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This post is a meaningful recap of the most bloggable music video memes of the last several blog weeks. I just want 2 find innovative ways for artists 2 express one song in video format.
r music videos 'dead'?
Video: The Presets - If I Know You
I haven't ever really listened to the Presets too indepth, except for this one Lifelike remix of them. But I have heard that they are 'amazing' live, and they probs are. N e ways, this music video is pretty meaningful bc it was directed by the same person who made M83's "Kim and Jessie." I think I can really identify with this music video because I am a teen from the suburbs who wants to go to the city and 'get my dance on' but then also get meaningful at a beach bonfire.
<3 serious videos for electronic music <3
<3 packs of dancing tweens searching for meaning <3
Video: The Pains of Being Pure At Heart - Everything With You
Think I might start 2 like this band because they sound like ______ and _______ (references to miscellaneous shoegazy artists from the past 100 years). The video is kinda meaningful. I wonder if that is actually the band, or just stock footage of meaningful tweens. Does n e 1 know? Do u think they sound 'good' or just kind of 'plain' and 'not as good as the stuff from the past that people say they sound like'?
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The following 2 videos are representative of the future of music video gimmicks and technology
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Seen n e pixelated-core videos lately?
Video: Chairlift - Evident Utensil
Video: Kanye West - Welcome to Heartbreak
These two videos are really pixelated. I think it is an emerging aesthetic, probably facilitated by some sort of update to a program that was made by Adobe Inc. It's kinda confusing. Makes me feel like my computer is messing up, but I think that's a metaphor for how our whole lives' are sooo pixel based these days. Not sure what I'd do without pixels. Feel like life would be pretty boring/a little bit too paper-based. Do yall think that MGMT and Dan Deacon wish this technology was available 1 year ago?
N e ways... seen ne keut music vids lately?
Which 1 of these is ur favourite? I think mine is defs the Presets, mainly because I am usually a shirtless tween dancing around Los Angeles. But u might be a pixelated bro, so who knows what u will prefer.
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How many 'indie music video' gimmicks can u count in this music video?
I was watching this video by the Matt and Kims for the song "Daylight." I feel like this video is the perfect execution of the 'indie aesthetic for people who like things that look earnestly quirky are meaningful.' (These people were created after NappyDynamite Fever.) The song structure is baffling enough for people to not know if it is good or bad, enabling them to decide on the quality of product based on 'how it looks' in relation to 'stuff they've seen in the past.'
Since it is a mashup of indie/meaningfulcore aesthetics, the product is approachable, and most entry level alts are able to assign meaning to it in a deliberately arbitrary way.
BUT SRSLY...if I lived my life in stop-motion, would it be more meaningful?
///Just want to exist where soul meets body//////////////
XX BONUS LACKLUSTER PERFORMANCE BY A BUZZBAND at CMJ XX
NSFW if you work in a work environment that doesn't allow 'dancey female lead singers' who 'sway to-and-fro with the sounds of an indie ballad.'
"I tried to do handstands for yall."
- Chairlift (a.k.a. Apple Buzzband version 4.6) [commercial]
Matt Johnson & Kim Schifino make up Matt & Kim, a band 4 entry level lamestreamers.
Read more>>>>Maybe it's just because I grew up when 'boy bands' were big, but I can't help but look at bands as a product that is being sold to me. Whether or not band members have 'genuine personalities' is not always relevant to me. How I perceive a member of a band is up 2 me.
Kind of like how in NSYNC, there was like the 'kute one', the 'fat one with spikey hair', and 'the gay one' and probz a few more--don't remember. It's just funnie how as bands become products, we can't help but evaluate each member as a brand. Consumer subliminally pick their 'favourite one' who they would pretend they would be if they were in the band.
Here are some of our favourite bands, and how the HIPSTER RUNOFF PERSONAL BRAND RANKING SYSTEM ranks them within their own band.
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********RANKINGS*******
WHICH BAND MEMBER HAS THE MOST AUTHENTIC PERSONAL BRAND?
