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

omg that video

oh good a meta song about how they are called pomplamoose and they are going to perform music

"I was super clean"

intro song mentions "haters" -- ilx shoutout?

love the steady stream of people walking in front of the camera, giving the stage an unimpressed side-eye

"single ladies" cover falls to pieces within ten seconds, never recovers

crowd could not give less of a fuck about any of this. STOP TRYING TO DO STAGE PATTER, THE CROWD IS AGAINST YOU

drum solo???????????

i imagine everyone would hate this fourth song because it is dreary and boring, but it's a bit dreamy and i like that. without the DRUM SOLO though

you know why the audience is so bored, pomplachick is wearing SUNGLASSES. her wide, eerily fixed eyes cannot compel them

pomplamoose this audience hates you!! they are not charmed by you inserting the word "google" into songs!! you need to start negging them. make a crack about google wave

seriously though this is terrible

this endless insecure dithering between songs!!!! i wonder if it's nerves or if they think this is charming.

TS: endless insecure dithering vs. three-minute instrumental "jam"

"single ladies" cover falls to pieces within ten seconds, never recovers

― dreamleaf, sparkleroot, basilisk venom tinctures (reddening), Saturday, November 12, 2011 11:47 AM (48 minutes ago)

Was this a kids show?

These poor googles. They just want to a have a free lunch outside and ride a free bike around campus, and along comes Pomplamoose to make them want to go back in and start coding again.

improvised lyric during cover of "mr. sandman": "make sure he doesn't have an itchy crotch-y!"

ugh and then when the song ends, the chick tells the crowd "those were improvised lyrics!" other pomplaband member says "that works pretty well! that was funny!" STOP TALKING AND PLAY YOUR SHITTY MUSIC, YOU GOONS.

if the collapse of the record industry means all future bands are gonna be this shitty, unprofessional gloop with no stagecraft then the RIAA needs to start pressing for the death penalty for file-sharers

omg reddening thank you for liveblogging

pomplamoose you literally just said the phrase "you had to be there" to excuse your tiresome joke. go home. it's all over.

pomplamoose has one song that i genuinely like, called "river shiver." they are playing it now and it's abysmal. chick's voice is thin and inexpressive and wobbly -- things most people would say about their videos i know, but 10x worse here.

god these songs just dribble to a close! and then they laugh about it!! DON'T YOU CARE, POMPLAMOOSE!!!

I'm pretty sure they don't

And it was a corporate gig, too. These guys are like an SNL skit come to life.

Like, a cross between Garth & Kat and the Will Ferrell cheerleader duo.

pompladude: "so, ryan has been learning some slap bass recently!" it is the end times

OMG, my wife just tells me that Pomplamoose means grapefruit in German!

"ryan" apparently plays in ben folds' band. crowd applauds politely. pomplamoose tells ryan to say something in an australian accent, because he's been touring in australia. ryan says some shit. crowd is silent. drummer makes a sad little rimshot sound.

It's French, no? xpost

oh it's another pomplamoose song i'm okay with, "aching heart." it's the one where pomplamoose recommends you sleep with a prostitute if you're depressed. it's off-key and off-rhythm.

xpost I think it's grapefruit in German AND French!

chick's voice can't withstand the rigors of this "telephone" cover, she's singing the stuttery parts live and it's just this sad atonal bleat

oh yeah, here ryan goes, playing the slap bass. oh and the rest of them are joining in for an impromptu jam! actually this is livelier and more pleasing than anything they've played so far. thirty seconds in pomplachick says flatly "okay, you can stop now" because she's not participating in any of this.

Yeah, grapefruit in French and German, although I always assumed the German was borrowed from the French. The word in Spanish is related- "pomelo." In Spain, that is, in lots of Latin American they have another word, "toronja." Their name is a sly tribute to
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fgePaP-TVwk/SlYmETrq93I/AAAAAAAAAZc/QfVL0qsrD-c/s400/grapefruit.jpg

reddening, didn't you used to be the defender of the pomp on this thread?

relieved of her bass by ryan, pomplachick is now free to dance...terribly

Yoko reference makes this even worse.

I was kidding. It's probably not true.

xp yeah, i tried to make the case for some of their songs during the early mass pile-on! i still enjoy those songs and listen to them sometimes, so it should have special resonance when i say this is god-awful.

to solve the above mystery, a grapefruit in german is called "pampelmuse". someone should start a crowdfunded kraftwerk-twee-hybrid with that name.

Yeah, in French is pamplemouse or something, too.

Mousse?

pompladude goes mad with the joy of song @ 1:04:45, if you are interested

oh and that was it. in summary: i liked pomplachick's dress, it was very pretty.

reddening, you deserve some kind of special ILM commendation for your efforts here. Yesterday we remembered the veterans of our armed forces, today we are thinking of heroes like you.

Cool. I clicked on that video but turned it right off.

Pampelmuse but isn't that the old word and nowadays it's just "die Grapefruit"?

that's what google translate goes for anyway

more like 'die bittere orangenähnliche frucht, die unsere großväter aus gesundheitsgründen verspeisten'.

Get rid of Natalie and put the keyboard guy in a suit that restricts everything but his arms/hands (and covers his face) and they'd be tolerable.

ahahahahaha they're REALLY bad live!