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

this is my cousin and his wife

― plax (ico), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 6:32 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest

ho_O_O_oooooly shit!

are they fun at parties???

is their deck okay?

i'm gonna be listening to status quo for the rest of the night. i would totally buy a car if their was quo music in the ad.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/totp2/features/wallpaper/images/800/status_quo3.jpg

http://www.retroscenemag.com/image.axd?picture=2009%2f11%2fVanning-Image1.jpg

lordy those are some tight pants

None of the things we've been saying...were true. Were they?

the camel!

lordy those are some tight pants

― VegemiteGrrrl, Wednesday, January 5, 2011 7:27 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fuckin' hipster!

tbh i am not that close w/ them and have only met them at like family things esp bc he is my mam's side of the family which is p big. lol i saw their single ladies video on a friend's fb before i heard anything about it from anyone in my family, my mam said he was in a jazz band or something idk. My sister is p. good friends w. nat bc they are like the same age and she thinks the whole thing is really cool, idk i think they made like a lot of money from the hyundai thing

xpost and all that facial hair, whatta bunch of outdoorsy posers

idk i think they made like a lot of money from the hyundai thing

― plax (ico), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 7:33 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

they prolly made a lot of money for 2 amateurs, but nothing compared to what hyundai would've paid an ad agency to come up with the same thing

reminds me of when the majors were overjoyed at the ascent of grunge cuz it cost comparatively nothing to record those recs

i can tell you that hyundai dropped about $50k to license a single crappy video from my company so who knows how much they paid these guys to do the work they did.

I haven't seen this commercial, so I never opened the thread. What is it about?

(I tried to post to the THIS IS WHERE WE SUM UP ILX CLUSTERFUCKS thread, but apparently that was locked.)

link 4 u jaymc: Clusterfuck Summary Corner

I think hyundai has their own inhouse ad agency but lower cost of production might explain why they had the scratch to run this thing 8 gazillion times

xp Haha, OK.

Edward bringin' it with the OTM

this is my cousin and his wife

― plax (ico), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 6:32 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest

http://i36.tinypic.com/2i1yzp.jpg

Seriously I am very glad I clicked on this thread again.

this is my cousin and his wife

― plax (ico), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 6:32 PM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest

whaaaaa

oh it's so not

they are v strong ppl bc some terrible things have happened to them over the last couple years i wont go into here so i doubt they really care abt internet backlash

― plax (ico), Wednesday, January 5, 2011 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Don't want this to get lost.

what is this land

there's something kinda magical about how plax uses abbreviations about "p." and "idk" and "V"

can't quite put my finger on it, but it's cool

This thread is already up there with the Joanna Newsom one, and with luck/further revelations/random Googling by fans could possibly push on into DMBand territory.

hillfigger vampire weekend is fairly embarrassing

― ice cr?m, Sunday, January 2, 2011 10:34 PM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I want to kill all the people in that commercial much more than I want to kill pomplamoose, fwiw

theyre trying to signify wasp but getting douche its v strange

This is the first time I've clicked on this thread. Why does it have 1,039 new answers?

1,039 people opening the thread for the first time and trying to find out what it's about

Were Gap the pioneers of insufferable indie Christmas ads or is there a long heritage I'm unaware of?

i loved all those gap ads. lou reed on a scooter heralded the coming tweemageddon though.

hillfigger vampire weekend is fairly embarrassing

tbh I like the song too much to really care about the ppl in the commercial

It's sort of fitting that VW, the band of "You know what, fuck you we actually are preps lol" is pared with the traditional brand of just "Fuck you, we're preps period."

paired

isn't ralph lauren/polo way more trad prep than tommy hill?

yeah tommy hill is p entry level

Yeah, I guess Tommy is "Yo dude I'm a prep," Polo is "I'm a prep" and Brooks Brothers is "What's a 'prep' these are just normal clothes what are you talking about?"

haha

Were Gap the pioneers of insufferable indie Christmas ads or is there a long heritage I'm unaware of?

don't forget Old Navy, who have 10+ years now of attempting to turn everyone in America gay via the medium of Christmas advertising

not sure if that counts as indie or not

was a little mad when they co-opted this perverted japanese mannequin series to hawk their shitty clothes, i guess cause i felt that lifeless pieces of plastic had more integrity than hootie.

is it hawk or hock?

hawking is selling
hocking is pawning

thanks! thread delivers.

It's sort of fitting that VW, the band of "You know what, fuck you we actually are preps lol" is pared with the traditional brand of just "Fuck you, we're preps period."

don't forget, lead dude is a middle-class jew and one of the other guys is persian (persian-america stereotype = has money, but probably too nouveau-riche to be tru prep).

nitsuh said it better than i could: http://agrammar.tumblr.com/post/359990238/the-rules-of-the-game-a-fuller-thought-on-j-hopper

i thought their ethnicity was a defense against the WASP tag, what does it have to do with being preps?

the fact that they're middle class and come from recentish immigrant stock? preps are old-money american.

you can't just dress prep and "be" prep, it's a deeply embedded experience.