrats its psychosis! Psychosis land looks justtttt like this. Everything’s connected.
when i saw that the first time i was like, ok not gonna watch this on acid. now that youve said that im definitley not going to.
Don’t do drugs then loser
@@RainyDayDance yeah i’m watching this on cid rn and looking at comments and i’m lowkey tweaking now
The melody of this song is so sweet and beautiful but yet so eerie and creepy. The lyrics behind it are so dark yet sound so happy. I can’t get enough of it! Love these guys.
I just burned one and I have heard it already 3x by the time I get to your comment now 😅...love it!
I don't know about happy. Black humor maybe
I don’t think it’s healthy how much I like this song..
Lance Laube I laughed for the first in 2 years thank you and god bless ur soul I’m praying for u
I think it's very healthy. Acceptance is the first step to healing. You gonna be alright. Heaven and Hell are all right here right now. Drugs, meditation, all that jazz leads you to roughly the same point at different speeds hopefully. Soon enough you'll realize your action in the immediate here and now is ultimately all you have control over in this crazy roller coaster we call life, and that they ripple outward like a stone in the pool that is our here and now.So understandably, killing yourself can be a tantalizing thing when you feel nothing matters. But cheesy as it may be, everything you do has a value greater than 0. You may not feel as though you are a 1, but you are. Infinite and nothing all at once. You have the potential, you have something no one else in your immediate space can provide. You may not see it, but others do. It might be something as small as making the best fucking brownies out of anyone you know, but goddamit you're buddies would miss those brownies more than you can ever realize. Once you realize how even the tiniest effect you have on others around you and how much of an effect even saying something nice to someone can have, it seems meaningless to kill yourself as well, and thus you are free. Nothing matters except everything. Hug your cat, eat some good food, smoke a bowl, do whatever you do, but push yourself to the positive. Do constructive things, stay away from negative people and thought patterns. This kind of music does have a negative effect if it's all you listen to (I've been on a DIIV and sadboi music kick myself), but in total it's a positive gain when can make time to reflect and not ruminate. Become a successful failure. Through your stumbles you are greater than those who have never faltered if you allow yourself.
How come Lance Laube?
Oscar Jameson It reflects the darker part of my perspective of life.
Lance Laube it never gets old like actually
Been listening to this song for about a year straight and I’m still blown away by how MGMT managed to capture the experience of complete egodeath exactly like a heroic dose of mushrooms. In my opinion this is their best work.
You might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like MGMT
Yesssssss
@@funlittlefishthanks for the band name they are chill asf
I agree and I've been listening to it for a year too lmao. We're bro's now. Yeah this song is like when people label you a certain way and ur like just go away. Kind of.
@@samuelhatlestad6676 I agree or basically F off I’m riding alone on this one .
This is the DMT trip I never want to have. Whoever directed this really nailed the "I'm whacked on tons of mushrooms/acid and everything is patterned" visuals. Bravo!
Takes real talent to release bangers like this 10+ years after your debut.
It’s 2023 & MGMT still one of the most underrated bands of the new millennium
Yes, completely agree. My favorite band of all time. Can't wait for the new album this year!!
Underrated? I've always thought they were super cool and super popular. Huh.
@@vashdesperado1232 they’ve always been top 5 for me, but they got hella burned by critics back in the day.
for example, back when Oracular came out & they were getting a lot of radio play, a lot of critics snubbed them as being “alright for a radio-pop band”. then when Congrats came out, they said they were trying too hard to be artsy/contrarian. & for their S/T, suddenly the narrative became “they should have stayed a pop band, they were amazing as a pop band”
They finally got some critical acclaim with LDA, but it took a long time. The fans have always known they’re top-tier though
Nah they got electric feel to trend on tiktok, they're good for now.
underrated? lol there pretty big bro
Story of the video:
00:00 - dude wakes up, eats breakfast and goes to work - he performs magic at a bar
00:52 - the audience are concerned, a spark appears above the dude's head
00:57 - his life flashes before his eyes. Or at least, everything he has done today
01:34 - it turns out the spark was a result of the stage light collapsing. It lands on his head, causing a near death experience. DMT is released in his brain, causing hallucinations.
02:05 - he wakes up in the hospital, barely in touch with reality. He has further hallucinations where people, patterns and behaviours relating to his day are coexisting.
03:13 - this part is really open to interpretation. The hallucinations relate to blood, skeletons and a possible representation of hell. This is followed by dissolution, suggesting he has died.
Just wanted to put my thoughts out there!
Late_Bloc_Party this is such an underrated comment, I never thought of the video this way
I agree but I also think that the wife staged the death and hired the guy with the toothpick to set the light up to fall and his last hallucination of his wife is him realizing that she staged his death. "Dont you got somewhere to be at 730, I've got some work to do" meaning set up your death and the lyrics are her singing to him that she will laugh when he dies, shes not that nice, go fuck yourself, and she will eat your heart out
I saw the hospital scene as them taking his organs (If he gets hit on the head why is he opened up in his torso?) which I would assume would mean he was dead by that point
Bb
How does one trigger a near death experience.
That background guitar tune is frkn lowkey hot from beginning to end
highkey*
Besides this video being a visual masterpiece, there's just something about that last line "I heard you the first time" that sends chills down my spine. Beautiful and unnerving.
WashupCyclone ikr, that soft voice losing in the empty it hits so strong
Love the Katsushika Hokusai fractal wave picture dude. Very cool.
WashupCyclone I felt the same bro. But I don't feel that anymore I keep waiting for that shiver but it never happens.
WashupCyclone yesssssss!!!
