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

iirc all proceeds from the minutemen vw ad went to d boons dad who was sick and broke or something

not that i feel the need to defend musicians getting paid somehow anyhow but there you go

Volvo, here's the piece. But something will have been lost if we look back on this controversy as quaint.

Probably already has been lost. I taught a high-school civics class this semester where students set up their own towns, and many didn't seem to get that Targets and Wal-Marts aren't part of the city government.

no idea what that has to do w/ this thread but i enjoyed your anecdote

""wacky delayface breakdown"

everything that is wrong with pomplemoose in three words

Haven't seen such annoying instrument by instrument mugging since
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEknNT0YL2o

How do you expect me to "BEAT IT" when you keep cutting away to that hairy guy playing the baby piano? It's totally killing the mood!

What a perfect storm this duo is! It's amazing, the bile coughed up on their behalf. Impressive, even. I mean, if I were given a similar platform (a few Youtube clips and a couple of heavy-rotation holiday ads) and asked to irritate as many people as humanly possible, I couldn't even come close to matching their accomplishment. Such efficiency! Probably some important lessons to be learned here.

ha, kids seem a bit fidgety during the performance

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/education&id=7886521

News anchors should be barred from trying to be witty ("Pomp-la-muse!" "Drumroll please") during reports. No, wait, I'm pretty sure they already are.

BAN

xpost: the parallel's in the change in how people relate to the corporatization of everything. Yes, selling a song off an album that declared "Fuck advertising, commercial psychology/Psychological methods to sell should be destroyed" required a defense 10 years ago: That was a happy thing--happy because they sang it, happy because people believed it, and happy because there was an alternative economy/culture being built up by people who felt the same. A lot of that endures, but sometimes the anti-corporate ethos seems like a lost language--you see it in the way "indie" can now describe a "couple." And of course it's normal for a rock band to buy your schoolbooks because Lord knows the government won't.

i figured out my subconscious reason for hating mrs. pomplamoose. this is a picture of amy adams playing "julie" in julie and julia.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KqQsYqm5HXQ/TSucvfTb3SI/AAAAAAAAAOg/VbwE7SExIj4/s1600/Setup.JPG

Is that granite? Fancy pants!

it comes from a blog someone's doing where the author watches julie and julia every day for a year.

http://lawrenceandjulieandjulia.blogspot.com/

i want to start a project where i write "go to hell" in that guy's comments a thousand times every day for a year

nothing is stopping you.

I feel like I've seen those damned Pomplacommercials every day for a year.

ha my mom told me she hates these

;_;

learn to let go folx

Yes, selling a song off an album that declared "Fuck advertising, commercial psychology/Psychological methods to sell should be destroyed" required a defense 10 years ago: That was a happy thing--happy because they sang it, happy because people believed it, and happy because there was an alternative economy/culture being built up by people who felt the same. A lot of that endures, but sometimes the anti-corporate ethos seems like a lost language...

― Pete Scholtes, Saturday, January 8, 2011 11:20 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark

Pete Fucking Scholtes OTFM. sometimes depressed by ILM's snide dismissal of the anticorporate aspects of 80s indie/punk ethos. still have a great deal of respect for those values, not least because that they help counterbalance apathy and the obvious power of big money to shape discourse & culture.

"...not least because that they help counterbalance..."

like the downside of the anti-rockist embrace of all things pop is that it leaves little room for for such values, for the intrinsic social value of a loyal (economic/political) opposition

fuck capitalism imo

contenderizer totally otm

plax is joeks itt rite

pompla gal is called knutsen and looks for all the world like a scandie farmgirl

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/4172/firstonee.gif
http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/1494/total2.gif

These gifs have made me realize that all this time we been mad because they stylin on us

ha ha okay i had managed not to watch this commercial, seeing that hat-and-candy cane business puts a lot of the rage in this thread into perspective.

styling on u, deal w/it *sunglasses*

new song OMGZ LOLZ BACON SO FUNNEHZ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdEhvS9P1DI

hey, it was posted today & alraedy has 26k views. gross

New SONG!! Same VIDEO THUMBNAIL, THOUGH!!

skip to 2:45 on that

wish there was a separate counter for HATEviews

That stupid high-low singing style HAS to be over soon. Please.

fwiw I think that's by far their best song to date

old school twee christian marketing still rules. beware of the devil!

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

official euroboost theme song

Stop bending over keyboards!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2R3CmLEiGo

I can't believe Hipster Runoff still hasn't written about these guys.

fwiw I think that's by far their best song to date

― hey boys, suppers on me, our video just went bacterial (Hurting 2), Monday, January 17, 2011 7:37 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the downside of the anti-rockist embrace of all things pop is that it leaves little room for for such values

I agree with Pete but I don't agree with this. At all.

In fact it's kind of the most stereotypically "rockist" thing one could possibly say!

who would win in a pomplamoose vs. ok go most annoying indie music video poll

mental health professionals everywhere

In fact it's kind of the most stereotypically "rockist" thing one could possibly say!

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand)

I'd like to see this assertion convincingly defended.