"Kids" song lyrics and interesting discussion

[Darren Dirt]

I just heard this song on The Sonic and wanted to look up the lyrics (the tune is catchy techno-rock, gets stuck in your brain, and kinda reminds me of one of the songs in "PacMan Fever" for the Gamecube, actually).

http://songmeanings.net/songs/view/3530822107858614304/

(Interesting perspectives, one of the posters obviously has climate change on his/her mind. And I really like the interpretation by "hired pun" -- of course, with 3 kids I would relate)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_(MGMT_song)
Rolling Stone's Kevin O'Donnell described the song as "a noisy New Order-style synth jam". 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGMT "Genre(s) = Alternative rock, Dance-punk, Indie rock, Psychedelic pop, Synth pop, Electropop" (sweet!)


http://www.amazon.com/Oracular-Spectacular-MGMT/dp/B0010VD7EO/
Amazon.co.uk:

The term Oracular Spectacular might not mean much, if anything, at all--it's essentially nonsensical--but that doesn't stop it feeling exactlyright. Here is a band that treats dizzy cross-eyed awe and a vast bounding sense of sonic weightlessness as their yardstick, jostling to surpass themselves on a track-by-track basis and aiming for the musical equivalent of performing somersaults in tye-dye t-shirts off the rings of Jupiter. MGMT seemingly submit this debut album as an application to acquire and even supersede The Flaming Lips' previously uncontested mantle as spiritual leaders of over-sized Technicolor psychedelic-indie with a soul, weird but not so weird that swelling crowds and even flirtations with the charts aren't a foregone conclusion. "Time to Pretend" opens and sets a tone for the record, producer David Fridmann (Flaming Lips, Mercury Rev) providing a familiar expanse for them to riff across with bull's-eye synths, massive drums and their twist on the template--retro 80s electro and abstract shapes, see Suicide and the Talking Heads for reference. "The Youth" is centred around a hypnotically looping refrain that recalls Pink Floyd and David Bowie, as interpreted by a mellow Secret Machines and the brilliant "Pieces of What" is Ryan Adams spinning through cosmos with classic Neil Young on his headphones. "Future Reflections" meanwhile stand on its hands on a line somewhere in-between XTC and Ween. Thrillingly eclectic, endlessly colourful and never predictable. It's all a bit ridiculous, but indeed spectacularly so.

Well, I'm intrigued enough to listen to the 30 second song previews... (and yes, MGMT are the folks responsible for this other hook-fileld techno tune you may have heard on The Sonic recently)

"Time to Pretend is a space-rock gem that mocks the clich?d coke-and-hookers rock-star lifestyle, over big synth whooshes."
- Kevin O'Donnell, Rolling Stone