MGMT Premieres Their Music Video For 'Kids'

At last we have the video for one of our favorite songs from 2008. If you jumped on the Kids train in 2005 when the "Afterschool Dance Megamix" version was put out on MGMT's Climbing To New Lows album, well then, you really have put in your wait time. MGMT has finally released their music video for Kids. I kid you not, this video is pretty spectacular.

MGMT  'Kids' (click the image below to play the video)

MGMT revealed on their website the idea behind the music video ---

"The idea for the video was born about a year ago, at a mock-Italian cafe on Ninth Avenue in bustling Manhattan. We are both animated and stoked to reveal at this time that we once again worked with director Ray Tintori, someone who's known this song since it's inception. "Kids" has proven to be some kind of monster with a life of its own, both an albatross and a plate of mac and cheese with fake bacon (Annie's), and the process of creating this video was nearly as convoluted and veiny as the general style of this here letter of introduction. As Jerry Garcia once rudely remarked about the eventual and unavoidable filling in (with sand) of the historic United States Grand Canyon, "What a long strange rip it's been." -MGMT-

MGMT must have a thing for the forest and for animals, because in their music video for Electric Feel they also wore awesome costumes, painted their faces and performed in the woods.

Which video do you like better?

KIDS                                                       or                             ELECTRIC FEEL   

We aren't getting much love from MGMT on the West Coast this summer, but for those of you in the middle of the U.S. or over in Europe you don't want to miss out on these MGMT tour dates:

Jun 9 2009    The Village     Little Rock, AR
Jun 11 2009  Minglewood Hall     Memphis, TN
Jun 13 2009      Bonnaroo     Manchester, Tennessee
Jul 1 2009   Prospect Park Bandshell     Brooklyn, NY
Jul 21 2009     The Powerstation Auckland, New Zealand
Jul 22 2009     The Powerstation Auckland, New Zealand
Jul 23 2009   The Powerstation Auckland, New Zealand
Aug 2 2009      All Points West Festival Jersey City, New Jersey
Aug 15 2009  Dockville 2009 Hamburg Wilhelmsburg, Germany
Aug 22 2009  V Festival @ Weston Park Staffordshire
Aug 23 2009  V Festival @ Hylands Park Chelmsford
Aug 28 2009  Popaganda Festival Stockholm, Sweden
Aug 30 2009  Rock En Seine Paris, FR
Sep 4 2009   Electric Picnic Stradbally, Ireland
Sep 5 2009   Orange Festival Warsaw, Poland
Sep 11 2009  Bestival  Isle of Wight