MGMT – Kids (Video with Fire Intro)

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Lyrics:

Control yourself
Take only what you need from it
A family of trees wanting to be haunted
Control yourself
Take only what you need from it
A family of trees wanting to be haunted"

76 comments

    1. Mr McSpiff I can’t believe you responded to a 4 year old comment, but yes I do believe that a kid understands acting direction, all the producers would have to say is “act like you’re scared.” There is a long process of selecting people to act in music videos, producers are going to choose the kid that has the most convincing act. The kid obviously has acting skill. There’s no logic behind your reasoning anyway the only thing you said was that “you can see the terror on that kids face in more than one scene.” That’s his job man, he convinced you into thinking his fear was real, so I’d say he did his job very well.

    1. Well, I think that kid see mounsters and that stuff because thats how the world is. And the mom cant see them because she is used to… I don’t know, maybe that is the porpuse. Sorry for bad english.

    1. this is true I should know…

      a 60 year old man dressed in a toga with ray bans on walked up to me yesterday and said “Only you can prevent mouse birth control” and handed me a piece of candy corn and the flew away on a broomstick.

      It gets weird down here.

    1. Tell me about it mate. Used to exclude every song in EA TRAX except this one. Masterpiece of a song, and it especially gets to me all those hours playing in the ”training pitch” with Rooney or another star and just this song and sick goals and skills. Fifa 09 was literally the best fifa ever.

  1. To the people who are worried about the child watch the behind the scenes the mom was there bye his side the whole way and he only cried once about every 2 scenes and the baby is older than you think he can talk and he got to know the monster before the shoots most of it was cgi

  2. You were a child
    Crawling on your knees toward him
    Making momma so proud
    But your voice is too loud
    We like to watch you laughing
    Picking insects off of plants
    No time to think of consequences

    Control yourself
    Take only what you need from it
    A family of trees wanting to be haunted

    Control yourself
    Take only what you need from it
    A family of trees wanting to be haunted

    The water is warm
    But it’s sending me shivers
    A baby is born
    Crying out for attention
    Memories fade
    Like looking through a fogged mirror
    Decisions too
    Decisions are made
    Decisions are made and not bought
    But I thought this wouldn’t hurt a lot
    I guess not

    Control yourself
    Take only what you need from it
    A family of trees wanting to be haunted

    Control yourself
    Take only what you need from it
    A family of trees wanting to be haunted

    Control yourself
    Take only what you need from it
    A family of trees wanting to be haunted

    Control yourself
    Take only what you need from it
    A family of trees wanting to be haunted

    Control yourself
    Take only what you need from it
    A family of trees wanting to be haunted

    Control yourself
    Take only what you need from it
    A family of trees wanting to be haunted

  3. for anyone wondering, the making of video shows the kid was okay, like 80% of the time. Him crying around all the zombies and the firstt monster is real though, but they bribed him with goldfish

    1. Really… you’re that gullible? You see an edited video with roughly 1 minute screen time of the kid with cherry picked smiles and some cries and you honestly believe that is representative of his total experience?
      He was 18 months old…. when we use toddler models, they burn out in less than 1 hour. That’s completely normal and we respect that. I mean litterally…. 1 hour a day. Their brains aren’t wired to handle that much stress and input. So take your BTS crap and stick it… I saw it as well, but since i’ve made quite a lot of those as well, I know exactly how they are put together. They would never show the scope of the amount of times he cried.

      Imagine being a toddle… you get scared, you cry, from you lungs, you want mom to pick you up, hesitantly she does…. 5 minutes later you stop crying, she puts you down around that which made you cry once more. Talk about trust issues.

      There’s a reason, and a very good one, why you wont see anything like this made today…..

    1. +Norman Rucker Can’t tell if troll bait or not…… kids up till the age of 3-4 can’t act, they can be told what to do. But their emotional response to ANY situation is purely based on raw feelings, as such, if scared > cry….. there’s no such thing as a 3 year old pretending to cry while pretending to be scared. This is basic child psychology and evolutionary stuff mate ffs!!

  4. I heard this at a trampoline park during a birthday party. I ran screaming to the girl who showed this song to me years ago happened to be the birthday girl and she didn’t remember the song and I honestly almost cried ?

    1. genesis5864 if you watch bts the mother tells her kid to scream and whine and he is seen laughing at the people in costumes the few times he was scared they comforted him

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