That's cause him realizing that she in fact murdered him, his wife.
The fuzziness is absolutely spot on with tripping. I once watched a small island turn into the back of a dragon but it was just tree's waving in the wind.
You might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like listening to MGMT
It’s been like 4 years now and I am still deadass when I say this is my favorite song ever.
Glad to see you're still hanging in there, I won't be able to much longer
@@tunnelvision9330 bruh wtf🫢
delightfully dark
@@tunnelvision9330 I’m with @Mer Bish this song can never get old and is perfection, favorite song of all time by far
me asf
Unbelievable how this song sounds both melancholic and hopeful simultaneously
I m so high rn ..,i dunnno what ya sayin...but i knw one thang u are so beatiful ..lolol
Okay I am not high like the guy above but I think , I think that " I am gonna eat your heart out " you know? Like eat it nom nom you know
Like find you
Both and simultaneous, PLEONASTIC!! Learn how language works kiddo.
yup :( it really hurts to listen to when you can relate
This is one of most realistic tripping videos I've seen. The way everything is made up of such detailed patterns, contrasted shadows, pulsing movements & vibrant colors. Well done.👍🌌
It’s kind of insane how accurately they captured the look of an LSD trip. I don’t think I’ve seen anything else that encapsulates those specific textures and colors the way this video does.
@@LongSinceDead1 ua-cam.com/video/r7OkE-Uj3Bg/v-deo.html
I think this video is as close as it gets to a true DMT experience
TRUE
Kinda. Not super accurate but the ideas are correct
you will never get a super accurate depiction, its a subjective experience going on in an individuals brain, different for most people.@@tribitx
This song gave me the courage to quit my old job. This album just came out and my mental health was at its lowest, somehow I believed that being paid so low and treated so horribly by my boss was all I deserved. And then this song? I always had the urge to play it throughout my entire work day on my desk. I guess I got so pumped by how my frustration felt justified, and then I finally quit.
Since then whenever I play this song, I remember the victorioust reeling of leaving that job. I was so wrong, I did deserve better and got a nicer job elsewhere.
Same. I listened to this song the moment I stepped out of the production floor on my last day. It was the first time I smiled after 9 months of stress, humiliation, and small pay.
This is amazing!
Good on you! MGMT is affecting positive change!
There's something real about this sort of thought process. Watching this video does a lot to remind me what I'm working for, what I'm living for - almost as a sort of reminder for what sort of purpose I'd given myself... so that I can hopefully pass on with the idea that I'd left something worth leaving behind.
ah shit now I feel what u once felt
Probably my favorite part of the song at 2:43 . The songs melody changed and settled down becoming almost comforting but then you hear that original melody slip back in thats reminiscent of when you’re tripping and you think its over but then you start noticing things moving again so you realize you’re still very far down the rabbit hole. Amazing tune
Yeaaa that's so accurate. And that guitar riff itself somehow sounds like an acid trip, it's whimsical yet dark and mysterious
Yes hallucinating is like a bungee jump at some points. It feels like it is wearing off and you think you are good but then you dive right back into it.
Lol yeah, I thought it was over but then they're like "go fuck yourself" and they give you even more sauce.
Love your comment, I love when people writo down the exact feelings or emotions capted that are the same for a bunch of people or just for the person
For me that slow melody reminds me of when the drug kicks in and slowly begin to jump out of reality innitiating the trip , and begin to lose sense of time along with the other effects
This video was uploaded 4 days after I got hit by a car for the first time. The car was going 35 mph and caused me to go flying around 12 feet away, I ragdolled through the air, and my left shoe flew off. I was able to get right back up after I hit the ground, and the worst injury I got from that accident was a scrape on my left wrist. The doctor at the hospital told me that I was really lucky, and ever since then, I've felt like I either should have died, or I actually did die but was somehow transported to an alternate universe where I survived with the least amount of injury.
I only really got into this album last month, but if I had watched this the day it was uploaded, I would have been convinced that I had actually died 4 days earlier, and this song was the universe's way of making fun of me for dying. 2 and a half years later, it vaguely seems that way. It just adds to the depth of this song for me, and makes me love it and appreciate it more in a strange way.
You really were lucky.
well man welcome to this universe. Its probably similar to the parallel universe you came from but everything sucks ass here so enjoy it!
Can I hitchhike with you back to your 2020, I don't wanna be here anymore.
Fresh Bae 😂😂😂😂😂
That's really beautiful...
Imagine this video in the 60s ... They'd be Gods
For real tho
Literally
mgmt is one of those bands that I like to think came here secretly in a time machine from the 60s or something.
True! Although this video could not have existed in the 60s
Not gonna like this comment. It's in the perfect number right now: 420
Rest in peace Mike Burakoff, director from this masterpiece of videoclip
I've listened to this at least 30 times in the last 2 days and I've determined that both the song and the video are masterpieces.
yupp
Just don't let them fool you, they'll be laughing AT you
samee
i second this
Oh Stacy, I don't think you've been on the planet long enough for a statement like that
I'm glad the drugs we bought for this band didn't go to waste.
Vaelen finally someone has Something to say that’s not insane!!👌👌
Vaelen i bought the drugs without identification....thought maybe they would like those better
I thought I was having a flashback for a second
imagine this playing on mtv and traumatizing some poor child to life.
very cool tho
I love how you said traumatizing to “life” instead of “death”. Interesting
i'm from russia and i heard this music in the reebok store in the mall. Few people in my country know english, but the music sounds cool
Who tf watchs MTV these days
@@likeatree7825 lemme get the snap
@@nsmiguel99 whoa brother calm down
This song helped me through a very hard time, most people think it’s weird, but it might just be the most important song to me.
