Lady Dada's Nightmare
by MGMT

Album: Congratulations (2010)
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Songfacts®:

  • MGMT's Andrew VanWyngarden's denied to Spin Magazine that this instrumental track is a tribute to the duo's fellow New Yorker, the similar monikered Lady Gaga. He said: "It's just an instrumental track, but it's very nightmare-ish sounding! Actually, it's really kind of messed up sounding, and we thought it would be funny to call it 'Lady Dada's Nightmare.'"
  • The song was recorded using a vintage keyboard. MGMT's Ben Goldwasser told The Times April 3, 2010 that it was "a kind of educational tool, full of little pegs - it looks like a game of battleships. I stayed up all night adding part after part, not knowing what it would become, pretty much just laughing the whole time."

Comments: 2

  • Gabrielle from San Francisco, CaWhat a strange, but beautiful song.
  • Courtney from Gulfport, MsThis song kinda freaks me out
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