One of the best things about the internet is that we can now capture and share moments in history.
Whether that be the first audition of one of your favourite actors, the first video from a content creator before going viral, or even the birth of a meme, it’s all readily available for us to see online.
It’s a funny world we live in, because even now, about a quarter of a century since the internet started to become a regular tool, we’re still stumbling across archived videos that leave our jaws on the floor.
Recently, a video did the rounds on social media, capturing one of the performances of a tune that would go on to become one of the most iconic of the 2000s.
Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser can be seen performing the song in front of a small group of people on a university campus, in plain white shirts, fist pumping to the beat.
Talk about humble beginnings.
In the TikTok video shared of the pair performing, text on the screen reads: “Just 2 dudes in 2003 not realising they made one of the best songs ever.”
Here it is if you haven’t seen it before:
If you haven’t guessed already, the band is MGMT, and the song they’re performing is their most famous, ‘Kids’.
The video was shot four years before the song was officially released to the world on their inaugural 2007 album, ‘Oracular Spectacular’.
However, the song was released on previous EPs, ‘Time to Pretend’ in 2005 and ‘We (Don’t) Care’ in 2004, before the fully finished product that we all know and love was released on their first album through a major record label in Columbia.
The song would go on to be nominated for a Grammy in the ‘Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals’ category.
Originally called ‘The Management’, the group was founded in 2002, while VanWyngarden and Goldwasser were in their first year as art students at Weslayan in Connecticut, USA, later changing their name to MGMT.
People are shocked at the sudden surfacing of the clip, with one saying in the comments: “Imagine telling people ‘I was at the first MGMT show they ever had’.”
Another added: “Shout out to whoever was like yo I gotta film this.”
A third said: “That just looks like two college kids singing Karaoke to MGMT.”
A different user pointed out: “Support local music and you can say one day you were there.”
Who knows, maybe you’ve got footage of the next big music act without knowing.
