So who ARE that insufferable indie couple in the new Hyundai TV ads?

Are they a real band or just actors? They remind me of the "hipsters" that McDonald's would like us to believe patronize their blubber factories.

Oh, apologies if the couple in question post on this board!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THAky3XYOTg&feature=player_profilepage
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oh god those fucking ads. every time it's on i just keep telling myself "it's a week after christmas, they have to be stopping soon"

these are fucking awful

Pomplamoose?!

enjoying the comments on their youtube page

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I hate these commercials so much I may never buy another hyundai.

After a couple of 18-game seasons, we won't complain too much when they're announced as the Super Bowl halftime act.

oh god those fucking ads. every time it's on i just keep telling myself "it's a week after christmas, they have to be stopping soon"

― hann am0n tana (some dude)

I'm starting to think that advertisers and networks have broken down and decided to make it Christmas year 'round. Hallmark Channel and ABC Family are still broadcasting Christmas movies as well.

no way are their commercials as annoying as this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xycnv87N_BU&NR=1

serious question: at what point do ppl realize 'preciousness' is a really bland affect

I'm starting to think that advertisers and networks have broken down and decided to make it Christmas year 'round. Hallmark Channel and ABC Family are still broadcasting Christmas movies as well.

I say ILX pulls it resources together and releases a charity single called "Don't They Know It's Not Christmas Any More"

"Well tonight thank God it's that hipster, and not youuu"

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Poor Earth, Wind And Fire. What has been done to their song...

MOTHERFUCK

weve covered this in depth on ilnfl btw

twee aesthetic has been barely held back from the mainstream for a long time. xmas 2k10 was the dam breaking. there's no turning back now.

link xp

thread needs whiney

what i don't get is how this kind of fuzzy defanged hipster caricature has become representative of 'creative ppl' in general — like wasn't the point that everyone hated hipsters because they made weird offputting music instead of, y'know, covering traditional xmas songs??

I suddenly feel like wearing flannel, scarves and knit hats. If I drove a Hyundai, this would mean something.

we've invected against this at ilh too

the girl is kinda cute but 'preciousness' is a really bland affect otm. okay yeah u got pretty eyes, but that don't mean you gotta stare into the camera like a deer caught in the high-powered halogen headlights of a brand-new hyundai sonata

thread needs whiney

― buzza, Sunday, January 2, 2011 9:38 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

last thing thread needs

was hoping for a poll of which one is more annoying b/c I honestly can't decide

what i don't get is how this kind of fuzzy defanged hipster caricature has become representative of 'creative ppl' in general — like wasn't the point that everyone hated hipsters because they made weird offputting music instead of, y'know, covering traditional xmas songs??

― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Sunday, January 2, 2011 9:38 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

what is it that even explicitly signals them as "hipsters" or "indie" though? they're just a couple of youngish folks and one of them has a BEARD omg

fey instrumentation, muted singing, chintzy sets

like i definitely hate the "i heard Cat Power and i think i'm just gonna kinda ride that out instead of ever trying to really sing" type singing and it is kind of indie but it's funny how people watch a couple wearing christmas sweaters and singing jingle bells and go "ugh HIPSTERS"

post-AnCo attitude of wide-eyed [literally!] naivete

the guy pops out of the trunk and blows snow everywhere --> everyone knows you're not supposed to shut yourself inside a trunk! silly hipsters!!

The female half of the moose is more annoying why because because she never moves her head she just moves her eyeballs.

what i don't get is how this kind of fuzzy defanged hipster caricature has become representative of 'creative ppl' in general — like wasn't the point that everyone hated hipsters because they made weird offputting music instead of, y'know, covering traditional xmas songs??

Behind every guy in a noiseband is just a dude who wants to cover "Christmas Time is Here" using a xylophone and ukulele, buy adobe slabs etc

santa hats that u can tell they're wearing 'ironically' — like some poor lil bro from wardrobe brought them out and they went "oh yeah, this'll be just perfect"

I tried to lsiten to "September" but once they got to the chorus i had to shut it off so i could quickly compose a will before DYING

What's that thread from two or three years ago about how before a currently trendy genre dies it needs to have a band become popular who is almost a satire of it? e.g. before garage rock revivalism died we needed Jet.

hi guys

hi! i can't possibly imagine what your opinion on this will be!

http://i55.tinypic.com/2iawqvq.gif

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i think they're horrible people!

twee aesthetic has been barely held back from the mainstream for a long time. xmas 2k10 was the dam breaking. there's no turning back now.

― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy)

I thought that Owl City invading the tweens' bedrooms a year earlier had been that.

Why doesn't anybody really sing anymore instead of just kind of croaking a melody? heyyoukidsgetoffmylawn.jpg

^ ilx buried my heyyoukidsgetoffmylawn.jpg punchline there.

i like this band. here is a song of theirs i enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uolz7V12evc

tbf i haven't listened to/seen the hyundai commercial because christmas songs generally fill me with rage.

maybe they actually hate hipsters, like i've heard that people who dress like intolerable obnoxious hipsters and have hipster affectations are often the sorts who spend 24/7 railing against hipsters.

they wont admit that in a commercial tho cuz it wont help sell hyundais

or would it?

i mean, whatever it's not shocking that since "indie rock" is big-business/cultural movement now that the think most marketable to middle america is the safe/tame/cuteypoo parts and not Pissed Jeans.

i mean if Garden State/Juno/Arcade Fire was "modern indie's" "nirvana moment" on whatever microcosmic level which means SNL and car commercials 6 years later, we're already at the nickelback/creed stage of thangs.

like i definitely hate the "i heard Cat Power and i think i'm just gonna kinda ride that out instead of ever trying to really sing" type singing and it is kind of indie but it's funny how people watch a couple wearing christmas sweaters and singing jingle bells and go "ugh HIPSTERS"

― hann am0n tana (some dude), Sunday, January 2, 2011 8:42 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i dunno this seems p twee to me

i mean these people are hipsters like nickelback are grunge-rockers, which is basically just proof of what little/if any weight that term/movement is going to carry in 2011 and 2012

more accurately:

these people are "hipsters" like stone temple pilots was "alternative"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hFT853OYfg
Toy pianos and xylophones add to tweeness.

what little/if any weight that term/movement is going to carry in 2011 and 2012

this is what we have carles for

i'm sure the oppressive irony/sarcasm of the 70s/80s babies

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/3/33/20070205184917!Homerpalooza.png

grown into Gawker-readind snarko A-dults caused this backlash of SUPER SINCERE peter pan adobe slab nostLOLgiawave like Neon Cassette Teen Beach bands AND ALSO this cuet twee ellen page burgerphone music from kids young enough to see Max Keeble make his Big Moves.

so honestly we have no one to blame but oursleves

So is this girl's Cat Power-style singing the female version of Wayne Coyne/Jonathan Donahue/Daniel Johnston guy-with-cracked-voice singing?

And this whole debate is sort of funny because it's another case of ILX-types thinking a trend was dead or dying years ago (in this case the twee aesthetic et al) and now seeing that it's far from it.

weve covered this in depth on ilnfl btw

― ice cr?m, Sunday, January 2, 2011 9:30 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

we've invected against this at ilh too

― dayo, Sunday, January 2, 2011 9:39 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yes actually more on ilh but both places - sports fans for whatever reason have been non stop tortured w/these fucks for the last 60 days - girl is p hot tho

And whiney: I thought you were exaggerating or really scraping the bottom of the barrel last year for those post-anco band names, but then as the year continued I would hear people talk about "Universal Studios, FL." Seeing Pwin Teaks on a music site was the turning point.

btw they have been youtube sensations for at least a couple years

Whiney do you ever get out of Brooklyn

last time i checked these guys were on national TV ads and not Brooklyn so?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIr8-f2OWhs

this is the worst shit btw enjoy

pom*plop*moose

their name is pomplamoose? oh.

i thought they were the arcade fire.

we can take consolation in the fact that the girl is obviously suffering from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanpaku

we should feel sorry for her

"pomplamoose" reminds me of this

http://amoscontentgroup.com/amos/upload/2010/08/pompatus.jpg

this thread is making me think about why i like this band so here are my reasons.

