>>519777853
Yep, back in 2018, they hadn't heard any of their new shit, so when they saw that MGMT had made it, they were very very confused, because it wasn't the "sounds nice and happy" more upbeat songs of MGMT like Electric Feel, Kids, and Time to Pretend, that they were used to (and even then, those songs are actually pretty dark if you follow the lyrics (especially Time to Pretend); when you put the electronic music melody to the side).
But Little Dark Age (the album) was like garlic to a vampire for them, given that it was doomer-tier before the blackpill and doomerism was really a thing in the "good times" era before covid, where everything had a veneer of fake toxic-positivity and the normies were all still desperately trying to be hyper-perfect for still relevant monolithic social media and dating apps; so that doomer shit was like social suicide to like or play (although I'll admit, When You Die was a little much).
And yeah, everything that goes through a record label has to be first besmirched by the head spiritual inverters who own that label, in some form of not-so-esoteric fashion. Kinda ruins all the old music I liked, after spending over a decade here on this board, and my own personal experiences with the shadow world below this surface one, the past few years. Can't unfuck something, just like you can't unlearn the connections personally figured out and collectively uncovered here, and what all these people at the 'top' and in the limelight really worship and live for, and how that bleeds out in their artistic works and "tributes" to their version of "the divine".
On one hand it's nice to remember how a song takes you back and to relive moments and feelings long past; on the other, shit's probably not good for the soul and to be repeating it subconsciously in your head, when you really get down to it for most of the stuff out there in the mainstream.