https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o84y-5-cO0
― goth colouring book (anagram), Saturday, 25 October 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
I don't blame Nick Drake for this. I do blame these fuckers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8YCSJpF4g4
Is the trend for ads using teeth-gratingly bad stripped down cover versions a separate thing, or all part of the same general malaise of tweeness?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSLOnR1s74o
― Pheeel, Sunday, 26 October 2014 01:43 (nine years ago) link
Heard this at the gym (???) the other day and it reminded me that someone has to send a Terminator back in time to kill Ben Lee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTeZcHWHeW4
― Tim F, Sunday, 26 October 2014 04:25 (nine years ago) link
this genre of cloying crap that would fit perfectly in a tv commercial is called 'indie' now.
― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 20:17 (nine years ago) link
I never thought I'd get a chance to say this, but I actually really like this Ingrid Michaelson song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GBT37_yyzY
she is the WC Handy/Bill Monroe/Chuck Berry/James Brown/Kraftwerk of light-hearted, whimsical indie hipster music that seems specifically manufactured for Apple commercials. without 'The Way I Am' and "Be OK', there could be no Pomplamoose or She & Him.
― dichtgekitte discman (unregistered), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 23:12 (nine years ago) link
I got into that song after hearing it at the grocery store a while back. I guess that made me think it was a bigger success than it actually was.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link
yeah, I've heard it a lot while shopping. I'm more surprised that 'The Way I Am' (which I despise) only got to #37 on Billboard. I could have sworn it was a major hit at the time.
― dichtgekitte discman (unregistered), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 23:34 (nine years ago) link
I wouldn't really lump "Girls Chase Boys" in with the Apple commercials btw... different kind of pop, trying to catch some kind of observational gravitas and emotion. Within its world, there are things at stake. For comparison, check, I dunno, that awful Geico ad with the cheery lady singing about computers covered in bees. Whoever agreed to do the background whistling for that should be banned from the music industry on principle.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 23:37 (nine years ago) link
is this supposed to be mocking Robert Palmer, or is it just a coincidence?
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 00:45 (nine years ago) link
what part of "(An Homage to Robert Palmer's 'Simply Irresistible')" fails to answer your question?
― describing a scene in which the Hulk gets a boner (contenderizer), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 06:45 (nine years ago) link
good song tho. nowhere near as horrid as pomplamoose and geico advert choon etc.
― describing a scene in which the Hulk gets a boner (contenderizer), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 06:46 (nine years ago) link
Ah, didn't click through so it didn't show me the title.
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
This seems completely consistent with 'Apple commercial' music to me. Maybe not necessarily Apple, per se, but definitely some tech bullshit
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link