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
hardly a cogent criticism of pomplamoose, you'll need to take that up with pomplamom
― illiterate and hateful, as expected (reddening), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:58 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Monday, 3 January 2011 03:59 (thirteen years ago) link
every time i see that commercial i'm glad i left.
― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Monday, 3 January 2011 04:00 (thirteen years ago) link
really, these commercials barely even register on my bloodboil-ometer, but that EW&F raping upthread is simply beyond the pale
― my little pony prophecy (will), Monday, 3 January 2011 04:29 (thirteen years ago) link
this thread horrifies me
― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Monday, 3 January 2011 04:31 (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 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.
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Monday, 3 January 2011 04:49 (thirteen years ago) link
my dark twisted pomplamoose
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 3 January 2011 04:52 (thirteen years ago) link
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...
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 04:58 (thirteen years ago) link
so they're a cover band?
― billstevejim, Monday, 3 January 2011 04:58 (thirteen years ago) link
dayo, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Monday, 3 January 2011 05:02 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i55.tinypic.com/2iawqvq.gif
^ best post of 2011
― aka the pope (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 3 January 2011 05:10 (thirteen years ago) link
evan I thought you were referencing a GYBE song and then I googled it and it's even worse
― dayo, Monday, 3 January 2011 05:24 (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, 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.
― i have been otm (bnw), Monday, 3 January 2011 05:35 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― billstevejim, Monday, 3 January 2011 05:40 (thirteen years ago) link
― dayo, Monday, January 3, 2011 12:24 AM (1 hour ago)
Haha!
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Monday, 3 January 2011 06:47 (thirteen years ago) link
eugh the ewf cover makes me want to shoot myself
― a no-fault dick to suck. (the table is the table), Monday, 3 January 2011 06:59 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:02 (thirteen years ago) link
what clerk makes the worst bedroom musician
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:25 (thirteen years ago) link
tbh i knew as soon as i saw these ads that there would be an ilx thread about the incredible awfulness of this pair.
― omar little, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:27 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― our man flint flo$$y (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:31 (thirteen years ago) link
haha otm
― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:34 (thirteen years ago) link
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.)
― Sanford, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I kinda wondered the same thing about Cisco placing the Ellen Page ads during games.
x-post
― Your cousin, Marvin Cobain (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 3 January 2011 07:41 (thirteen years ago) link
def some insufferable indie types on ilnfl
― buzza, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:43 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/jKIEi.gif
― omar little, Monday, 3 January 2011 07:43 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― goole, Monday, 3 January 2011 08:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/LRdjQ.jpg
― ☜(⌒▽⌒)☞ (jeff), Monday, 3 January 2011 08:24 (thirteen years ago) link
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...
― Sanford, Monday, 3 January 2011 08:34 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― Cunga, Monday, 3 January 2011 09:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Been waiting for this thread to happen.
― That's life in the world of shadows, Garkun. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 3 January 2011 09:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― frogbs, Monday, 3 January 2011 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
why u so mad?
― tears of a self-clowning oven (The Reverend), Monday, 3 January 2011 14:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― our man flint flo$$y (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 3 January 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Jesus that thing she does with her eyes. She probably can't give a blowjob without being twee.
― I can take a youtube that's seldom seen, flip it, now it's a meme (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 January 2011 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
*waits for that to be posted to o_O*
― I can take a youtube that's seldom seen, flip it, now it's a meme (Hurting 2), Monday, 3 January 2011 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it does seem to be like the first thing u thought of
― zvookster, Monday, 3 January 2011 14:52 (thirteen years ago) link
fucking hate this commercial
― but it could have happened when i was playing tesla (chrisv2010), Monday, 3 January 2011 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
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, 3 January 2011 15:02 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Monday, 3 January 2011 15:03 (thirteen years ago) link