One of my favorite songs ever, never gets old. Especially the part when he sings “don’t you have somewhere to be at 7:30?” Love it!!
This song has such an upbeat and joyful feel, but when you pair it with the video it switches into a sarcastic and ironic kind of bliss which never fails to induce me with anxiety.
I never hear the upbeat feel that people talk about in songs like these, I hear major key, but song always feels very dark
@@j-henry7391 This is in a minor key though. The only upbeat element is the drums.
EXACTLY
@@lucasthemycologist I guess I can't really pick out a key but that just makes it all the harder for me to understand how it could be seen as upbeat lol
im so scared rn like omg it’s not scary i just feel like im gunna die now
that woman at the end is the scariest thing I've ever seen
On acid I'd probably jump out the window looking at her
@@ghoste_girll is acid highly addictive ?
I was on acid watching this and then she appeared and honestly it was the worst fucking thing I've ever seen
It’s what u see when ur on lsd I swear
When the trip goes bad lmao
discovered this gem last week and still have it on repeat.
did you notice most of the lyrics are deliberately generic lines from a couple having an argument
I heard you the first time...
I'm just looking for lyrics, but ended up reading everyone's stories. You guys carry a lot, and it is a good thing to pass it on to others.
This video is out of this world
Damn, wish i would have taken an 8th of mushrooms before watching.
Can't get over how psychedelic the video and song is not to mention very catchy
yeah it's in space
looks like a ripoff of dont hug me im scared
reminded me of Donnie Darko Idky
Video: *has the most obviously psychedelic visuals of any video ever*
Comments: “hmmmm my senses are telling my this may be alluding to drugs”
Noah Johnson was FDA zzz pi
A lot of people think DMT is released in your brain when you die, I think that’s what they were going for in this video tbh
Isaiah Romero ^^^
yeaaaah its not about drugs...
@@Macke360 the video is literally acid
The visuals are so psychedelically beautiful combined with the song is just amazing....
MGMT understand true psychedelia - this video is fucking gold. The lyrics are perfect, the music is perfect. I know I'm not the only one who'll say this but I've been listening to them for like 11 years, seeing them be one of the first indie bands to seriously blast off was inspiring as fuck to all independent musicians, and I feel like in these crazy fucking times MGMT deserves a serious comeback. I can't wait for the new album. I feel like I'm 16 again. But not. Ya know? It's strange but wonderful.
Natural Father MGMT is a creative power which luckily will have a comeback so more people can enjoy their work, they're amazing.
Stfu
Mgmt interview
first indie bands to blast off. get the fuck out of here with that shit. but a great song and video.
Natural Father :) I'm 16 experiancing all this psycgadelia for the first time
MGMT back at it with the vids that give you a FULL on existential crisis.
La dura coincidencia de las circunstancias ¿no?
This video makes me think about my mortality now constantly.
"gives you the feeling* of a FULL on existential crisis."
Fixed.
Ya la gente es muy sensible a las crisis existenciales, tho. No se necesita mucha complejidad. Supongo que eso es bueno.
How does this give you an existential crisis?
This new album is gonna be *incredible*
Sam Baker what's the new album gonna be called?
It's gonna be called little dark age
It was
You were right ❤
5 years later this aged extremely well can’t wait for the new one
When I first listened this song, I was lying on my bed and randomly clicked on this video seeing its unique thumbnail. I was holding my phone in my hands while the audio was being played on a bass boosted speaker kept on my chest and the experience was something else!
I thought that I was diving in the video without even getting high irl and getting euphoric sensations.
Really appreciate the efforts put in to make this song and video. Loved it!
This is one of the most incredible music videos I've seen in my life.
waterglass21 oh yeah...try lullaby by the Cure
Watch asap mob-yamborghini asap rocky-Lsd
Juanito y los clonosaurios yeah thats another great one, but I find this even better
good ones, but they pale in the face of this
Спасибо.!
- JoysticK .
The vocalist is so happy, when he saying "when you die!"
@jasthemitygmail Jungian Self
I’m so obsessed with this song/video. No words can describe how they make me feel. AHHHH. I guess that works.
i honestly would love to listen to this song right before i die, to remind me that everything doesnt need to be so serious, that we can just enjoy the gift of life and how death is just another part of it all
Wow that just became a core memory for me
Wake up, poor soul! You are in danger! These are demons waiting for you after life for eternity in hell!
You need your saviour Jesus Christ!
@@bombarde99 well it just so happens.. I am not afraid anymore lol
@@rosemadelynvlogs the truth about this world is hard to cope with, because it is a very few people that find God, but if you want to be saved and go to heaven, you NEED the Lord Jesus!
Matthew 7:13 - "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."
Glad to know MGMT is doing acid again! Back to the good music!
When was MGMT's music not good?
@@raoulspov Touche. Just so long between their albums. :/
Raoul Barba that's what i was thinking
this is a music video
@@trinalps huh?
This song hits different when you actually have somewhere to be at seven tirthy
Edit: * thirty
have u heard of this song called TIME by The Impures
stoned or not? jajaajaja
"don't you have somewhere to be at 7:30?" Ahhhh fuck, yeah best set the alarm
lollll
work
I really believe this is one of the greatest songs ever made. It gives off a feeling I can’t describe. The music video just magnifies it too
agreed
Mystery and curiosity blended in a psychedelic way 😶🌫️
For me it’s melancholic and yet relaxing.
Mgmt is the most talented band of this era, thumb up guys ! You are the one I want to go see in live concert.
hey you should look up The Doublejumps if you like MGMT
mgmt are pretty recognized.
