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

(talk only)

pomplemousee giving a TED talk is like a poorly-formed punchline about 2012

What a smacky mouth.

http://www.pomplamoose.com/home/calling_all_film_makers/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t98Omcsmru8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2uAAm6CyT4

the disclaimer at the start

"IMPORTANT"

This is the end, my only friend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ure6I6mRyDc

Feel like "do not push" is warning me against something

It's kind of cool how they switched out the music for each (singing Carly Rae over the Gotye verse and Gotye over the Carly Rae chorus). As a Tuesday diversion, pleasant enough.

haha the description of the video cuts off before the artist name so i listened for a couple minutes before realizing i'd been Pomplarolled

they're so married

i totally thought it was gonna be a penis in that box though

obv i quickly forgot what thread i'd clicked to it from also (xpost)

nataly totally did it w/ ryan lerman, you can tell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS-v-UUk5wQ

Uh

Can we help you?

that was a 2-week late response to the batman video

oh. ok

SUCK MY ENTIRE DICK

(that was a 90-week-late response to the Hyundai commercial)

2-week-late lol @ unregistered

http://www.nonesuch.com/journal/nonesuch-signs-singer-songwriter-nataly-dawn-solo-debut-album-pomplamoose-singer-how-i-knew-her-january-2013-2012-08-22

Nonesuch President Bob Hurwitz recalls the first time he heard about Pomplamoose: “Brad Mehldau told me over lunch one day about these two extremely cool musicians in the Bay Area that had found a new and original way to get their music out. I looked them up online and the first video I watched was ‘My Favorite Things.’ It was clear they were onto something special.” He continues, “I tried to get in touch with them, to no avail, but my colleague Lenny Waronker, the great producer and executive from Warners, brought us together about a year ago. The minute I heard Nataly’s demos I knew she had an original voice and was someone we would love to have as part of the Nonesuch family.”

Dawn said of her decision to work with Nonesuch: “I can’t tell you how encouraging it is to be working with such passionate and intelligent people. People who care about music, and who are pleasantly old fashioned in the way they deal with artists.”

I saw this video interview with Mike Doughty where he was asking the guy to name any artists post-2002 or so that had real success in the internet age w/o label backing and the guy says "POMPLAMOOSE!" and Doughty rolls his eyes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i02PvPttBsI

It's like Tom Waits if he was a woman and the worst person on earth.

so who are that insufferable twee duo in the new geico ads

i want them dead

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

get punched in the dick

It's no Secret Lemonade Drinker

http://www.natalydawnmusic.com/2012/09/14/if-i-hear-one-more-person-boycott-amanda-palmer/

That level of financial disregard can only stem from an unflinching belief in what you’re creating.

well, glad we cleared that up, then

I feel like the person who made those geico commercials doesn't get that the punchline comes at the end of the joke

Let me tell you how much it cost: $150,000.

Uh.

poor girl, with expenses like that she might have to move out of sonoma (or wherever).

a $150K recording budget wouldn't be crazily large for a big label artist, even a minor one.

at least it wouldn't have been back in the day, i don't know what it's like now.

150K does sound a bit high for an indie release, and it doesn't help that I fucking hate pomplamousse, but if it were an artist I like, maybe that artist is trying to achieve something that costs more money to achieve, and maybe that's worth it. Christ, how much did Steely Dan records cost to make, and were they not worth every penny? I cringe at the idea of them having to crowdfund -- "What the fuck, do these assholes really need like 50 different top studio guys on one record?" YES, they do need it, and they are assholes for it.

i quite enjoy that almost two years on the rolling pomplamoose thread still doesn't have 'pomplamoose' in the title. i personally find it by searching for 'insufferable'.

also i guess someone should tell owen p and other working musicians on that other thread that they have no idea what they're talking about when it comes to funding a career in music. :/

You have no idea how much it costs to make an album, let alone put together a show of the magnitude Amanda is attempting.

Shhhh, no one tell her that Pink Floyd was a thing once.

I like how she neglects to mention that she herself been signed by Nonesuch, who are affiliated with a Major label, and were perhaps more than happy to take this solo album (and financial burden in excelis) off her hot little hands.

Oh, I see now she did allude to that, but I gave up before hitting that point.

fuck ukulele

;(

she needs to lay off the italics and/or block capitals

lol you cant even buy a ticket to their show without them begging for "tips"

http://www.stageit.com/pomplamoose/hey_it_s_pomplamoose/14655

A tip? They didn't give me a refill nor did they bring me my burrito in a timely fashion!

"And you have no idea how insulting it is to her – not just as an artist, but as a phenomenal entrepreneur – that you are questioning her spending."

phenomenal entrepreneur