So who ARE that insufferable indie couple in the new Hyundai TV ads?

get bent otm, do you think those songs from Juno would have been so lauded if people thought it was kimya singing them instead of cute lil ellen page?

"But it is interesting to me how that roots music went from being the provenance of old hippies, to young hippies, to more urban scene kids."

there are still tons of young non-ironic or whatever non-hipster rootsy people though. they just don't get the press, i guess. a gazillion dudes who want to be the old crow medicine show.

yeah but... most of those dudes are urban scene kids!

like it's not about whether it's "ironic" or not, it's about them playing the same shows as a somebody's 8-piece indie band that kinda sounds like a bad arcade fire

i'm beginning to think the only people who aren't hipsters are super-rabid sports fan d-bags, unless they root for an indie hipster team like the l.a. clippers or something.

xp i.e. being part of the same 'scene'

just read this thread and the fact that anyone in the world sees their harmonies as "elaborate" makes me want to commit suicide

― nakh get on my lvl (roxymuzak), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 7:08 PM (28 minutes ago)

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fwiw I meant "elaborate" in the sense that her vocals are overdubbed like 8 times, not in the sense that there's anything weighty going on there musically. my point was that the technique is a little unusual for the type of DIY indie pop where a live-in-the-studio sound is such a key part of the aesthetic.

but thinking about it more, it's not really accurate to include Pomplamoose in the twee/indiepop/C86 lineage just because they're ramshackle and exaggeratedly peppy. if anything, their gimmick comes right from hordes of solitary youtubers who post split-screen videos of their one-man-band covers of pop songs. and if the songs they cover are any measure of their taste in music, then I doubt they've ever heard the Beat Happening, and the resemblance is most likely accidental.

omar — it's more like a continuum; there is no pure 'bro' or 'hipster', only various intermediate positions

i'd believe that they picked it up from feist, she's pretty popular + has highly bloggable video memes

(i mean the particular breathy affected vocal style here)

my posts look like the rantings of a madman

i think being poor completely absolves you of hipsterdom. i don't think it's a good tradeoff. just suck it up and enjoy your money.

hipsters aren't the real class enemy tho

burn down a hyundai dealership or something, idk

im fbook friends w/ this tanning bed iowa state grad blonde event planner who loves hanging out in wrigleyville but has photos on her fbook that say things like 'look at this fucking hipster!!' underneath it lol

i dont think she even knows how to stare dead-eyed

tanning bed iowa state grad blonde event planner

because, really, who are we to judge?

i wish i was an event planner. baller dough

i'm sure the "tanning bed" descriptor is far more important in her life than "event planner"

I missed the Iowa State part and was trying to figure out which Jerseylicious cast member deej was friends with

iowa state lol

I missed the Iowa State part and was trying to figure out which Jerseylicious cast member deej was friends with

― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 2:48 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

snooki obv

ws of ... shame?

I wish I was little bit tanner,
I wish I was a planner

should i have whiney send her an autographed copy of *the book* y/n

"yeah but... most of those dudes are urban scene kids!"

nah, not really. not everyone lives in a city. there are still actual, like, young people out there who don't listen to indie rock at all and who play olde-tyme stuff. you might be surprised. third generation hippie family kids. ex-jam band kids. and lots of kids who just grew up on bluegrass/southern/country stuff. kids who grew up in the woods.

i wish yall could have seen the ppl who came to the north coast fest in chicago. everybody really isnt a hipster. unless hemp necklaces & affliction (different people) are trending

your world of young ppl eh?

deejspatchs from the coast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN2n67xUMj8

as a kid who grew up in the woods, can I just say that the location of said woods is likely super critical to the likelihood of you being a bluegrass head or not

Like, I have 0 problems believing that MA woods is a breeding ground for this type of young pesron (particularly in central MA around Northampton) but it seems practically inconceivable to find a lot of these kids in the woods around where I grew up, where if you weren't a top-40 type you were likely either into metal or Christian contemporary (and gbx and I are from the same area so there might be a slight generation gap thing going on there although we aren't THAT far apart in age, or maybe I just wasn't talking to the right kids).

your world of young ppl eh?

― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 2:59 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

basically otm

kids still love their ~electronica~ jam bands & nas/damien marley albums

I haven't seen the Hyundai ad (guess I haven't watched much TV lately) and wasn't aware of it until I started hearing about the backlash, but I'm glad to hear about it because now hopefully a couple of my friends who have been posting Pomplamoose videos for months on their Facebook pages will be embarrassed and stop.

feel like this thread has gotten away from its core of needless ranting

/alienated

maybe they actually hate hipsters, like 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 (Yesterday)

I've heard that people who deny the existence of hipsters (v.2011) are the ones dress like intolerable obnoxious hipsters and have hipster affectations.

(and gbx and I are from the same area so there might be a slight generation gap thing going on there although we aren't THAT far apart in age, or maybe I just wasn't talking to the right kids).

― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 3:01 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark

nah dan it was the same when i was there, too. i mostly thinking of these ppl in college in New England, where we had entire off campus houses of ppl that were the outdoorsy version of LARPers, all decked out in wool knickers and flannel shirts and, for real, quoting this one "how to talk like you're from new hampshire" cassette tape the way that other nerds memorized monty python and w/e. my buddy morgan had this v earnest whole mountain man thing going on, huge beard, woolen pants, flannel shirts, etc., that was not at all hipster at the time, but that would now be bloggable to some ppl.

also fwiw m@tt otm re: trampled by turtles. i'd never heard of them but went with a friend to a show at the cabooze and it was packed to the fucking gills. i'm guessing they do just fine on the crunchy college circuit, and that more ppl have their mp3s and jam them w/bros than, like, dark dark dark or tapes n tapes or w/e

i wish i was an event planner. baller dough

― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 3:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i thought it said "i wish i were an event planner, balling dough" as if he was confused and thought event planners baked cookies for events

as i've said here before, i'm almost kind of annoyed by the whole hipster-goes-flannel ish, because i've been called out for being a hipster for dressing the way i have for like ten years running. and i have friends that four years ago were all day-glo neon electro stuff and now fetishize camping gear from the 70s and Filson shooting jackets and stuff. get outta my clubhouse y'all. now i know how ~metalheads~ feel

how everyone feels
it's just sort of the new default state of culture

i heard recently hotel marketer is a great job

hi filson

"these people are not true hipsters" upthread

― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 8:14 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

well, what i was saying is that they aren't hipsters period. they're indie kids. there's a difference, as well as a lot of overlap, but i get no intimation that these guys are "down with the underground," with the seedy underbelly, with the coming revolution or whatever. hence: not hipsters, just nice, pleasant indie people.

...and now fetishize camping gear from the 70s and Filson shooting jackets and stuff

dunno about yr special brand names, but nice old camping gear is always excellent

i do notice a lot of overdressed guys wearing fingerless gloves that say "filson" this year

well, what i was saying is that they aren't hipsters period. they're indie kids. there's a difference, as well as a lot of overlap, but i get no intimation that these guys are "down with the underground," with the seedy underbelly, with the coming revolution or whatever. hence: not hipsters, just nice, pleasant indie people.

you seem to be describing "college juniors" more so than "hipsters"

as i've said here before, i'm almost kind of annoyed by the whole hipster-goes-flannel ish, because i've been called out for being a hipster for dressing the way i have for like ten years running.

Wondering when selvage jeans with cuffs will make its way to Texas tbh.

these ppl are yuppies they work in marketing & @ google they wear sweaters this is 2k11 ugh w/e

why are these people "indie"

they arent