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

karmin help put pomplamoose in perspective, cuz they're just plain bad. awkward, devoid of charm, unpleasant sounding. helps you realize that the moose are at least good at what they do, perhaps very good. which makes it harder to hate them, which only makes me hate them all the more, and god please just make it stop

in the early days of this thread i was trying to articulate why i was cool with pomplamoose/enjoyed their original songs, and i appreciate the kind of "contextualizing of the vitriol" you did up there, contenderizer. i thought i'd take another whack at it.

i think for me personally there are a couple of things at play. the first is just that i have a pretty limited musical sensibility; i don't have anywhere NEAR the prior listening experience of most ilm folx, in breadth or in depth, so when i heard something kind of light and pleasant with vague cat power-y vocals, i didn't hear "derivative" or "falls short of X, Y, and Z" like many people on this thread did. at the same time, and i think this was even more important, i never saw the fabled Hyundai commercial until well after the fact, and whenever they'd start talking in their videos i'd turn it off, so the worst parts of their schtick didn't register for me at all.

also, though, i think ilx generally has it out for a certain kind of tweeness that i'm surrounded by a lot in other online communities, particular tumblr. it's this childlike, lacy, femme, pastel aesthetic where people take pictures of cupcakes sitting on doilies and girls in floral dresses standing in the grass. the etsy-seller aesthetic, i guess. we had a thread decrying it a couple of months ago, but since a lot of people i know (partic. women involved in online activism) really embrace and enjoy it, it doesn't bother me. and it surprised me how violently repulsed people were to it in both this thread and that other one i mentioned!

but i think you hit upon the real reason i'm okay with pomplamoose, contenderizer, which is that i have a massive crush on steve burns from blues clues. clearly this is all just sublimated sexual desire.

I'm thinking that without the visuals (muppet dude, frozen stare girl) the Moose wouldn't be anything other than a million other indie bands over the years. God help me, but girl Moose occasionally sings a bit like Annette Peacock, and I'm sitting in a concrete bunker to protect me from responses to that, but it's really true (has been nagging at me a while, trying to figure out who she sounds sort of like).

Doesn't change the fact that watching them is really, really painful... The girl in Karmin keeps her eyes closed most of the time, and that makes all the difference.

Osmonds were Mormon too, but didn't stop them from making some of the best heavy rock in history, so that's not an excuse.

my sole exposure to this "phenomenon" is this stupid thread

also this reminds me that steve burns went on to do a mild twee album with the flaming lips called "songs for dustmites":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ns9M6DcjtY

Jesus, don't drag Steve Burns into this. He was a genius, and the "Magenta Gets Glasses" episode is the ultimate in non-sublimated sexual desire. The bit where he looks at the "centerfold" in the eye doctor's waiting room with Miranda is one of the great moments in television...

Contenderizer, thanks for such a well-articulated reply. I have my grumpy-old-man-prematurely moments to be sure, but I like cute things. I like home-knit scarves and cupcakes and things that sweet people make by hand. I love kitties and kindness and hugging and being good to people. The thing is, this is NOT that. It feels like these people are co-opting elements of that culture to a creepy degree, but when it comes down to it they're just shilling. Shilling themselves, shilling Hyundais, whatever the fuck. They seem incapable of NOT being muggingly hammy and sales-pitchy. You hit it on the head with this: "i don't want to be sold, don't need whatever it is they're shilling." They're so goddamned enamored with their own perceived cuteness and quirkiness (hence my initial quoting of Jon's point about her being told how special and cute she was a few too many times throughout her young life), and that whole self-consciously quirky/cutesy thing ALWAYS grates on me as one of the most insincere modes of being one can exist in. And coupled with the whole corporate shilling angle, it just gets real nasty.

that's not quite it, is it? because actual sesame street shilling has a different flavor to it:

Does it ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIhPKgXeFuk

wow, that wilkins comp is at least six minutes longer than the others i've seen. so great!

"it's autumn, and the nuts are beginning to fall"

"i've got a five aces. beat that."
"i've got a can of wilkins coffee!" *gunshot*

skip to about 5:20 for "pablamoose" content

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C71cXpekCc

Oh boy!

Pomplamoose Release First Original New Song in Over 5 Months and Accompanying Video, "River Shiver"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHoXIQX7j1A

haha i just saw that subject line in my inbox and had instant LOLs --- 5 months!!!!! it's the chinese democracy of pomplasongs!

Made it to 37 seconds before stopping.

you're a one pomp chump eh

they've taken it to the next pompla-level.

5 months!!!!! it's the chinese democracy of pomplasongs!

― cr?m margera (some dude), Tuesday, June 21, 2011 2:33 PM (2 minutes ago)

Using rewinding cassettes to provide the same effect as turntable scratching is some PoMo shit. Otherwise this is mostly just the latter.

you're a one pomp chump eh

― cr?m margera (some dude), Tuesday, 21 June 2011 18:36 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

It's not the stomp in the pomp, but the juice in the moose.

way 2 pomplay

she's doing that thing again

yeah layin' down a straight naaaasty stax groove you mean?

Looking forward to the "Son of Shaft" cover.

haha i just saw that subject line in my inbox and had instant LOLs

it's actually amazing to me how much of my pomplaphobia is visual; if I don't watch the video, the song is mostly forgettable, but clicking over to the tab with the video makes me all NO NO NO NO #*%! BOXCAR

its also totally the key to their success ☯

has she fixed her eyes or does she still resemble a margaret keane painting of the ludovico scene from clockwork o?

Aye!

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41035000/jpg/_41035371_ayeaye300.jpg

Still hate them but if I don't look at them this song isn't as awful as the other stuff I've heard.

Made it to 37 seconds before stopping.

― oppet, Tuesday, June 21, 2011 2:34 PM (Yesterday)

Shhhhhh

I like how in that one shot motif (seen @ 0:14 & repeated) it looks like the upside down Nat is checking out rightside up Nat's boobs (and vice versa).

watched the whole thing. wasn't so awful. just kinda generic. real horror comes after the song, fwiw. "BROOKLAYN! BROOKLAYN!"

0:50

and I had it on mute

mom tell that lady to stop staring at me

MOM

that tape rewind noise sort of sounds like violent diarhoea

kelpolaris

She should wear those sunglasses more often.

I didn't like it

real horror comes after the song, fwiw. "BROOKLAYN! BROOKLAYN!"

Oh god. Why did I watch?

I hate the way he plays the drums and I hate whatever poster it was who wondered aloud if that's how he is in the sack.

^^^that was me and I'm sorry

i hate PP for re-posting that since I had missed it the first time

I hate that I sometimes now flash on their version of "September" instead of the real one. And then I wanna thrash a drum set into that guy's grinning face.

These guys are Room 101 and the Two-Minute Hate rolled into one. Or two.

guuys theyre playing in williamsburg on friday, h8 fap?

I'll bet if hecklers asked for "Free Bird" they would be one of the few bands happy to accommodate.

____ ________: Is excited for her backstage passes and box seats at the Kennedy Center to watch her cousin Nataly the singer of Pomplamoose open for OK Go!

Boom! We did it, full circle.

http://i55.tinypic.com/2i135a1.jpg

we need code pink to bust in on this show

1000TimesYes Chris Weingarten
Pomplamoose is live a living Etsy store where the only item on sale is a puddle of diahrrea with googly eyes