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

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
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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.

Er, not its "rockistness" but that pop in 2011 leaves room for "the intrinsic social value of a loyal (economic/political) opposition"

No really guys, I kind of like that Bacon song. I don't read it as "lol bacon" but rather a deadpan commentary on the sickness of our country, for which our empty culture can offer no better "remedy" than bacon. The video is like a post-Christmas rec room toy binge to the point of hallucination.

it seems a lot of those euroboost links and her dad's site are no longer accessible....is she doing a palin???

okay, which one of you is doing denial of service attacks on the knutsens?

tbh if i met these people and didn't know who they were i'd probably be like 'oh they're innocuous and straight, where's the tequila?'

ach, won't somebody please answer my damn question posed upthread already- are they xtians or not? is that a bile-driven rumor or is it a fact? I wanna know

well she def comes from missionary xtian family, lived in europe as a teen while parents were "planting" churches. no known indication whether she's still down with jesus tho

if she is then we should be EXTRA CAREFUL

our whinging might bring down the wrath of skydad

thx for answer, dunno why i care either way (atheistpompla-whosis is no more excusable obviously)

troo xians don't shack up fwiw