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Andrew VanWyngarden

Andrew Wells VanWyngarden (born February 1, 1983) is an American musician. He is the lead vocalist, guitar player and songwriter for the band MGMT, praised for (according to Interview Magazine) "an uncanny knack for producing pop music that sounds as if it were filtered through a kaleidoscope." One of his (and MGMT cofounder Benjamin Goldwasser's) songs "Kids" (from the Oracular Spectacular album) received a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, while the duo was nominated in the Best New Artist category.

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Maybe we're just stupid and don't realize you can't make music that sounds like a chase scene from a 'Scooby Doo' cartoon and have people take you seriously.

Cartoon, Doo, People, Stupid

I think that love is just as important and prevalent and real as it ever was.

Love Is, Prevalent, Real, Think, Thinking

I was nervous during Radiohead, we thought that they would hate us. I think when we played in LA, one of the dudes from Entourage was in the audience, and that was kinda weird. If anyone would make me nervous it would be David Bowie, Neil Young, someone like that.

David, Hate, Nervous, Radiohead, Thinking, Thought

Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists are like Lou Reed, kind of the classics - Bob Dylan and stuff like that.

Bob, Classics, Kind, Trying, Write, Writing

If you're conscious you must be depressed, or at least cynical.

Conscious, Cynical, Depressed, Ifs

Here's what I think. I think that a lot of days, for me recently, it's like every split second the whole universe is created and destroyed. It's like constantly collapsing and reforming. And I think a lot of people feel that. I think that love is the answer and that's the only thing that matters.

Answer, Like, Love Is, People, Recently, Thinking

I have the same birthday as George Washington. No I don't. I don't even know who George Washington is.

Birthday, George, Know, Knows, Same, Washington

We like the idea of being a little divisive without making it into some kind of philosophical musical approach, and maybe we can convert some people to our view of the world.

Making, Maybe, Musical, People, Philosophical, World

I love movies and I think that we wouldn't ever stop making videos just because people aren't watching them. I think that's just kinda sad. It would be cool to spend a lot of money, but we'll always make videos just for ourselves.

Being Cool, Making, People, Sad, Stop, Thinking

FACT!: I wanna live in a castle.

Castle, Castles, Fact, Facts, Live, Wanna

We were thinking about how other people deal with this career on every song. We got to meet people like Thom Yorke and hear him say how it's never normal when fans just come up to you. It's always a strange job. We don't want to come off like we're pitying ourselves for having this job because it's really amazing in a lot of ways. But there's a lot of stuff that comes with it that we're not really comfortable with.

Amazing, Come, People, Song, Thinking, Yorke

We thought of ourselves as musical terrorists at shows - were weren't biting heads off bats, but we wanted to annoy and confront people.

Annoying, Heads, Musical, People, Thought

Even big-bird gets sad sometimes

Big Bird, Bird, Gets, Sad, Sometimes

I'm proud of the lyrics because I take a lot of care in writing them. I try to make it so people will want to go in and get really into the lyrics. I hope there are different corners to them, with lots of levels-without sounding pretentious.

Different, Hope, People, Pretentious, Trying, Writing

I don't feel too comfortable talking about politics and media as I feel like I don't sound too smart.

Like, Media, Smart, Talking

We like being ridiculous and I think that's lost on a lot of people, or they think we're coming from this super serious angle, and that's too bad, really.

Lost, People, Serious, Think, Thinking

There was this large group of people that we were talking about on the first album - "The Youth" - but we didn't really know what to tell them. We still don't know what to tell them, but we want to make it seem like maybe there's something we know that they want to know, too.

Large, Like, People, Talking, Youth

I don't think it's necessary to worry too much about being authentic. I think a picture taken on an iPhone and then filtered through something to make it look like it was taken on a Super 8 camera can be just as authentic as something taken on a Super 8 camera, if it's capturing something real or beautiful.

Beautiful, Camera, Look, Real, Taken

We think about strategies in pop songs to make people listen to them and be like, "What the hell was that?" But then they have to listen to it again.

Like, People, Pop, Song, Strategies, Thinking

I think that especially in the U. S. there's this kind of sensationalizing of news - and making it almost like CNN and stuff are entertainment networks.

Cnn, Kind, Networks, News, Sensationalizing, Thinking

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