Song · MGMT
“Me And Michael” by MGMT
From the album Little Dark Age (2018)
“Me And Michael” by MGMT appears on 2 radio countdowns from 2 stations in 2018. It was first released in 2018 on the album Little Dark Age. Its best result is #37 on the WBER Listener Countdown 2018. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #175 alternative song of 2018.
MGMT put "Me and Michael" out in February 2018 through Columbia, the fourth single from Little Dark Age, their fourth album, and it finds the band at their most gleefully retro, leaning hard on the influence of the English electronic group OMD. A Joey Frank and Randy Lee Maitland video arrived with it.
The title came out of boredom. Ben Goldwasser has said the chorus was first written about a girlfriend, which struck the band as dull and corny, so they swapped in a Michael and let an ambiguous story grow up around him. They liked it that way: a rush of a pop song whose message nobody can pin down. Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden wrote it and play the synths, VanWyngarden sings and handles drums and guitar, and Dave Fridmann mixed it and produced it with the band and Patrick Wimberly.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 86 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 2018 | 91 |
| 2018 | 37 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 2018 | 83 |
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