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

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!

not bAD

****** out of ****************

red+ otm tho

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqTq7030fTc

I'm not going to watch.

Just curious about the setlist's 'originals:covers' ratio

60:40, maybe? maybe even more weighted toward originals than that.

after a good night's sleep i'm still kinda O_O at the confluence of negative factors: sloppy musicianship throughout, strained and wobbly lead vocals, cartoonish background vocals performed smirkily, like "oh well, we can't do any better, might as well make a joke out of it!" the ironic pop covers were listless and badly performed, everyone's stage presence was grating and try-hard, and they just would NOT shut up and let their music speak for itself, AT ALL. i can see their patter working in front of an audience already familiar with them from youtube, but this crowd wasn't into it and they refused to change tactics or dial it back for the entire show.

i am ready to kill myself and Pomplamoose hasn't even taken the stage

in their defense (but not really) playing a coporate gig to an afternoon crowd of office drones must be a fucking chore however well-compensated

A propos of the German-language and the weird cover version themes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOAzuqngOYo&feature=player_embedded

Should have said "weird cover version duos"

kinda feel like your dn is answering the question posed by the thread title:

So who ARE that insufferable indie couple in the new Hyundai TV ads? [Started by henry s in January 2011, last updated 8 minutes ago by Miss Piggy and Frodo in Hull (James Redd and the Blecchs)] 63 new answers

Knew there must be a reason I hadn't changed it yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSPAWnD0K64

why exactly was she begging for money to make a record?

because her fans are suckers

tru but you have to remember a huge chunk of that money is "pre-orders" and not "donations"

come back nataly dawn!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF4a6AmNPYw

oy

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/jessicafrech/jessica-frech-you-new-album?ref=card

Excuse me, but a Britisher writes: "Hun-day"?

I guess recording bad music and begging for money on kickstarter is the new showing your boobs on your webcam.

http://www.pomplamoose.com/img/phptSudgAPM.jpg

^^Two Real Lights

two whites

Tumblr Whites

kinda reminds me of sally kellerman in that pic

"My lamoose is pomp!Kiss my pomplamoose!"

http://graceassembly.la/sites/default/files/imagecache/content-images/content_image/Jim%20Knutsen_0.jpg

this family is knuts

― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Monday, January 3, 2011 3:33 PM

http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/17/keen-on-pomplamoose-how-nataly-and-jack-are-reinventing-the-music-business-tctv/

andrew keen totally reinventing the pun game

gif that avatar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX76C1MsjQI

http://frakathustra.wordpress.com/2012/02/20/a-followup-to-kickstarter-and-kickbacks-pomplamoose-goes-begging/

3. Kamran says that this project is costing Dawn “money out of pocket.”

If that is true, then it means that this recording is going to cost much more than $100,000. She only asked for $20,000 initially, so why will it now cost well over five times that amount? In the same interview (Part 3), both of them say that they initially recorded their music (the music that made them famous) with only a microphone and MBOX. A microphone and MBOX should not cost more than $2,000, but now she needs over $100,000 to do a solo recording? The only way we’ll know if she’s actually spending her own money on this is if they post their income tax returns next year. I doubt that will be forthcoming as I’m sure their high-powered LA entertainment lawyer would advise otherwise.

http://www.dreamstime.com/happy-smiling-girl-counting-money-thumb8087114.jpg

what those articles miss is that they are using mboxes made of solid gold.