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

I tried to lsiten to "September" but once they got to the chorus i had to shut it off so i could quickly compose a will before DYING

What's that thread from two or three years ago about how before a currently trendy genre dies it needs to have a band become popular who is almost a satire of it? e.g. before garage rock revivalism died we needed Jet.

hi guys

hi! i can't possibly imagine what your opinion on this will be!

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i think they're horrible people!

twee aesthetic has been barely held back from the mainstream for a long time. xmas 2k10 was the dam breaking. there's no turning back now.

― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy)

I thought that Owl City invading the tweens' bedrooms a year earlier had been that.

Why doesn't anybody really sing anymore instead of just kind of croaking a melody? heyyoukidsgetoffmylawn.jpg

^ ilx buried my heyyoukidsgetoffmylawn.jpg punchline there.

i like this band. here is a song of theirs i enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uolz7V12evc

tbf i haven't listened to/seen the hyundai commercial because christmas songs generally fill me with rage.

maybe they actually hate hipsters, like i've heard that people who dress like intolerable obnoxious hipsters and have hipster affectations are often the sorts who spend 24/7 railing against hipsters.

they wont admit that in a commercial tho cuz it wont help sell hyundais

or would it?

i mean, whatever it's not shocking that since "indie rock" is big-business/cultural movement now that the think most marketable to middle america is the safe/tame/cuteypoo parts and not Pissed Jeans.

i mean if Garden State/Juno/Arcade Fire was "modern indie's" "nirvana moment" on whatever microcosmic level which means SNL and car commercials 6 years later, we're already at the nickelback/creed stage of thangs.

like i definitely hate the "i heard Cat Power and i think i'm just gonna kinda ride that out instead of ever trying to really sing" type singing and it is kind of indie but it's funny how people watch a couple wearing christmas sweaters and singing jingle bells and go "ugh HIPSTERS"

― hann am0n tana (some dude), Sunday, January 2, 2011 8:42 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i dunno this seems p twee to me

i mean these people are hipsters like nickelback are grunge-rockers, which is basically just proof of what little/if any weight that term/movement is going to carry in 2011 and 2012

more accurately:

these people are "hipsters" like stone temple pilots was "alternative"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hFT853OYfg
Toy pianos and xylophones add to tweeness.

what little/if any weight that term/movement is going to carry in 2011 and 2012

this is what we have carles for

i'm sure the oppressive irony/sarcasm of the 70s/80s babies

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/3/33/20070205184917!Homerpalooza.png

grown into Gawker-readind snarko A-dults caused this backlash of SUPER SINCERE peter pan adobe slab nostLOLgiawave like Neon Cassette Teen Beach bands AND ALSO this cuet twee ellen page burgerphone music from kids young enough to see Max Keeble make his Big Moves.

so honestly we have no one to blame but oursleves

So is this girl's Cat Power-style singing the female version of Wayne Coyne/Jonathan Donahue/Daniel Johnston guy-with-cracked-voice singing?

And this whole debate is sort of funny because it's another case of ILX-types thinking a trend was dead or dying years ago (in this case the twee aesthetic et al) and now seeing that it's far from it.

weve covered this in depth on ilnfl btw

― ice cr?m, Sunday, January 2, 2011 9:30 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

we've invected against this at ilh too

― dayo, Sunday, January 2, 2011 9:39 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yes actually more on ilh but both places - sports fans for whatever reason have been non stop tortured w/these fucks for the last 60 days - girl is p hot tho

And whiney: I thought you were exaggerating or really scraping the bottom of the barrel last year for those post-anco band names, but then as the year continued I would hear people talk about "Universal Studios, FL." Seeing Pwin Teaks on a music site was the turning point.

btw they have been youtube sensations for at least a couple years

Whiney do you ever get out of Brooklyn

last time i checked these guys were on national TV ads and not Brooklyn so?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIr8-f2OWhs

this is the worst shit btw enjoy

pom*plop*moose

their name is pomplamoose? oh.

i thought they were the arcade fire.

we can take consolation in the fact that the girl is obviously suffering from

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanpaku

we should feel sorry for her

"pomplamoose" reminds me of this

http://amoscontentgroup.com/amos/upload/2010/08/pompatus.jpg

this thread is making me think about why i like this band so here are my reasons.

