Pnau is pretty weird. But I still like some of their songs. I’m not sure if I can honestly say that I understand the concept of most of their songs or performances, but it works. Sometimes when older people make products that are excessively youthful, we have reason to be alarmed about their mental makeup, but I think the dudes in Pnau are healthy citizens, even though they use a lot of elements in their songs and performances that ‘remind U of being a kid.’
Here are a few videos that prove PNAU is pretty weird.
1. A performance on what looks like the Australian TODAY SHOW. It’s pretty mindblowing.
2. PNAU’s video for “BABY”, which seems like it should be on Nick Jr.
Pnau ‘baby’
3. A live performance of “Embrace”, their song featuring Ladyhawke. They replaced Ladyhawke with a sun
4. An interview with PNAU on Pedestrian.TV.
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PNAU: I really like their songs, but I will always just think they are kind of weird, but their songs are still pretty amazing, but they’re still pretty weird, but I still feel comfortable telling people I like them, but I wonder if a lot of people in Australia are weird.
What’s the deal with Australians, yall? Are they growing on U, or r u tired of them?
[Still one of the most powerful MP3s of recent past]
PNAU Embrace (Featuring Ladyhawke)
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LADYHAWKE IS AAAAMMMMMMMAZZZIIING
I LOVE HER SO MUCH
DORIAN TEENZ
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us australians are amazing
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted March 21st, 2009 at 7:02 am
@Anonymous,
Ladyhawke is actually from nz
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Pnau got sold out here ages ago
Like on mtv everyday kinda sold out
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australian music kinda sucks, espec as of l8. allot of the bands seem to be throw up in your mouth poppy, which is lame. in terms of music australia is like the california of the world; if it’s nice and sunshiny out it’s cool but if you’re having any sort of a bad day or it’s cold out then FUCK OFF already :) is billabong clothing from australia? cuz they also suck.
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//////////Reply by Brush
//////////Posted November 20th, 2008 at 8:05 pm
@eduoordo,
your a tool. australia is probably infinitley better than that piece of crap called america.
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eduoordo’s dick is from Australia i heard….
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EMBRACE IS (STILL) KING!
AND THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS SELL OUT. STFU.
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for a country of only 21 million people, i think we produce more quality music per capita than most places…
i mean, how much sweet music do you hear about that comes out of Romania? it’s about the same size.
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thats a stupid comparison seeing as though from what i know Romania is full of tradition and culture so there not so likely to produce
“d-floor killers”
and australia is just a seady slow branch off of america/britan
i produce more culture from my ass than most of australia does
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted December 19th, 2008 at 8:44 am
eat shit yankee scum-bags
your countries so fucked up, seen our country being bombed and hated? no. ya know why? cause we dont hate everyone (except yankees), we have open minds, we can laugh at ourselves. american assholes are all about their own assholes, we produce probably better music, all your pop mainstream shit all sounds the same, there was even a stage where you all started spelling words in ya songs cause ya were to worried bout your egos and fucking up the world economy that yas forgot how to even pronounce the word. Bah-Nar-Nah….not that hard jackasses
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//////////Reply by gestALT
//////////Posted May 23rd, 2009 at 3:58 am
stand back evry1! i got this!! you have 2 b verry careful with this breed
@anon, ok uh – GIDAAYYY. MO-ATE. uh, OYM NI-EW TO SEEDNEE, DOO YOO KNOW WHEA OY KEN GET SUM FEESH N’ CHEEPS? MO-ATE? OH, OK, CHEEYAS. HAVE A GO0D WUN.
it’s ok folks, he won’t be bothering us again.
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That performance is pretty difficult to watch…
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Speaking as a native New Zealander, Aussies are starting to make me sick!
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Do white Aussies make friends with native Aussies (you know Aborigines?)
I would like to see some Aborigines in Summer Bay or Ramsey Street!
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted June 20th, 2009 at 7:39 am
@The Nerdy Frames Dream Team, only bogans do
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Considering the population, Australia’s music scene is pretty good, providing you look past the ghey mainstream bands on HRO.
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yall are lucky you have decent mainstream music.
i wish our jocks danced to pnau
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AUS REPRESEN’
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//////////Reply by Saysh
//////////Posted January 2nd, 2009 at 9:29 am
@Trashionista,
STRAIT UP.
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//////////Reply by stef
//////////Posted February 25th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
@Trashionista,
+1!!!!!!!!
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why do I get the feeling Pnau’s BABY = D.A.N.C.E. of 2008.
please… no more children singing choruses
but I’m still on team australia
COMMONWEALTH = REP THAT SHIT OR DIE
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singing children in chourses is not that pop! australian music is real good and independent, so back of…
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yeah, cause like, france doesn’t have any culture.
what about mongolia? next JUSTICE RMX?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SQ9bp09s_w
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I really liked their self titled album.
And the other anonymous had a point. At least your “mainstream” music is decent. I can’t even turn on the radio here without dry heaving.
