"It's Working" is the third single released from the album ''

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'' by MGMT. The album covers were made by

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's commentary on the track, before the ''Congratulations'' sessions at the Blanker Unsinn Studio on 2010, is "Love? Or Confusion? Reality? Contusion? Subterranea or Sub-fusion. The Quest begins."

History

The single was added to

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's C-Playlist in May 2010 and later upgraded to the B-Playlist. On June 29, the single was released as a digital download on iTunes, with the name of "It's Working Digital 45" and contains the

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and Violens remix. On June 30, the remix by

was given as a free download on RCRD LBL.

Music video

MGMT said in an interview for

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about the song, "We just shot the coolest video in Paris with director

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/ref> The video was premiered on June 15 on their website. The video has Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser finding a box that contains a giant machine. They find a booklet with the title "Construction Manual" on it. They look through it and push different buttons on the machine. While VanWyngarden and Goldwasser push the buttons a woman walks past but they do not take any notice of her and the machine takes photos of her that MGMT show to a photo booth. While the song keeps playing, VanWyngarden and Goldwasser do various things with the machine such as pour ice cream all over a sombrero on Will Berman's head and locking Matthew Asti in with a giant gopher. Near the end of the video, the machine starts shrinking VanWyngarden tries looking for Goldwasser and finds him in bed with the woman from before as the song starts fading. He wakes Goldwasser up and try getting out of the machine. VanWyngarden, Richardson and Asti escape but VanWyngarden goes back for Goldwasser who gets stuck in the machine along with VanWyngarden. The video ends with the box closing itself and a man (played by the video's director,

), picking up the box.

Track listing

Personnel

* Andrew VanWyngarden – Singing, vocals, guitar, bass guitar * Ben Goldwasser – Synthesizer, synthesizer and samples, omnichord * James Richardson – guitar * Matt Asti – guitar * Will Berman – drums * Britta Phillips – additional vocals * Gillian Rivers – strings

References

{{authority control 2010 singles MGMT songs 2010 songs Columbia Records singles Songs written by Andrew VanWyngarden Songs written by Benjamin Goldwasser