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Kids is the Grammy Award nominated third single from MGMT’s debut album Oracular Spectacular. It was released October 13, 2008.

According to the Kids Songfacts, the song is about being filled with such typical college feelings as naivety, idealism, nostalgia, happiness and sadness .

Kids has been re-recorded several times. The “newer” version that appears on Oracular Spectacular is updated from earlier versions that appear on Time To Pretend EP released in 2005 and We (don’t) Care released a year before. A track entitled Kids (Afterschool Dance Megamix) appears on the album Climbing to New Lows also released in 2005.

To date, the single has peaked at #9 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart, where Time To Pretend had previously peaked at #23.
NME named it the number-one song on its list of the Best Singles of 2008.
Two months after exiting the UK Top 40, the song was featured in an advertisement for the BBC1 program Waterloo Road. From this the song gained renewed interest, re-entering the UK Top 40, and on January 16, 2009, the song reached its highest position to date of #16.
Kids also came in at #5 on Australia’s Triple J Hottest 100 countdown for 2008.
The single received considerable airplay in the U.S., UK, Ireland and Australia before the release date, charting in the UK, Ireland and Australia. In Australia, Kids debuted before the release date at #89, and currently it has peaked at #30. Kids (Soulwax remix), a Soulwax remix of the song was played heavily on UK radio ahead its official release as well.
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  • sullilovesblack

    i like the demo version better.

    yesterday morning

  • Bahalcubo

    <3

    Sunday evening

  • leahchica

    never gets old (=

    Friday evening

  • Nia_84

    Live the dream

    Thursday afternoon

  • lretro

    old time memory...

    Wednesday afternoon

  • PurplePostRock

    Damn! 10 million scrobbles??! BEAT THAT, GAGA. And the vid was weird.

    Tuesday afternoon

  • tammysays

    My favourite song of them! :D

    14 days ago

  • ReginaUp

    yeeeeah

    16 days ago

  • YLiseth

    ♥_♥

    20 days ago

  • rifkamattman

    i could probably listen to this song over and over. love the video too. actually, my 4 and 8 year olds love this song, and are intrigued with the video. i love this song.

    22 days ago

  • ReadyToStartC

    iS AMAZING!!!

    22 days ago

  • ReadyToStartC

    lOVE tHIS

    22 days ago

  • leahchica

    love this <3

    23 days ago

  • huwatts4

    @Ludas Ludio Good point, never realised that...

    23 days ago

  • LudasLudio

    Has anyone else thought that MGMT was an environmentally aware band? This whole song is about how people are tearing down forests for their own greed. "Control yourself. Take only what you need from it. A family of trees wanted to be haunted." Most of their EPs also mention their air being full of poison.

    24 days ago

  • Clembot

    [insert child's scream here!]

    last month

  • PurplePostRock

    Te video scare the living shit outta me, and the ending pat with the cartoon looked like a bit from 'Superjail.'

    last month

  • shofie

    <3 <3

    last month

  • EricValeev

    not bad

    last month

  • readaryan

    Fifa 09 or was it 10

    last month
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