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we’re just lucky to have one hectic “nationally-networked, government-funded Australian radio station,” called triple j
wherever ‘eduoordo’ is from, i want to go there
young australian’s are like a blank canvas, which is good and bad
mostly bad though, like when you go to a festival and choke on fluro and the significant lack of genuinely interesting people around.. and when you see the line up for coachella then bawl your eyes out, with your kangaroo the only one who will listen to your dissatisfaction
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Aust Music is defenitly comming of age. maybe if there was more funding and actual POPulation to get the music out there than it would be better. UNTIL then we have to just help those who are hiding in the shadows come forth. Listen to triple J.
IM all for my local music.
thats why i try to PROMO it on my blog!!!
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I saw Pnau play live in Adelaide the other weekend. Their performance was amazing, and I was completely sober.
The child elements give the band an unusual twist, but its nice.
And the thousand plus people in the crowd behind me weren’t complaining either!!
And Australia produces some very good music thank you. A lot of it is not the same generic stuff you hear everyday on commercial radio.
Fresh FM baby!
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eduoordo you stupid spanish person, just cause you are too poor to come to australia. don’t be a hater y’all
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//////////Reply by Brush
//////////Posted November 20th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
@Anonymous, damn str8
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aussie mgmt ?
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//////////Reply by stef
//////////Posted February 25th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
@Anonymous,
lolno
omg too mainstream </3
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//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted May 5th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
@Anonymous, empire of the sun is the oz mgmt
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Modular is probably the height of fame Australia is going to have in popular culture in a while and that’s because they’re associated with Tsubi and people wanting to get trashed at parties. After that noone is going to care about Australia again.
Australian people are just defending this band because they have Aussie accents, but nothing in their style resembles anything Australian at all.
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How many ‘effin hating nationalistic cocksuckers exist on this site?
Australian has produced many talented musicians, actors etc (and note Modular are not representative of Australia as they feed off plagiarising other cultures)
Bollock off you yankee doodle dandy fucker fools – at least we have an identity we can be proud of and don’t have the majority of the world hating us in the process.
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He has changed a bit with his new band Empire of the Sun
http://theinspirationroom.com/daily/2008/empire-of-the-sun-walking-on-a-dream/
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shit i agree
as much as i want to leave australia for a change of scenery, i would never move to America. Australian’s, like most other countries think america is like the meaning of arrogance. Hate your own country for fucking up everyone elses. We produce as gooda music as we can, due to a lack of population, america and other countries are 5x our size, and we stick make you all suck our balls in international competitions, you yankee fucks just bomb people and spit on all other countries that have souls.
Open your eyes cock-loving yankees
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p.s. pnau is pretty fucked up, but theyre good nonetheless “Y’ALL”
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i think this kid’s onto something
obviously all americans are exactly the same across the board.. they all hate muslims and shit.. they all love shooting animals and each other.. you can read about it in the first amendment
why can’t they just be open minded like australians? maybe then they could make better electronica
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aussie music is sick and PNAU rock! i’m a hard party-guy from way back and i know true quality and pnau def. are that!
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i m frm australia
but we rly don’t have n e culture
we tried to copy america
the only trew alt ppl are in melbourne
but they are all AZN btw pnau=mnstrm
listen 2 pivot
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1. Australia is hugely multi-cultural, and the people who live here are open-minded enough for it to be that way.
2. PNAU make good music with childish themes because they love dropping acid.
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All of the Australians who posted on the this thread are ghey (aprt from the empire of the suns dude)
Repp’n Sydney 2100
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I’m a Canadian, but I love Aussie music. I listen to Triple J Radio online all the time and really like a lot of Australian music that I had never heard before.
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it’s not Ladyhawke in the videoclip of embrace.
it’s the singer of australian band Bridezilla.
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First of all ‘America’ consists of North AND South America, so all you uneducated inbreds when you say so dumbly ‘I hate America’ you so blindly include people who aren’t even involved in The United States affairs.
Secondly it is shallow and belligerent to categorize all the US as ‘yankee-fast food eating-neanderthals’ Just like Australia we have a MASSIVE range of peoples and cultures and it is horribly wrong for you to stereotype EVERY United States citizen as ‘war loving and cock sucking’ you have no idea how the effects of a war tears the stability of your country apart, we are sending our families overseas to fight and die and for some generic ’cause’ which maybe or maybe not be just’, but regardless you dumb insensitive assholes have no idea what it is like for the families and cultures to suffer when you don’t always agree with what your government is doing.
As for the music, hell every country has their ‘mainstream’ which the simple minded ‘douche bags’ and generic club goes, ‘bump to’ but with in the hyped up media exploited music scene there are always going to be indie producers and indie bands who don’t want the fame but do it for the music and the craft of making music, and regardless that is part of ‘musical evolution’ and you will find that with in ANY society/country/state/city ect..
As for PNAU they found their own thing, their ‘niche’ and good for them and wether or not they are ‘mainstream’ is all relative
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sarah,
boo fricken hoo. go eat a burger. australia is shitloads better than america. and you know what people mean when they refer to the US as just america. GETOVERIT
oh yeah, and we are all over that war shit, following you guys into shit like vietnam. and we all know how that turned out well.
‘oh were so torn apart’
(cue violins)
go have a cry.
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