https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2-S96FcFbk
― 乒乓, Monday, 6 May 2013 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
Light-hearted, whimsical indie hipster music icons that seem specifically manufactured for cell phone commercials
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjZ0rXSXeBA
― scott seward, Monday, 6 May 2013 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVERz5D1YEU
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 11:59 (eleven years ago) link
the lower level of this trend is even worse - like instead of big brands getting an actual song - loads of little shitty mortgage ads with a crappy ukelele soundtrack.
― Tioc Norris (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 12:00 (eleven years ago) link
that iphone marimba clip is a great find, pretty neatly summing up this entire thread
― anonanon, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
that IS actually Wayne Coyne, isn't it...?
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 7 May 2013 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
That clip sounds so much like Penguin Cafe Orchestra that it's uncomfortable. The problem is, I LIKE Penguin Cafe Orchestra, and this may be some roundabout homage to their song "Telephone and Rubber Band", which built around a phone busy signal. Nevertheless, I am sickened by these obnoxious hipster fucks!
― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 7 May 2013 18:26 (eleven years ago) link
that marimba clip is p. good and kiz seem to be working in a totally difft tradition than we're talking about here, although perhaps also suitable for tech ads (but not seemingly _manufactured_ for them!).
their youtube channel and website have any number of really enjoyable tracks.
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Thursday, 9 May 2013 05:26 (eleven years ago) link
(website being this: http://www.kizmusique.com/)
― stefon taylor swiftboat (s.clover), Thursday, 9 May 2013 05:27 (eleven years ago) link
the new ryan hemsworth ep is great but i keep thinking of this thread. apple-trap.
https://soundcloud.com/ryanhemsworth/sets/a
― precious bonsai children of new york (Jordan), Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:19 (eleven years ago) link
I can't really get into that dude. A year back or so I was thinking often that trap-EDM or whatever you want to call it would be better if someone was bringing a more feminine vibe to counter the dudeishness but then someone did that and I'm like ehhhh. Maybe I should listen to this new stuff tho.
― MIGUEL 3D: THEY FLY @ U FACE (The Reverend), Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
i feel like i should like these tracks more than i do, because i love chime-y melodies and it kinda sounds like old four tet with updated production, but nothing comes close to this: http://wedidit.bandcamp.com/track/the-happy-mask-shop
― precious bonsai children of new york (Jordan), Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
i guess they sound a little too contented with life, needs more giant choir drama.
― precious bonsai children of new york (Jordan), Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
does this belong here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKZxIrITsyo
― ty based gay dead computer god (zachlyon), Wednesday, 5 June 2013 23:51 (eleven years ago) link
i know one place it does belong, and that is with the rest of my tv that i threw out the window
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeVZi_GbaWM
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Saturday, 14 September 2013 02:16 (eleven years ago) link
cat power being in this thread is the single most baffling thing I have read here
― katherine, Saturday, 14 September 2013 04:28 (eleven years ago) link
http://whydopeoplesinglikethis.tumblr.com/
― everybody loves lana del raymond (s.clover), Thursday, 17 July 2014 03:30 (ten years ago) link
Time for that blog to be updated with Catey Shaw from the rolling worst music of 2014 thread.
― JRN, Thursday, 17 July 2014 04:09 (ten years ago) link
(Hmm, guess I don't know how to link to other threads)
― JRN, Thursday, 17 July 2014 04:11 (ten years ago) link
OMG the latest iPhone 5 commercial featuring the most inane (even for an Apple ad) song ever turns out to be Julie Doiron?!?
I think she has probably just smoked herself insane.
lyrics:
"I’m feeling hopefully feeling quite hopefullywith good people all around me I’m feeling hopefully
And the light shines bright all through the night and our dreams are making us nice storiesAnd my loves are well sleeping just right and I know know know now that we’re…Living the life of dreams living the life of dreams…"
― rip van wanko, Sunday, 3 August 2014 13:24 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o84y-5-cO0
― goth colouring book (anagram), Saturday, 25 October 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
I don't blame Nick Drake for this. I do blame these fuckers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8YCSJpF4g4
Is the trend for ads using teeth-gratingly bad stripped down cover versions a separate thing, or all part of the same general malaise of tweeness?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSLOnR1s74o
― Pheeel, Sunday, 26 October 2014 01:43 (nine years ago) link
Heard this at the gym (???) the other day and it reminded me that someone has to send a Terminator back in time to kill Ben Lee:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTeZcHWHeW4
― Tim F, Sunday, 26 October 2014 04:25 (nine years ago) link
this genre of cloying crap that would fit perfectly in a tv commercial is called 'indie' now.
― Poliopolice, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 20:17 (nine years ago) link
I never thought I'd get a chance to say this, but I actually really like this Ingrid Michaelson song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GBT37_yyzY
she is the WC Handy/Bill Monroe/Chuck Berry/James Brown/Kraftwerk of light-hearted, whimsical indie hipster music that seems specifically manufactured for Apple commercials. without 'The Way I Am' and "Be OK', there could be no Pomplamoose or She & Him.
― dichtgekitte discman (unregistered), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 23:12 (nine years ago) link
I got into that song after hearing it at the grocery store a while back. I guess that made me think it was a bigger success than it actually was.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link
yeah, I've heard it a lot while shopping. I'm more surprised that 'The Way I Am' (which I despise) only got to #37 on Billboard. I could have sworn it was a major hit at the time.
― dichtgekitte discman (unregistered), Tuesday, 3 March 2015 23:34 (nine years ago) link
I wouldn't really lump "Girls Chase Boys" in with the Apple commercials btw... different kind of pop, trying to catch some kind of observational gravitas and emotion. Within its world, there are things at stake. For comparison, check, I dunno, that awful Geico ad with the cheery lady singing about computers covered in bees. Whoever agreed to do the background whistling for that should be banned from the music industry on principle.
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 3 March 2015 23:37 (nine years ago) link
is this supposed to be mocking Robert Palmer, or is it just a coincidence?
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 00:45 (nine years ago) link
what part of "(An Homage to Robert Palmer's 'Simply Irresistible')" fails to answer your question?
― describing a scene in which the Hulk gets a boner (contenderizer), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 06:45 (nine years ago) link
good song tho. nowhere near as horrid as pomplamoose and geico advert choon etc.
― describing a scene in which the Hulk gets a boner (contenderizer), Wednesday, 4 March 2015 06:46 (nine years ago) link
Ah, didn't click through so it didn't show me the title.
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
This seems completely consistent with 'Apple commercial' music to me. Maybe not necessarily Apple, per se, but definitely some tech bullshit
― Poliopolice, Wednesday, 4 March 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link