MGMT doesn’t play “KIDS” at Coachella, pisses off fans.

by Hipster Run Off on Tue, 2010/04/20 - 1:02am Post to Twitter

MGMT recently released a ‘controversial album’ called Congratulations. Many fans were ‘let down’ because their new songs weren’t as catchy / poppy as their old songs. Instead, they carved out some sort of conceptual space that isn’t as approachable as Animal Collective.

At the Coachella Music and Arts Festival, MGMT opted not to play their first big song “Kids.” In many recent interviews, the MGMT Bros say that ‘Kids’ was one of the first songs they wrote, so they are looking to distance themselves from their early brand, and prove that they can write better songs.

Well, now imagine the concert is the monster of all concerts (Coachella), the band one of the buzziest there is right now (MGMT), and the song (“Kids”) one that Rolling Stone named as among the top 100 songs of the decade. The Brooklyn-based duo played most of their less-accessible second album at the music festival today, yet chose not to play one of their three hits, angering tweeting fans and bloggers alike. Remains to be seen if fans will be getting another apology, or if, as they said about response to their second album, they just “don’t give a shit.”

Seems like tons of fans are ‘taking 2 twitter’ to let MGMT know that they are ‘effing pissed off’ that they paid $300 for a 3 day pass and didn’t even get to hear “Kids.”

Do u think MGMT did the right thing by not playing “Kids”?
Should they move forward with their sound, or should they make fans happy?
Are MGMT fans inauthentic if they just want to hear “Kids”, “Electric Feel” and “Time To Pretend”?

Here is a video of MGMT playing “kids” before they were international rock stars. Just a couple of bros in college, really embodying the ’spirit of rock n roll’, playing a cute lil song to a college party.

Is MGMT going to ‘alienate’ their core fan base, or will they force their core fan base to like their new sound?
Is “Kids” the greatest song that MGMT will ever write?
If you were MGMT’s manager, what would u tell them to do? Make their fans happy, or ’stay true 2 their vision’?