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"It's Working" is the third single released from the album Congratulations by MGMT. The album covers were made by So Me.

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"It's Working"
Single by MGMT
from the album Congratulations
Released	June 26, 2010
Genre	Psychedelic rock, psychedelic pop, progressive pop, art rock, surf rock, baroque pop
Length	4:07
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(s)	Andrew VanWyngarden, Ben Goldwasser
MGMT singles chronology
"Siberian Breaks" (2010) "It's Working" (2010) "Congratulations" (2010)
Music video
"It's Working" on YouTube

Sonic Boom's commentary on the track, before the Congratulations sessions at the Blanker Unsinn Studio on 2010, is "Love? Or Confusion? Reality? Contusion? Subterranea or Sub-fusion. The Quest begins."[1]

History

The single was added to BBC Radio 1's C-Playlist in May 2010 and later upgraded to the B-Playlist.

On June 29, the single was released as a digital download on iTunes, with the name of "It's Working Digital 45" and contains the Air and Violens remix.[2]

On June 30, the remix by Air was given as a free download on RCRD LBL.[3]

Music video

MGMT said in an interview for Pitchfork about the song, "We just shot the coolest video in Paris with director So Me [Justice's "D.A.N.C.E."] for 'It's Working'. In it, Ben and I find this box and these instructions to put together a machine that's constantly changing, and we end up losing control over it. Saying this now, it sounds so metaphorical for our musical career, which is really funny."[4]

The video was premiered on June 15 on their website.

The video has Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser finding a box that contains a giant machine. They find a booklet with the title "Construction Manual" on it. They look through it and push different buttons on the machine. While VanWyngarden and Goldwasser push the buttons a woman walks past but they do not take any notice of her and the machine takes photos of her that MGMT show to a photo booth. While the song keeps playing, VanWyngarden and Goldwasser do various things with the machine such as pour ice cream all over a sombrero on Will Berman's head and locking Matthew Asti in with a giant gopher. Near the end of the video, the machine starts shrinking VanWyngarden tries looking for Goldwasser and finds him in bed with the woman from before as the song starts fading. He wakes Goldwasser up and try getting out of the machine. VanWyngarden, Richardson and Asti escape but VanWyngarden goes back for Goldwasser who gets stuck in the machine along with VanWyngarden. The video ends with the box closing itself and a man (played by the video's director, So Me), picking up the box.

Track listing

Personnel

• Andrew VanWyngarden – vocals, guitar, bass guitar
• Ben Goldwasser – synthesizer and samples, omnichord
• James Richardson – guitar
• Matt Asti – guitar
• Will Berman – drums
• Britta Phillips – additional vocals
• Gillian Rivers – strings

References

На других языках

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- [en] It's Working

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[ru] It’s Working

«It’s Working» (с англ. — «Это работает») — песня, исполненная музыкальной группой MGMT и выпущенная в качестве третьего сингла со второй студийной работы Congratulations[1]. Она была написана и спродюсирована Эндрю Ванвингарденом и Бэн Голдвассером и выпущена качестве цифровой дистрибуции 26 июня 2010 года. Композиция впервые прозвучала на британской радиостанции BBC Radio 1 в начале мая 2010 года, а также исполнялась на концертном туре в поддержку альбома Congratulations[2]. 29 июня того же года на интернет-сервисе ITunes сингл поступил в продажу с двумя ремиксами на композицию, выполненные Violens и Air. Через день работа последних стала доступна для бесплатной загрузки на сайте RCRD LBL[3]. В целом It’s Working был хорошо принят критиками. Особо отмечался уход от синтипоп звучания к более психоделическому[4]. Музыкальное видео на композицию было опубликовано на официальном сайте MGMT 15 июня 2010 года.

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