“Time to Pretend” is the rock star Iliad and Odyssey, nestled in a four-minute pop song. Say yes to models, Paris, and heroin; no to jobs with offices and morning commutes. After its major-label release in 2007, the song oozed out of teenage bedrooms and across college quads, a kaleidoscopic escape from encroaching adulthood and a looming financial crisis. The lyrical debauchery was (mostly) tongue-in-cheek, but MGMT co-masterminds Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser offered a humbling summation of adulthood in the closing lines: Years will pass, you’ll miss the comfort of youth, and after enough trips round the sun, you’ll wind up dead in a bed somewhere. This was MGMT’s first single, the first track on its first album. What do you even say next?
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