1. they remind me pleasantly of some friends i have in portland, only these people are rich because their youtube glories propelled them to car commerical fame, while my friends are rich because they have rich parents.

2. i like the sound of cat power's voice only i have heard all the cat power songs.

3. there's a lack of pretty female harmonies in the other music i listen to and this is fulfilling that urge.

also i've never paid much attention to animal collective/arcade fire etc. so maybe this segement of indie-hood has some novelty value for me.

pamplemousse = grapefruit

On April 11, 2010, the band was interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered. Conte discussed the "glitz-free" manner in which they record:

"I guess I kinda don't like how there's such a pedestal for music culture and especially for band culture, it just feels fake; it feels like smoke and mirrors. I feel like music doesn't have to be like that. It can be something that's very normal and very accessible."

America should help n korea bomb the south for letting hyundai run those commercials past the 25th

― infinity rebounding stats (m bison)

xp lol delusions

t/s these commercials vs. the honda vampy weekend ones

both of which are FOR SOME REASON STILL RUNNING

I can't even do this

hillfigger vampire weekend is fairly embarrassing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFiBnd0zBFM

I've never been to Brooklyn, btw

The people in this ad seem to me like they live in Chicago, for some reason

"I guess I kinda don't like how there's such a pedestal for music culture and especially for band culture, it just feels fake; it feels like smoke and mirrors. I feel like music doesn't have to be like that. It can be something that's very normal and very accessible."

fwiw they're talking about the way their videos play out: like the kutiman "thru you" thing, all the images on the screen correspond to sounds being produced in the song. so like if there's four-part harmony they shove in four shots of the girl singing all the different parts, etc.

i guess they imagine a world where no one understands multi-track recording

i mean you gotta sing it four times, right. like that actually happens in reality, for your four-part harmony you gotta sing four times.

this girl is really ANNOYING amirite fellas

(no, she really is)

the reason i actually hate these guys is the proliferation of non-band recording acts so fuck their multi-tracking imo

lol

the girls tuneless voice and lameo affectation is maybe the most grating part, she just really has no feel for singing

the real question is whether the "images on the screen [that] correspond to sounds being produced in the song" were actually recorded at the same time as the sounds — because if not then that is some bullshit

insulting to grapefruit :(

hahaaaa

i wld disagree that she has "no feel for singing" — it's more that she has perfected a brand of singing which i have no desire to hear, like yodelling or black metal growls

yeah no kidding vin de pamplemousse is some bomb-ass drinking fun, like white sangria but better.

xxp

hmm imo not only is the style of singing shes chosen unappealing shes also horrible at it

you know, when I listen to music, the first thing I always think is "wouldn't it be awesome if I could see the musicians in the studio playing all the parts at the same time" and then I found pamplamoose and now I am happy

also the fact that she spells her name 'nataly' is somehow infuriating

hardly a cogent criticism of pomplamoose, you'll need to take that up with pomplamom

1. they remind me pleasantly of some friends i have in portland, only these people are rich because their youtube glories propelled them to car commerical fame, while my friends are rich because they have rich parents.

they are so pdx it's painful.

every time i see that commercial i'm glad i left.

really, these commercials barely even register on my bloodboil-ometer, but that EW&F raping upthread is simply beyond the pale

this thread horrifies me

like i definitely hate the "i heard Cat Power and i think i'm just gonna kinda ride that out instead of ever trying to really sing" type singing and it is kind of indie but it's funny how people watch a couple wearing christmas sweaters and singing jingle bells and go "ugh HIPSTERS"

― hann am0n tana (some dude), Sunday, January 2, 2011 9:42 PM (1 hour ago)

This type of indie singing is really annoying because it reminds me of the nose-holding chewbacca thing that happened in the 90s with Jewel, etc.
Its not really hipster, but they aren't too much of any one thing because they are trying to appeal to and identify with youtube watching vaguely indie-minded young people. The whole thing is like this safe quirkiness and its blatant marketing intentions make it more annoying than most other stupid slightly less blatant commercials. I'm sure this isn't news to anybody but this commercial has been bugging the shit out of me for awhile and I'm glad a thread for it exists to vent on.

my dark twisted pomplamoose

I am halfway through the EWF video and I can't even watch it, I need to keep it in another browser tab and look at it, because

we need to destroy humanity, start again, we have fouled this earth, blessed are the dead...

so they're a cover band?

dayo, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)

http://i55.tinypic.com/2iawqvq.gif

^ best post of 2011

evan I thought you were referencing a GYBE song and then I googled it and it's even worse

maybe they actually hate hipsters, like i've heard that people who dress like intolerable obnoxious hipsters and have hipster affectations are often the sorts who spend 24/7 railing against hipsters.

― omar little, Sunday, January 2, 2011 9:00 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

you turned the mirror on us!

but 4 srs, pretty much everyone watching football today was bitching about them on twitter, hardly limited to ilx hipster crit circles.

oh wait, i get it... they made videos for a shitload of covers with intentions of going viral.

that's like a band who only releases covers for their singles. like what smash mouth did.

evan I thought you were referencing a GYBE song and then I googled it and it's even worse

― dayo, Monday, January 3, 2011 12:24 AM (1 hour ago)

Haha!

eugh the ewf cover makes me want to shoot myself

I think an unforseen downside to the shuttering/employment cutbacks of places like Borders and Kinkos/Fed Ex Starship is it's giving all their ex-clerks more time to create this shit.

what clerk makes the worst bedroom musician

tbh i knew as soon as i saw these ads that there would be an ilx thread about the incredible awfulness of this pair.

Like I def 100% understand Hyundai wanting to hop on the "indie" bandwagon and all; but i don't get why they would use it to aggressively market to football fans

haha otm

The movie Juno was definitely ground zero for this kind of shit.
I think i agree with whiney that we're at the nickelback stage of things, but what I don't understand is: as incredibly massive nickelback still are, i can go months and months without hearing them or anyone else with that "approach" to music...i don't have to go out of my way to avoid that stuff while i go about my daily routine among the general population...yet this pamplemoose kind of stuff seems UNAVOIDABLE. Will twee be bigger than nickelback? (and wont it be something if twee music eventually replaces the now obligatory nickelback/satriani-type music that ALWAYS accompanies sports highlights.)

I kinda wondered the same thing about Cisco placing the Ellen Page ads during games.

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def some insufferable indie types on ilnfl

http://i.imgur.com/jKIEi.gif

Will twee be bigger than nickelback?

ha i wanna post a chart of the college degree vs non-college unemployment rate as response to this. but i dunno if that would really be right, as an argument

http://i.imgur.com/LRdjQ.jpg

in the twee to nickelback continuum there is also a chart to be made based on how far forward or how far back "band person" tilts their head when they are photographed, while still maintaining eye contact with camera...

If you're Belle and Sebastian or Camera Obscura are you a bit :-/ that you arrived on the scene too early, or are you happy for being the forerunner?

Been waiting for this thread to happen.

