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
― we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:58 (thirteen years ago) link
^ ilx buried my heyyoukidsgetoffmylawn.jpg punchline there.
― we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee), Monday, 3 January 2011 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― illiterate and hateful, as expected (reddening), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:00 (thirteen years ago) link
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, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:00 (thirteen years ago) link
they wont admit that in a commercial tho cuz it wont help sell hyundais
or would it?
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:01 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― our man flint flo$$y (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:02 (thirteen years ago) link
like i definitely hate the "i heard Cat Power and i think i'm just gonna kinda ride that out instead of ever trying to really sing" type singing and it is kind of indie but it's funny how people watch a couple wearing christmas sweaters and singing jingle bells and go "ugh HIPSTERS"
― hann am0n tana (some dude), Sunday, January 2, 2011 8:42 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i dunno this seems p twee to me
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:02 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean these people are hipsters like nickelback are grunge-rockers, which is basically just proof of what little/if any weight that term/movement is going to carry in 2011 and 2012
― our man flint flo$$y (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:03 (thirteen years ago) link
more accurately:
these people are "hipsters" like stone temple pilots was "alternative"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hFT853OYfgToy pianos and xylophones add to tweeness.
― Rotating & Blunders (MintIce), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:04 (thirteen years ago) link
what little/if any weight that term/movement is going to carry in 2011 and 2012
this is what we have carles for
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:07 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― our man flint flo$$y (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:10 (thirteen years ago) link
So is this girl's Cat Power-style singing the female version of Wayne Coyne/Jonathan Donahue/Daniel Johnston guy-with-cracked-voice singing?
And this whole debate is sort of funny because it's another case of ILX-types thinking a trend was dead or dying years ago (in this case the twee aesthetic et al) and now seeing that it's far from it.
― Cunga, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:11 (thirteen years ago) link
weve covered this in depth on ilnfl btw
― ice cr?m, Sunday, January 2, 2011 9:30 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
we've invected against this at ilh too
― dayo, Sunday, January 2, 2011 9:39 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yes actually more on ilh but both places - sports fans for whatever reason have been non stop tortured w/these fucks for the last 60 days - girl is p hot tho
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:14 (thirteen years ago) link
And whiney: I thought you were exaggerating or really scraping the bottom of the barrel last year for those post-anco band names, but then as the year continued I would hear people talk about "Universal Studios, FL." Seeing Pwin Teaks on a music site was the turning point.
― Cunga, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
btw they have been youtube sensations for at least a couple years
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Whiney do you ever get out of Brooklyn
― ARP 2600 vs. Atari 2600 (Ówen P.), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:18 (thirteen years ago) link
last time i checked these guys were on national TV ads and not Brooklyn so?
― our man flint flo$$y (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:19 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIr8-f2OWhs
this is the worst shit btw enjoy
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:19 (thirteen years ago) link
pom*plop*moose
― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:21 (thirteen years ago) link
their name is pomplamoose? oh.
i thought they were the arcade fire.
― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 3 January 2011 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link
"pomplamoose" reminds me of this
http://amoscontentgroup.com/amos/upload/2010/08/pompatus.jpg
― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― illiterate and hateful, as expected (reddening), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:26 (thirteen years ago) link
pamplemousse = grapefruit
― =(^ • ‿‿ • ^)= (corey), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link
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."
― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:30 (thirteen years ago) link
America should help n korea bomb the south for letting hyundai run those commercials past the 25th― infinity rebounding stats (m bison)
― infinity rebounding stats (m bison)
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:31 (thirteen years ago) link
xp lol delusions
― call all destroyer, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:31 (thirteen years ago) link
t/s these commercials vs. the honda vampy weekend ones
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:32 (thirteen years ago) link
both of which are FOR SOME REASON STILL RUNNING
I can't even do this
― ARP 2600 vs. Atari 2600 (Ówen P.), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:33 (thirteen years ago) link
hillfigger vampire weekend is fairly embarrassing
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:34 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFiBnd0zBFM
― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I've never been to Brooklyn, btw
― puff pastry hangman (admrl), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:35 (thirteen years ago) link
The people in this ad seem to me like they live in Chicago, for some reason
― puff pastry hangman (admrl), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― illiterate and hateful, as expected (reddening), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:36 (thirteen years ago) link
i guess they imagine a world where no one understands multi-track recording
― call all destroyer, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― illiterate and hateful, as expected (reddening), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:39 (thirteen years ago) link
this girl is really ANNOYING amirite fellas
(no, she really is)
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:40 (thirteen years ago) link
the reason i actually hate these guys is the proliferation of non-band recording acts so fuck their multi-tracking imo
― call all destroyer, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:41 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:41 (thirteen years ago) link
the girls tuneless voice and lameo affectation is maybe the most grating part, she just really has no feel for singing
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:42 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
insulting to grapefruit :(
― teledyldonix, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:44 (thirteen years ago) link
hahaaaa
― call all destroyer, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:45 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah no kidding vin de pamplemousse is some bomb-ass drinking fun, like white sangria but better.
xxp
― sleeve, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
hmm imo not only is the style of singing shes chosen unappealing shes also horrible at it
― ice cr?m, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:51 (thirteen years ago) link
also the fact that she spells her name 'nataly' is somehow infuriating
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:52 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Monday, 1 May 2023 19:03 (one year ago) link
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.
― Random Restaurateur (Jordan), Monday, 1 May 2023 19:07 (one year ago) link
Is all their stuff covers(??)
― Are You There God? It's a-Me, Mario (morrisp), Monday, 1 May 2023 19:19 (one year ago) link
it says right in the description that it's a cover band with a rotating cast of guest musicians so...
― mh, Monday, 1 May 2023 19:53 (one year ago) link
Sorry - not sure where that description is, I was looking at their catalog in Spotify.
― Are You There God? It's a-Me, Mario (morrisp), Monday, 1 May 2023 20:00 (one year ago) link
whoops, I went to the instagram account’s main page and it’s the description there
― mh, Monday, 1 May 2023 20:52 (one year ago) link
I was interested in hearing this uncanny-valley funk, but less so when I realized they're cover albums with titles like Stank Face.
― Are You There God? It's a-Me, Mario (morrisp), Monday, 1 May 2023 21:06 (one year ago) link
"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.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 15:12 (one year ago) link
I mean it's like the least "stank" it could possibly get
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 15:13 (one year ago) link
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
― mh, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 15:20 (one year ago) link
'haha we are playing funk, chortle'
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 15:41 (one year ago) link
yeah, that too!
― mh, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 15:42 (one year ago) link
Yeah as Jordan pointed out even Vulfpeck are charming by comparison, because at least they have this geeky obsessiveness that gets taken to extremes.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 15:52 (one year ago) link