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

(maybe more me, really)

a hint at divisions in the Pomplamoose camp?

If my partner forced me to listen to Justice and Swedish House Mafia, that would lead pretty quickly to hinting at divisions if you know what I mean.

i've spent the last year listening to and learning how to make electronic music.

ILM has entered the "I don't like you but I need you" stage of its relationship with pomplamoose

― Cunga, Friday, June 15, 2012 6:42 PM (Yesterday)

looool otm

I bet they secretly hate Matt and Kim so much

either way, i guarantee they spend a significant amount of time thinking about matt & kim

I want to like what they're doing, though. I think it's interesting to see video accompanying every track. Reminds me of this Anthony Rochester video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fClHllGaWH8

Which is also indiepop for the public radio audience. Somehow it's a lot more charming, though.

I think part of the charm of twee is that it's usually a modest and humble sound. Pamplamoose, however, are seething with false modesty but are actually really privileged, arrogant and narcissistic.

ILM has entered the "I don't like you but I need you" stage of its relationship with pomplamoose

― Cunga, Friday, June 15, 2012 6:42 PM (Yesterday)

looool otm

I like that song, though!

EDM-age Pomplamoose hasn't really lived up to my expectations. It seems like a whole new brand of irritation, which is less fun than it would be if they properly supplemented the irritation they already had going on.

Also it's kind of perversely enjoyable at points.

new song and intro text are all very "oh, wrinklepaws" imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz4i_meW7Rc

(talk only)

pomplemousee giving a TED talk is like a poorly-formed punchline about 2012

What a smacky mouth.

http://www.pomplamoose.com/home/calling_all_film_makers/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t98Omcsmru8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2uAAm6CyT4

the disclaimer at the start

"IMPORTANT"

This is the end, my only friend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ure6I6mRyDc

Feel like "do not push" is warning me against something

It's kind of cool how they switched out the music for each (singing Carly Rae over the Gotye verse and Gotye over the Carly Rae chorus). As a Tuesday diversion, pleasant enough.

haha the description of the video cuts off before the artist name so i listened for a couple minutes before realizing i'd been Pomplarolled

they're so married

i totally thought it was gonna be a penis in that box though

obv i quickly forgot what thread i'd clicked to it from also (xpost)

nataly totally did it w/ ryan lerman, you can tell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS-v-UUk5wQ

Uh

Can we help you?

that was a 2-week late response to the batman video

oh. ok

SUCK MY ENTIRE DICK

(that was a 90-week-late response to the Hyundai commercial)

2-week-late lol @ unregistered

http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/nonesuch-signs-singer-songwriter-nataly-dawn-solo-debut-album-pomplamoose-singer-how-i-knew-her-january-2013-2012-08-22

Nonesuch President Bob Hurwitz recalls the first time he heard about Pomplamoose: “Brad Mehldau told me over lunch one day about these two extremely cool musicians in the Bay Area that had found a new and original way to get their music out. I looked them up online and the first video I watched was ‘My Favorite Things.’ It was clear they were onto something special.” He continues, “I tried to get in touch with them, to no avail, but my colleague Lenny Waronker, the great producer and executive from Warners, brought us together about a year ago. The minute I heard Nataly’s demos I knew she had an original voice and was someone we would love to have as part of the Nonesuch family.”

Dawn said of her decision to work with Nonesuch: “I can’t tell you how encouraging it is to be working with such passionate and intelligent people. People who care about music, and who are pleasantly old fashioned in the way they deal with artists.”

I saw this video interview with Mike Doughty where he was asking the guy to name any artists post-2002 or so that had real success in the internet age w/o label backing and the guy says "POMPLAMOOSE!" and Doughty rolls his eyes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i02PvPttBsI

It's like Tom Waits if he was a woman and the worst person on earth.

so who are that insufferable twee duo in the new geico ads

i want them dead

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

get punched in the dick

It's no Secret Lemonade Drinker

http://www.natalydawnmusic.com/2012/09/14/if-i-hear-one-more-person-boycott-amanda-palmer/

That level of financial disregard can only stem from an unflinching belief in what you’re creating.

well, glad we cleared that up, then

I feel like the person who made those geico commercials doesn't get that the punchline comes at the end of the joke

Let me tell you how much it cost: $150,000.

Uh.

poor girl, with expenses like that she might have to move out of sonoma (or wherever).

a $150K recording budget wouldn't be crazily large for a big label artist, even a minor one.