I have noticed this trend with a lot of commercials lately. The Progressive ones with Flo have been running for a couple years now and they seem designed to piss off everybody. I think everyone has that one where she keeps yelling "discount!" over and over completely memorized against their will. Other ones include the Geico commercials with like, the pig or the woodchucks, just completely obnoxious and unfunny, or like the State Farm one with the hipster teenagers with the blank faces who summon Bob Barker. The Miller Lite "man up" commercials are the worst, yes people wear stupid clothes in public but the characters in those ads do not act like any actual person that anybody has ever met. Like it's the bartenders job to point out that Miller Lite has more flavor than "Light Beer", and then insult the customers. There's one where the guy who wears sunglasses cannot 'see' the difference between the regular bottle of beer and the vortex bottle, as if there actually exists a bar that serves both. Oh yeah, and the guy is so lame that he loves the song "sunglasses at night" even though he won't admit it. Just like a real person. You have to wonder if these commercials actually appeal to anybody or if they're just supposed to stick in your craw. I admit they do a pretty good job of that. I think these ones are kind of the same. Her delivery is so monotone and emotionless, yet I have no doubt that they're the kind of group that will hold a contest where they literally come to your house dressed in sweaters to sing Christmas songs and eat cookies.

why u so mad?

I think i agree with whiney that we're at the nickelback stage of things, but what I don't understand is: as incredibly massive nickelback still are, i can go months and months without hearing them or anyone else with that "approach" to music...i don't have to go out of my way to avoid that stuff while i go about my daily routine among the general population...

Dude, i live in ALL CAPS OMG HIPSTER BROOKLYN as sarahel and Owen P will point out forever, and I still occassionally hear the barrell-scrapings of the post-Nickelback universe—whether it be an electronics store playing a Daughtry song, or the theme to Sarah Palin's TV show, or the commercial to like any action movie made in the last five years

Jesus that thing she does with her eyes. She probably can't give a blowjob without being twee.

*waits for that to be posted to o_O*

yeah it does seem to be like the first thing u thought of

fucking hate this commercial

who can you blame for the default indie cutesy lady voice? not just kimya dawson. though she has a lot to answer for.

some people can make it work i guess. kinda like the female version of the horrible john mayer-esque voice that i hate though. all those dudes wearing snazzy hats on america's got talent.

Would like to see a parody or retort where these guys get crushed by 280 lb. linebackers just as they go for a xylophone solo

that snazzy hat white dude voice has to die. really die. forever. even that dancey dude with the big hit has that voice. um, i can't think of his name. he was on the big t.v. new years show. hate that song.

cooler than me! gah, i hate that thing. backing track is actually half okay. wasted on that guy though. ick.

The girl is really] cute but the guy has serious problems. I think she is his slave

whatever cuteness the girl has is obliterated by her inability to blink or show any other expression than "distressed ingenue bravely soldiers on"

reminds me of spy magazine's classic "faux-naif" article from the 80's. that was brilliant.

I tried to lsiten to "September" but once they got to the chorusput a fucking Muppet on the kickdrum pedal in the very first shot i had to shut it off so i could quickly compose a will before DYING

Threads like this make me really miss Alex in NYC. Only he can truly muster the necessary levels of vitriol.

Dan Peterson OTM.

I've never seen such joyless "humor"

http://www.peevishmama.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Bush_Baby_fs.jpg

the commercial would be better if he bent her over the sonata.

who can you blame for the default indie cutesy lady voice? not just kimya dawson. though she has a lot to answer for.

― scott seward, Monday, January 3, 2011 9:02 AM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark

ms pomplamoose does something to her vowels to signify "old timey". i don't know anything pre-rock pop vocal stuff, who is she imitating? with the close harmonies and all. ("why would you do this" being the next question)

guys she is just doing the blandest zooey deschanel impression the entire time. big doey limpid drownable eyes and 'old-timey' vocals

The people in this ad seem to me like they live in Chicago, for some reason

― puff pastry hangman (admrl), Sunday, January 2, 2011 9:36 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i was thinking PDX or s mpls, tbh

who to blame for the default indie cutesy lady voice?
what's her face from those first Belle and Sebastian cds, maybe...

(i also completely overlooked upthread that i do hear nickelback type sounds whenever i watch hockey highlights on tv)

i hate the guy in this duo a lot more than the girl now

wiki says "Origin: Corte Madera, California"

anyway this stuff always makes me vaguely embarrassed because i know and like some ppl that are really into this whole....aesthetic? like specifically the "twee boy-girl duo playing pawnshop instruments in an attic" aesthetic.

wait...it's that VU song! the "i'm sticking with you" Moe Tucker thing! That's DEFINITELY to blame.

(xpost) Close harmonies (Andrews/Boswell Sisters etc.) isn't really what seems to be the main feature here. (I have slightly more use for something like The Puppinis than this.) And it's not the Squirrel Nut Zippers type of Billie Holiday-aping, either. There's a deadpan artlessness of the vocals here that do remind me (as Scott mentioned) of Kimya Dawson, but I don't know how prevalent it was before that. Maybe it IS Moe Tucker!

this chick has adopted, like, the timbre and tone of, say, cat power (kinda warm and croony) but missed the dynamics altogether. like, she has a "pretty" voice, for singing in the shower or quietly in the kitchen or on a walk or w/e, but not a good one.

who to blame for the default indie cutesy lady voice?

Cat Power then Feist made it more mainstream?

compare and contrast: twee hyundai commercial vs. truvia commercial, which i think is performed by a twee version of "cathy":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzsTU60egf4

What is more irritating this or the Dawson's Creek "I don't want to wait" 90s chewbacca trend?

how did chewbacca get roped into this? is this some crimes of lucas thing?

The Cat Power stuff I'm familiar with always seemed to going more for dark and tortured than fey and wacky.

Yeah, that Truvia conmmercial is totally this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFvRe_Zk3VI

Whenever they used to sing out an "R" sound it reminded me of chewbacca. Think Jewel. They were all doing that back then.

Wow that is so fucking twee.

actual serious question: does backing music like this indicate "product is being marketed to women?" (plainly the case for truvia, wondering if this is also hyundai's aim)

wow @ that video

wait...it's that VU song! the "i'm sticking with you" Moe Tucker thing! That's DEFINITELY to blame.

― Sanford, Monday, January 3, 2011 10:51 AM (25 minutes ago) Bookmark

OTM. I was about to say Georgia Hubley, but yeah, it's Tucker.

So why do I love Moe Tucker and hate this?

I mean, some things are good and some things are bad, even if they share sonic features! You think you hate the sonic features but you just hate misuse of the sonic features. E.G. I like Garfunkel and Oates and I cannot lie.

Moe sounds intimate and this sounds highly over-produced?

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yeah its funny cuz i DO like plenty of twee stuff. whatsherface from the pastels used to do a total moe tucker rip, but i really liked it. guess it just depends.

it's cos twee is fine in the privacy of your own home but kinda shameful in the public arena of shilling for car manufacturers

like what could be less twee than advertising - therefore you get false twee consciousness

Research indicates the Truvia singer is Rebecca Zapen, this video is really similar to the Pomplamoose one, and all sorts of twee, and yet I kinda like it. Some of her other stuff sounds like The Roches, whom I love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw3l31HiZY8

I'd much prefer terrible music used to shill cars than music that has any value to me, like say weird al yankovic.

So why do I love Moe Tucker and hate this?
You should hate them both

Pomplamoose opened for the Dresden Dolls on NYE here in SF at the Warfield. I somehow negelected to attend.

i just started a thread about twee girls! but i like this for some reason. maybe cuz they live in spain? and don't sing in english? and i don't even hate their twee waking up in their apartment video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_OlFQEcUnk

would actually make a really good car commercial ditty too.

twee girls are fine, twee indie is generally pretty stellar ime, this car commercial isn't twee but rather a feist knockoff doing christmas jingles and nothing more. twee is something else entirely i think.

would you want tullycraft shilling for nissan leaf though?

