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

SusanCollins4Senator (16 minutes ago) Spam
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.

i just watched this entire video

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

patreon guy says that in 5 years the 'the starving artist' will be a thing of the past because 'creators' will be 'in charge' - as a result of better admin tools and easy monetization on various platforms. it will be just as viable and respectable to be a 'creator' as a teacher, doctor or lawyer

lame youtube covers guy getting a commercial then turning into a startup guy is some perfect it couldnt get any worse than this type shit

i think he might be jimmy fallon wearing indie drag

seeing this thread bumped is like running into someone at the grocery store that you had a long and embarrassing heart-to-heart talk with while stoned out of your mind back in college. maybe it'll be interesting but it is definitely gonna be depressing

"the woman from pomplamoose sang a cover of "careless whisper" on trent renor's soundtrack for The Watchmen TV program" is a sentence that would have broken my brain ten years ago; we're all so numb

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

This cover is no high and all dry

Morgan James
Morgan James is married to the very good guitarist Doug Wamble so if you want to try to cheer yourself up a bit think about them instead of the titular pair of this thread.

otm

massive lols at
Trying to imagine eight more nausea inducing words than "Nataly Dawn covering “Truth Hurts” on solo banjo"

Scary Pockets should just be called K. Cuz they take the "fun" out of "funk"

what level of mood stabilizers is that lady on

All that Patreon money pays for some incredible research chemicals.

I never picked up the connection until later but I dig the stuff with Larry Goldings with both John Scofield and Robben Ford.

they have some moments. They are tight. Sometimes a little too tight. I dislike the clickbaity videos they make that are like what if cover of x but FUNKY, and then the arrangement is usually a little bit hack and not quite funky enough, even though the musicians play well.

We had a discussion of some of that stuff over here as well, as you may recall: KNOWER: funky, quirky electro duo with jazz chops Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi

The discography of American musical duo Pomplamoose consists of six studio albums, six compilation albums, one soundtrack, one live album, three extended plays, 29 music videos, and over 190 singles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cewUWR7AjYE

La Pamplemousse >>> Pomplemousse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hmu4ZR1QX24

re: that High and Dry video, i swear they designed that little logo in the lower right corner to make their name seem different and/or cooler and/or French

GARDENVIEW
A new album by Nataly Dawn (of Pomplamoose)

i am sad to say they are now extracting the blood from popular music to fertilise their garden of creative entrepreneurship

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfBwiKITX8Y

Disappointed they weren't doing a tweekulele cover of 'Permafrost' tbh.

lol, this^

https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/f/336/536/9780671536336.OL.0.l.jpg

Shot by both siides

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0015/2602/products/DAFTPOMP-LPbackground.png?v=1668443881

why have you done this to us

Very depressing to be unimaginably wealthy and still pumping out this dreck.

corny money, corny problems

Too much botheration for me to be involved in.

Then Pomplamoose's upcoming Chuck Berry tribute, Too Pooped To Pomp, is for you!

Hahaha!

magdalena bay

Scary Pockets manages to be worse than Pomplamoose somehow. And here they are.. featuring Joe Bonamassa!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Crbf-BvLM0N/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

that is awful but it's a different vibe from pomplamoose, less cutesy and more berklee

yeah true. There's something that really bothers me about the way they manage to play funk exactly "right" and it still doesn't sound funky at all, like an uncanny valley thing.

Scary Pockets is a bad vibe for sure, like a much smarmier Vulfpeck (they make me appreciate Vulfpeck more on every level fr).

I guess it's a net good that they've presumably introduced many people to the tasteful genius of Larry Goldings.

Is all their stuff covers(??)

it says right in the description that it's a cover band with a rotating cast of guest musicians so...

Sorry - not sure where that description is, I was looking at their catalog in Spotify.

whoops, I went to the instagram account’s main page and it’s the description there

I was interested in hearing this uncanny-valley funk, but less so when I realized they're cover albums with titles like Stank Face.

"Uncanny valley" probably gives it too much credit. It's not uncanny in any interesting sense. They kind of subtly have the vibe of a kids' band though. Jack has a lot to do with that.

I mean it's like the least "stank" it could possibly get

makes sense

at its root the pomplamoose stuff is an exercise in competence, it's just so dry to me. you could maybe do something interesting with that by taking it in weird directions but there's no weird there

which makes it a bizarre approach to play funk covers

'haha we are playing funk, chortle'

yeah, that too!

Yeah as Jordan pointed out even Vulfpeck are charming by comparison, because at least they have this geeky obsessiveness that gets taken to extremes.