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j-la: mgmt remix.

J-LA apparently went to school with me.

I say “apparently” because I didn’t know who he was until I met him on a roof…months after we had graduated. I’m pretty sure that I had never even seen him prior to this interaction, which mostly consisted of him shaking my hand and me awkwardly dancing to Daft Punk. I don’t get out much.

I also went to the same school as MGMT. Their new album Oracular Spectacular just dropped, and admittedly I wasn’t too enthusiastic about the songs that had been leaked before its release. They were good and all, but they weren’t the MGMT I grew to love…they weren’t The Management. For some reason, their name change from “The Management” to “MGMT” somehow correlated with a harsh realization that I was going to have to share “Kids” with the entire world. This was difficult to admit to myself, given that “Kids” is my mind’s soundtrack to every pleasant moment I spent at Wesleyan University. It was my secret theme song that the non-Wesleyan world didn’t know or fully understand.

Now I am encountering another realization that needs to be fucking realized— I need to let go. I’ve heard 3-4 different versions of “Kids” and each one sounds further and further away from the one that first touched my ears so many years ago. MGMT are growing up. They’re actually getting kind of…good?

Yes. I’ve said it. I may like this album. I may even like the new version of “Kids”. I feel dirty saying this, yet I also feel somewhat liberated. Fuck.

Wait, wasn’t this post about J-La? Honestly, I don’t even remember who this post is supposed to be about, but J-La’s remix of “Electric Feel” reminded me to go cop this album on iTunes. Also, it’s the shit. ‘Nuff said.

[REMOVED BY REQUEST OF AN INDIVIDUAL I MET ON A ROOF]
dl: MGMT – Time to Pretend (YSI)
(remix + album track)
- space it / buy it – site it – space it – hype it -

mgmt: future reflections.

MGMT popped into my life four years ago.

This was before blogging was a big deal, so I was just sitting on my friend Janine’s bed when she says to me, “What? You’ve never heard of The Management?” I wasn’t entirely sure why I should have heard of them until the sweet sounds of “Kids” blared through her computer speakers. That chorus, “Control yourself. Take only what you need from it. A family of trees wanted. To be haunted.”, would be misheard and sung drunkenly by hundreds of college students in my time at Wesleyan University*. (In fact, I still don’t even know if I have it right.) The song was released the year before I entered college, and survived five years as a staple at dance parties and secret interpretational dance adventures. It got to the point that it was played enough times that hipsters scoffed at it just as easily as they would if you tried to play Billy Joel‘s “Only the Good Die Young” (unironically). I expect that “Kids” will be passed down generation to generation. If it isn’t, I might cry. And I’m pretty sure the class of 2013 won’t want to see me cry. So it’s in your hands current generations– Pass that shit like you pass blunts on Foss Hill.

So “Kids” was just the beginning. The Management graduated and went off to become MGMT. They toured with Of Montreal, and made a song called “Time to Pretend” that got a bit of attention on the internetz. In fact, their tour with Of Montreal actually stopped back in lame-o Middletown, CT for a show at the ol’ ivied walls and storied halls. It didn’t last long because the fire alarms went off, and I missed the entire show because I was in class. I did manage to catch a bunch of people standing outside on the lawn after the alarm went off. This large group of people included my doppelganger. If I had introduced myself to this doppelganger, I am pretty sure the world would have exploded.

Wait. Where was I? Oh, yeah. MGMT are now on Columbia Records. A “new” (read: months old) track off of their upcoming album Oracular Spectacular came to my attention thanks to To The Maxx, thanks to WalkingEyeMusic. This song is called “Future Reflections”.

It’s okay. I have to confess that I miss the glory days of “The Management”. This new stuff is good. But it just doesn’t sound like a band that will change an eighteen year old’s life, you know?

With that said, I really look forward to Oracular Spectacular, which should be out this September. MGMT may not be the group I grew up loving as a budding dance-party enthusiast, but they’re certainly worth my ear-time. Word on the street is that the album is fantasma-orgasmic.

* not an all girls college.

d/l: MGMT- Future Reflections (YSI)
d/l: The Management- Kids (Afterschool Dance Megamix) (YSI)
(oh you know, a band)
- buy it – site it – space it – hype it -

WEBBYVANDERQUACKIN’: Diary of a Mad Blacktress may be my new favorite place on the internet. No, I’m not just saying that. It’s true. Also, be sure to check out another ol skool MGMT/The Management song “We Care” on Said the Gramophone.

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