'the punks are driving EV cars whoa-OH!'

yeah you are right. i am a twee fan. calling it insufferable indie is the way to go.

i feel like there is twee the specific musical subgenre and there is twee the ever expanding cutesy culture, these fools fit into the latter if not the former

What particularly irritates me about them is their seeming lack of enthusiasm for their own schtick. They remind me of when 60s/70s pop or country singers would phone in half-hearted psych tunes to stay relevant.

its more like they think being nbd is a virtue, jus having a lil fun u know, virally marketing ourselves

What particularly irritates me about them is their seeming lack of enthusiasm for their own schtick. They remind me of when 60s/70s pop or country singers would phone in half-hearted psych tunes to stay relevant.
He's too enthusiastic, and she's so concerned with maintaining that deer-in-headlights money shot look that she APPEARS to be phoning it in (she's really working overtime to keep her head perched on her shoulders "just so"...)

http://sweasel.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/pomplamoose.jpg

rhde

http://www.theresident.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/AI-TimUrban.jpg

And another thing! Why do young people want "comb overs" so bad? You're not going bald! You can have a normal haircut!

Watching the original commercial is even funnier after reading the thread.

And the dude in the commercial is engaging in another indie trope that's long in the tooth at this point: ironic wackiness and self-conscious overacting

And that kimya dawson video is reason #34 Diablo Cody needed to be put in the stocks for a month back in 2008.

guess nabisco really is gone, 500 mentions of the word "twee" itt not enough to bring him back.

xpost -- that's what I meant about "phoned in"; it's like the guy isn't even sincere in his irony.

the way she harmonizes with herself is strange. traditionally when singers multitrack their own voices, they're trying to make their music sound fuller, more polished, more professional, etc., and this goes as far back as Les Paul & Mary Ford wowing space age audiences with fancy new magnetic tape technology, or Skeeter Davis masking her rather thin-sounding voice. but with Pomplamoose, her harmonies are so amateurish that they only increase the awkwardly precious, off-kilter feel of the music, to the point where I wonder if she's failing at sounding pretty or succeeding at sounding ugly ( their 'Sound of Music' cover is as good an example as any). I guess it isn't so strange, though, once you realize sounding pretty in an ugly way is one of dominant aesthetics of old-school twee.

I wonder though, is elaborate self-harmonizing a common feature in indie-pop, either in 2011 or 1995? it seems like the kind of trick that indie pop kids shy away from because it breaks the illusion of a down-to-earth band laying everything down in one take. this song (or, rather, the Carousel's entire discography) from 1991 comes to mind...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcErPvjp-R8

but aside from the lo-fi sound quality, this is quite polished and professional, and it shows an ex Talulah Gosh member's attempt to distance herself from that band's reputation for shambling incompetence. it's basically the opposite of what Pomplamoose achieve.

I wouldn't consider Pomplamoose insincere though. they're extremely self-conscious and image-obsessed, but that doesn't necessarily mean they're bored with it all. well I'm not sure about the bearded guy, but the singer seems like she must've watched the Vivian Girls' "Tell the World" video a thousand times and was like, "oh squeee, I want to be them!" and she got so good at aping that deadpan look and delivery that she never breaks character during the songs. when a musician's schtick is feigned unenthusiasm, it's hard to tell if they're genuinely unenthusiastic when the music stops, but judging by some of the banter tacked onto the end of some of their videos, they seems totally perky and into what they're doing, even if they come off as creepy and garish to me and a lot of other people in this thread.

(btw I'm no Pomplamoose apologist. most of what I've heard from them is utterly meh, although I kinda like their Lady Gaga cover)

"their Lady Gaga cover"

Oh god, it was just inevitable that this would exist, wasn't it.

but judging by some of the banter tacked onto the end of some of their videos

Wow, you made it to the end?

More than once?

with liberal use of the fast forward feature, yes. I don't have a will of iron, y'know.

i'm curious what youtube stars people would find less irritating to see on a commercial?
i was not so much irritated but saddened a little to find keyboard cat shilling pistachios with "snookie"

but with Pomplamoose, her harmonies are so amateurish that they only increase the awkwardly precious, off-kilter feel of the music

isn't that on purpose? they're going for a lite(white?;-))-jazz sound. apparently the guy's dad was a jazz pianist

I would actually like these people better if they'd take the logical step of adding a bandmate or two and becoming the New Monkees.

Pomplam0n

i'm curious what youtube stars people would find less irritating to see on a commercial?

Literally every single one.

Tay Zonday's shilling for Dr. Pepper just made him cuter, really.

ftr i find kutiman wholly enjoyable

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomplamoose

Genres: Indie Jazz, Alternative, Indie rock

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So far, Pomplamoose is still somewhat obscure but has procured a small, yet intense fan base of fellow YouTubers. All it will take is the acknowledgement and approval of the Converse-wearing set and their fame catapult them into ubiquity.

Converse-wearing set

you guys would rather see autotune news dudes + jonathan coulton covering joy division?

Whatever. I'm (good lord) 42 and I still wear them. I wear a lot of other things too, but I still wear my Chucks. Sue me.

― Alex in NYC, Monday, April 5, 2010 3:01 PM

http://www.gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/433164_o.gif

the singer's mannerisms don't really bother me much tbqf, but the dude's are pretty annoying.

isn't that on purpose? they're going for a lite(white?;-))-jazz sound. apparently the guy's dad was a jazz pianist

yeah, I can hear some of that (but how u kno so much about insufferable indie guy's family?) in the "Deck the Halls" clip, which is pretty darn slick and normal by their standards. but based on some of their more off-key fuckups, I can't tell if they're shambling indie ingenues or, like, classically-trained professionals playing the part of shambling indie ingenues.

I don't particularly care either way tho. just boredly ilx'ing to myself at the moment.

I wonder though, is elaborate self-harmonizing a common feature in indie-pop, either in 2011 or 1995? it seems like the kind of trick that indie pop kids shy away from because it breaks the illusion of a down-to-earth band laying everything down in one take.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgNzQFKjbRc

http://gifsoup.com/MTY0ODg2MQ

(but how u kno so much about insufferable indie guy's family?)

i went to their website and saw this video
http://s293116852.onlinehome.us/about/

http://www.gifsoup.com/view3/1648861/dipshits-o.gif

http://www.disco-funk.co.uk/disco-funk/mainsite/labelimages/l/le_pampl.jpg

'when does the sex tape drop' i think is what we are all really wondering

fwiw I find her beauty mark gross

BTW, these jackasses are from SF, not Portland.

dude its a mark of beauty xp

hyundai sex tape

have been hating these commercials all xmas break, tho actually just watched the (seemingly unwatchable) beyonce cover video, and they changed the music enough to where I'm wondering if I'd hate them so much had the commercial just been that cover. I don't know enough about twee to hate it in any articulate way, but I do know I hate that weird look this girl is always giving the camera, and that vibrato style. Obviously she can hold a tune, but it's like she's trying to *not* project, to sound frail or something.

The guy, I didn't much have an opinion on -- to be honest, he seemed really enthusiastic, so I wasn't for sure this was a real band, or just actors.

is it also hyundai that's doing those kind of subtle mashups between pop songs and xmas tunes? like they'll include the riff but won't put in the chorus which would be the normal mode of doing things. (like if you paid for the rights, you'd probably want to hammer it to the audience to get your money's worth, but they didn't do that here)

ooh which chain had those ads with christmas tunes over the "bust a move" beat? those worked surprisingly well

yeah that might be it! I want to say target, but maybe it didn't work well at all if i can't remember if the gimmick was for target or hyundai.

