Mysterious 'buzzband' Neon Indian 'unmasked'... Signs 2 Lesfe Records...I enjoy blggng about ‘new-ish’ music videos in a recap-mega-post format because most ‘made for youtube’ era music videos are not newsworthy enough to blog abt by themselves, unless your music video is about coloured kids terrorizing a city.
Van She - “Changes”
Another video in the genre of ‘tour diary where we showcase that our band is a group of sillie friends who are going through a meaningful experience on the road together’ video. Other notable videos in this genre are the Strokes “Some Day“, Phantom Planet’s “California” and the 2008 summer anthem “Faith” by Limp Bizkit. All of these videos make me wish that I was able to experience fame, yet still maintain an appreciation for ‘the small, trivial stuff’ that makes us human.
RATATAT - “Flynn”
Here is a perfect video in the ‘crappy/underwhelming college video art that your friend in art school who wants you to appreciate, but you know he did all of the work for it in the final 3 hours before deadline while under the unnecessary influence of adderal+marijuana’ genre. Gotta love concepts that are ‘appreciated’ because they piggyback off a previous piece of media that most Americans can identify. <3
Paul Simon - “You Can Call Me Al”
This video reminds me of the first generation of Cool/Free Spirited BabyBoomer parents who tried to get their 7 year old kid to appreciate the social value of music by playing this ‘masterfully crafted pop song’ which is also about ‘ending apartheid.’ U CAN CALL ME AL was an overrated song, and I’d consider the video something that ‘would have GONE VIRAL’ if they had the internet back then. So since there wasn’t the internet, we have to remember it forever when we should only remember it as ‘the gimmicky video that Chevy Chase was in.’ Did yall like The Graduate soundtrack? Was Chevy Chase’s only good movie “National Lampoon’s Vegas Vacation”? When will Chevy Chase have a Bill-Murray-like ‘deep, indie’ phase of his career?
Feist - “1-2-3-4″ (Elmo Vs. Cookie Monster: Big Bird is a closet-homo REMIX)
In an effort to match Feist’s royalty fees from her iPod nano commercial, the Sesame Street Workshop gave Leslie Feist the rights to 10% of Muppet creator Jim Henson’s estate. BUT SRSLY…is educational entertainment ‘important’/'justifiable’ enough to turn your song into a pile of crappiness? Is this a secret advertisement for ‘moms who have to watch Sesame Street with their kids and are considering buying some new CDs at Target + getting a fresh, new haircut with bangs”?
Plus… don’t kids watch stuff like Yo Gabba Gabba/Dora The Lil Alt Explorer/other conceptual+homoerotic shows like the Teletubbies now because their cool parents want them to fit in?
Also, why isn’t THE COUNT in this video? It would be kind of like making a Weezer video without including __________(easily identifiable gimmick).
Leslie Feist really has the energy in this 1-2-3-4 remix video to make every altbro wish that she was his free-spirited mom who drove a Volvo station wagon and made ‘tasty yet healthy’ dinners every night (note: she also packed the best smart snacks).
BUT SRSLY… is it okay to change the lyrics of your song for the sake of ‘education,’ but it’s not okay to change your lyrics if U want 2 go outback 2nite?
Of Montreal - “Let’s Go Outback Tonight”
This music video is way better than any deep Radiohead music video.
XX BONUS THOUGHT ON THE STATE OF MODERN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING XX
Participating in educational shows/shows for kids that are pyramid schemes to get kids to buy apparel-that-features-creatures does not make u a public servant.
Yo Gabba Gabba is a pyramid scheme to unite alt-parents and kids under one lifestyle brand with the ultimate goal of ‘buying crap with creatures on it.’
YO GABBA GABBA/Kid robot crap: so quirkily alt that kids & parents can wear it!
Burning questions:
If you are an alt-kid whose free-spirited parents make over $100K/year, does ur hair automatically turn curly?
Should there be a law against lifestyle brands that target kids under the age of 5?