I would say its one of the biggest indie bands
This is one of the closest LSD visual representations I've seen. Top work video creators.
This is DMT my dude
This is very similar to the visuals I have on shrooms. All psychedelics cause crazy trips, my friend.
absolutely looks like that dreamscopeapp was involved
Blue Eyes White Privelege uhhh have you not seen time to pretend
King Green Damn. Somehow I don't believe I have. I've listened it to death but never watched. I'll check it out.
When the vitamin gummies kick in:
When sugar bear hair kicks in
XD
For real😂😂😂😂
Out of the world
can you be my connect ???????
This is the most visually stunning music video I’ve ever seen. And I fucking love this song, I missed these guys.
stev6963 you should check out music videos directed by "BRTHR", they're pretty overwhelming
stev6963 wow! You have seen many videos huh?
@@randomdude189Grow up dude
RIP Mike Burakoff, one of the directors to this crazy, amazing video
I love and fear this song. This is by far the most accurate portrayal of how the mind/soul slowly withers to black after a morbid event. You're reality slowly stops existing. your brain becomes mush. The slow realization that YOU are fading. In the end... Black.
@Yeast Yeast just a matter of time my friend.
there won’t be anyone experiencing colors. No black, no white light, just nothing
For me it was more about wishful thinking. Suicidal thinking. Which is why the part about feeling nothing after dying sounded so optimistic. I dunno why, but to me it seems the main character is laden with guilt (“I’m mean and I’m evil, don’t call me nice”) and is longing for release.
In any case the way you describe loving and fearing this song is spot on. It’s an awesome piece, but it also shows you the dark side of life quite nakedly.
@@FabricioVargas91 that’s the thing. Death as we currently theorise it to be isn’t just darkness and shadow. It’s a nothingness that we quite literally cannot imagine.
@@gsmooth4279 Nothing' isn't better or worse than anything. Nothing is just... nothing." Arya Stark
This video is the most accurate portrayal of a psychedelic trip I’ve ever seen.
Salvia Divinorum
this makes me think back to my dmt trips
@@naomibanda9364 i dont fuck with salvia, i had one bad trip with that and saw spiders and shit I hated it lol
@@gavinjohnston1517 I was lucky enough to have a great time when I tried salvia, I melted into a wicker chair, saw only my friends hands and faces, and felt my buddy's sweater until I almost cried due to joy. Definitely not a typical experience from what I gather
Not good near the end
I've rewatched this many times and each time I notice something new which plays off something else in another part of the video.. this is actually a super intricate story.
Micoola Any theories as to what it all means?
Junkers maybe something along the lines of how the monotony of the same tasks that you do in everyday life, that you don’t really think about while doing, end up influencing who and what you are more than you realize. For example the first morning he wakes he reaches in the blue loops cereal to eat, the second day he does the same but it is caught from a different angle. Then when he ‘dies’ there is that scene where everything is made of the blue loops cereal. And there’s also the scene where everything is covered in eyeballs, which references the eyeball on his keychain, which he picked up each day when going to perform
I feel like this video is meant to be seen on acid as you notice ever detail and put everything into "the bigger pictyre" also the beginning and end of the video are very similar as the screen becomes smaller in the end and you don't really realize it until it's super small. Idk just a thought
It almost seems like the guy performs and his wife is there to support him. When the light fixture falls and hits him in the head and kills him.
Then he gets stuck in a time loop, almost as though he has to continue living through the same shit.
Like a "purgatory" or something.
Maybe I'm reading to much into it, but also when only a part of his eye drops, it's almost like saying half of him was already dead anyways.
This sums up to me, 'you live, you die. So go smoke and get high'
Almost seems too that after he's dead "which you can tell when he dies.. by how everything goes from "reality" to "unrealistic" Everyone there seems to move on without the guy, like his life didn't necessarily have a deep impact on any of them.
As if they all kept going through the motions of living. This really showcases how small that we all are in retrospect.
I'll forever treasure this song as it was during lockdown that I discovered it and it radically altered my music taste, marking the beginning of my Indie Rock exploration
This video and song are both so haunting. That's the best way I can describe it. Both the way the song itself was composed, and seeing it along with the visuals, it created some mind beast inside me that hasn't left since I first watched it.
Just saw and heard this song for the first time and I feel the exact same way. Watching it a second time now.
the opposite of electric feel
Literally the upside down from that
No, that's siberian breaks.
@@resmarted have even heard the 3rd album? -(electric feel)=I love you too, death.
Grounded nerve damage
I mean yeah...electric feel is slow paced, chill and with weak colors while when you die is unerving, almost stresing, sharp colors and about death
When you take the entire jar of vitamin gummies
Mmmmm
Well they taste really nice sooo... I wouldn't blame them
I though that will become in a xmen :(
have u heard of this song called TIME by The Impures
MGMT took an entire jar of vitamin gummis, this is what happened to their musical career. - Chubbyemu
This song puts things into perspective for me. In the end, nothing matters. We’re on this journey of life for our souls to have a human being experience, which includes all the joy and suffering along the way. It’s supposed to be that way. That is life.
This video makes me feel sick to my stomach every time I watch, really good!
3:30 this part in particular is very accurate to how it feels to go down a negative rabbit hole on acid
Sameeeeee, no matter what mindset
That part makes me trip
Dan Mingo yeah dude, the way he seems like he’s being pulled out of a happy state and starts getting bad vibes is super spot on. Not a fun place to be
Jared King very very scary place to be in fact 😂
It’s really fucking accurate. I remember seeing shit like that in my head
Never seen anyone capture what a bad trip is like so accurately before!
