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

it's funny all the people bringing portland up, as i brought this shit up on ILH specifically when we were talking about regional advertising during basketball games and i was complaining about this nonsense thinking it was for a local portland hyundai dealer.

hipsters is national, clay

still lolling at lamp as lolcat w ninja style typing skills. cats has opinions!

so easily amused...

Lousy beatniks

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.

i.e. it's gone mainstream, like melisma or punk guitar distortion.

xpost lock fucking thread

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contenderizer just dropped the 2012 of t-bombs

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agree with this btw

Instant classic post.

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

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Also, they are xtian, so it's literally The Devil they are talking about.

You kids. I feel your pain, I'm just recognizing suddenly that it's your pain, not mine--and I'm somebody who for a while was keeping tally of how many indie films were being ruined by "indie" soundtracks. Is this an age/identity thing? I'm happy to see indie killed dead, my God, so "I'm Sticking With You" (playing in my head since '84) and Jamboree (since '92) can go back to being punk rock, or rock and roll, or whatever.

fwiw I love this song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwsJOBJNMSc

I mean "beyond played" is really the language of outlining what's cool. You're still in the dream, pardner.

xpost, yeah, this thread has introduced me to a few babies I wouldn't throw out with the bathwater...

if car companies are looking for some twee amateurish cover songs to use in their ads they should check out this old favorite. i think it could be a hit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu-zKWA6cWQ

really makes me yearn for the days when indie meant this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu9lUbf5GQ0

you know what will make you forget all about these drab car dweebs? this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG1U3JZ4-rQ

yeah!

go man go!

all i know is i wanna cum in that slut's pomplamouth

and... scene

i could easily disprove this but then i'd be The Guy Who Knows Too Much About Porn

― Princess TamTam, Monday, January 3, 2011

all i know is i wanna cum in that slut's pomplamouth

― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, January 5, 2011

theorum proven.

idgi

typ

Holy moly at the Tielman Brothers--you know my catnip.

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.

just in case this goes into the fold

I really want to repost that somewhere -- is there some kind of an "all time classic posts" thread?

truth bombs

Summing-up-things-I-have-been-trying-to-put-my-finger-on-for-five-years bombs

i should know better than to get sucked into a pomplamoose convo (they are wretched obv), but hes wrong - "so far beyond played" is meaningless except to say "i'm bored of this thing that a lot of other people like", which all of you of course agree with because only insanely jaded music blogger dorks post here

rong

ya im right sorry :-/

anyway im out cuz this is 2 much ilm posting for me for one month but everyone just marinate on my rightness

Calling out a music board post for having an element of subjectivity is so far beyond played.

hipster is such a cop out term, let it be people...

*swags out of post smoking an Earl Grey cigarette, rocking skinny overalls and a divining rod*

"Hey, some people like this." Oh. Sorry. Lock thread.

this commercial's success has inspired me to form a group called Aubergine featuring a girl with Marfan syndrome and a retarded guy

marfan's is pretty played, dude

hey man just because u are sick of marfan syndrome doesn't mean....

Ausberginers syndrome

I think I'll use this opportunity to post superior Bird & Bee covers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ed-LaBgQOk&feature=related

just did a quick fb search and the first things that came up were "pomplamoose suck (person)", "i hate pomplamoose (community)", and "pomplamoose sucks (community)"

The Bird & The Bee >>> The Turd & The Grapefruit

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:OBL-Bo2i-iIJ:www.myspace.com/aubergineband+aubergine+band&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

(because the profile was "under maintenance, here's the cached page)

"I really want to repost that somewhere -- is there some kind of an "all time classic posts" thread?"

i started this one for the tenth anniversary of anti-hipster vitriol:

In Honor Of ILX Being Ten, How About Some Quotable Posts Of Yore.

this is how you do it, baby people!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m595h3_ner4

the thing that *really* bothers me about this stuff:

i grew up in the 80s and early 90s, in a bumfuck town. all the music i knew grewing up was 80s metal/pop metal, nothing but until rap came up...but everything was macho and hard basically....not that there weren't pathos in pop metal balladry, but there was something different about it more like "BABE WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME I'm GONNA GET WASTED AND SHOOT BBGUNS AT POP BOTTLES", or at least that's how it was to us, it was sort of a romantic idea of being sad, the way that you can only feel when you are young enough to not understand that things have consequences

when i first got a hint of "indie"sadness-- like just little glimpses like the song "they'll need a crane" by they might be giants, or the song "romeo had juliette" by lou reed (these were just the little bits i would see on MTV), it was this sense of experiencing something new, like real life sadness, the idea that you would have to grow up and leave your little town and face real stuff that wasn't always gonna work out the way you wanted it to...like it really affected me pretty strong,

now like contenderizer said, it's sort of this horror show zombie emotion, like fucking poignant commercials for insurance companies, the whole thing isn't bad cuz it cheapens indie rock, it's bad cuz it ad agencies are so hip and cool and good production values now, it almost cheapens the *idea* of emotions and feeling to me....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVf7LUF-X-M

All I know is that we don't have these issues in Roots Rock land.

Let's hope the ad execs don't figure out neck beards might like Hyundais.

all the music i knew grewing up was 80s metal/pop metal, nothing but until rap came up...but everything was macho and hard basically....not that there weren't pathos in pop metal balladry, but there was something different about it more like "BABE WHY DID YOU LEAVE ME I'm GONNA GET WASTED AND SHOOT BBGUNS AT POP BOTTLES

i grew up in the 80s. most of the dominant pop music -- in tone and lyrics -- had this uniquely 80s triumphalism. i guess we were collectively shaking off the feelings of US decline or defeatism in the 70s. in retrospect, it feels like the 80s had a lot of supposedly underground twee (or maybe "proto-twee") acts, but i don't really see bands like, say, the smiths as the grandfathers of the twee movement.

twee can be beautiful and moving. but there's a thin line between beautiful/moving twee and using the twee genre as cover for poor amaturism and poor songwriting and performance. i feel like this pomplamoose act is on the latter side of that divide, but what you see depends on where you sit, i suppose.

well, i can't say "we" were shaking anything off. that's just how it felt to me at the time.