do americans "get" twee?

I've heard at least tiny twee bands cover "Ice Cream Man" live.

this thread has reminded me that i dissed Americans for not being twee enough in a trembling blue stars review i wrote seven years ago:

"Those who balk at dreamy-boy nakedness will want to skip the bathos, but such people are called Americans, and they aren't fit to shine Terry Hall's moccasins."

Isn't that like Gene Simmons chastising teenage girls for not being chaste enough?

i think noise board is nowt more than our atlantic cousins' slightly-more-strident take on twee.

grrrrrr

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/02/12/scones_narrowweb__300x449,0.jpg

http://www.stitch4stitch.com/images/s4s055/s4s055_ind.jpg

http://www.lat34.com/_/Photo/500xNone/elvis_presley-getty_images-blue.jpg

^^ jens lekman

it's a bit like someone from the UK trying to be a cowboy isn't it?

lol twee cowboys

village person

http://members.tripod.com/~Blue_Lena/cowboykeith.gif

The cowboy in The Village People could be called many things but I don't think "twee" is one of them. There's nothing overly precious about The Village People.

Some guy in my office just said 'rosemary, sage and thyme'

Isn't Canada part of Americas

America invented twee, just like acid house, jungle, etc. Across the ole pond it was just made more their own. Why do you think all the big UK proto-twee bands (whatever the fuck that means) were obsessed with Americana?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1gWCF0MPL4

louis, why are you styling yourself as some kind of ilxpert, lately i seem to read about 80 fanciful pronouncements a day from you.

this thread reminds me there was a time when america was seen as sunny and childish and pastel colors and mickey mouse hats and old ladies baking apple pies in mint green and purple cottages with little squirrel figurines in curio cabinets. before the whole imperial death war thing.

Vietnam? Or Reagan?

Invented national character, post modernism, all that Momus shit. 40s-early 60s I"m thinking. you know, the whole naive chirpy american in dark and serious england kinda thing. Now culture here is all about KCIKIN ASS YEARHG.

naive chirpy americans were pretty much all about kickin ass too.

http://www.skylighters.org/disney/mosquito.jpg

is that twee?

Is belle and sebastian twee? I love b&s

teenage american hipster trash loves twee

also:not so sure what is there to 'get'