Angela Palmer the seemingly endless time loop, the twisted faces when his eyes are closed, the feeling of being at the hospital fighting for your life, and the laughing nonexistent faces are all things i’ve experienced in a terrifying acid trip
@@trashboat6215 How many mics of what did u take
what do you mean by bad?
@@trashboat6215 the loop is the worst and the song also has this weird winding up & down sound in the background that is really reminiscent of what I hear when a trip turns sinister
Now I'm walking around my house singing "I'm ready, I'm ready, ready, ready to blow my brains out"
thanks MGMT
smuchkinz I was doing that before this came out -_-
i was humming this to myself at a supermarket. hope people near me didn't get too concerned
It's great to sing "go fuck yourself", and blame it on a song, right?!? My mom was NOT amused...my chahuahua loves it.😁
THE ARTISTRY OF EVERYTHING. This song is incredible
Hey you might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like MGMT
We’re all so fortunate to have such a talented band that makes super amazing music! I really hope MGMT gets the recognition that they deserve!
STAY HIGH MY FRIENDS!
This is the perfect song to listen to while walking in a crowded city during the day for some reason. This came up randomly for the first time a week ago while i was out doing errands and shit in the city and my life felt like a movie
Really!!!!!
Just dont scream “Go fuck yourself” you should be fine
@@MrtnZnth Or "I'm gonna eat your heart out"
Watching this while tripping with friends was a fun experience.
Watching this while tripping alone was a mistake.
real
real
was challenging with friends, big up tom rob on 750ug watching this, i would melt into the floor
Real
real
One of the greatest creations in the history of video editing / music videos. 5 years before all of this new AI bs that we see almost daily. Bravo to infinity to whoever edited this
Hey you might like a band called The Doublejumps if you like MGMT 🙂
To all the people who said, "Don't watch this when you're high."
You were right.
I hope you dont have paranoia now
LOL
@@neto6405 I think even sober you’ll have paranoia
I LOOOVE watching this when stoned. Hell, I'm high now. The colors are way more vibrant, the patterns more textured, and the animation moves more palpably; it's like in 3D almost.
@@somnolentverve2183 ikr? I can absolutely appreciate way more detail when I'm stoned.
It’s crazy how I didn’t appreciate this when I first heard it and now it’s my favorite thing to play.
........mind listening to this song
((Quiet soul by The Impures ). ^.^ is good
Underrated af too check it out ____________
Yeah its a song that you have to listen to at least 3 times to love
@@kobblestone what the fuck how are you guys so spot on
did you do acid or DMT and now understand it properly? lmao
Omg that happened to me too 😅
This video reminds me of Tommy Cooper, A famous magic performer and illusionist. He died on stage Live on TV due to a heart attack or some sort and people thought it was apart of the show so they laughed and played it out, other performers went on stage while his body was still there since people thought it was apart of the show. He was a loving man though and people of his city still remember him and even made a Statue of him (":
Ever since this song came out I have been hearing it religiously every time I take a plane and we are taking off. I time the part that starts at 0:40 perfectly with the takeoff and the "Bang" with the wheels lifting off the ground. I've been recording every landing, nice view, takeoff, boarding... I want to make a video edit with all the material. It feels incredibly good to see how everything turns small and insignificant as you hear 2:05 start. it feels like touching the clouds.
Jesus Christ, this is terrifying SOBER. I can't imagine what it was like for you poor souls that tried to watch it high.
cursed
I’ve experienced it. Decided it would be a good idea to eat 700 goddamn mcgs of acid. Horrible time, absolutely terrifying. The doctor scene was probably the most accurate thing I’ve seen in a while
HORRIBLE. HAVING A DAB TRIP. DONT.
DAB LMAO BAD*
It’s awesome to a morbid person. It scared me but I liked it.
The most disturbing thing about this song is that it all makes complete sense.
It makes complete sense that nothing makes complete sense.
So true
Does it, though?
@TheRealOJ32 you like it enough to watch the video and comment 2 times
@@elegant_lobster_6472 You misunderstand, he's not here for the song, he's here for the attention he gets for not liking it
Recently, I learned to trust my youtube recommendation... Could not have been more happy of it!!
TheWingsThatLeftThoseMarksOn Tae'sBack how have you not heard of MGMT
UncommonSituations I asked myself the same question!! 😰
congratulations man, i mean mgmt is really cool, I discovered them few month ago
Arin Sheb Thanks! Yeah I think so too 👌
Go listen to Oracular Spectacular. Beautiful album, you won't be sorry.
Cool. I like this music video. It contains aspects of a psychedelic trip all put together to form a representation of one. Here's some exceptional details that I've noticed:
- 00:07 Rainbow vision/light halos
- 00:16 Orientation distortion
- 00:37 Enhanced confidence - feels like you want to announce yourself to the whole world and you're front and center of the universe
- 00:49 Strange actions - you end up doing things that appear strange and unusual
- 00:53 Distorted faces
- 00:56 Snapping back to reality from zoning out, triggered by cue
- 01:00 Enhanced patterns and colors
- 01:03 Repeating actions - stuck in a loop (doing things or thinking things over and over again
- 01:30 Intrusive thoughts - off-putting or downright terrifying thoughts
- 01:38 Floating
- 01:39 Color morphing
- 02:05 Ego death - profound feeling of being at peace - some say is comparable to dying
- 02:40 Peak - full body disintegration
- 03:10 Vision becomes pure visuals
- 03:24 Trigger - dramatic and unexpected change of set and/or setting
- 03:32 Skulls - appears when your mind is in distress
- 03:45 Faces appearing in everything you look at
I think the magic shows represent him performing for his friends and the woman he loves everyday, and it never being enough. The only time its enough was when he pulled the money out and his girl smiled. I think the point where he dies is a symbolic of realization, towards the end he stands up and claps for his girl and smiles when he sees her until he sees her for what she truly is.
