the first time I knowingly heard "Telephone" by Lady Gaga it was actually the Pamplemousse version.. and I thought "What a great song! But hmm, it's like there's something missing." There was! Lady Gaga!
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Friday, 7 January 2011 10:30 (thirteen years ago) link
eh, it's envy more than hate. also, i'm kinda impressed that ppl like nataly exist -- she hit the fucking genetic/circumstantial jackpot and it's sobering when i take inventory of just how much that's true. and i really envy that she and her man had the luxury of quitting their (cushy) jobs because their youtube amateur-hour shit got into a commercial. she's already rich, can't someone else have some money now?
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Friday, January 7, 2011 1:51 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^ it's like, I remember a few years back the postman in this little depressed town won the lottery. He was one of those "well, I don't know what I'd do with myself if I didn't work" so he kept his job - his precious, covetable, stable, pensionable job in the shittiest economy in the country. Talk about the most hated guy in town... No reflection on the Pomp-lameos, just riffin'.
― we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee), Friday, January 7, 2011 2:19 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yall set a low bar for privilege and envy - i mean u know there are people who own islands and jets right - show some ambition
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 13:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Yea, but folk see them and think hey those people are not like me.
― Mark G, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't have a problem with the people in the ad
― cherry blossom, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Me neither, as these people actually exist. As opposed to those that host the fake "Halifax Radio Station"...
― Mark G, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
these two posts are depressing!
― call all destroyer, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:15 (thirteen years ago) link
the disintegrating middle class eats its own
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
The Pomplamoose folks obviously have talent; my issue is that the aesthetic in which they choose to express their talent really really really really REALLY really gets on my nerves. Really.
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link
theyre maybe quasi competent - not feeling any sort of particular talent
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:40 (thirteen years ago) link
There is talent involved in arranging songs; it just so happens that they use theirs in a manner I wholeheartedly despise.
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:42 (thirteen years ago) link
It's like, all of the smugness of Ben Folds and none of the relatability.
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ anyone who relates to Ben Folds too
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:44 (thirteen years ago) link
well yeah, ppl generally lol at losers, which was the entry point into Ben Folds' relatability (that first album played pretty heavily on the amiable sad sack card)
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:46 (thirteen years ago) link
their level of arranging 'talent' is ime at the level of millions or tens of millions of people worldwide - at what point does talent become workmanlike average
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
tens of millions out of 6 billion is not actually average...?
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, if you're going to go to THAT scale, you have to go all the way and not just pick out the bits that make you look good
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
how many people attempt to arrange music ask yrself that smart guy
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
i kind of like the car they drive
― cherry blossom, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
another way to look at it: how many people do you know personally who could 'arrange some shit' as good as this
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 14:58 (thirteen years ago) link
"A lot of people can do this" is not and never has been equivalent to "Anyone can do this"
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
I know a ton of people who could have done what they did, which does not actually have any bearing on whether it takes talent or skill to do it.
You basically are being an idiot.
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:00 (thirteen years ago) link
ill give you skill but yr definition of talent is either v generous or you know idiotic
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
man there's no such thing as talent
― goole, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:16 (thirteen years ago) link
see how you have devalued the concept djperry
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I WIN
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
you are very talented
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I do cop to using "talent" and "skill" kind of interchangeably; "talent" in and of itself is semi-meaningless because all it really is is an indication of how quickly you can pick something up
― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, 7 January 2011 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
i feel like their 'talent' level is not noteworthy even if it may be statistically better than average, this is especially true in the context of ilx where they are notably below average in terms of the generally more pro music we usually talk abt
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:30 (thirteen years ago) link
to me talent is something that jumps out and engages, some level of brilliance, never just o hey p good you mustve worked at that for a while - although obvs that definition has a lot to do w/putting in hard work too
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Talent is abundant and dispensable - other factors count for I'd say at least precisely 95.8% of everything good in any artistic endeavour.
― we can only flee in abject horror from yesterday's mistakes (staggerlee), Friday, 7 January 2011 16:21 (thirteen years ago) link
buncha gladwells the lot of u
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 16:26 (thirteen years ago) link
just what i needed
her real talent is planting churches in godless europe, this music thing is the devil's work
― buzza, Friday, 7 January 2011 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm more of a renter. if i could rent an island for a week and get that out of my system, i'd be fine. and jets are terrible for the environment; just gimme a jetpack.
so many lols. i know that when i think of europe, i think of a GREAT LACK OF CHURCHES.
― PWN: The Paul Winfield Network (get bent), Friday, 7 January 2011 16:50 (thirteen years ago) link
So who IS that insufferable indie couple in the new Hyundai TV ads?
― old man yells at cloud computing (am0n), Friday, 7 January 2011 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
what - the new ones?
― won't be on this church plan ting (kkvgz), Friday, 7 January 2011 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
oh wait, nevermind...
they is a couple
― kind of chill and very rapegaze (rip van wanko), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
this thread is amazing but too long- just stopping by to ask: are they evangelical Xtians or not?
just curious . . .
― the tune is space, Friday, 7 January 2011 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link
they are not really husband and wife, they are brother and sister.
― end aggro business now (Hunt3r), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
she's my daughter AND my sister
― the tune is space, Friday, 7 January 2011 18:33 (thirteen years ago) link
pamplemoose dude is a time-traveler?
― ⊚ ⓪ ㉧ ☉ ๏ ʘ ◉ ◎ ⓞ Ⓞ (Lamp), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:34 (thirteen years ago) link
girl is a pokemon
― ice cr?m, Friday, 7 January 2011 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link
hyundai's trangenics lab fully operational
― ⊚ ⓪ ㉧ ☉ ๏ ʘ ◉ ◎ ⓞ Ⓞ (Lamp), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
she's a church going girl who probably takes it up the butt.
― Moonlight Graham (chrisv2010), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:38 (thirteen years ago) link
still not gettin any?
― plax (ico), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
"and then he asked me how many fingers i could fit up there"
http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID6988/images/0%282%29.jpg
― Moonlight Graham (chrisv2010), Friday, 7 January 2011 18:41 (thirteen years ago) link
haha plax, nope.
I <3 this thread
― VegemiteGrrrl, Friday, 7 January 2011 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Me too, it's like the all bedlam or parnassus is let loose of ilm.
― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Friday, 7 January 2011 19:13 (thirteen years ago) link