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!
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i feel like people have forgotten jamiroquoi as a reference for insufferability.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:21 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
that was in response to something way up there. i don't even remember what it was.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:24 (thirteen years ago) link
that was so long ago now! i dunno, it's been a very strange decade.
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:25 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:26 (thirteen years ago) link
"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.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:29 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah but... most of those dudes are urban scene kids!
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm beginning to think the only people who aren't hipsters are super-rabid sports fan d-bags, unless they root for an indie hipster team like the l.a. clippers or something.
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
xp i.e. being part of the same 'scene'
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
just read this thread and the fact that anyone in the world sees their harmonies as "elaborate" makes me want to commit suicide
― nakh get on my lvl (roxymuzak), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 7:08 PM (28 minutes ago)
http://i51.tinypic.com/2q0j85z.jpg
fwiw I meant "elaborate" in the sense that her vocals are overdubbed like 8 times, not in the sense that there's anything weighty going on there musically. my point was that the technique is a little unusual for the type of DIY indie pop where a live-in-the-studio sound is such a key part of the aesthetic.
but thinking about it more, it's not really accurate to include Pomplamoose in the twee/indiepop/C86 lineage just because they're ramshackle and exaggeratedly peppy. if anything, their gimmick comes right from hordes of solitary youtubers who post split-screen videos of their one-man-band covers of pop songs. and if the songs they cover are any measure of their taste in music, then I doubt they've ever heard the Beat Happening, and the resemblance is most likely accidental.
― i probably busted a nut when i was tossing her cookie salad (unregistered), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
omar — it's more like a continuum; there is no pure 'bro' or 'hipster', only various intermediate positions
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:33 (thirteen years ago) link
i'd believe that they picked it up from feist, she's pretty popular + has highly bloggable video memes
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:34 (thirteen years ago) link
(i mean the particular breathy affected vocal style here)
my posts look like the rantings of a madman
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i think being poor completely absolves you of hipsterdom. i don't think it's a good tradeoff. just suck it up and enjoy your money.
― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
hipsters aren't the real class enemy tho
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
burn down a hyundai dealership or something, idk
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
im fbook friends w/ this tanning bed iowa state grad blonde event planner who loves hanging out in wrigleyville but has photos on her fbook that say things like 'look at this fucking hipster!!' underneath it lol
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont think she even knows how to stare dead-eyed
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
tanning bed iowa state grad blonde event planner
because, really, who are we to judge?
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
i wish i was an event planner. baller dough
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm sure the "tanning bed" descriptor is far more important in her life than "event planner"
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:47 (thirteen years ago) link
I missed the Iowa State part and was trying to figure out which Jerseylicious cast member deej was friends with
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:48 (thirteen years ago) link
iowa state lol
― goole, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
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snooki obv
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
ws of ... shame?
I wish I was little bit tanner,I wish I was a planner
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
should i have whiney send her an autographed copy of *the book* y/n
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
"yeah but... most of those dudes are urban scene kids!"
nah, not really. not everyone lives in a city. there are still actual, like, young people out there who don't listen to indie rock at all and who play olde-tyme stuff. you might be surprised. third generation hippie family kids. ex-jam band kids. and lots of kids who just grew up on bluegrass/southern/country stuff. kids who grew up in the woods.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i wish yall could have seen the ppl who came to the north coast fest in chicago. everybody really isnt a hipster. unless hemp necklaces & affliction (different people) are trending
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:58 (thirteen years ago) link
your world of young ppl eh?
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 20:59 (thirteen years ago) link
deejspatchs from the coast
― they fund ph.d studies, don't they? (Lamp), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN2n67xUMj8
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 21:00 (thirteen years ago) link
as a kid who grew up in the woods, can I just say that the location of said woods is likely super critical to the likelihood of you being a bluegrass head or not
Like, I have 0 problems believing that MA woods is a breeding ground for this type of young pesron (particularly in central MA around Northampton) but it seems practically inconceivable to find a lot of these kids in the woods around where I grew up, where if you weren't a top-40 type you were likely either into metal or Christian contemporary (and gbx and I are from the same area so there might be a slight generation gap thing going on there although we aren't THAT far apart in age, or maybe I just wasn't talking to the right kids).
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
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basically otm
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 21:03 (thirteen years ago) link
kids still love their ~electronica~ jam bands & nas/damien marley albums
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
I haven't seen the Hyundai ad (guess I haven't watched much TV lately) and wasn't aware of it until I started hearing about the backlash, but I'm glad to hear about it because now hopefully a couple of my friends who have been posting Pomplamoose videos for months on their Facebook pages will be embarrassed and stop.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 21:05 (thirteen years ago) link
feel like this thread has gotten away from its core of needless ranting
/alienated
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
maybe they actually hate hipsters, like 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, Monday, 3 January 2011 03:00 (Yesterday)
I've heard that people who deny the existence of hipsters (v.2011) are the ones dress like intolerable obnoxious hipsters and have hipster affectations.
― thirdalternative, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 21:28 (thirteen years ago) link
(and gbx and I are from the same area so there might be a slight generation gap thing going on there although we aren't THAT far apart in age, or maybe I just wasn't talking to the right kids).― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 3:01 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 3:01 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark
nah dan it was the same when i was there, too. i mostly thinking of these ppl in college in New England, where we had entire off campus houses of ppl that were the outdoorsy version of LARPers, all decked out in wool knickers and flannel shirts and, for real, quoting this one "how to talk like you're from new hampshire" cassette tape the way that other nerds memorized monty python and w/e. my buddy morgan had this v earnest whole mountain man thing going on, huge beard, woolen pants, flannel shirts, etc., that was not at all hipster at the time, but that would now be bloggable to some ppl.
also fwiw m@tt otm re: trampled by turtles. i'd never heard of them but went with a friend to a show at the cabooze and it was packed to the fucking gills. i'm guessing they do just fine on the crunchy college circuit, and that more ppl have their mp3s and jam them w/bros than, like, dark dark dark or tapes n tapes or w/e
― ullr saves (gbx), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 3:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
i thought it said "i wish i were an event planner, balling dough" as if he was confused and thought event planners baked cookies for events
― nakh get on my lvl (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
as i've said here before, i'm almost kind of annoyed by the whole hipster-goes-flannel ish, because i've been called out for being a hipster for dressing the way i have for like ten years running. and i have friends that four years ago were all day-glo neon electro stuff and now fetishize camping gear from the 70s and Filson shooting jackets and stuff. get outta my clubhouse y'all. now i know how ~metalheads~ feel
― ullr saves (gbx), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link
how everyone feelsit's just sort of the new default state of culture
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:10 (thirteen years ago) link
i heard recently hotel marketer is a great job
― zvookster, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:11 (thirteen years ago) link
hi filson
― buzza, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:13 (thirteen years ago) link
"these people are not true hipsters" upthread
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 8:14 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark
well, what i was saying is that they aren't hipsters period. they're indie kids. there's a difference, as well as a lot of overlap, but i get no intimation that these guys are "down with the underground," with the seedy underbelly, with the coming revolution or whatever. hence: not hipsters, just nice, pleasant indie people.
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:25 (thirteen years ago) link
...and now fetishize camping gear from the 70s and Filson shooting jackets and stuff
dunno about yr special brand names, but nice old camping gear is always excellent
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i do notice a lot of overdressed guys wearing fingerless gloves that say "filson" this year
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link