78djinn nice
Not symbolic, the lamp fell on his head, killing him.
He saw the light. Haha.
Nah, he just having a bad trip
On LSD I felt like I could look straight into your soul lol
New album is going to be amazing!!!
that woman with the blood scared the shit out of me
Agreed, the look on her face is just disturbing.
Her face is weird as fuck.
@@Pointless_Ok thats cause were the bloody horror
I cannot overstate how much I love this song. It might be my new all time favourite.
Same, first time hearing it was about a week ago😅
There is just something about this song that keeps me listening to it over and over. I sing it in my head while at work. It is a piece of art. The video is just incredible with the song. They should win awards for this. In a world of Katy Perry and Shawn Mendes, I am very thankful for MGMT.
this is exactly how i feel.
Well, sure you can mention Katy Perry and Shawn Mendes but why would you not list the ~50 or so artists who are currently making good music? Maybe you don't listen to enough music in the first place.
If you insult other artists in the comments of music you enjoy, you might just be a pretentious douchebag.
Handsome Squidward, Who is this directed towards and what exactly are you even trying to say?
CometCourse At Jeremy Doe. I'm saying that unnecessarily insulting other current artists just makes him look like a dick. If he enjoys MGMT, enjoy that without insulting other people.
me @ 1:36 "yo this would be so cool to watch on acid"
me @ 3:36 "nvm"
i came here to say the same thing, lol
I don’t think you need to fucking trip to watch this, mate. 😂😂😂
Mophydo omg for real
Perfect description
I tripped watching this video... now my nose is bleeding
Holy sh*t, this is one of the best music videos I've ever seen.
And new music MGMT is creating is just amazing.
Dayumn!
Salt Chronicles, I feel like the idea of the music video is ripped off Tame Impala's music video for Let it Happen.
tbh this might be my favorite MGMT song to date, regardless of the music video (Which is fucking incredible btw)
yep. the lyrics are amazing, stuff about death is the best :D I suggest you to check out Alice in chains, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith, blind melon you will like them.
I miss the trippy more psychedelic punk of their first three albums, but ill get over it.
Check the music videos from the Brazilian band O Terno, they've got two amazing videos:
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For me the lyrics of this song are soooo amazingly written and I interpret them in a very perticular way. The not wanting to be percieved as the nice guy and doing some nasty things in order to change that perception, as well as being fed up with friends who don't realy care about you and always "have somewhere to be at 7.30" or "have some work to do" so they blow you off. And finally the death of your old self portrayed by the gunshot happening right before the chorus kick in and the words "you die". Also how at this point music presents this sense of a relief in the melody and the harmonies, because the version of yourself that you hated and that was making you miserable has died. You told these toxic friends to go fuck themselves, you are no longer leting them push you around and disrespect you. And those one liners that are so simple but hit so hard like "I'm not that nice", "go fuck yourself", those words that you always scream inside but are afraid to say out loudd. Goddamn this song has so many great ideas executed in such a fantastic way and on top of that is so relatable, I fucking love it.
man mind is so epic mmama mia, i can clearly notice he is talking with Is head, or listening to it, from a long day doing stupid things he smoke a joint a let his mind as free as he can, telling to him semi random things like in a dream state. What u say make sense too, what mgmt meaning was or is, surely make sense too, so what is it, what is the point? hahaha be good and listen to sadhguru, your welcome folks.
@@mena2138 Yeah i mean there can be many interpretations of the lyrics for sure, thats what beautiful abou them as well. I like yours too.
No this is clearly about a toxic relationship and arguing with each other
It sounds like lines from two people having a domestic
The song could be about suicide too, "I'm ready to blow my brains out", "it's permanently nice", "I won't feel anything"
Joe Rogan: ever try DMT?
MGMT: *laughs in DMT*
I like this
quick question is dmt acid or is it a different drug
@@tyler3972 100% different
Tyler Tant yea if you pop dmt thinking it’s acid, you’re gonna have a bad time
Well, you dont exactly pop DMT. But also everyone will experience it at least once (the end) in your life. Your brain stores this, smoking DMT triggers a release of it. However it's just the tip of the iceberg, we wont know exactly how much floods our brain till our inevitable end.
Thanks swagger
Vainsleet 3 misfits am i rite? 😂
sjksj same
SAME
Same
Jup
adding to my drug music playlist
Link please, I would like to hear it!
I want to hear it
Liiink
@Alan Nahuel +++
I’d love to hear it
I think its about dealing with depression that comes specificaly from fear to death, more than about the experience of death itself. Great video, great song, never disappoints.
me when i drink funny liquid out of lava lamp
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Your profile pic is everything...
BRUH THATS TOTTALY ME WHEN THE
This track and video has restored my faith in contemporary music and art in general. Creativity is still very strong and vibrant, it's just blocked out of sight by a dense forest of bullshit. Thank you MGMT!
This song is criminally underrated
EDIT: You don't all need to convince me I'm wrong, our perspectives are different I suppose, let's agree to disagree lol
das rite
oh shit whats good diddle
So is the band!
11 millions views
criminally underated
not sure about that but the video is a masterpiece of art.