And while we're talking about other annoying Christmas commercials w/ songs: this Jingle Bells/Our House mash-up was on every other commercial and was driving me crazy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3_DENeBHWA&feature=related

What happened to the good old days of commercials during football games being about slightly funny Paul Ruddish bros, and buxom friendly girls, selling us pizza and bear through kinda funny jokes?

the one i'm thinking of might have been part of that campaign

xp

*beer

Although the bear era was wonderful too

they sell bears in the States? you disgusting savages

ah too late

In this thread I found out that you pronounce Hyundai different over there. We say Hi-Und-Eye.

jag you are

you're right, verizon is the culprit. sorry for blaming hyundai and target, and sorry for remembering it being subtle.

chick is prolific

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGet1RX9MdE&feature=related

Natalie Dawn Knutsen, performing under the name Nataly Dawn

h8 stupid youtubes w/like 1m cuts cause people cant get it together to speak intelligibly at the camera for more than 2 seconds at a time

cute girl, looks like my sister minus the cigs and plus some moles.

i feel bad for her being with the gay jewish guy. Other than that, pretty good stuff.

ichbineintoober 1 day ago

good dn imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnolku2sJc4

love that the new vanguard of "independent music" is basically trying to be a glorified lolcat

shillcat

i must confess i liked the lolcat version of the white stripes much more than the actual white stripes.
(who were also appropriated by quiznos for shilling)

get in on the ground floor with pomplamoose make $$

make those pomplabucks

'i actually thought it would be a woman but it wasnt *shrug*' is a p funny joke, besides that fuck these repulsive corporate whores

2010: The Year Corny Indie Broke

it's hard out here for a pomplamoose

'MUSICIANS WANTED' is such a bullshit deceptive title like pamplmoose wants to jam w/u but no theyre just shilling for utube, dreams crushed 4ever

is this the same gal??

http://www.jknutsen.com/about_us.htm

OMFG

j/k knutsen

nice find

SCOOP

Thank you for your heart for Europeans!

2005: Following graduation from a French high school, Natalie is currently in her senior year at a US university.

Nataly Dawn is the lead vocalist of Pomplamoose, an independent band recognized for their upbeat and whimsical "videosongs", a medium invented by Nataly's band mate, Jack Conte.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw371JDRiDA&feature=player_embedded

so is nataly dawn dawn or natalie

does it matter, pomplamoose invented steampunk and music videos, also the internet

is this gonna end up being jesus shit just like icp, i dont think i can go through that again

'dawn' is the mom 'natalie dawn' aka 'nataly' is the daughter

looking for love in all the rong places

xp

fuckin magnets, how cuet!

Xp

is this gonna end up being jesus shit just like icp, i dont think i can go through that again

― ice cr?m, Monday, January 3, 2011 2:22 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

well, as has been pointed out, she did end up with a gay jewish guy (not jesus)

fuck what if he is jesus tho

*thinks abt it*

EuroBoost was launched in 2005 in response to the enormous need for church planting in Europe. It is difficult for most Americans to imagine the stark lack of Evangelical churches across Europe. There are literally thousands of cities with no evangelical witness and even more cities without a Spirit-filled church.

PLANT A CHURCH HARVEST A NATION MUSICIANS WANTED

Current projects can be seen in Spain, Germany, Croatia, France, the UK, as well as in politically sensitive countries.

"If the Muslim king asks: we've been building a school"

this shit goes deep

OMGNFW!

Who are the insufferable indie couple in the new Hyundai ads indeed.

There are literally thousands of cities with no evangelical witness and even more cities without a Spirit-filled church.

i can't even decide which nerdy history joke to make here

"Jim, Dawn and Natalie Knutsen began ministering in Europe in 1996"

So wait, did Dawn and Natalie fuse?

do u think natty is tryina con vert the gay jew to str8 xtianity??

lol poor Europe and their stark lack of churches!

i am sensing a gawker exclusive approaching

xp lack of spirit filled churches. whore of babylon does not count.

max why is gawker so behind on this story

lol xp

lol, i was gonna say, "max, this one's for u"

; )

lol @ all this

hey wheres max he should post something about this

ilx is the new julian assange

Shilling In the Name Of

this family is knuts

http://www.jknutsen.com/Logo%20Banner.jpg

PLANT A CHURCH HARVEST A NATION BUY A HYUNDAI

ANATION

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lefmt22AYe1qz8j06o1_500.jpg

HYUNDAI'D ON THE CROSS FOR OUR SINS

gold

Nataly Dawn’s Education

*
Stanford University

MA , French Literature , 2007 — 2009

*
Stanford University

BA , Art Practice , 2005 — 2009

secret world of beards

lmao nicole

half-bored interest in harvesting souls

Whiney, thx for new screen name.

more like sanctified lolcat, it seems

im imagining the pomplmoose guy happening across that herzog macro chuckling slightly to himself and rubbing his hands together while checking his youtube partner account balance

glad this thread actually lived up to title

"videosongs"?

#euroboost

lol http://twitter.com/#!/search/pomplamoose this shit is a hot topic right now

From that feed:

1000TimesYes Re: Pomplamoose RT @ichlugebullets Imagine if you'd told someone in 2002 that Moldy Peaches would be 300x more influential than The Strokes

rip big man

lol multiple ilxors up in the pomplamoose tweets

pom plassantinoose

MattHelgeson
just to join the choir, yes that Pomplamoose band from the hyundai commercial should be executed 5 minutes ago via TweetDeck

is someone gonna break buzza's scoop or what hurry up ffs

aghaahahaha lmao @ice cr?m

is this worse or better?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql-N3F1FhW4

aghaahahaha lmao @ice cr?m

― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Monday, January 3, 2011 4:15 PM (35 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

;)

ws mom tbh

no shoutout, icey bro??

why o why is ppl who are not whiney locked

http://www.charismatickid.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Screen-shot-2010-06-15-at-5.00.33-PM.jpg

fake frowns

Late to thread but: I bet they knit their own stage lighting and send concert announcements with bags of seeds and their t-shirts have public domain children's book illustrations on them and OMFG I HATE THEM SO MUCH.

Corte Madera? Ugh. Of course. Wrote her first poem looking across the bay at San Quentin wondering what the butterflies who fly over the prison feel like.

(explodes with rage)

And while we're talking about other annoying Christmas commercials w/ songs: this Jingle Bells/Our House mash-up was on every other commercial and was driving me crazy.

http://www.youtube.com/v/Q3_DENeBHWA&feature=related&fs=1&hl=en

― Cunga, Monday, January 3, 2011 2:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that one was dope imo

t/s these commercials vs. the honda vampy weekend ones

― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Sunday, January 2, 2011 10:32 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the ads w/ the vampire weekend song irritate me and make me wonder why anyone would ever choose to sing like that slightly more than the pomplamoose one

Ok, the thread has hit the point where I ask someone to post the famous Burt_Stanton hipster breakdown post because I can't find it.

pomplacircumstance

omg burt! I was thinking about that dude in my sweater the other day.

burt was in your sweater?

Swagger Wagon is Jody Hill, director of Foot/Fist Way, Eastbound&Down, Observe/Report.

no shoutout, icey bro??

― buzza, Monday, January 3, 2011 4:21 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sry man that was wrong my bad

rectified btw

http://twitter.com/Buzza/status/14276861

gj buzza

lol

In case you’re wondering if they are or aren’t a couple, they are. They live together in southern Sonoma County (they won’t say where.) They make their videos using Pro Tools and Final Cut in their garage. Hyundai came to their garage for the Christmas commercial spots. It’s fairly certain that their music flies off Myspace at high bitrates; no need for shelves.

With their recent success, they’ve been able to quit their days jobs and devote full time to music. They had great jobs, too. Conte was a composer for Google’s in-house corporate videos. Nataly Dawn was a hotel marketer.

