lol
http://board.crewcial.org/thread/view/356223/&p=311#246
― buzza, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:57 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Tarzan Bot (seandalai), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 01:59 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone discards sriracha mania is a fool imo
― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
they cribbed that off section 25 ("our gimmick is that we have no gimmick")
hipster scum
― poppagemoose (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i gotta be honest, the nitrates and whatever exotic preservatives they're putting in sriracha is worrying me a little.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah but did you see the tiny piano and xylophone, her hair and the fact that they do a Beyonce song?
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:09 (thirteen years ago) link
no image as image is the most basic indie trope, surely, likewise attainable amateurism
― zvookster, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:10 (thirteen years ago) link
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 8:59 PM
ditto for the henry rollins vs hipsters video
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:11 (thirteen years ago) link
http://starcasm.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Nataly-Dawn-6.jpgsup y'alljust chillin' outbein' normal, keepin' it simple
http://starcasm.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Nataly-Dawn-3-490x388.jpgforgot to pick up our fruffle shirts from the drycleaners before the video shoot, but it's coolI'm only human y'know?
ppl can call us "hipsters" all they wantbut it just shows they're afraid of the realnesshttp://starcasm.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Nataly-Dawn-4-490x276.jpgcan't handle an unfiltered glimpse at realitya day in the life of a youtube buzzband~
― Egyptian Raps Crew (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:16 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Xpost: Booming post
― darwin deej (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah they're like a 5th-gen screamo band
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link
okay we can push the button now, I think we're pretty much done as a society
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― washa flocka brain (some dude), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
And to think poor Mick Karn gave up the ghost today :(
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I thought you guys were talking about what a badass the anna wintour/meryl streep character was.
― Philip Nunez, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:25 (thirteen years ago) link
SRSLY a band called The Devil Wears Prada exists?Oferchrissakes
Is there a band called Tyler Perry Presents For Colored Girls Only?
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:26 (thirteen years ago) link
And lol at being buttthurt about the movie association of DWP. Because the book really elevates the conversation
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:28 (thirteen years ago) link
XppMy sister is an extra in that movie VegemiteGrrrl
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:29 (thirteen years ago) link
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?
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Which movie, Lorax? For Colored Girls? or DWP?
I am going to drop my single under the name Riding the Bus With My Sister
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
XpFor Colored Girls
I'll play a grand stand piano with miniature pianos in each of my hands for your band
― gravity explodes (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Riding on the Bus With My Sister's first single is going to be a screamo mashup of "Bleeding Love" and "Move Bitch"
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:40 (thirteen years ago) link
Hey we should tour together. Maybe see if the Dresden Dolls need a couple of exciting upstart openers
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:52 (thirteen years ago) link
A++++ band name btw DJP
― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 02:54 (thirteen years ago) link
haa this thread irl turned into deej & whiney fighting abt parsing indie/hipster, you guys *shrugs/freezeframe*
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:24 (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, January 4, 2011 1:50 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
^^^WHY ISNT THIS LINK WORKING
― gr8080, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:26 (thirteen years ago) link
loool underrated joke hurting, well played
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:27 (thirteen years ago) link
loool:
http://www.google.com/search?q=pomplamoose+gawker+ska
― gr8080, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:28 (thirteen years ago) link
"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
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:31 (thirteen years ago) link
for the record my first live show was a skankin' pickle show.
― gr8080, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:32 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:33 (thirteen years ago) link
they prob rode their vespas to their great jobs at google and shit
― ice cr?m, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:34 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― illiterate and hateful, as expected (reddening), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:49 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― heh (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 04:53 (thirteen years ago) link
― gr8080, Wednesday, January 5, 2011 12:28 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark
^^^^
― dayo, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 05:04 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― dayo, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 05:07 (thirteen years ago) link
grown up ska kids
truth bomb
― minecraft on a milk sea (diamonddave85), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 06:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Great thread, thank you for the LOLs and Halo Benders Real Stories of the Highway Patrol footage. Yeah, I hear more Beat Happening in M.I.A. than in anything else these days.
Wrong age and hair.
And that kimya dawson video is reason #34 Diablo Cody needed to be put in the stocks for a month back in 2008.
Blame the director: Diablo wanted classic rock.
Also: A kind word for Kimya: She played an amazing (I'm imagining unpaid) set at the memorial show for Eyedea at First Avenue, and for a not entirely enthusiastic crowd.
And I wouldn't knock the amateurish blank vocal thing handed down from Mo Tucker through the Shop Assistants/Heather from Beat Happening/etc. (call it twee if you want) to bands that will probably abuse it because the moving thing in the great ones is how vulnerable the approach can make the vocalists seem, one reason the Owls are/were awesome.
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 5 January 2011 06:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm surprised no one's coined the term "yupster" yet
― the Sonic Youths of suck (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 5 January 2011 06:19 (thirteen years ago) link