This song turns 7 soon and it's still a banger. Definitely my favorite music video and one of the best. Rest in peace Mike❤️
I've played this nonstop since it came out. My favorite in particular. Great album.
The second part of the video is a loop of the first part... it looks like he’s rummaging through the most vivid parts of his memory, which would be the last day he experienced.. so he experiences it in a more and more distorted way. Until he no longer has the mental capacity to remember anything or understand his situation. His wife, his most emotionally powerful and recognizable entity comes into fruition but not in a pleasant way. Probably because he’s clinging on to consciousness harder than he should be. This is apparent because he observes as much as he can until it blurs and blacks out. He probably should have just let go.. but maybe his mind wasn’t at peace enough to do so.. what a horrible death.. I don’t know how I feel about this song. What I do know is that it’s stuck in my head. Dammit MGMT what have you done. This is like a death video except you get to look inside someone’s mind as it happens. A whole new level of gruesome.. and people who truly have had bad trips or ptsd of some sort like myself will be horribly triggered by something like this.. I still love MGMT though and I’m glad they push the boundaries of art so much to come up with this horribly beautiful piece
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Not only that is accurate I also believe that he was murdered by his wife, since the only time she ever smiles is when he's fully dead, doesn't seem like she was ever happy with him and even in the beginning when he 'wakes up' she turns away from him and the lyrics start with a very heavy tone of loathing which I don't believe it's from him since he doesn't show any malice towards her.
Kinda psychedelics did you take?
Soap when I was 18 and visited home from boot camp (marine corps) I overdosed on shrooms due to inexperience. I know it’s not lethal but I took WAY too much somewhere around 20 grams.. my trip involved all of the violence I was afraid of experiencing in war. It is now 3 1/2 years later... I plan to go back into psychedelics the right way when I get out of the service
You sure like long comments
Yo this reminds me of a near death experience I had one time. This is almost perfect. Almost. When everything slows down you feel this euphoric weightlessness then everything goes dark, then slowly colorful. I remember just that before waking up. But after I woke up I'd frequently get hallucinations kinda like how they are portrayed in the video for weeks just less dramatic. And my dreams would be like the beginning of the video, just replays of the event over and over again.
were you actually dead for a bit and revived or just unconscious?
@@ralphralpherson9441 he said near death experience he doesn’t even have to unconscious much less declared dead
@@getmine9490 I think we are having a semantics issue here. I agree, There's "Oh crap, I almost got hit by that train!" you could call a "near death experience" but then there is a "true" Near Death Experience (NDE) which is what I am inquiring about... A valid "NDE" traditionally is defined by the medical research community involves "physical death / patient declared legally dead including the absence of heartbeat or brainwave activity for a period of time exceeding 10 seconds where the patient claims to have a subjective experience despite lack of life sustaining heartbeat or brainwave activity, after which the patient is revived either through medical intervention or spontaneously by return of pulse, and has recall of this experience"... Thats what I was talking about. If you ever saw the movie "Flatliners" it was about NDEs.
@@getmine9490 Also, if you've never read up on NDEs, they are FASCINATING. Turns out they happen to like, 1 in every 6 people who have a cardiac arrest or grave injury which causes them to approach death before they are revived at the hospital. Its truly fascinating because people all over the world describe the EXACT same experience, and if it was just wishful thinking or hallucination, you would expect the accounts to vary wildly.
@@ralphralpherson9441 I had one following a drink spiking incident where I nearly died and had several heart attacks following respiratory arrest. It's pretty much exactly like this except the trauma of it can't really be overstated. It's basically so real that it can leave people feeling that they truly died. I had the whole 'seeing stars', 'floating in time and space' feeling before waking up to paramedics reviving me with a bag-valve respirator but it was more than just that. It turned me from a strong atheist into someone who is now quite spiritual. There's definitely something after death, we just don't know what it is. Given we know so little about even what sleep and dreams are, I think there's quite a lot of PhDs to be earned in this field...
I don't think the "I'm not that nice" part is being narrated by the magician like most seem to assume. The lyrics have multiple narrators/characters saying things (both in regards to the video and just the song itself)
The magician seems pretty genuine and nice, both in his magical displays and when he claps for the woman at the end, so I was confused at first. But after watching the whole thing a bunch of times, I think it's *her* that's "not that nice." At the end, when she turns into a monster, he's realizing what she is. She's mean and she's evil, and is going to eat his heart out, like she's seen saying to him.
He also wakes up at 7:08 while she's still sleeping, so the "don't you have somewhere to be at 7:30" seems like something that she'd be saying to him and not vice versa. He's the one waking up early at 7:08 and rushing out the door for where he has to be. So again, something in the lyrics that she's the one saying and not him.
The only parts I think are "narrated" by him for sure are the "Baby, I'm ready, I'm ready, ready, ready to blow my lid off" and "Baby, I’m ready, I'm ready, ready, ready to blow my brains out" - which he says right before a 3rd person narrator comes in saying "You died..." etc.
They're kind of like fragments of an argument being remembered by him.
On a related note, you'd think out of everyone in the crowd, she'd be supportive and enthusiastic, but instead she looks disinterested and apathetic. She claps and patronizes him a little bit for his acts, which he does with genuine enthusiasm, but she doesn't seem to really care or think much of it. It kind of seems like a metaphor for relationships where similar things happen.
Just because you sing "I'm not that nice" doesn't mean you're talking about yourself, I think it's talking about her.
It's a little more abstract, but that's my own interpretation of it - which no doubt is shaped by my own personal experiences. There's a lot of ways to interpret and relate to the music & video, which is part of what makes it so good. : )
John Szczes well said.
