When MGMT’s album Oracular Spectacular invaded mass consciousness and rocked dance clubs everywhere with their trippy-electric poppy beats we were willing to put up with their high-and-mighty bullshit. Because the music was good.
Then their next album came out and sucked, and we are no longer interested in hearing about how innovative and counter-culture they are — we don├óΓé¼Γäót buy it. And we especially don├óΓé¼Γäót buy their comments in a recent interview.
“It would be wrong to say that we ever had pure intentions of being a mainstream band,” Andrew VanWyngarden explained. “We began to realize that people thought of us as this electro-pop dance act. And that’s really not who we are.”
Really? You’re not an electro-pop band? Then why did you make an electro-pop album?
Those comments were made in conjunction with a discussion about how their newest album Congratulations, which was worse different from their last, and tanked because of it.
We like bands to experiment. What we don’t like is bands who make excuses about ‘not wanting to be mainstream’ after they produced a failure of an album.
Lose the ego, MGMT.
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