Electric Feel

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"Electric Feel"
Electric Feel MGMT.jpg
Single by MGMT
from the album Oracular Spectacular
ReleasedJune 23, 2008
RecordedMarch –April 2007
Studio Tarbox Road Studios, Cassadaga, New York
Genre
Length3:50
Label Columbia [4]
Songwriter(s)
MGMT singles chronology
"Time to Pretend"
(2008)		"Electric Feel"
(2008)		"Metanoia"
(2008)
Music video
"Electric Feel" on YouTube

"Electric Feel" is a song by the American rock band MGMT, released as the second single from their debut studio album Oracular Spectacular (2007) on June 23, 2008. [5] The single was released as a 7" and CD single, and later on 12" vinyl. "Electric Feel" was released to radio on July 29, 2008. [6] The song's second video features The Rock-afire Explosion. [7] The song is primarily in 6
4 time, with an instrumental bridge in 4
4.

Contents

Reception

"Electric Feel" became MGMT's first Australian ARIA top 50 hit, as well as their first New Zealand RIANZ top 40 hit. In the United States, the song originally peaked at number 20 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, but reached a new peak of number 14 almost three years after the original peak, due to a resurgence in sales from exposure on The Voice . (The version of "Electric Feel" covered by The Voice contestant, Preston Pohl also debuted at number 21 on the same week) [8] [9] The song was ranked at number five on NME 's list of the Best Singles of 2008, [10] and came in at number two on Australia's Triple J Hottest 100 countdown for 2008.

Track listing

7" Single
No.TitleLength
1."Electric Feel"3:48
2."Electric Feel" (Rasta Wigs Remix)4:15
12" Single
No.TitleLength
1."Electric Feel" (Justice Remix)5:27
2."Electric Feel"3:48
CD Single
No.TitleLength
1."Electric Feel"3:48
2."Electric Feel" (Justice Remix)5:27
Radio Edit Promo
No.TitleLength
1."Electric Feel" (Radio edit)3:37

Reviews

Music videos

Two videos have been released for this song.

The music video, which was nominated for Best Art Direction at the 2008 MTV Video Music Awards, is often described as an ecstasy or acid trip, while some argue it as being a depiction of Sodom and Gomorrah. Pitchfork Media described the video as "a krazy, kandy-kolored, loud neon thingamajig video." [14]

Another music video features an appearance by The Rock-afire Explosion. The Rock-afire Explosion was an animatronic animal band that played in Showbiz Pizza Place and Circus Pizza in the 1980s and 1990s. In the beginning of the video, two individuals with white and black painted faces can be seen stirring a pot, and later in the video dancing. These are Abby Fuller and Rafael Pulido, who starred in Jon Salmon's amateur music video, dancing and singing along to MGMT's "Kids".

The video depicts the band members and various people, cartoon characters, The Rock-afire Explosion, and animal-people partying in the middle of the Tikal jungle. They take the Moon from the sky, cut it open, and paint themselves in a neon ooze emitting from it. Then put it back in the sky. During the closing sequence, the members of MGMT get on motorbikes (late 1970s Honda CB400Ts) and drive into the Moon, which then explodes, causing a rain of neon colors to fall on the dancing people.

The YouTube video has received over 150 million views.

Charts

Certifications

RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA) [31] Platinum70,000^
Canada (Music Canada) [32] 2× Platinum160,000‡
Denmark (IFPI Danmark) [33] Gold45,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ) [34] Gold7,500*
United Kingdom (BPI) [35] Platinum600,000‡
United States (RIAA) [36] Gold1,821,084 [37]

* Sales figures based on certification alone.
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.
‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Covers and remixes

“They did a show [at United Palace Theater] up in Washington Heights; the initial conversation was just that it was an honor to meet them, I think they're kinda cool and… from there, it led into me saying, It'd be crazy if I remixed "Electric Feel". They were like, ‘Yeah, that would be crazy,’ so I said, ‘Let me get the beats and shit.’”

Media usage

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