I came to enjoy music, not take a class...but thanks for your time and effort, friend. 😁
I think you're right. To me this video is about someone who wasted his life trying to amuse people who thought nothing of him. He wanted their adoration, and they mocked him for it. In the end he dies a meaningless death, his brain flooded with chemicals leading to one last trip. On this trip he sees the universe for what it is. What his life was, and his final revelation being that the woman he cared for will hardly be affected by his death. She only used him for what ever role he served in their relationship. Essentially cannibalizing him. He dies and is added to a mass grave where all of us will join. His horror serving no substantial purpose, as though his life was ultimately a personal hell. Forever buried and forgotten in a sea of lives like his.
@@heidileeshire5959 You're dumb. You can take things at face value, or you can try to gain some substance. The best works of art typically have a message at their heart. By not recognizing that, you're doing yourself zero favors, remaining closed minded, and ultimately are consuming candy. You're subjecting yourself to being another mindless consumer. If it sounds good and looks pretty then you're happy. Sorry some of us look for more out of our entertainment than just flashing colors.
@@jobin140 chill out. Dude probably just wanted to listen to some tunes. I get where you're coming from tho
Rest in peace Andrew, thanks for showing me this masterpiece.
When you rub your eyes to hard
YOU KNOW!!!
Wtf how are you rubbing your eyes that you fall into an intense acid trip?! Teach me!!
@@sarthaksingh5237 press your hand against your eyeball and leave it there
With LSD powder on your fingers.
more like when you stand up too quickly
This song hits different when you die.
because ya'know, you're like, dead and stuff
Ikr
Finally, someone who gets it
I know right
Yeah .. death and stuff
Really hits different when you’re on acid
Glooby Loops and whiskey are a balanced part of any breakfast! Start your morning off right!
cheaaaa
Going through the video and piecing together all the patterns from before and after this guys life flashes, you can see the texture of his handkerchief, pillow and cereals recreated and played out whilst he's dying of a concussion. Very fun to go back and forth and hunt for it
I watched this sober and didn't think much of it. Watched it high and now it's one of my favourite songs and music videos.
I'm a fan of you.
I am a fan of whom?
You shoulda come to the Girth Forest at night. It was girthy.
Though it isn't proven DMT is released "when you die", I fully relate to this video from about 3 years ago. I was smoking (what I was told was weed) with some people I didn't know and fell off the tower base I was sitting on. (I didn't know that I fell off until they told me the next day). I was sent into a trip of repeating visuals including them looking over me (like shown in the video) and repeating things that didn't help like "you're here now" "its okay" and the world and night sky around me shifting the same way it did for him in the video as he fell. The ground around me began to appear as skulls and faces that wanted to pull me in. I'm still not entirely sure I didn't die that day because I had repeated visuals for months after and dissassociation for even longer. Therapy didn't help and I'm still not always entirely sure I'm actually alive right now. This video is INCREDIBLY accurate in it's visuals for an ego death and even possibly a real death. Another commenter stated something similar but it feels like this video is fucking with me and I'm about to be sent into the loop again. I'm constantly worried of being sent into that loop again and my head is spinning as I type this. I haven't had such intense feelings towards my ego death until watching this incredible video for a very, very long time. Oh but I wanted to mention, maybe it isn't the death that releases the DMT visuals, but head trauma. It's almost like you're literally seeing stars. I fell off what I was sitting on, and that thing hit the actor in the head. I like to think I'm not living in a fake world, or at least one created by my own straggling mind and spirit. Even if I'm not alive, I like to think that I'm having a good time :) but man this video shook me up, I WAS NOT ready at all.
i think im dead myself so i cant really help you there but very good explanation
As Descartes said, God would not let you live fake experiences. Peace and the holy spirit may be among you and help you go through this crisis.
Bro, life is meaningless until YOU yourself GIVE IT meaning.
May the force be with you.
Ya dawg, you just commented on youtube, dead folks don't do that. You are VERY MUCH ALIVE but just stuck in a bad headspace on trip-loop and you CAN get out of that. You just need to start affirming this every morning. Wake up, look in the mirror, see your face, feel your heartbeat and say "yep, still alive"... One day you actually WILL be dead and not just a kid who had a bad trip on some fucked up salvia or dmt people gave you. Honestly, if I had to guess, they may have given you some sherm which is weed with PCP on it, used to be very popular in the ghetto. PCP is a TERRIFYING trip and lasts a long time, also its a strong disassociative so that makes sense. I'd say in order of likelihood (also depending where you were) if they were poor kids, probably PCP (angel dust) and if they were middle class or rich kids, either DMT or salvia. But salvia and DMT both only last a little while... so if you were tripped out for hours as you say, probably smoked some PCP my guy.
Bottom line though, you're just in a paranoid headspace, you are INDEED alive and experiencing things so there ya go. If there is an afterlife, Im pretty sure we know it for sure when we get there.
@@ralphralpherson9441 Facts.
So according to what I read about the video, the magician has died and DMT has been realeased (debated on whether or not that really happens) he is reliving his last moments until he fades into time itself. If this is really what it's like to die then damn. I'm kinda scared now.
listen to Time by The Impures, is a chill song
You should listen to TIME from the impures.
If it's any consolation to you - most people with near death experiences say they ease into death, it starts to creep into your mind that this reality is full on real and it's okay. The bad shit is part of life and it fucking humbles your ass, trust me. DMT trips feel very similar in that regard, though I don't have a direct comparison to NDEs.
You should be
You should all listen to TIME from Pink Floyd.
As a trip enjoyer, this video brings up so many feelings in me that are equal parts nostalgic and terrified.