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The Justice League
Alice and the Crystal Castles
Interpols
The Arcade Firing
What do yall think? Is the new computer software that did these images accurate? I used all of my advertising money on it, so I need 2 know if I should return it, or if it does a good job of accurately ranking personal brands within bands. Are any of these rankings incorrect?
<3 <3 Personal Brand Analysis <3 <3
What other bands should get ranked?
Justice is a popular banger house electro group from France on Ed Banger Records.
The Arcade Fire is a 2k0s indie band that went mainstream because their songs sound like meaningful anthems. They pretend to be Canadian but Win Butler (lead singer) is actually from Houston, TX.
Animal Collective is the definitive band of the Era of Internet Indie Music Discovery.
HIPSTER RUNOFF is the #1 leading source for all late breaking occurrences of relevant female singers JIMMY JANGLING tambourines. However, we CANNOT identify what is being jimmy jangled in this photograph. We currently have our research department making calls, attempting to find out what exactly is being jimmy jangled.
We are dedicated to following up on this story, delivering the TRUE, UNCOVERED story behind this unidentified jimmyjangled object by Caroline Polachek of Chairlift.
As you know, we were ON THE SCENE when Zooey Deschanel Jimmy Jangled her first tambourine. She truly has taken the entire jimmyjangle movement to new levels.
We also followed up on the story when Zooey Deschanel jimmy jangled a tambourine in a sailor outfit.
We were there when Regine Chassagne jimmyjangled a tambourine with the dude from Pearl Jam.
There have been many great jimmyjangling moments in indie rock history. We will not let this one slip thru the cracks.
Does n e 1 know what is being JimmyJangled in this picture?
Please comment below, or contact us using the ALT REPORT TIP LINE.
Caroline Polachek is the female vocalist & star of electro band Chairlift.
Chairlift is a Brooklyn-based electro group. You may know them as the people who had that one song ("Bruises") in that random Apple (iPod) commercial in 2k10.
At a recent show in the greater New York City area, lead singer of Chairlift Caroline Polachek was doing her thang, vibing, dancing, and singing with what many consider to be the best pipes in the entire indie game. However, one fan took the positive vibes of a Chairlift concert TOO FAR, crashing the stage, and attacking Caroline Polachek. We CANNOT confirm or deny whether or not the crazed woman had weapons or if the only crime she is guilty 4 is just 'wanting 2 have a good time' and/or 'getting lost in the buzz.'
This sloppy mess was at it all night- spilling her drinks, dry humping the air/people, and waving her over-confident arms all over the place so no one could see. The last song of the encore, she decided it was time to get on stage and really put on a show. As you can see, she wasn't going down without a fight!
Here is an alternate clip.
It seems like all we can do is #Pray4Caroline. May the Lord Savoir of Buzz protect her from evil, keeping her BANGIN BOD and PURE INDIE TALENT safe from harm. We almost lost her... but now she is okay.
I understand why this fan would be so obsessed with Caroline BB. Sometimes, I'll use the projector in my room that has a 24/7 loop of indie hotties to watch the Chairlift video for 'Amanamonesia' over and over again, studying the shape and movement of her body until I can have a lucid dream about our first date to Indie Zumba class.
Does this fan seem 'crazed'?
Has this fan 'gone too far'?
Do u wish we had witnessed some bouncer brutality?
Do venues need to do more 2 protect indie stars from the fans?
Should there be a fence between the performers and the fans?
Is Caroline Polachek the hottest indie diva in the game right now?
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The broad from Chairlift wears a sexy unitard on stage, shows off BANGIN alt bod
Caroline Polachek is the female vocalist & star of electro band Chairlift.
Chairlift is a Brooklyn-based electro group. You may know them as the people who had that one song ("Bruises") in that random Apple (iPod) commercial in 2k10.
