Time to Pretend

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"Time to Pretend" is a psychedelic synth-pop song by the American band MGMT that became one of their breakout hits and a defining track of late-2000s indie music.

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Label Occurrences
Time to Pretend canonical 1

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf single
song
album Oracular Spectacular NERFINISHED
albumRelease Oracular Spectacular NERFINISHED
artist MGMT NERFINISHED
chronology MGMT singles chronology
composer Andrew VanWyngarden NERFINISHED
Ben Goldwasser NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
criticalReception widely acclaimed by music critics
describedAs psychedelic synth-pop song
EP Time to Pretend EP NERFINISHED
followedBy Electric Feel NERFINISHED
genre indie rock
neo-psychedelia
psychedelic pop
synth-pop
hasCoverArt Time to Pretend single cover
hasMusicVideo yes
includedIn many MGMT live setlists
language English
length 4:21
lyricist Andrew VanWyngarden NERFINISHED
Ben Goldwasser NERFINISHED
medium CD single
digital download
vinyl record
musicVideoDirector Ray Tintori NERFINISHED
notableFor being a defining track of late-2000s indie music
being one of MGMT's breakout hits
originalRelease Time to Pretend EP NERFINISHED
partOf late-2000s indie music canon
performer MGMT NERFINISHED
precededBy Weekend Wars NERFINISHED
producer Dave Fridmann NERFINISHED
recordLabel Cantora Records NERFINISHED
Columbia Records
Red Ink NERFINISHED
releaseDate 2005
2008
theme fame and excess
youth and disillusionment
usesInstrumentation bass guitar
drums
keyboards
synthesizer

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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
- If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list.
- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Time to Pretend
Description of subject: "Time to Pretend" is a psychedelic synth-pop song by the American band MGMT that became one of their breakout hits and a defining track of late-2000s indie music.

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MGMT notableWork Time to Pretend