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

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

http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.79183374.jpg

http://www.topofmind.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/1_61_foxworthy_jeff.jpg

If ya got a dry bag for your banjo.... you might be a subhipster!

(xpost) Matt, yeah, Trampled By Turtles too. Are they known nationally? Sorta? I think so, I have no idea. Yonder Mountain has/had some association with Phish (sorry to be cluttering up this Pomplamoose thread with my very limited jamband knowledge!) But it is interesting to me how that roots music went from being the provenance of old hippies, to young hippies, to more urban scene kids.

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.

― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 1:21 AM (10 hours ago)

see, i kinda give kimya a pass (and i don't like her music) for being an actual outsider. hyundai would not make a cheerful christmas commercial starring this person:

http://www.losanjealous.com/img/sxsw08/Kimya_Dawson_05.jpg

(I suppose my reaction to this particular branch of the hipster conversation is being colored by living with an Irish fiddler for 2 years and almost living with an old-timey musician who wanted to have jam sessions in our apartment in the late 90s)

right, she only got her music into an incredibly popular movie that was nominated for a ton of awards
xpost

it wasn't incredibly popular when she got her music into it!

but it was in 2010 when hyundai was making this fucking commercial!

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so pomplamoose is the name of that insufferable hipster duo on those nauseating hyundai commercials...more like pomplaDOUCHE. BOOM, roasted!
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(xpost) Matt, yeah, Trampled By Turtles too. Are they known nationally? Sorta? I think so, I have no idea. Yonder Mountain has/had some association with Phish (sorry to be cluttering up this Pomplamoose thread with my very limited jamband knowledge!) But it is interesting to me how that roots music went from being the provenance of old hippies, to young hippies, to more urban scene kids.

― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 2:07 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i think they are pretty popular, like in that way that jam bands are like 10X more popular than local indie bands that get 10X the press...i think they might have a bit of that st. thomas/st.john's college dude "gear daddies" type crowd as well crossover (or dave matthews type crowd)

however, they are down with Low and Sparhawk but I think that's more a Duluth pride type thing

but it was in 2010 when hyundai was making this fucking commercial!

...with adorable white people with clear skin and no tattoos or piercings or 'fros!

i feel like people have forgotten jamiroquoi as a reference for insufferability.

there is definite mix here of hill town dudes who grew up on farms and had hippie farmer parents and western mass noise/psych people who came from elsewhere to go to school here or just live here. everyone hangs with everyone. they can be hard to tell apart.

that was in response to something way up there. i don't even remember what it was.

i feel like people have forgotten jamiroquoi as a reference for insufferability.

that was so long ago now! i dunno, it's been a very strange decade.

get bent otm, do you think those songs from Juno would have been so lauded if people thought it was kimya singing them instead of cute lil ellen page?

"But it is interesting to me how that roots music went from being the provenance of old hippies, to young hippies, to more urban scene kids."

there are still tons of young non-ironic or whatever non-hipster rootsy people though. they just don't get the press, i guess. a gazillion dudes who want to be the old crow medicine show.

yeah but... most of those dudes are urban scene kids!

like it's not about whether it's "ironic" or not, it's about them playing the same shows as a somebody's 8-piece indie band that kinda sounds like a bad arcade fire