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looks like a big red dildo
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im appalled that feist ever considered going on that show. she has really gone mainstream. ugh. i feel like life is losing meaning.
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yeah, i have to agree with anonymous 1, you’re only alt while you don’t make enough to be mainstream
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I can’t wait to hear feist on a popular television series about rich girls and alternative boys in new york… oh wait she did that like a year ago.
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weezer isnt really that shitty or gimmicky. you try being forty and cool.
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Chevy Chase = Fletch. Big in 19k5
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bl0g m0re drugz
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MGMT (and its tribal painted singer) is going to be on yo gabba gabba. this is all part of the conspiracy.
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golden lols
you guys are all forgetting andrew bird as dr stringz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HmkLu24w2o
alt bands are the ones that end up on kids shows because the kids shows are made by alts.
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omg me and my friend said that thing from YO Gabba Gabba! looks like a dick w/ flaming herps…MGMT’s gonna be on the show forealz??
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i didn’y realize of montreal was such a fggt mainstreamer band nowadays
fuck their juicy steaks and tender shrimps!
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Also steve drozd from flaming lips:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GEHJaROqDDI
Plus the blues clues guy
steve drozd: from heroin addict to awkward childrens show sidekick
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Limp Bizkit is SO 10 years ago.
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5:56 - he blogged about that months ago.
This was an excellent post btw.
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I would pay good money to see a muppet + Leslie Feist gangbang.
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@ 6:18 - no fucking shit
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~wake up in the mornin and i ask myself is life worth livin or should i blast myself~
I SEE NO CHANGES
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lets not 4get the outback commercials with that guy from flight of the conchords.
ARE flight of the conchords alt???
IS outback trying to win over the ALTBRO demographic???
WHICH chain restraunt is alt-EST???
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I hope MSTRKRFT remixes that Of Montreal song, they can combine the download/Outback gift cards into one convenient package to buy at Whole Foods.
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I hope MSTRKRFT remixes that Of Montreal song, they can combine the download/Outback gift cards into one convenient package to buy at Whole Foods.
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none of yall would be bitching if it was a chili’s ad or a benihana ad.
oh and carles, isn’t PNAU to blame for some of this? why no mention of “baby” again? talk about kid gimmick!
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Srsly, has no one else noticed the appearance of Steve Aeoki in that Van She video? I’m certain he shows up a couple times in the later part of the video with all the party pix. I mean, wouldn’t that add serious meaning to the whole idea of a bunch of alt friends in a band who just like to have fun?
Also, I don’t know if the adds on this site are the same for everyone, but that AA swimsuit ad with the girl in the yellow bikini could DEFINITELY be considered for the whole “search for the perfect alt breast” thing.
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what the h*ck is this crap. post some m0re alice glass pix. its been too long since i’ve seen her face… my heart aches…. oh alice, u’re my dark angelic alt princess…
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is it just me or is that gabba thing a penis infected with gonorrhea, an eye growing infection, a rash, and that infection that makes your testes split apart and form legs.
could gabba possibly be attched to hellboy?
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THE BREADSTICKS ARE ENDLESS!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgNEpbfkqzo
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i like the feel of a gabba when its inside my eyes and ears at the same time
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SELLING CRACK TO THE KIDS WHO THE HELL CARES
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that 1234 bullshit video was way worse than the outback sellout. the lyrics are terrible and what retarded kid can’t at least count to 5? who needs a shitty song to remember one.. two.. three.. four. if your kids can’t get that, off ‘em.
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yo gabba gabba is probably the most alt-cred show on television right now.
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ONE LESS HUNGRY MOUTH ON THE WELFARE
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That looks to me to be a one eyed monster on that little boys shirt. Total cock metaphor. Then the damn real life one is all covered with the herps. Eww. What kind of message is that sending to our(ok your’s i aint got none) children? It’s cool to have the herps? If you have the herps then you will be a rockstar?
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The Three Amigos was pretty good.
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did you notice steve aoki in changesvid?
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Is that in real years or blog years?
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