Time to Pretend (Exploded)

By MGMT and Hrishikesh Hirway

15 min

MGMT became famous for a song about pretending to be famous.

Ben and Andrew trace how the song “Time to Pretend” was made, from its dorm room origins, to its first recording, to re-envisioning it with Grammy-winning producer Dave Fridmann.

About: The (Human) World

Published in 2016 as Song Exploder (Podcast) number 62.

Bibtex Data

@misc{song-exploder2016-mgmt-pretend,
    category={av},
    title={{T}ime to {P}retend ({E}xploded)},
    author={MGMT and Hrishikesh Hirway},
    year=2016,
    month=jan,
    series={Song Exploder (Podcast)},
    number=62,
    minutes=15,
    keywords={world,communication,intellect,fame},
    ranking={rank3},
    url={https://songexploder.net/mgmt}
}

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