Photo by Erez Avissar
Caroline Polachek is the lead singer of Chairlift. I haven't heard many of their songs, I usually just listen to her collabs (Holy Ghost! + Washed Out). It seems like she is eating up the spotlight that is shining bright on her BANGIN alt body. I dig her vibes. She's not really 'showing skin', but she's still showing us that her body might be God's gift 2 alt. U have to give her props for knowing that the leotard meme will help their buzzband model. More bros show up at shows. She becomes a top tier indie diva. Critics will 'love her' bc they want 2 bang her. Every body wins, the buzz Gods are happie.
Lord knows my peen went raw for a few days after jagging off to the video for "Amanaemonesia", where she shakes that alt bod all over the ground in some artsy music video.
Oh Carol... What a voice! But more importantly... What a bod!
Carol........
I'm buying a unitard
just 4 u
and me
so we can vibe
R u hornie 4 her?
Is the sexie unitard 'good for her buzzband'?
Do u 'give a damn' abt Chairlift?
Does she have a GREAT VOICE and a GREAT BOD?
GREAT BOD?
What a bod?
Do u ever have fantasies abt her in various unitards?
Is this good for her brand, or will she ultimately end up having to wear unitards for the rest of her life, then when she is out in public and not wearing a unitard, fans will be pissed and say, "Hey. Where the EFF is ur unitard, bb?'
Caroline Polachek is the female vocalist & star of electro band Chairlift.
Chairlift is a Brooklyn-based electro group. You may know them as the people who had that one song ("Bruises") in that random Apple (iPod) commercial in 2k10.
This is a new Chairlift video for the song "Amanaemonesia." I don't really care that the song has a stupid name, bc they 'delivered' with a solid video that features HOTTIE ALT Caroline Polachek showing off her bangin body in a green leotard / jumpsuit / spandex sex slave outfit. I have watched the video 10+ times, watching every inch of her body, thinking abt what life will be like when I make <3 to the first altbaguette of my life. I'll finally know what it is like to be with a premium alt hottie.
Do u think Chairlift will ever 'turn the corner' on being an iPod commercial wave band?
Can they 'make the leap' 2 relevant buzzband status?
Can the strength of Caroline Polachek's good looks carry the band to the buzz promiseland?
What a bod!
She looks good, bb!
S00 much sexual imagery...
Is she the hottest BB in indie?
Can she replace Alice Glass / Vicki LeGrand / Maddie Follin / St. Vincent as the #1 altbaguette premium hottie in indie?
I'm going 2 1 of their concerts just bc I expect her 2 wear this outfit again.
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The Broad from Chairlift (Caroline Polachek) does a slutwave photoshoot
Do u <3 her?
Caroline Polachek is the female vocalist & star of electro band Chairlift.
Chairlift is a Brooklyn-based electro group. You may know them as the people who had that one song ("Bruises") in that random Apple (iPod) commercial in 2k10.
I am not too familiar with Caroline Polachek or Chairlift, but I know that their song was used in some iPod commercial post-Feist because it 'sounded indie' [link], and then one time she sang on a song that Washed Out wrote.
Anyways, because I believe that a series of sexy indie celeb photographs is more valuable than 95% of indie mp3s, I just wanted to post these pix of Caroline riding slutwaves around her house. She has a really solid indie body, and I think she has been known to wear 'provocative' things on stage. I think if she continues to 'look good' and 'show off her body', Chairlift can maybe become relevant in an authentic way instead of in the failed Apple buzz kind of way.
Wonder if she has potential to become 'the hottest woman in indie.' Oh kewl, do u play instruments? R u in a buzzband?
Here she is trying to 'rip off' Toro Y Moi's "Underneath the Pine" album cover by eating citrus.
Do yall think that she is 'keut'?
Should she just wear this on stage every time they play?
Is Chairlift an authentic buzzband, or are they a failed buzzband?
Do yall <3 Caroline?
Does she look 'good' and 'classy'?
Can she become more relevant than Alice Glass/Vicki LeGrand if she just shows off more skin?
Caroline Polachek is the female vocalist & star of electro band Chairlift.
