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

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 :(

hahaaaa

i wld disagree that she has "no feel for singing" — it's more that she has perfected a brand of singing which i have no desire to hear, like yodelling or black metal growls

yeah no kidding vin de pamplemousse is some bomb-ass drinking fun, like white sangria but better.

xxp

hmm imo not only is the style of singing shes chosen unappealing shes also horrible at it

you know, when I listen to music, the first thing I always think is "wouldn't it be awesome if I could see the musicians in the studio playing all the parts at the same time" and then I found pamplamoose and now I am happy

also the fact that she spells her name 'nataly' is somehow infuriating

hardly a cogent criticism of pomplamoose, you'll need to take that up with pomplamom

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.

they are so pdx it's painful.

every time i see that commercial i'm glad i left.

really, these commercials barely even register on my bloodboil-ometer, but that EW&F raping upthread is simply beyond the pale

this thread horrifies me

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 9:42 PM (1 hour ago)

This type of indie singing is really annoying because it reminds me of the nose-holding chewbacca thing that happened in the 90s with Jewel, etc.
Its not really hipster, but they aren't too much of any one thing because they are trying to appeal to and identify with youtube watching vaguely indie-minded young people. The whole thing is like this safe quirkiness and its blatant marketing intentions make it more annoying than most other stupid slightly less blatant commercials. I'm sure this isn't news to anybody but this commercial has been bugging the shit out of me for awhile and I'm glad a thread for it exists to vent on.

my dark twisted pomplamoose

I am halfway through the EWF video and I can't even watch it, I need to keep it in another browser tab and look at it, because

we need to destroy humanity, start again, we have fouled this earth, blessed are the dead...

so they're a cover band?

dayo, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!)

http://i55.tinypic.com/2iawqvq.gif

^ best post of 2011

evan I thought you were referencing a GYBE song and then I googled it and it's even worse

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.

― omar little, Sunday, January 2, 2011 9:00 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

you turned the mirror on us!

but 4 srs, pretty much everyone watching football today was bitching about them on twitter, hardly limited to ilx hipster crit circles.

oh wait, i get it... they made videos for a shitload of covers with intentions of going viral.

that's like a band who only releases covers for their singles. like what smash mouth did.