MUSIC FROM SPACE: MGMT - TIME TO PRETEND and KIDS
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Ray Tintori's video for MGMT's Time to Pretend is sort of perfect, with a killer song illustrated by an explosion of colorful, psychedelic imagery. All who have seen it were amazed and delighted by its scenes of fey young rock stars mounting mighty battle kittens and setting forth to slay the giant crab monsters with nasty sharp teeth. There is simply no way to not love it. (The "making of" video is pretty sweet, too.)
Kids, Tintori's follow-up video for MGMT, has not been so universally beloved. The clip has been highly controversial, with some accusing Tintori and the band of child torture for exposing the infant actor in the video to all those people in horrible monster suits. Tintori insists the child wasn't actually afraid and understood the monsters were fake, but the video was just cut together to make him look that scared.
Tintoro actually seems to be enjoying the controversy. In an interview with the blog We Love You So, he said, "It’s funny, I haven’t been out there trying to dispel the possibility that maybe it was a completely out of control shoot and what happened was terrible, because it’s really affecting people… they’re getting really worked up about it, and it’s kind of funny to see that. But no, it wasn’t like, a satanic torture experience."
The clip's below, so you can judge for yourself. But I know the monsters are fake, and I'm still scared silly. (The animation at the end of the clip is by Superjail creator Christy Karacas.)
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