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

i don't have a problem with the people in the ad

Me neither, as these people actually exist. As opposed to those that host the fake "Halifax Radio Station"...

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

these two posts are depressing!

the disintegrating middle class eats its own

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.

theyre maybe quasi competent - not feeling any sort of particular talent

There is talent involved in arranging songs; it just so happens that they use theirs in a manner I wholeheartedly despise.

It's like, all of the smugness of Ben Folds and none of the relatability.

lol @ anyone who relates to Ben Folds too

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)

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

tens of millions out of 6 billion is not actually average...?

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

how many people attempt to arrange music ask yrself that smart guy

i kind of like the car they drive

another way to look at it: how many people do you know personally who could 'arrange some shit' as good as this

"A lot of people can do this" is not and never has been equivalent to "Anyone can do this"

another way to look at it: how many people do you know personally who could 'arrange some shit' as good as this

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.

ill give you skill but yr definition of talent is either v generous or you know idiotic

man there's no such thing as talent

see how you have devalued the concept djperry

I WIN

you are very talented

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

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

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

Talent is abundant and dispensable - other factors count for I'd say at least precisely 95.8% of everything good in any artistic endeavour.

buncha gladwells the lot of u

just what i needed

her real talent is planting churches in godless europe, this music thing is the devil's work

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

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.

her real talent is planting churches in godless europe, this music thing is the devil's work

so many lols. i know that when i think of europe, i think of a GREAT LACK OF CHURCHES.

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

what - the new ones?

oh wait, nevermind...

they is a couple

this thread is amazing but too long- just stopping by to ask: are they evangelical Xtians or not?

just curious . . .

they are not really husband and wife, they are brother and sister.

she's my daughter AND my sister

pamplemoose dude is a time-traveler?

girl is a pokemon

hyundai's trangenics lab fully operational

she's a church going girl who probably takes it up the butt.

still not gettin any?

"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

haha plax, nope.

I <3 this thread

Me too, it's like the all bedlam or parnassus is let loose of ilm.

twee ukelele cover songs should all sound like this. god i love these guys. i would marry all these alessi brothers. my heroes.

http://thebeatlescompleteonukulele.com/2010/11/098-two-of-us-alessi-brothers/

Embarrassing confession: I kind of choke up when I see the Blue Valentine trailer because of that Ukulele song. It's really purty.

they is a couple

― kind of chill and very rapegaze (rip van wanko), Friday, January 7, 2011 1:02 PM

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