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

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.

SRSLY a band called The Devil Wears Prada exists?Oferchrissakes

Is there a band called Tyler Perry Presents For Colored Girls Only?

And lol at being buttthurt about the movie association of DWP. Because the book really elevates the conversation

they have a song called "Assistant to the Regional Manager"

why did I think pursuing a music career was an unrealistic idea when I was younger

Xpp
My sister is an extra in that movie VegemiteGrrrl

I am starting a new band called Eat Pray Love (book, not movie fuckfaces)

I will play toy piano and glockenspiel. Need a mellotron player, Who's in?

Which movie, Lorax? For Colored Girls? or DWP?

I am going to drop my single under the name Riding the Bus With My Sister

Xp
For Colored Girls

I'll play a grand stand piano with miniature pianos in each of my hands for your band

Cool, Lorax! I'm seeing it tomorrow: lemme know what scene, I'll keep an eye out for her!

First Eat Pray Love single will be our cover of Kanye's Gold Digger featuring guest vocals by Josh Groban

Riding on the Bus With My Sister's first single is going to be a screamo mashup of "Bleeding Love" and "Move Bitch"

Hey we should tour together. Maybe see if the Dresden Dolls need a couple of exciting upstart openers

A++++ band name btw DJP

haa this thread irl turned into deej & whiney fighting abt parsing indie/hipster, you guys *shrugs/freezeframe*

Guys! Guys!

http://www.gawker.com/5785369/hyundai-hipster-couple-were-ska-kids-before-they-were-evangelicals

― pomp la familia (Hurting 2), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 1:50 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

^^^WHY ISNT THIS LINK WORKING

loool underrated joke hurting, well played

loool:

http://www.google.com/search?q=pomplamoose+gawker+ska

"grown up ska kids" is way more OTM than hipster/indie

was thinking i dont even have any idea what a grown up ska kid would be like then i realized yeah i do and basically yes otm

for the record my first live show was a skankin' pickle show.

you guys dont have any idea what youre talking abt pamplmose arent indie/hipster/yuppie/normals theyre grown up ska kids, get one clue ffs jeez stupid message board

they prob rode their vespas to their great jobs at google and shit

yup, you are still worse than Hitler

HTH!

would someone worse than hitler innocuously drop this link in the thread?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meT2eqgDjiM

xylophone & toy piano within first twenty seconds = invasion of poland iirc

Anyone been noticing the juvenile/excessively negative utube comments? Think they'll act as any sort of deterrence, or promote the band to far greater heights? It's sort of hard to ridicule these dudes without making an ass of yourself.

"grown up ska kids" is way more OTM than hipster/indie

― gr8080, Wednesday, January 5, 2011 12:28 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark

^^^^

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mB1Q8gtoZBA/Sybkd1KSLNI/AAAAAAAAACk/EQIkeFdHRSU/s320/00-pomplamoose-videosongs-front-(deluxe_edition)-2009-tgb.jpg

cross post in tracer's cutesy artsy shit thread

grown up ska kids

truth bomb