For their recent New Year’s Eve show in San Francisco, they had to hire three backing musicians. It seems like they’d rather be making videos and recording. Who can blame them. Said Conte, “We have a very opposite business model of most musicians. Most bands and musicians don’t make money on recordings, and they only make money on live shows. We are precisely the opposite. We lose money on live shows and make our living on recordings.”

"We're also awful people," added Dawn before peeling the head off a squirming kitten and sloppily guzzling blood from its tiny neckhole.

With their recent success, they’ve been able to quit their days jobs and devote full time to music. They had great jobs, too

^^take it to the braggin thread imo

We lose money on live shows and make our living on recordings.”

how do you lose money on live shows??

PLANT A CHURCH HARVEST A NATION DRINK THE BLOOD OF KITTENS

http://twitter.com/gershy

http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/1170372263/clip_image002_bigger.jpg

sexy photoes

Lose money on live shows = club owners kill them with hammers every time they walk in to set up

I kind of want to e-mail them a link to this thread just to see what happens.

So these two are basically a cynical version of The Bird & The Bee, right? But without the songwriting abilities?

Like Captain and Tennille with actual muskrats

like a couple fucks in a car comercial

Her mugging for the camera is so gross

like a couple fucks in a car comercial

would watch this version of the commercial

wd prefer that to pamplemousse

if the Hyundai's a rockin'...

id b friends w/ these dudes

SB

Only if you become friends w/ them long enough to talk them out of any sort of music career and that they should go back to their really amazing day jobs they gave up to annoy the shit out of us.

^^^ this

Convince them Corte Madera really needs their baristas back.

how do you lose money on live shows??

― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, January 3, 2011 6:10 PM Bookmark

Presumably the backup musicians they hired plus transport plus gear plus maybe their own soundman or whatever else cost more than they make on the show.

knitted animals on stage

cupcakes for the whole audience

security

lols

hahah hurting

I meant lols at ice cr?m, not that they paid ringers to lol at their shows, although I would believe that too

haha yeah hurting yr prolly right...god that sucks for them..if only there was some other way to play shows...huh, just a crazy dream i had

I've lost money on shows, but when I say "lost money" I mean like $5-10 because we were playing somewhere that took a lot of gas to get to and then not many people showed up.

"We're not like popular musicians, we don't care about tacky things like money and 'costs of things'."

theez kids dont seem any more egregious than like most of ilx or w/e theyre just on tv or youtube wearing sweaters eyefucking the camera who cares they probably at least bring wine when u ask them over for dinner hear abt there cats and shit idk

lamp is quite right

do yall never think of some comment of faux-hyperbolic rage at a cultural product or signifier that is not to your liking and then think better of it?

nope

cf: innocuous things that make you irrationally angry

ilx's engine is actually a hybrid powered by a combination of faux-hyperbolic rage and challops "braking" such as your post (xpost)

boredom. don't forget boredom.

and lols

http://lineout.thestranger.com/lineout/archives/2011/01/03/annoying-youtube-indie-fuxxorscar-shills-also-evangelical-christians

I hope this brings on the tweemageddon where all bearded hipsters and frumpy knitwear obsessed girls are called upon and transported to a heaven filled with accordion lessons and ironic Americana.

remember, the guys just have beards but the girls are "frumpy"

damn, buzza blew this case wide open. bravo!

ironic that ilx's own thread revivalist would get the scoop on this couple being revivalists

ilx's engine is actually a hybrid powered by a combination of faux-hyperbolic rage and challops "braking" such as your post

okay this has to be made into a board description somehow

Buzza's People

do yall never think of some comment of faux-hyperbolic rage at a cultural product or signifier that is not to your liking and then think better of it?

― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Monday, January 3, 2011 6:59 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

not able to parse this

translation: do you ever hate fun

i just wonder if people ever essay some scornful thought/reply to these sort of threads, and then think...'oh forget it' and go and do something more enlightened

never seen these ads. this thread befuddles me.

i'm pretty sure i was mad about chillwave but then realized i'd never heard any

if you are truly enlightened then you know that nothing you ever do will ever matter. so have at these hyundai dweebs! you're all just gonna die anyway.

^^twee zen

cuz i was sort of going to add to the scorn...noting the way the lyrics are strung along with the melody in a totally haphazard way*, but my lack of music-theory knowledge caught up with me cuz it's kinda difficult to explain further and then i thought 'oh forget it'

that said i oughtn't to have been devoting my thoughts to this stupid song anyway

*i think this vaguely reminds me of 'the microphones' but again 2000s indie isn't a specialism of mine

not for the first time scott seward sums up my life view in a nice sentence.

twee zen koan otm. Scott Seward ILX dalai lama :)

these 2 clowns are on my list

ilx's engine is actually a hybrid powered by a combination of faux-hyperbolic rage and challops "braking" such as your post (xpost)

― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Monday, January 3, 2011 6:01 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

such a tbomb

i just wonder if people ever essay some scornful thought/reply to these sort of threads, and then think...'oh forget it' and go and do something more enlightened

― max bro'd (nakhchivan), Monday, January 3, 2011 7:32 PM

http://i17.tinypic.com/6ptj2ua.gif

i think a fun thread would be imagining the straw men that are actually Pamplempeooese fans

http://dreamchimney.com/slvs/LE-PAMPLEMOUSSE-le-spank-7_20070315103142.jpg

Just sayin'.

they also produced another insufferable youtube personality's album according to wiki

Do tell

Oh, this thread - oh, this band - I wish I could unsee and unhear it all.

If I get deeply into pigfuck and funeral doom will it erase the kutesy-pootsey-poo-painey-pain? Or am I destined to forever burn?

http://www.youtube.com/user/jaaaaaaa

has been popular on youtube for a couple years or so

xp

Why is there so much of this pukey, little girl with wet marbles in her mouth, singing? Feist, this chick, and the other day some band someone sent me called Twin Sister who were rather nice until she opened her mouth.

I made it 49 seconds in. Cute attack rrrrrraaaaaagh

Liz Fraser needs to get back in the game and show these wet blankets how it is DONE.

Kill them with knives IMO

Wendy O Williams carves them U's with chainsaws and smokes their hair bows

U's? Up

Coincidence? Manufacturer of automobiles in a nation known for, ahem, *enthusiastic* christers hires Natz + Jesus II for car commercial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKD07BYcreg&feature=player_embedded

ha, pretty good

:)

i wasn't into this type of "hyper-twee" before, but now i hate it.

this band makes me want to kill belle. and sebastian.

i think a fun thread would be imagining the straw men that are actually Pamplempeooese fans

― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 01:50 (2 hours ago)

http://www.123rf.com/photo_3129776_sexy-young-adult-brunette-woman-in-black-lingerie-eating-a-grapefruit-for-breakfast-in-her-kitchen.html

u do the honours

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-25163794/stock-photo-young-beautiful-woman-eating-grapefruit-over-abstract-background.html

I'm starting to think that advertisers and networks have broken down and decided to make it Christmas year 'round. Hallmark Channel and ABC Family are still broadcasting Christmas movies as well.

Hallmark has only been airing Call Me Mrs. Miracle so often as it's their highest grossing film of yet, mostly due in fact to Jewel Staite's role on this. I'm not as pathetic as I sound, I just happen to follow the former Firefly actress on her twitter.

Seriously? I had no idea there were enough Firefly fans to generate those type of ratings.

holla!

Er, ok, scuse me, I had to double check - she says "all year", not all time. Still, I think the correlation remains... Jewel Staite was only in one feature the whole year, despite Xmas associations.

