06/05/09
Text: Scott Indrisek
QUESTIONS RAISED BY THE ABOVE MGMT VIDEO FOR "KIDS"
1.) How much money will that child actor make when he turns 18 and sues the record label for subjecting him to trauma-via-monster against his consent? But seriously: this is some heavy shit for a toddler. At least the opening scenes tell us what it looked like when Jennifer Connelly's doomed kid brother was snatched by a codpiece-wearing David Bowie and his satanic minions.
2.) Dear MGMT, WTF is the point of that heavy-handed Mark Twain quote in the awful font over the CGI "billowing flameballs"? Did it seem like a good idea when you were sitting around smoking hash in those silver space-hippy costumes, which you so obviously borrowed from the set of Bruno?
3.) Is it really too late for acclaimed songwriter Bill Callahan to break up with Joanna Newsom--the motherly star of this video, as confirmed by Pitchfork? Because we're single and ready to mingle (and also willing to overlook the fact that repeated exposure to Newsom records, especially at coffee shops, can result in irreparable psychosis.)
4.) But wait a minute...lead singer Andrew Vanwyngarden does appear to be wearing a codpiece himself, so maybe this is actually a thinly veiled homage to Labryinth after all?
5.) Is that demented kid's video at the end itself an homage-within-an-homage to the show that scarred our own brainpans when we were growing up: Zoobilee Zoo? Because honestly, we are still blaming most of our hang-ups and deep-in-the-soul deficiencies on the pain inflicted by grown men and women dressed as animals.
