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

im keeping my real opinions about hipsters from you to seem cool!!

ill break down my real opinion: 'hipster' is the most boring possible topic of discussion, in 2010, and the fact that you keep talking about it, like it means something, is the corniest shit ever

excuse me -- 2011!!

What's the argument again? "hipster" is a pretty vacuous word.

more 'captain i dont give a fuck what hipsters are' u dork

arent u like some sort of hipster jane goodall reporting on 'the world of yung ppl' or w/e????

I just want to say that I think Pompaloose (sp?) are obviously trying to have an indie/hipster image but because they are soulless yuppies selling cars the image is just illusion and they aren't really hipsters, just ghoulish corporate apparitions of hipsters.

I am not an expert in this area though that's just my opinion.

why arent they indie

i dont have a stake in this just wondering where u guys are parsing this

― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 5:40 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i dont rlly have a horse in the ARE THEY HIPSTERS?? contest -- just observing that i think they code 'indie' to 99% of ppl who have an concept of what 'indie' means

― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 7:50 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i'm not entirely sure what this argument is about, but i'm quite sure pompaloose isn't worthy of it.

What's the argument again? "hipster" is a pretty vacuous word.

― Tarzan Bot (seandalai), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 8:28 PM Bookmark

Here's a good summary:

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

Quite liked that "Another Day" one, but more than that might drive me blunt.

When irrational anger attacks...

arent u like some sort of hipster jane goodall reporting on 'the world of yung ppl' or w/e????

― s1ocki the tripster (Lamp), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 7:28 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

no? that just means my peer group, generically. what the fuck is your deal

why arent they indie
i dont have a stake in this just wondering where u guys are parsing this

― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 5:40 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i dont rlly have a horse in the ARE THEY HIPSTERS?? contest -- just observing that i think they code 'indie' to 99% of ppl who have an concept of what 'indie' means

― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 7:50 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 7:29 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

the first was a discussion about indie whiney -- i thought u were being adamant that these were different things

http://i56.tinypic.com/iqbeqe.jpg

imo

haw

Thx for the summary. Are they/are they not hipsters seems to be where we ended up and I don't think that's going anywhere. Hipster is like Communist - it's never you.

Unless you really are a Communist, I guess.

Farewell, this thread imo

i meant graph, d'oh

A lot of people were actually members of something called the Communist Party -- do you think they knew?

Yeah but the number of those people (in the West) <<<<< the number of people called "Commie"

yeah but a lot of Communists got purged cause they weren't commie enough. So if there's a hipster purge lets hope Pompaloose is first up against the wall.

oh, that's a little different than what I thought you meant by "it's never you"

I haven't ever seen a definitive demarcation of what a hipster is but hasn't it always required someone to be of a certain means or station who dabbles in slumming of some kind, and what separates them from the others is that they can leave? like if somehow wearing loincloths and carrying around clubs became a "thing", this wouldn't retroactively make cavemen hipsters.

I'm not sure how what the hyundaimoose is doing is slumming, though. maybe they could have held out for a benz commercial?

first they came for the pomplemooses...

this thread is making me learn how to use killfile, here is my reason

Whiney why u braek heart

oh wait you can't see this nm.

anyway i'm that one person from upthread who was okay with pomplamoose, i've been checking in with this thread periodically to confirm that i'm still worse than hitler.

nunez yr definition of "hipster", while not without its merits, is waaaaayyy too class-based to be what most americans have in mind when they use the term (imo)

xp i'm super-poor tho so hopefully the fact that i don't vigorously condemn infantilism can be forgiven

lol

http://board.crewcial.org/thread/view/356223/&p=311#246

My kind-of-point was that people tend to use "hipster" to describe people who are slightly different from themselves, even if they themselves are "hipsters" to 90% of the population. Only the truly committed vanguard will use the term to describe themselves.

(themselves themselves themselves)

Pomplamoose aren't hipsters in my book because they aren't even pretending to transgress. As deej pointed out, they're in the Sufjan lineage of wimpy but unthreatening music your sister might like.

feel like every msg board has a thread whinging abt this like the simpsons viking thing

the idea of them being yuppies & marketing hyundais 2 yuppies seems so ridic 2 me

Whenever I see my favorite bands, I just never think they're real people. I always think they're these musical gods that live up on clouds and only come to earth for the occasional performance. And everything -- their marketing team, their PR team, does such a good job at turning them into mythical creatures that I have no hope of attaining that level of musical genius on which they are constantly riding through life. That has always bugged me about the way bands are portrayed. So we try to keep it simple and normal as much as possible. A lot of people call [that] our brand, or whatever it is -- but for us, it's just a lack of one, I think. We try to just make it fun and happy and normal. I guess "normalcy" is the big word. And a lot of people accuse us of being hipsters for that, which I think is hilarious. They think oh, they're being such lo-fi hipsters, they're wearing shorts in their videos instead of a freaking Panic At The Disco, 18th-century fruffle shirt. I actually think that's hilarious, that when somebody's actually normal onscreen, they get called a hipster.

does it have to be class-based? I mean you could be heir to the sriracha empire, and therefore your relationship with sriracha would be somewhat inescapable while still being loaded, while hipster-come-latelys can indulge and discard their mania for sriracha at whim.

anyone discards sriracha mania is a fool imo

they cribbed that off section 25 ("our gimmick is that we have no gimmick")

hipster scum

i gotta be honest, the nitrates and whatever exotic preservatives they're putting in sriracha is worrying me a little.

Pomplamoose aren't hipsters in my book because they aren't even pretending to transgress. As deej pointed out, they're in the Sufjan lineage of wimpy but unthreatening music your sister might like.

Yeah but did you see the tiny piano and xylophone, her hair and the fact that they do a Beyonce song?

no image as image is the most basic indie trope, surely, likewise attainable amateurism

feel like every msg board has a thread whinging abt this like the simpsons viking thing

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 8:59 PM

ditto for the henry rollins vs hipsters video

http://starcasm.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Nataly-Dawn-6.jpg
sup y'all
just chillin' out
bein' normal, keepin' it simple

http://starcasm.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Nataly-Dawn-3-490x388.jpg
forgot to pick up our fruffle shirts from the drycleaners before the video shoot, but it's cool
I'm only human y'know?

ppl can call us "hipsters" all they want
but it just shows they're afraid of the realness
http://starcasm.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Nataly-Dawn-4-490x276.jpg
can't handle an unfiltered glimpse at reality
a day in the life of a youtube buzzband~

anyway i'm that one person from upthread who was okay with pomplamoose, i've been checking in with this thread periodically to confirm that i'm still worse than hitler.

yup, you are still worse than Hitler

HTH!

Doesn't it all go back to this? (Or has this been posted already? Sorry, I look forward to reading this thread.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLhfxI8T2cU

Amazed to recognize Jeremy Davies in this.

wait wait just a goddamn minute

is there REALLY a hardcore band named The Devil Wears Prada???????????????

this is WAY FUCKING MORE INTERESTING AND ENRAGING than having the definition of hipster argument again

Xpost: Booming post

yeah they're like a 5th-gen screamo band

Great post bernard snowy

What I have a problem with is the fact that someone will say "this is how we always look and act and we're not trying to be someone else" and think that is why they cannot be a hipster

okay we can push the button now, I think we're pretty much done as a society

The Devil Wears Prada got the idea for their band name from the book before it was adapted, and apparently get really butthurt about being associated w/ the movie, it's pretty hilarious

And to think poor Mick Karn gave up the ghost today :(

I thought you guys were talking about what a badass the anna wintour/meryl streep character was.