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

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

lol!

Oh, and one of the big things about K, or at least flagship K-ers Beat Happening, was the contrast between super creepy guy with bass voice and ingenue (of sorts). It helps.

Yeah, I was gonna toss in Beat Happening yesterday, there is a bit of this aesthetic in lots of K Records stuff, but it (they) always seemed to me to be more about inspired amateur cacaphony more than cutesy schtick.

yeah i think beat happening would have died before staring into a video camera lovingly for hours

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

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 12:06 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

well now, maybe. but for real, there is a clear bright line running back to the 50s w/dudes like this. what's baffling to me is that i'm pretty sure that being into bluegrass/folk music and accordions and going camping and shit was Not At All Cool ten years ago. or, at least, not a "hipster" subtype. they were just dudes.

i think the comparison is way off, i don't see pomplamoose ever ending up in this situation for example

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD96qMnK4n4

Girl in Hyundai ad should rub her tummy suggestively while staring blankly at the audience.

They Were Just Dudes: The American Bluegrass Underground 1989-1996 (Forward By Greil Marcus)

I may be massively projecting here but I am almost 100% certain that everyone I knew in 2002 who was massively into camping and bluegrass/folk music and accordions was also a massive hipster.

well now, maybe. but for real, there is a clear bright line running back to the 50s w/dudes like this. what's baffling to me is that i'm pretty sure that being into bluegrass/folk music and accordions and going camping and shit was Not At All Cool ten years ago. or, at least, not a "hipster" subtype. they were just dudes.

― ullr saves (gbx), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 2:40 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

yeah i agree w/this--i think they have been subsumed into some kind of rugged outdoor urbanite model.

(I mean, unless we are adding a scene-jumping/poseur element to the term "hipster" that isn't necessarily there by definition; there need to be some originals for the flock to copy, after all.)

In 2002, people I knew (or knew of) who liked bluegrass and camping probably arrived at that via String Cheese Incident or Yonder Mountain String Band (i.e. hippies vs. hipsters.) They could have been sporting dreads. It hadn't reached this level yet:

http://www.minnpost.com/client_files/alternate_images/1854/mp_main_wide_RoeFamilySingers.jpg

(btw, that's the Roe Family Singers, and I like them. Not disparaging.)

there is a clear bright line running back to the 50s w/dudes like this.

this guy is david seville

dan, i think trampled by turtles is more that old string cheese audience, no?

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.

― The baby boomers have defined everything once and for all (Dorianlynskey), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 9:50 AM

well said.

http://www.exponentialconference.org/mediafiles/home-banner-2011.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3CzptgIvcU

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