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

pomplamoose was a hero to most

you guys should buy DVRs and fast forward through TV ads

― da croupier, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 10:12 AM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i have the worst habit of watching shit on DVR and then forgetting i can fast forward, drives me crazy

xpost lollllll

isn't Amanda Palmer the lady that made a mint doing a 'pay what you want' album of playing Radiohead covers on ukelele? she and Pomplamoose deserve each other.

who does neil gaiman deserve?

like somehow beat happening ended up leaking into the mainstream via kimya dawson and juno and shit
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

Good call; I'd forgotten about that whole K scene.

The secret link exposed: wiki touts BH's "pivotal role in the International Pop Underground Festival, which brought anti-corporate rock its earliest mainstream acceptance." Cue crushingly cute waves of irony.

We've sure put a lot of energy into this thread and I'm still not sure why. I'd love to hate Pomplamoose (firstly for mispelling a fruit I'm rather fond of and secondly for being from Corte Madera just on principle) but I find I don't have the energy.

my only contribution to this thread is that I assumed it was Feist appearing with some random bearded dude I didn't know

It's an advert!

So, what about that one that's "That's just me" about the Godfather 3, while picking a vintage Gretsch off the wall of a junk store, about? Hmm?

...and don't even get me started on the Honda Odyssey / Judas Priest commercial. But that's a whole other topic.

Or the Toyota one where AC/DC is singing "Tundra-Struck!" That one split my mind open.

yeh that dating one is weird, they are two kind of cuddly alt looking ppl too

i like old movies
like godfather 3

ok godfather 3 is not really an old movie in a medium with like a 120 year history

it's not considered the best one

it is in fact considered a travesty ruining the legacy of two of the finest american films of their decade

but that's just me

yep, that's just you...

oh sorry, you directed it? fair enough....

I'm pretty sure there's only about 4 people on this thread who are incandescent with rage and the rest of us just love a pile-on

That Godfather 3 ad did lead to my family wrestling a hammer out of my hands tho.

sophia coppolol :-(

there's a new ad for godfather 3?

Nah it's an ad for an online dating agency. I don't even hate Godfather 3 with any intensity it's just that fucking advert.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z4aguu4Ex0

WHERE'S YOUR SO-CALLED PAMPLIMOOS NOW, AMERICANSES???

accents alone can induce stabbage at several hundred yards

Ah, (penny drops) so if you are the person that wants a vintage gretsch cheap, and a doe-eyed girl in a cardy who also has only seen the third Godfather film, then you had better sign up to an online dating agency, as you will not meet her in a stylised junk shop!

Oh and re 'why don't you fast forward on your DVR' - only reason I ever saw the Pamplemoose commercial in its entirety ad-nauseum was bc I don't DVR football games, and for some ridiculous reason football fans are Pompdepomp's target audience. Hence my irrational anger (though if you go to the irrational anger thread you know that not much goes by without some daily IA from me, lol)

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.

― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 08:58 (8 hours ago)

see if yr going to hate on crap but innocuous popkult drivel, do it like that

a+

http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/theory-of-hipster-relativity-20101117-162940.jpg

in UK, is it considered provincial to like guy ritchie gangster movies over godfather 3?

since I don't watch sports, if I ever see a grating or treasured-song/movie/memory-raping ad I figure it's my fault for bothering to witness the fucker

^^^ irl lol at that cartoon..

I actually liked the match.com spot. (But that's just meeee...)

xpost dacroupier not even the direst Rams vs http://c0848462.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/3d93bd2c4f3f1b33c02182fd0f20476f.png game would ever make me feel like I deserved to be assaulted in such a way. But that's just meeeee

oops hatcat lol. Sea-hawks.

match.com ad is horrifying nadir of the tweepocalypse

in UK, is it considered provincial to like guy ritchie gangster movies over godfather 3?

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 17:40 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

yes

Match.com more like challops.com amirite

twee beardos in between bike punks and ironic tees seems alright to me

though i gotta say that when i was in college, being into olde timey music and wearing flannel and having a beard was not at all "hipster," it was just "outdoorsy"

Re: K and C86, however annoying some of it may have been, it was a legitimate aesthetic retort to mainstream 80s rock - a rejection of machismo, slickness, virtuosity, the "adult" world, etc, which is what made it part of the backdrop to Riot Grrrl. Tweeness was politicised only as long as it was a long, long way from the mainstream (and a long way from making any $$$). As soon as that connection with the legitimate underground was broken, there was no limit to how horrible it could become.

match.com ad is horrifying nadir of the tweepocalypse

Nice try at ginning up another 400 posts of vitriol, but no Muppets on kickdrums, no big waif-eyes at camera, no manic fun-having. Pomplamoose infinitely worse imo.

where did beret-sporting unicorns fall

xxp

o wait that's a baseball cap nm

hyundai commercial vs. match.com commercial

it's like rugburn vs. bleach in the eyes but pomplamoose are worse only because of their cultural juggernautics

"no big waif-eyes at camera, no manic fun-having."

i thought people here liked Elf. is will farrell inoculation against twee?

Re: K and C86, however annoying some of it may have been, it was a legitimate aesthetic retort to mainstream 80s rock - a rejection of machismo, slickness, virtuosity, the "adult" world, etc, which is what made it part of the backdrop to Riot Grrrl.

I think one of the dominant themes of ILX as of late is how great ideas from the 80s have gone horribly horribly wrong...

actually the hyundai commercial was fairly innocuous the first time I saw it but they really drove it into the ground hur hur hur

though i gotta say that when i was in college, being into olde timey music and wearing flannel and having a beard was not at all "hipster," it was just "outdoorsy"
exactly! i spent plenty of time w/ guys like this in high school/university days on long weekends at the lake, etc..
Of course there would be the obligatory Neil Young strummery around the fire, but also drunken fist fights while Thin Lizzy's "Thunder and Lightning" was blasting from someone's Pontiac Firebird...

though i gotta say that when i was in college, being into olde timey music and wearing flannel and having a beard was not at all "hipster," it was just "outdoorsy"

these guys are totally a subhipster type when they live in a major city!

One man's stoner is another man's hipster.

Or something.

just read this thread and the fact that anyone in the world sees their harmonies as "elaborate" makes me want to commit suicide

that image is pretty fucking otm except the kyp malone part honestly

Aw, that Match.com thing is cute.

yeah makes me misty with the implied possibilities

http://grab.by/8ch9 lmao