MGMT 'turned down GaGa support slot'

MGMT have revealed that they turned down the chance to support Lady GaGa on her current tour.

The American duo, made up of Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwaaser, said that they have rejected a number of high-profile support slots because they do not want to be popstars.

"We've recently been offered support slots with a ton of big bands," Yahoo reports VanWyngarden as saying.

"Really huge, enormous, big bands - Like Lady Gaga and U2 and Coldplay and Foo Fighters. And we turned them all down. We really didn't want to do any of that."

Goldwasser admitted that it was never their "mission" to be seen as a pop act.

He added: "Well, we really do feel like we were blown out of proportion by everybody. We don't feel like pop stars, we feel like a rock band. We don't want to play arenas. It's not our mission."

The pair also claimed that their new album Congratulations is different to previous LP Oracular Spectacular.

"I think on some level it is a reaction to the success of the first one. I mean, of course we were happy and felt lucky that stuff happened, but it wasn't really what we were shooting for," VanWyngarden explained.

"I think a lot of people misinterpreted and misunderstood what we were about."