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

congrats on creeping this thread up

lol xp

also the pamplemeposse shreds video is the first one posted to this thread that I got all the way through w/o stopping

as bozelka suggested, orig. disco pamplemousse is awesome

fucking insane that this thread has four hundred posts in like a day. but yes, this shit is painful. so painful that i was doubly pained to find i that half liked the (equally intolerable) "real" pomplamoose song someone linked yesterday. but why? why do i find this cheerful, childlike, wildly inoffensive plinkety-plonk so face-smashingly hideous? why has "hipsters" become shorthand for "indie-liking white people," most of them cuddly-faced, suburbs-bound, would-be-baby-making non-hipsters?

I actually think the cooing baby-making aspect of Pomplamoose is borderline-adorable, but it's the suburbs-bound thing that kinda gets to me. Depressed that there are people out there who are tailor-made for the cozy life (class-warfare part in me), outraged that they are so well-adjusted about this, and lack the ambition to fight against it, let alone transcend it.

But I'm a pretty corny fuck, and actually I truly don't wish harm on these people at all.

...the cooing baby-making aspect of Pomplamoose is borderline-adorable, but it's the suburbs-bound thing that kinda gets to me. Depressed that there are people out there who are tailor-made for the cozy life (class-warfare part in me), outraged that they are so well-adjusted about this, and lack the ambition to fight against it, let alone transcend it.

thing is, i'm totally cool with that. i don't think there's anything wrong with the suburbs-bound baby-makers, and i don't want them to be any other than what they are. more power to them. but they are not hipsters. they are the opposite of hipsters. fact that the word "hipsters" has come to signify these people (well-adjusted, beard-sporting white dudes and the ladies that love them) is mind-boggling to me.

^right. the more mature I get, the more I realize there's a lot to be said for not apologizing for who you are.

but yeah, def. not hipsters. Nerds.

it takes guts to be gentle and kind.

NO NOT NERDS EITHER.

I want a new classification. "Lamesters"

thought Corny Indie Fuxxxors was a perfectly serviceable label tbh

@T3mp3Tr0y Pomplamoose (sp?) has lost all hipster cred with those ads. So they're paying the ultimate price. 7:44 PM Jan 2nd via Twitter for iPhone in reply to T3mp3Tr0y

k1mho1comb
K1m Ho1comb

THE ULTIMATE PRICE

what is the ultimate price?

http://i.imgur.com/e3Rg5.jpg

spaying and neutering your pets?

Cosign upthread, the pomplemousse shred vid is lol

this might be the worst thing in the history of things http://spinningplatters.com/2011/01/01/show-review-the-dresden-dolls-with-pomplamoose-at-the-warfield-12312010/#

the biggest slap in the face being starting the setlist with a trex cover and ending with a sabbath cover THATS OUR MUSIC STAY AWAY CORNY INDIE FUXX

"15. (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party) (Beastie Boys cover with Jason Webley, Zoe Boekbinder, Whitney Moses, and Pomplamoose)"

the more i look the more things i find offensive about this picture http://spinningplatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/dollsgroup.jpg

Forget what you thought you knew about how to celebrate for the beginning of a new year. Forget what you thought could happen with two Bostonians, a collective of YouTube musicians, a pile of balloons, two cannons of confetti, and two thousand lovers of punk cabaret. If you were not one of the aforementioned fans that filled San Francisco’s Warfield Theater to nigh-overflowing to see the triumphant Bay Area return of the Dresden Dolls, you missed one of the greatest shows in the band’s career, and one of the best shows of 2010, and, quite likely, 2011 as well.

u_u

xpost: UNLAWFUL DISPLAY OF METAL HORNS.

YELLOW CARD.

YELLOW FUCKING CARD.

chillaxin beer bro challenges your call

who's the bloke in the bra playing drums?

think it's Amanda Palmer ???

also wtf @ tall dude with red puffy ski jacket and pyjama pants/1990 happy pants

if you're chugging whiskey, you're allowed to throw the horns, no matter who you are

but yes, mysterious pyjamaman is mysterious

This review pretty much sums up my experience with the concert. It omits some of the more entertaining small bits of the night (like the improvisation after 3 keyboard malfunctions or Amanda, while in the balcony telling a mother of someone that "this is no time to be taking pictures," and to "touch my vagina") though…

TOUCH MY VAGINA

words to live by

heard it was one of the best shows of 2010, in all honesty, and comma quite likely comma 2011 as well

comma UGH comma

comma coma comma comma argh

if you're chugging whiskey, you're allowed to throw the horns, no matter who you are

― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 8:20 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no way dude. horns get earned. 5th graders can chug makers

fifth grader chugging makers and paying digital tribute to our southern lord = dude

^truth

ok, true. get that dude up there in place of these squares tho imo

i like the c86 version of "twee" a lot -- somehow it's preferable with a dose of UK gloom/sarcasm and loud/distorted guitars. the 2010 iteration of "twee" (especially as done by shiny happy kids from the u.s. and canada) is just infantilism. i'm not a class warrior but i look at nataly dawn and think "white, christian, nordic surname, has 'good' (straight, blondish) hair that isn't a wisp out of place, her contented face signifying that nothing bad has ever happened to her other than the painless death of a pet goldfish." Basically, congratulations, you "win" at "life." Your prize is you get to pretend you're a baby. Goo goo ga ga. Ka-ching.

...damn

infantilism appeals to all sorts: black & white, rich & poor, attractive & not so much so. nataly dawn may have seen some shit for all i know. the intense hatred of comfortable twee seems predicated as much on contempt of the comfortable as distaste for their cutie-pie boo-boo noises. me, i don't hate the comfortable even when they're white christians with nordic surnames and straight hair. i hate sappy, smarmy tweedle-tweedle nothing music no matter who's making it. (this is not "taste," mind you. it's merely an expression of my cynicism and perverse pride in social maladapation.)

though her kooky askance-looking grates, she's a million times less annoying than prancing dude.

Do pompalmoose choose to perform "single ladies" because they see it as cute irony, or is something more insidious? (a celebration of that whole Christian "virginity pledge" nonsense, perhaps?)
Maybe i should also apologize for bumping this up to the top o the board...

congratulations, you "win" at "life." Your prize is you get to pretend you're a baby.

lawl

I'm sure they chose "Single Ladies" because of some stupid shit Beyonce said a dozen years ago, yes.

is all of this ultimately laid at the feet of calvin johnson?

like there's something gratingly childish and infantile about this that seems to stem from beat happening, right?

like somehow beat happening ended up leaking into the mainstream via kimya dawson and juno and shit and then dorks that were "activities people" in high school thought it would look good for their college transcripts to have a band or something ended up turning it into this corporatized dreck?

and like ugh i'm challopsing but this shit makes it really hard not to get in a henry rollins mindset you know?

you guys should buy DVRs and fast forward through TV ads

sorry but mad lols @ "these people are not true hipsters" upthread

the only time ive ever thought something along those lines was when i saw that 'teen hearts' video where a bunch of late 20s label dudes appear to be dressing up like 17 yr old emo fans. but this?? cmon guys. narc of small diff for sure. give or take a hyundai spot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqzAUFFg_Z8

look at these fucking hipsters