I’m Chicano and I use the term “brown people” myself. Of course, context matters, but I don’t think using “brown people” is any more offensive than “black people” or “white people”. Let’s chill and not lose focus on the real enemy here, this racist bullshit law.

Sorry Logan, but the phrase “Seriously if you don’t like (band) you have no idea what music is.” is the motto of the fanboy street-teamer douchebag. I’m positive that it’s perfectly possible to know good music while not being a fan of MGMT. Just because people reply to your comments doesn’t mean they take you seriously either, dumb posts tend to get plenty of responses too.

That being said, I was a bigger fan of MGMT before the new album. I don’t think its bad, but not very good either. They’ve just come off as arrogant recently, and I’m really starting to dislike their hardcore fans. The band and their fans all claim that if you don’t like the new album, it’s because you only listend to Kids and Time to Pretend and you wanted another Oracular with nothing but dance-pop. Or that you hate them for going mainstream.

I admire them wanting to take a different direction, but I just don’t think the new direction worked. And their decision to not make awesome singles or not play their most famous song at Coachella makes it seem like they’re trying to be less accessible on purpose, to the point where it affects their music. It’s kinda like the opposite of selling out, instead of changing your music to appeal to as many people as possible, you change it to appeal to less. Both changes are still to the detriment of the music.

It’s not like Be Here Now. Oasis had two huge albums when it came out, and some say it marked the end of the Britpop era. It’s more like their Weekend in the City; a band with a successful debut album with some great singles that made it on the radio, that try to move away from their original sound and being labeled a “singles band”. Honestly it annoys me it when bands do this (I’m looking at you too, Midlake). Not that I want an album full of Kids and Times to Pretend, but this attitude of “we’re too good to make awesome singles” sucks. I mean, being a singles band worked for the Beatles and the Smiths didn’t it? I really wanted to like this album, but it’s just ok. Enjoy your sophomore slump MGMT.