It is a bit depressing to read her status updates time to time. She seems to be essentially retired, constantly tweeting about what she just ate to..what she just ate. But in between she'll reminisce about her Firefly days, absolutely morosely, like it was the peak of her life and she's never been able to reclaim any semblance of her former days since. Which is pretty much the truth.

the straw men that are actually Pamplempeooese fans

http://cache1.asset-cache.net/xc/57119837.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF878921F7C3FC3F69D929FDDD158E6AE5824DF210577231226A7C78FD75F21C038753DEF06BF04B24B4128C

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_k_ddvtO7Mp8/TQWSMn5KGYI/AAAAAAAAB48/AIgnVmJjvSA/s1600/My+New+Subaru.jpg

http://www.niagarawineryguide.com/niagara-vintage-wine-tours/wine-tour-pouring.jpg

Jewel Staite is such a cutie pie that, were she not married, I would follow her not only on twitter but to the very ends of the earth.

Oddly enough I have direct access to her Facebook account. Well, the "Add Jewel as a Friend" portion of it anyway.

http://i54.tinypic.com/9zn3bd.jpg

^^^see what I mean.

Would start a tweepop band and sell hyundais with that.

xpost go for it bro

I need an introductory and obvious "I'm just a fan, but not just ANY FAN" message to follow up with the friend request. I'm afraid if I just did it randomly, that even she accepted I wouldn't be around for the time period in which she realizes I'm just yet another stalker and she decides to delete her. It's gotta be witty enough, the message, for me to remain on her friends list for at least 2 hours.

*delete me

thread got weird

congrats on creeping this thread up

lol xp

also the pamplemeposse shreds video is the first one posted to this thread that I got all the way through w/o stopping

as bozelka suggested, orig. disco pamplemousse is awesome

fucking insane that this thread has four hundred posts in like a day. but yes, this shit is painful. so painful that i was doubly pained to find i that half liked the (equally intolerable) "real" pomplamoose song someone linked yesterday. but why? why do i find this cheerful, childlike, wildly inoffensive plinkety-plonk so face-smashingly hideous? why has "hipsters" become shorthand for "indie-liking white people," most of them cuddly-faced, suburbs-bound, would-be-baby-making non-hipsters?

I actually think the cooing baby-making aspect of Pomplamoose is borderline-adorable, but it's the suburbs-bound thing that kinda gets to me. Depressed that there are people out there who are tailor-made for the cozy life (class-warfare part in me), outraged that they are so well-adjusted about this, and lack the ambition to fight against it, let alone transcend it.

But I'm a pretty corny fuck, and actually I truly don't wish harm on these people at all.

...the cooing baby-making aspect of Pomplamoose is borderline-adorable, but it's the suburbs-bound thing that kinda gets to me. Depressed that there are people out there who are tailor-made for the cozy life (class-warfare part in me), outraged that they are so well-adjusted about this, and lack the ambition to fight against it, let alone transcend it.

thing is, i'm totally cool with that. i don't think there's anything wrong with the suburbs-bound baby-makers, and i don't want them to be any other than what they are. more power to them. but they are not hipsters. they are the opposite of hipsters. fact that the word "hipsters" has come to signify these people (well-adjusted, beard-sporting white dudes and the ladies that love them) is mind-boggling to me.

^right. the more mature I get, the more I realize there's a lot to be said for not apologizing for who you are.

but yeah, def. not hipsters. Nerds.

it takes guts to be gentle and kind.

NO NOT NERDS EITHER.

I want a new classification. "Lamesters"

thought Corny Indie Fuxxxors was a perfectly serviceable label tbh

@T3mp3Tr0y Pomplamoose (sp?) has lost all hipster cred with those ads. So they're paying the ultimate price. 7:44 PM Jan 2nd via Twitter for iPhone in reply to T3mp3Tr0y

k1mho1comb
K1m Ho1comb

THE ULTIMATE PRICE

what is the ultimate price?

http://i.imgur.com/e3Rg5.jpg

spaying and neutering your pets?

Cosign upthread, the pomplemousse shred vid is lol

this might be the worst thing in the history of things http://spinningplatters.com/2011/01/01/show-review-the-dresden-dolls-with-pomplamoose-at-the-warfield-12312010/#

the biggest slap in the face being starting the setlist with a trex cover and ending with a sabbath cover THATS OUR MUSIC STAY AWAY CORNY INDIE FUXX

"15. (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) (Beastie Boys cover with Jason Webley, Zoe Boekbinder, Whitney Moses, and Pomplamoose)"

the more i look the more things i find offensive about this picture http://spinningplatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/dollsgroup.jpg

Forget what you thought you knew about how to celebrate for the beginning of a new year. Forget what you thought could happen with two Bostonians, a collective of YouTube musicians, a pile of balloons, two cannons of confetti, and two thousand lovers of punk cabaret. If you were not one of the aforementioned fans that filled San Francisco’s Warfield Theater to nigh-overflowing to see the triumphant Bay Area return of the Dresden Dolls, you missed one of the greatest shows in the band’s career, and one of the best shows of 2010, and, quite likely, 2011 as well.

u_u

xpost: UNLAWFUL DISPLAY OF METAL HORNS.

YELLOW CARD.

YELLOW FUCKING CARD.

chillaxin beer bro challenges your call

who's the bloke in the bra playing drums?

think it's Amanda Palmer ???

also wtf @ tall dude with red puffy ski jacket and pyjama pants/1990 happy pants

if you're chugging whiskey, you're allowed to throw the horns, no matter who you are

but yes, mysterious pyjamaman is mysterious

This review pretty much sums up my experience with the concert. It omits some of the more entertaining small bits of the night (like the improvisation after 3 keyboard malfunctions or Amanda, while in the balcony telling a mother of someone that "this is no time to be taking pictures," and to "touch my vagina") though…

TOUCH MY VAGINA

words to live by

heard it was one of the best shows of 2010, in all honesty, and comma quite likely comma 2011 as well

comma UGH comma

comma coma comma comma argh

if you're chugging whiskey, you're allowed to throw the horns, no matter who you are

― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 8:20 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no way dude. horns get earned. 5th graders can chug makers

fifth grader chugging makers and paying digital tribute to our southern lord = dude

^truth

ok, true. get that dude up there in place of these squares tho imo

i like the c86 version of "twee" a lot -- somehow it's preferable with a dose of UK gloom/sarcasm and loud/distorted guitars. the 2010 iteration of "twee" (especially as done by shiny happy kids from the u.s. and canada) is just infantilism. i'm not a class warrior but i look at nataly dawn and think "white, christian, nordic surname, has 'good' (straight, blondish) hair that isn't a wisp out of place, her contented face signifying that nothing bad has ever happened to her other than the painless death of a pet goldfish." Basically, congratulations, you "win" at "life." Your prize is you get to pretend you're a baby. Goo goo ga ga. Ka-ching.

...damn

infantilism appeals to all sorts: black & white, rich & poor, attractive & not so much so. nataly dawn may have seen some shit for all i know. the intense hatred of comfortable twee seems predicated as much on contempt of the comfortable as distaste for their cutie-pie boo-boo noises. me, i don't hate the comfortable even when they're white christians with nordic surnames and straight hair. i hate sappy, smarmy tweedle-tweedle nothing music no matter who's making it. (this is not "taste," mind you. it's merely an expression of my cynicism and perverse pride in social maladapation.)

though her kooky askance-looking grates, she's a million times less annoying than prancing dude.

