Kids

This song about being filled with such typical college feelings as naivety, idealism, nostalgia, happiness and sadness was originally part of MGMT's debut release, a 2005 EP "Time to Pretend." Cantora Records, who released the EP, was set up by a group of NYU students specifically to showcase the New York band's songs.

This song started out as a joke. "We used to think about how to make the most stereotypical pop song and that's one of the ones we did," band member Andrew VanWyngaeden told Q magazine. "You can break it down. That repeating progression has been used in a gajillion pop songs."

MGMT member Ben Goldwasser told The Independent November 21, 2008 that this song, "was a result of us being 19 years old, in this fantasy college world, which is a little bit like childhood because you don't have much responsibility."