Hello ladies and gents,

   As many of you know, MGMT released "The Optimizer" with their third album, which showcases a variety of wild visuals. However, after watching it under the influence of many different drugs (a lot of pot and acid), I have come to realize that it's muuuch more then just wild visuals.

  The album as a whole is very existential and philosophical judging by the lyrics, and I think the optimizer functions as many other things.

Firstly, I think it represents the struggles Andrew and the the band go though. This is represented though the weird monster dude with eye-nipples. We watch him thought the story of the optimizer, and on the last song, trudging though a bunch of dark water in a dark sky with the lyrics "If I don't feel right polishing off the sand, lay by me, and we'll erode, as gently as we can. Into twilight." as the weird Andrew/MGMT guy walks to the sunset.

Secondly, I think it's for reassuring people who have existential issues that everything is going to be ok. He does this in "A Good Sadness". The view goes out of our universe into a much greater realm, and we get spoken to by several sun like figures that could be gods. Finally, we get so close to one of the suns that we go into another realm to meet a pupil-looking creature next to some roman pillars and some hot-dog snake things. During the lyric "I'm sure you'll be fine" the view is zoomed heavily on the pupil-god figure both times the lyric is said. We are supposed to take this as the gods telling us that everything is going to be ok.

Am I bat shit insane, or is this real?