1. they remind me pleasantly of some friends i have in portland, only these people are rich because their youtube glories propelled them to car commerical fame, while my friends are rich because they have rich parents.

2. i like the sound of cat power's voice only i have heard all the cat power songs.

3. there's a lack of pretty female harmonies in the other music i listen to and this is fulfilling that urge.

also i've never paid much attention to animal collective/arcade fire etc. so maybe this segement of indie-hood has some novelty value for me.

pamplemousse = grapefruit

On April 11, 2010, the band was interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered. Conte discussed the "glitz-free" manner in which they record:

"I guess I kinda don't like how there's such a pedestal for music culture and especially for band culture, it just feels fake; it feels like smoke and mirrors. I feel like music doesn't have to be like that. It can be something that's very normal and very accessible."

America should help n korea bomb the south for letting hyundai run those commercials past the 25th

― infinity rebounding stats (m bison)

xp lol delusions

t/s these commercials vs. the honda vampy weekend ones

both of which are FOR SOME REASON STILL RUNNING

I can't even do this

hillfigger vampire weekend is fairly embarrassing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFiBnd0zBFM

I've never been to Brooklyn, btw

The people in this ad seem to me like they live in Chicago, for some reason

"I guess I kinda don't like how there's such a pedestal for music culture and especially for band culture, it just feels fake; it feels like smoke and mirrors. I feel like music doesn't have to be like that. It can be something that's very normal and very accessible."

fwiw they're talking about the way their videos play out: like the kutiman "thru you" thing, all the images on the screen correspond to sounds being produced in the song. so like if there's four-part harmony they shove in four shots of the girl singing all the different parts, etc.

i guess they imagine a world where no one understands multi-track recording

i mean you gotta sing it four times, right. like that actually happens in reality, for your four-part harmony you gotta sing four times.

this girl is really ANNOYING amirite fellas

(no, she really is)

the reason i actually hate these guys is the proliferation of non-band recording acts so fuck their multi-tracking imo

lol

the girls tuneless voice and lameo affectation is maybe the most grating part, she just really has no feel for singing

the real question is whether the "images on the screen [that] correspond to sounds being produced in the song" were actually recorded at the same time as the sounds — because if not then that is some bullshit

insulting to grapefruit :(

Too much botheration for me to be involved in.

Then Pomplamoose's upcoming Chuck Berry tribute, Too Pooped To Pomp, is for you!

Hahaha!

magdalena bay

Scary Pockets manages to be worse than Pomplamoose somehow. And here they are.. featuring Joe Bonamassa!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/Crbf-BvLM0N/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

that is awful but it's a different vibe from pomplamoose, less cutesy and more berklee

yeah true. There's something that really bothers me about the way they manage to play funk exactly "right" and it still doesn't sound funky at all, like an uncanny valley thing.

Scary Pockets is a bad vibe for sure, like a much smarmier Vulfpeck (they make me appreciate Vulfpeck more on every level fr).

I guess it's a net good that they've presumably introduced many people to the tasteful genius of Larry Goldings.

Is all their stuff covers(??)

it says right in the description that it's a cover band with a rotating cast of guest musicians so...

Sorry - not sure where that description is, I was looking at their catalog in Spotify.

whoops, I went to the instagram account’s main page and it’s the description there

I was interested in hearing this uncanny-valley funk, but less so when I realized they're cover albums with titles like Stank Face.

"Uncanny valley" probably gives it too much credit. It's not uncanny in any interesting sense. They kind of subtly have the vibe of a kids' band though. Jack has a lot to do with that.

I mean it's like the least "stank" it could possibly get

makes sense

at its root the pomplamoose stuff is an exercise in competence, it's just so dry to me. you could maybe do something interesting with that by taking it in weird directions but there's no weird there

which makes it a bizarre approach to play funk covers

'haha we are playing funk, chortle'

yeah, that too!

Yeah as Jordan pointed out even Vulfpeck are charming by comparison, because at least they have this geeky obsessiveness that gets taken to extremes.