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

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

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.

grown up ska kids

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.

i'm surprised no one's coined the term "yupster" yet

help, i've realized i'm a Yindie (or am i a yupster?)

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, Tuesday, January 4, 2011 10:07 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

i don't have anything against it, myself. but the poignant beauty of ordinary humanity - the bathetic infatuation with clumsy frailty and endearing failure, as communicated by amateurish blankness and infantile affectation - has been exploited to death for decades by indie and post-indie and would-be-indie everything. in movies like juno and thumbsucker, on indie prints and greeting cards featuring awkward line drawings of birds (currently on sale in a bunch tiny shops on 5h in park slope), in back issues of mcsweeney's, in album after pitchfork-approved album of wounded & comforting soft sweater teatime glockenspiel music listened to, most likely, by someone you know and love. it's by no means an ineffective artistic stance: it works, communicates, gets a feeling across. but it's also so far beyond played that it's become a sickening zombie sham, a horrible cloud of kitsch that sucks the life out of everything it touches.

this hyundai ad is just the they live moment - the point at which the whole world gets to try on the glasses and see what's really been going down.

xp oh.

xpost lock fucking thread