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

gaaaah a few weeks ago a friend of mine told me that she really loved this "cute" cover of beyonce's "single ladies" by this "kinda mousy-looking girl." i was already suspicious but just to be sure i asked her to show me. when it indeed turned out to pomplamoose i almost considered disowning her as a friend

― teledyldonix, Saturday, May 7, 2011 7:07 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i would have kicked her computer over and walked out

Haters, can Pomplamoose turn you around with their version of the Angry Birds theme?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UCm6uyzNE8&feature=player_embedded

I pronounce it "bum".

Pomplamoose: the Stone Temple Pilots of twee.

who plays angry birds with the music on.

I'm gonna just start listening to these guys all the time just to piss off whiney.
no more miles for me. i'm a pomplamaniac

I feel like reddit posters probably love these twerps. Particularly the ones that post cat photos all day.

i'm a pomplamaniac

as opposed to a pompalomaniac -- a person with grandiose fantasies of becoming the next youtube cover sensation

who plays angry birds with the music on.

literally did not know until David's post that there was a theme tune

so they must be getting $$$ from Samsung now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4m5Wkywew0

That could be me if only I had some Heineken.

am i missing what that heineken ad has todo with anything?

Not insufferable enough?

. . .

Ok!

srs question: how much tv do you watch?

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i like the heineken ad!

my dad asked me who that was singing in the Heineken ad cos he wanted a copy of the album. had to look them up. not really impressed tbh.

i dont think the heineken song is bad... has no place in the pomplablorf thrad either way

nah it's a different thing

just that my old man's taste is weird and unpredictable

who is it in that ad anyway?

some Danish group with a silly name

ha

that is a guy w/ excellent manual coordination

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty9Smrs67s8

I like her much better when she stops mugging. It's annoying in videos, but it just doesn't work at all on stage.

Why do I keep clicking on this thread? It's like picking a scab, or repeatedly sniffing the air after someone's farted, just to confirm to yourself how bad it is.

yeah she really does just not ever stop making stupid faces

http://www.mousepotatoes.com/about/covers/its_a_condition.jpg

00:49 ohgodohgodohgod

didn't make it any farther

^^^ ditto

Its even worse because her timing is nowhere near as "hilarious" as it must be in her head.

I am amused by the visceral hate these guys provoke. They're like the cilantro of music.

honestly they don't really bug me so much but it is really funny to watch people foam at the mouth over them

I don't like the fact that they make my head want to explode, but there it is

http://i54.tinypic.com/jubst5.gif

The guy is actually much more of a douchebag in my eyes.

I like that bit in the Angry Birds video where she punches him in the mouth.

who plays angry birds with the music on

that game has really awesome sound design /:

i'm curious about, like, why people would actually like this band, and what that says about music and stuff

is that video, above, just a half hour of them performing to no audience? how peculiar

In 2011, Pomplamoose began a weekly, interactive, half-hour webcast called “Hey, It's Pomplamoose: A Show about Pomplamoose and Other Things” that airs every Tuesday. After the March 29th show, the webcast has been put on hiatus until their East Coast tour is completed. They will be joined by Ryan Lerman and Carlos Cabrera as they open for fellow YouTube stars OK Go.

Angry Birds is actually terrible, and combined with that 'game essay' on Pitchfork about it (the worst thing I've ever read about video games), Pomplamoose's take on it is as easy to hate as anything ever was.

it ... really isn't, though

this pitchfork thing looks like fun!!

"What follows is my attempt to understand the widespread popularity of a mobile videogame called Angry Birds. I don't play games, but"

uh oh

"Think about that the next time you're playing-- sitting in the handicap stall of your company's bathroom"

He got me.

The girl has a funny way about her, but I don't find her hateable. They are both irritatingly upbeat though, and their act is weak. That said:

honestly they don't really bug me so much but it is really funny to watch people foam at the mouth over them

Yeah, I doubt I'd even give them a second's thought if it wasn't for all the ire they inspire on here.

I don't know. Is it funny that people hate Hitler?