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Bands that Sound Okay and Look Cute are typically destined for big things

Has any one heard of this band THOSE DANCING DAYS ?
They look like an all-alt-girl band that was assembled by a coalition of alternative retail executives.

They 'look rlly kute' and 'sound okay.' And by 'sound okay' means that 'I would never listen to it, but I could understand why a mass market could pretend that it is good music.' I wonder if they are big in other parts of the world? When am I going to be ambushed by remixes of them?

Another band that I think 'looks kute' and 'sound interesting to uninteresting people who like to be into alt music' is MGMT. They're pretty decent for the most part, but overall, pretty gimmicky. But I don't think they're trying to be gimmicky, I think they're just weirdos, and their weirdo-ness is being exploited in a gimmicky way.

For example, there's this new video for "Electric Feel" that got cleaned up because it looks like they wanted it to be on VH1 or something.

I think they should have hired the visionaries behind the OK GO 'walking on treadmills' gimmick, because this song could have been soo random/viral.

Remember the old video for "Electric Feel"?

At least they were adamant about relaying their image of 'being weird/psychedelic', involving underworlds with creatures, and utilizing green screens. I wonder if Columbia Records told them 'that looks waaay too Dan Deacony.'
<3 when artists stand up for their visions <3

"This band looks interesting, and if I ever had a conversation about them, I could relate their look and sound to a time in the past where a lot of stuff sounded like them." -music fan who reads stereogum once a week and thinks he is s00 underground

Are there any other bands that look and sound kute/interesting/'different'/'revivalist' who could be considered underwhelming products? I feel like the whole glue behind these types of bands/products is that they are inoffensive and accessible, which can sometimes be a good thing, but can also lead to 'being overexposed by rcrd lbls who market stuff to people.'

Also, there's the I-Think-I-Am-A-Good-Person-bc-I-See-the-Big-Picture argument that 'this music is good compared to what most people are exposed to, so it's good that people get really into stuff. Just bc u listen to way too much music doesn't mean u r better than every1.'

I don't really have a problem with 'bands that sound okay' and 'look kute', but I guess it's easy to get burnt out on them when people confuse them with meaningful-core bands and/or highly-bloggable gimmick bands.