When You Die

"When You Die" is a song by American pop and rock band MGMT, and the second single from the band's fourth studio album Little Dark Age.

It was co-written by Ariel Pink, who also plays guitar on the song.

[1] The song's artwork is based on an illustration in The Heart of Man; Either a Temple of God, or a Habitation of Satan; Represented in Ten Emblematical Figures, an 1851 book by German religious figure Johannes Evangelista Gossner.

The video stars Alex Karpovsky and Lucy Kaminsky, with Karpovsky playing a failing magician that appears to die and watch his death through a psychedelic trip presumably in purgatory.

[3] The video has been viewed 33 million times through the band's official Vevo account on YouTube.

The Heart of Man; Either a Temple of God, or a Habitation of Satan; Represented in Ten Emblematical Figures , p.38 [ 2 ]