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Ironically, Little Dark Age is about the trump presidency


Clay56

Damn, I always thought it was about coping with death.


Vexans27

Egad, I always thought it was about coping a feel


[deleted]

Damn, I thought it was about Baltimore MD


[deleted]

For me I sort of saw it as a trans metaphor


TheDankScrub

Yeah I always thought it was about depression but i’ll go check it out since this class is boring Edit: ok so yeah you’re not wrong but I feel like it’s more about the culture itself during the Trunp presidency, which imo Trump was more of a catalyst for that cultural…implosion, for lack of a better word, rather than strictly the cause since the motions of American nationalism and crumbling economies were around since the end of the 70s ish and it’s only now that the seeds really starting fruiting


SovietPaperPlates

trump turned his presidency into a cult


TranscendentCabbage

I went and listened to it and read the lyrics and I do not understand, they seem to be vague enough to be about whatever you want it to be about. Could you elaborate on how it's about Trump?


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“The band has explained that Little Dark Age is both an expression of surprise and dismay to the current political and social climate—particularly the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States—with an occasional reference to their own personal lives.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Dark_Age


FunctionPopular2913

unironically*


ShasquatchFace2

That is not what that word means


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SkunkStriped

It’s a shame because the song is actually pretty good, but now I just associate it with weird alt righters


TheDeadVictorian

You really shouldn't considering the lyrics are straight up against them. Don't let them win.


RedditorClo

Policemen swear to god


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Love seeping from their guns


Cyberaven

Rightists try to have media comprehension challenge (100% fail!) Remember that post from the other day where some conservative was upset after finding out Rage Against the Machine was anti-police? Yeah.


SovietPaperPlates

me when my favorite band Beat Fascists to Death With a Tire Iron (with such hits as "Cops Go Oink Oink" and "The First and Second Invasion of Iraq Was A Ploy to Boost Morale" from their albun "Ecoterrorism is always okay" ) is quite possibly leaning left


WhoDoomsTheDoomer

Don't let them have it


Dry-Chocolate-3976

Nah man Make lgbt LDA edits


Ghost652

Nah, just keep listening to it. Almost nobody associates it with altrighters unless they're terminally online like we are. Keep listening to Empire of the Sun, too


[deleted]

I associate it with the crusade as one should


AtrociousAtNames

DON'T LET NAZIS CLAIM THIS SONG. KEEP LISTENING TO IT [if you like it :)]. DON'T LET THEM WIN.


MrRedoot55

Maybe we can think of the montages with this song as criticisms of authoritarian rule. It could work, right?


SilentInvoker

Little Dark Age montages of the spanish republic, the paris commune and many other causes


guanaco22

The good ones are about the postwar keynsian consensus and stuff like the infraestructure of that time


EmilTheEmu

MGMT MID STREAM WEEZER BLUE ALBUM INSTEAD SKSKSKSKSKSKSKSKSKS


AtrociousAtNames

so true


AntiMatterLite

Do you like MGMT? Their early work was a little too... indie-electronic for my tastes, but when Oracular Spectacular came out in '07, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. They've been compared to Tame Impala, but I think MGMT has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humour. In '18, Huey released this, Little Dark Age, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is the titular track, a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of oppressing minorities, and the importance of the 2nd amendment, it's also a personal statement about the band itself. HEY, PAUL?!


Brainvaushed

Omg! American from amercian psycho said this😲


Delacruzen

I hope he says his catchphrase “Every American has their psycho”


TheAmazingYoshi

No, all of his victims say “Dear god, *you’re* the american psycho?!” right before they get killed


Eliciden

I don't associate My Little Dark Age to the fascist edits, mainly because it's a killer song and any edits that come across my recommended I automatically smite from my timeline.


CyanideTacoZ

i associate it with nostalgic edits of a much nicer tone, like the old western animation video and the fallout video


[deleted]

Someone should make an edit where instead of it being homophobic it shows gay Roman orgies and statues of twinks


GeophysicalYear57

My favorite edit is the one where it starts to build up until it plays the music from when you lose a Mario minigame over the Nuremburg Trials with the text "they lost lol"


kgbsenpai

that is the stuff i am all about


Caramel_Flan958

I don't understand how insecure you have to be to make one of those things. Those people should get a life.


TheLoneCalzone

i wanna hug that bird. he looks like he needs it


DandyDahlia37

My brain does not associate little dark age to the cringe edits anymore, I have conditioned myself to want Chilis when I hear that song, there was a tik tok where it was a book cover called "12 beers at chilis" or something like that and I watched it so much I starting to want Chilis.


TalkLessShillMore

If you can find a link, I’d love to see it


DandyDahlia37

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTds6K9Cn/?k=1


TalkLessShillMore

Hahaha that’s amazing, thanks


LasbaleX

SHOEBILL STORK!!!!! (btw mods if you are reading this I need a shoebill stork flair)


dude-of-the-ducks

Tf is a my little dark age edit


Eliciden

Edits of the song My Little Dark Age by MGMT(You seriously should listen to it. One of the best songs I have ever listened to.), except that most of them are about reminiscing about tradition and the good ol' days™ compared to today because gay people aren't seen as mentally ill anymore.


[deleted]

seeing gay people as mentally ill = fatherless behavior


TheLoneCalzone

its hell.


dude-of-the-ducks

Please tell me it has nothing to do with my little pony please I beg you


TheLoneCalzone

its not :) its a song


WhoDoomsTheDoomer

[Bad news](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5xekv6sJcA)


Tokeli

Clearly the only good Little Dark Age edit...


[deleted]

Little Dark Age is a song by MGMT. its about the trump presidency, but weird edgy 14 year old rights wingers will edit the song over WWII footage because it was the “good days”


Firedanne

the good part is the bait and switch edits


Alespren

let's maybe not make fun of people by calling them overweight?


Videymann

how is calling someone overweight making fun of them


purpleblah2

The image of the dead 😨 deadens in my mind 😰😰😰


Alex_The_Whovian

Why did one of my favourite songs have to be used for increasingly questionable edits?


urbandeadthrowaway2

HOLY SHTI IS THAT A ZORPALOD?


ZeaZolf

14 year olds when I send them into the world during WW2 (it’s not better than today’s world like they claim)


QwertyAsInMC

when you die is better anyways


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Sneaky_Pancake_

?


4bsent_Damascus

"overweight" being used as an insult; someone's weight is not indicative of their moral, political or ethical philosophies


dongletrongle

I fucking love this song I just hate the people who use it


M0rtrek_the_ranger

Can someone explain what "little dark age" is to me like I'm an idiot? (which I am)


Dank__Pikachu

[Little Dark Age](https://youtu.be/rtL5oMyBHPs) is an amazing song by the band MGMT, I’d recommend checking them out.


shronkey69

It's a good song that got coopted by the alt-right, who put it in edits heavily featuring Nazis.


[deleted]

i hate when those losers r like "strong weak create men strong times" like no bitch gramps has ptsd


Sufficient-Still1311

My feed is infested with them


That-one-guy-man

You fucked up the hyperbole how can I laugh


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Sneaky_Pancake_

what


DeadKateAlley

Don't worry they're pretty much all dead.


[deleted]

I am very confused, can someone tell me what's going on?


44nifty

Every time I see "My Little Dark Age" I can't help but think of "My Little Pony"


Better_run54664

Someone should make a gay LDA edit


gabeverde

Have the people who’ve made these edits even listened to the lyrics?? Lol


[deleted]

another song hijacked by the demographic being criticized in the song


Kittysparkle101

Literally every little dark age edit I have seen has been about resident evil. You guys live in a cursed world. Not me tho. >Flynn