oh god, the way she sings the chorus of single ladies — totally flat/hyperenunciated "don't be mad when you see that he wants it" — they really are the worst
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
YES! deej otm. a very specific and easily identifiable strain.
& i mean these kids arent even appropriating the appropriaters theyre just existing w/in theyre own umc milieu as it exists now rather than trying to freight their shitty car commercial blandishments w/ some kind of cultural 'meaning' theyre just 'being' ugh im the worst
― they fund ph.d studies, don't they? (Lamp), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 2:58 PM (5 minutes ago)
What we're basically talking about is the general category of (mainly white) middle-class palatable non-aggro music. If "indie" is now the word for that, so be it.
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 2:59 PM (3 minutes ago)
it doesn't matter whether or not indie is still "really indie" or even whether or not the people immersed in and representative of it as a culture are wholly aware of it. it's still indie, and it's not at all hard to recognize. and it doesn't encompass all white, middle-class palatable non-aggro music. a lot of that stuff owes to other traditions. indie isn't the word for this stuff by accident or default. indie is the word for this stuff because this stuff (not just the music, but the culture that goes with it) clearly owes a great deal to the 25 year evolution of american indie (from, i dunno, beat happening & sebadoh to sufjan stevens & beirut).
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
^ and yeah, that's just one thread w/in indie's Grand Tapestrie, but it seems to have been what won out in the end
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
The Hyundai-Pomplamoose campaign looped the loop. It went from odd to charming to familiar to contemptible to irritating in about 3 weeks.We can guess what happened. Hyundai discovered they had a hit on their hands. The campaign was doing good things for the brand and more to the point it was moving cars. So they sold the heck out of it.
We can guess what happened. Hyundai discovered they had a hit on their hands. The campaign was doing good things for the brand and more to the point it was moving cars. So they sold the heck out of it.
http://cultureby.com/2011/01/cracking-the-pomplamoose-hyundai-case.html
― zvookster, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
these ppl are yuppies theyre audience are yuppies and their music is corporate folk
― they fund ph.d studies, don't they? (Lamp), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
First classic thread of 2011.
I'm taping it on my fridge atm.
― Cunga, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:16 (thirteen years ago) link
(feel like horrible things are gonna happen as a result of linking to these media and marketing sites)
― zvookster, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:16 (thirteen years ago) link
pop music- aggression- distortion- 'image'+ affected mundanity+ loosely DIY ethos———= twee/indiepop/whatever
t/i/w+ evangelical christianity+ the internet- evangelical christianity- loosely DIY ethos+ shameless corporate shilling———= the pomplemooses
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
No results found for "nfl yuppies".
― buzza, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:18 (thirteen years ago) link
like, I was mostly looking at the length of this thread and going "oh ILX, I love how you overreact to things" and then I heard bits of "Single Ladies" and "September" and now I want to murder everyone and everything.
DJP thread savior TY TY
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBI1H4DDn5Y
― they fund ph.d studies, don't they? (Lamp), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:19 (thirteen years ago) link
― they fund ph.d studies, don't they? (Lamp), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 3:15 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
yeah, exactly. indie = yuppies make a hell of a lot more sense than indie = hipsters. intersection point is whole foods, not an artist's garret and/or shooting gallery.
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
...
you don't actually have a clear understanding of the pejorative use of the word "hipster" do you
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Can we get back to yelling about them again now? :D
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
"corporate folk" lol gimme a damn break, just call it what it is
― goole, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
or don't, i guess
― goole, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
their music is corporate folk
In what conceivable way is their music "folk" (excepting by virtue of its not being played and sung by horses)?
― we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
So now can we talk about who's a prep and who's a jock?
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Parsing 'indie' vs 'hipster' ITT is like parsing the tonal qualities of a car alarm. My point is RAARRRGH OMG MAKE IT STOP.
On the other hand, I love you ILM.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
contenderizer can field that one (not on ilnfl though) xp
― omar little, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:25 (thirteen years ago) link
bob dylan is corporate folk, the kingston trio are hipster/roots, pomplamoose are video installation
― goole, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link
makes sense to me
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 3:20 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark
i do. and i rebel.
― carles marx (contenderizer), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Best quote so far from Zvookster's linked article:
She makes Zooey Deschanel look like Charles Krauthammer.
― Glorified Lolcat (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Peter Paul & Mary were the strings on Prince's guitarBut Pomplamoose went down more like Har Mar Superstar
― we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
do u ppl have jobs
― heh (kelpolaris), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
other than your company, what do you think we're avoiding here?
― they fund ph.d studies, don't they? (Lamp), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
har mar has o.g. am rep punk cred though, calvin krime was p. awesome
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Guys! Guys!
http://www.gawker.com/5785369/hyundai-hipster-couple-were-ska-kids-before-they-were-evangelicals
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2010/12/how_pomplamoose_made_me_hate_c.php
― Please fetishize responsibly (Michael White), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
we thought she was just being precious but really she was trying to hide her ska evangelical past
― zvookster, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Pomplamoose (ex-Skavangelists)
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:53 (thirteen years ago) link
courtesy http://i54.tinypic.com/11l4yvn.gif:
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5126/5307330316_05ebaf2651.jpg
― Hans Peter Cutlassin' (crüt), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:53 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― markers, Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:54 (thirteen years ago) link
omg so fucking fitting that they opened for The Dresden Dolls as I was going to mention them upthread as another example of a band like this that should be made to disembowel each other while being broadcast on a Jumbotron
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Tuesday, 4 January 2011 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link
indie duo cockfighting is a sport I would pay to see
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:00 (thirteen years ago) link
nothing more annoying to me than a drummer who insists on not using a chair. i'm pretty sure noah lennox started this.
― heh (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
the deerhoof guy used a milk crate
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Most drummers in fact insist on a stool.
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay, fess up. Which ILXOR is trolling the SF Weekly comment board:
Smedley_t_hambone 1 week ago
Don't you have anything better to do with your time than hate a tv commercial? Or hate someone cuter than you? What an idiot and what an incredible waste of time.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:05 (thirteen years ago) link
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 6:03 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^thought that was so awesome
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfIrbF6J9sA
― buzza, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:06 (thirteen years ago) link
In re the effectiveness of the commercial: I kind of like the image of people angrily rushing off to buy hyundais and not quite knowing why.
― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
deerhoof drummer would be great sitting on half a pig
― carles marx (contenderizer), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
specifically that
― carles marx (contenderizer), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
woah buzza is the woodward and bernstein of pomplamoose
― the medina green preservation society (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh that video: Puffy Ski Jacket Guy is so much worse irl
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:08 (thirteen years ago) link
if only those balloons were filled with saran gas
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:09 (thirteen years ago) link
or saran wrap
― carles marx (contenderizer), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 00:10 (thirteen years ago) link