Do pompalmoose choose to perform "single ladies" because they see it as cute irony, or is something more insidious? (a celebration of that whole Christian "virginity pledge" nonsense, perhaps?)
Maybe i should also apologize for bumping this up to the top o the board...

congratulations, you "win" at "life." Your prize is you get to pretend you're a baby.

lawl

I'm sure they chose "Single Ladies" because of some stupid shit Beyonce said a dozen years ago, yes.

is all of this ultimately laid at the feet of calvin johnson?

like there's something gratingly childish and infantile about this that seems to stem from beat happening, right?

like somehow beat happening ended up leaking into the mainstream via kimya dawson and juno and shit and then dorks that were "activities people" in high school thought it would look good for their college transcripts to have a band or something ended up turning it into this corporatized dreck?

and like ugh i'm challopsing but this shit makes it really hard not to get in a henry rollins mindset you know?

you guys should buy DVRs and fast forward through TV ads

sorry but mad lols @ "these people are not true hipsters" upthread

the only time ive ever thought something along those lines was when i saw that 'teen hearts' video where a bunch of late 20s label dudes appear to be dressing up like 17 yr old emo fans. but this?? cmon guys. narc of small diff for sure. give or take a hyundai spot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqzAUFFg_Z8

look at these fucking hipsters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_vGbB8moyg

so THIS is what became of new wave, a fucking hyundai ad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6G5JaicYuVU

xxpost, seriously

at least when most ppl had their GREEN DAY IS NOT PUNK tantrums they were like 15 not adults posting on messsage boards

To be frank about it, calling them hipsters is not totally inaccurate, but certainly they are involved in a far, far, far lower-level of hipster than someone drooling coke-bubbles in the bathroom at Whartscape

amazing thread--may it indicate good things for ilx in 2k11

I actually think the cooing baby-making aspect of Pomplamoose is borderline-adorable, but it's the suburbs-bound thing that kinda gets to me. Depressed that there are people out there who are tailor-made for the cozy life (class-warfare part in me), outraged that they are so well-adjusted about this, and lack the ambition to fight against it, let alone transcend it.

I almost want to get into it over this post, but instead I'll just recommend that you head out to your back deck and take a nice long look out at the community park. That's what I do when I want to calm down.

To be frank about it, calling them hipsters is not totally inaccurate, but certainly they are involved in a far, far, far lower-level of hipster than someone drooling coke-bubbles in the bathroom at Whartscape

― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 10:27 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this breakdown isnt really any more defensible, but as an extremely characteristic post ill allow it

low level hipster in the pomplamoose crime family

the ben folds connection makes total sense

at some point pomplamoose will record the soundtrack to a dreamworks animation film scripted by the pitchfork reviews reviews guy and ilx will collapse in a supernova of apoplexy

http://img35.imageshack.us/i/grit.jpg/

you can blame the original true grit for this

picture not working but here is the link

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3288434432/tt0065126

pomplamoose was a hero to most

you guys should buy DVRs and fast forward through TV ads

― da croupier, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 10:12 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i have the worst habit of watching shit on DVR and then forgetting i can fast forward, drives me crazy

xpost lollllll

isn't Amanda Palmer the lady that made a mint doing a 'pay what you want' album of playing Radiohead covers on ukelele? she and Pomplamoose deserve each other.

who does neil gaiman deserve?

like somehow beat happening ended up leaking into the mainstream via kimya dawson and juno and shit
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

Good call; I'd forgotten about that whole K scene.

The secret link exposed: wiki touts BH's "pivotal role in the International Pop Underground Festival, which brought anti-corporate rock its earliest mainstream acceptance." Cue crushingly cute waves of irony.

We've sure put a lot of energy into this thread and I'm still not sure why. I'd love to hate Pomplamoose (firstly for mispelling a fruit I'm rather fond of and secondly for being from Corte Madera just on principle) but I find I don't have the energy.

my only contribution to this thread is that I assumed it was Feist appearing with some random bearded dude I didn't know

It's an advert!

So, what about that one that's "That's just me" about the Godfather 3, while picking a vintage Gretsch off the wall of a junk store, about? Hmm?

...and don't even get me started on the Honda Odyssey / Judas Priest commercial. But that's a whole other topic.

Or the Toyota one where AC/DC is singing "Tundra-Struck!" That one split my mind open.

yeh that dating one is weird, they are two kind of cuddly alt looking ppl too

i like old movies
like godfather 3

ok godfather 3 is not really an old movie in a medium with like a 120 year history

it's not considered the best one

it is in fact considered a travesty ruining the legacy of two of the finest american films of their decade

but that's just me

yep, that's just you...

oh sorry, you directed it? fair enough....

I'm pretty sure there's only about 4 people on this thread who are incandescent with rage and the rest of us just love a pile-on

That Godfather 3 ad did lead to my family wrestling a hammer out of my hands tho.

sophia coppolol :-(

there's a new ad for godfather 3?

Nah it's an ad for an online dating agency. I don't even hate Godfather 3 with any intensity it's just that fucking advert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z4aguu4Ex0

WHERE'S YOUR SO-CALLED PAMPLIMOOS NOW, AMERICANSES???

accents alone can induce stabbage at several hundred yards

Ah, (penny drops) so if you are the person that wants a vintage gretsch cheap, and a doe-eyed girl in a cardy who also has only seen the third Godfather film, then you had better sign up to an online dating agency, as you will not meet her in a stylised junk shop!

Oh and re 'why don't you fast forward on your DVR' - only reason I ever saw the Pamplemoose commercial in its entirety ad-nauseum was bc I don't DVR football games, and for some ridiculous reason football fans are Pompdepomp's target audience. Hence my irrational anger (though if you go to the irrational anger thread you know that not much goes by without some daily IA from me, lol)

i like the c86 version of "twee" a lot -- somehow it's preferable with a dose of UK gloom/sarcasm and loud/distorted guitars. the 2010 iteration of "twee" (especially as done by shiny happy kids from the u.s. and canada) is just infantilism. i'm not a class warrior but i look at nataly dawn and think "white, christian, nordic surname, has 'good' (straight, blondish) hair that isn't a wisp out of place, her contented face signifying that nothing bad has ever happened to her other than the painless death of a pet goldfish." Basically, congratulations, you "win" at "life." Your prize is you get to pretend you're a baby. Goo goo ga ga. Ka-ching.

― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:58 (8 hours ago)

see if yr going to hate on crap but innocuous popkult drivel, do it like that

a+

http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/theory-of-hipster-relativity-20101117-162940.jpg

in UK, is it considered provincial to like guy ritchie gangster movies over godfather 3?

since I don't watch sports, if I ever see a grating or treasured-song/movie/memory-raping ad I figure it's my fault for bothering to witness the fucker

^^^ irl lol at that cartoon..

I actually liked the match.com spot. (But that's just meeee...)

xpost dacroupier not even the direst Rams vs http://c0848462.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/3d93bd2c4f3f1b33c02182fd0f20476f.png game would ever make me feel like I deserved to be assaulted in such a way. But that's just meeeee

oops hatcat lol. Sea-hawks.

match.com ad is horrifying nadir of the tweepocalypse

in UK, is it considered provincial to like guy ritchie gangster movies over godfather 3?

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:40 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

yes

Match.com more like challops.com amirite

twee beardos in between bike punks and ironic tees seems alright to me

though i gotta say that when i was in college, being into olde timey music and wearing flannel and having a beard was not at all "hipster," it was just "outdoorsy"

Re: K and C86, however annoying some of it may have been, it was a legitimate aesthetic retort to mainstream 80s rock - a rejection of machismo, slickness, virtuosity, the "adult" world, etc, which is what made it part of the backdrop to Riot Grrrl. Tweeness was politicised only as long as it was a long, long way from the mainstream (and a long way from making any $$$). As soon as that connection with the legitimate underground was broken, there was no limit to how horrible it could become.

match.com ad is horrifying nadir of the tweepocalypse

Nice try at ginning up another 400 posts of vitriol, but no Muppets on kickdrums, no big waif-eyes at camera, no manic fun-having. Pomplamoose infinitely worse imo.

where did beret-sporting unicorns fall

xxp

o wait that's a baseball cap nm

hyundai commercial vs. match.com commercial

it's like rugburn vs. bleach in the eyes but pomplamoose are worse only because of their cultural juggernautics