CHROMEO

My roommate got Chromeo in the mail, not every 80s 12" R&B ever produced so I've been listening to the former. :(

if 00s R&B actually sounded like 80s R&B...

these days = a bad Felix D H. they sound like they're taking the piss.

how so

i didn't really know who these guys were, but they are on mtv all the time right now like they are the dance ed lover and doctor dre.

really? great, i love 'em.

fuck these guys

: O

xpost I don't think they'd fancy my fat arse. But I quite like their music.

i wasn't sure if they were a comedy troupe or what

the dude who looks like turtle from entourage has a vocoder implant

I love Chromeo.

Props to my homegirl Lorna who turned me on to this shizzle after hearing about it from two groovy guys she worked with in Urban Outfitters in SF.

Tenderoni is good. I could swallow them slightly better if I could be sure they weren't just taking the piss. I mean they could love this sound as much as I do...

i think they have a genuine love of 80s soul and synthfunk. check out their mix on eskimo, they're well into it. i remember when air came out everybody thought they were joking, but a little bit of humour in music isn't such a bad thing anyway. don't be some "OMG, everything is so ironic nowadays" drip.

xpost - please don't post again

Okay (shit!)

Props to my homegirl Lorna who turned me on to this shizzle after hearing about it from two groovy guys she worked with in Urban Outfitters in SF.

you cant make this shit up.

ok, you could.

I was just taking the piss a bit. I don't actually sound like that but whatevs.

So... it appears you can easily.

Chromeo: The Next Crossover Band That We Feel Like We're Not Allowed to Like Any More?

MTV's Buzzworthy Blog features Chromeo this week.

Of course they make amazing music, but maybe it's just going to be annoying when all of the mainstreamers are post-post ironically having fun while listening to Chromeo, and saying "Let's have a party where we dress up like we're in the 1980s." Then you'll log into facebook one Monday morning, and see a bunch of pictures of girls dressed like they are from the 1980s, and having a lot of fun.

So Buzzworthy.

Chromeo's good, but I think the blogosphere will probably focus more on Calvin Harris now that Chromeo is 'no longer ours.'

"Let's have a party where we dress up like we're in the 1980s."

didn't this happen about 3 years ago anyway?

all those mainstreamers

I hate hate hate Calvin Harris. It sounds so cheaply cobbled together.

And yeah, all the art school girls are so past 80's. Its all nu-rave nostalgia. Or so it would seem. I would have thought it a little early, but who am I to judge.

And why would anyone care about someone crossing over into the mainstream?

http://www.cs.nyu.edu/courses/spring04/V22.0002-001/Escher_hands_2.jpg

>>>>>>>fuck these guys

-- omar little, Monday, October 8, 2007 6:46 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link<<<<<<<<<

^^^^^^^^

i would like chromeo, but deej enjoys it because people don't enjoy it because hipster douchebags enjoy it except they don't know because they are on mtv so maybe i do like them. you wouldn't believe how hard it is to smugly contrary sometimes.

I can imagine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb5FOa3DrkY

is this stuff out of control yet

i really am having trouble figuring out how to be er 'smugly contrary' or whatever here!!! this is fun but diminishing returns the more of these groups show up i think

something about their willingness to throw every pastiche cliche into it + dudes mj imitation is leaving me feeling very conflicted

hm wow this is good. i guess if you wanna make this type of music— and i guess that's probably where this problem starts, but it's fine w/ me— you might as well jump all the way into the deep end and have a video like this and carry on like they do, or else it seems like your half-assing it, and intense self-conciousness would probably hinder the success of the music.

i guess part of why i stand/actively like stuff like this is because i don't have an intense emotional attachment to the music it so obviously mines, so my immediate reaction isn't "fuck you!"

its really quite well done

i'm just afraid we're getting very close to, i dunno, The Caesars of 80s electro pastiche groups or something

and some things are lost in the sort of lyrical vaguenesses required to keep it 'timeless'

based on the two other songs i've just heard on myspace, private (ugh, btw) seem to be stretching their legs pretty well within the kind of box they're inherently in by making the music they're making. they seem way less one trick pony than chromeo, like "crucify my heart" has that awesome singing by the woman at the end that's just really genuinely awesome, super-talented singing, and something like that is way more rewarding than a lot of the things chromeo do.

i agree. chromeo had the freshness of being first tho. i think what rubs the wrong way about this is that you can really see the limits of the style they're working with

that kind of thing frustrates me more w/ something like new young pony club, who seem to want to work within the mold more than these guys, but then again maybe private are just much better at what they do.

or maybe i'm giving private too much credit. i guess the flipside is appreciating when something is this good because you can see the limits of the style they're working with, however self-imposed they may be.

now im confused

yeah idk maybe i am too. i don't pay enough attention to stuff like this to have reached a satuartion point, really. good shit tho, thx for the link.

new young pony club is super terrible. not sure what that has to do w/cromeo, but whatever.

re: cromeo - more of the music, more of the choruses, less of moustache dude talk rapping.

Eh...I like both Chromeo and NYPC (not really sure why the latter are being brought into this, they're a different pastiche), but this feels kind of embarrassing. I don't know how to put this really, but where Chromeo are equal parts genuine enthusiasm and aloof distance, this tips too far toward the latter. It also feels like they're trying too damn hard. The forced MJ vocals, the nauseating "rap" section, it's...icky.

I love New Young Pony Club.

Yes, but what of Private?

Never heard of them.

chromeo were not the first at anything

they were first at not being first