Business Insider Interviews MGMT’s Lyricist: An Erasure
insidious shadow “ / — , ”
Over a thinly veiled
rejection haunting a
psychedelic tongue-in-cheek ( )
political essay harvesting flashes of
:a
:narrative cosmically ridiculous
this inside-joke performance—
the absurdity of it [Laughs]
figure out how to sustain us
It’s kind of a crazy storyline.
always inside
an inkling
meat and potatoes
[Laughs]
it’s a
and a curse
As an artist you want to
to
to
to
to
to
[Laughs]
:?
:less appealing
negative
weird
weird
dip
Dark Age
last hurrah
[Laughs]
surprised
to see that
:brilliant new
vibrant visual
powerful imagery
:most eyes think in a really fluid way
:How did you find him?
:I went through a little hole.
wavelength,
:
:smashing a voracious deep :dark.
:postapocalyptic gang living surviving
“The world is ending”
“What are we going to do as humanity?”
the attacks
life-changing shock
cracked feeling
a new perspective
a new perspective
paranoia
suspicion
hesitance
wariness
fully embrace technology,
fully embrace technology,
savior raise your consciousness
isolating dangerous thing exposed
mass-level shock seeped into beautiful
people speaking into mirrors
:In part, delves into even darker matter,
like dying. What are your views there, and
do you believe in the afterlife?
:Well, I wish
, but I
. But I feel,
, that everything
, like
. ’s
. I
. So I don’t know.
. Or if
. But
.
:?
:—you’re kind of in these windowless
backstage rooms with a bag of Cheetos.
Courtney Skaggs (they/she) is originally from Columbus, Ohio, but currently lives in Fairbanks, Alaska, where they are an MFA / MA student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the Hybrid Editor for Permafrost Magazine. She was a writer-in-residence at the Appalachian Forest Stewardship Residency in November of 2019. Their essays can be found in Longleaf Review, Rejection Letters, and Lammergeier. Find her online at courtneyskaggs.net or on Twitter @corntea324.