HAIM

What I found amusing was them working the crowd in the most generic way possible ("What's up PHILADELPHIAAAAA!! I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!!! YOU GUYS READY TO ROCK?!?") and it was SO EFFECTIVE and every show I'm at where the acts try to do that it is met with the most lukewarm reactions.

yeah I've seen her do that in videos of the concerts. IDG if its schtick or just she's a boring banterer, but it seems to work in any case.

Trending on Twitter over here at the moment after their Glastonbury performance although sadly it mainly seems to be people WTFing over Este's bass face.

HAIM set here in full http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p021gp0x/glastonbury-2014-haim-on-the-other-stage

booooo uk only

this one's not: Save Me in the BBC Music teepee -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p021sfd2

booooo uk only

― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Saturday, June 28, 2014 2:05 PM (4 hours ago)

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Seen a fair bit of hate for them after Glastonbury. The whole bass face thing seems to have upset a lot of people. Not really sure why?

Because people are idiots?

Normally I'd agree with that but the person I saw start a post attacking them is definitely not an idiot. As people have said on here before it's surprising a band like this have provoked so much hated from people. I just don't get it.

If someone wants to hate Haim it's up to them but complaining about the involuntary movements of one member's face is nagl

I'd like to see how a complaint about a female musician's face is articulated by a "non-idiot"

The bassist from Metallica was gurning like a good 'un but no-one seemed to mind that. Seems really sad if it's some sort of reaction to a female doing it.

Which is the more prevalent Britsh activity - going to Glastonbury? Or bitching about Glastonbury?

I love Haim forever and ever, but Este's bassface really is above and beyond that of most men or women who play bass. I don't think making note of it is sexist. I think saying it's so hard for girls to play bass that they have to make that kind of face is.

Este's bassface is awesome and anyone who thinks otherwise can s my dddddddddddd.

^^^^^^^^

"what you gonna do with all that bass?"

ah The Internet

the bassface is the best part of HAIM!

nb I've only listened to their music like once so maybe that's good too, idk

As a non-fan who doesn't hate them, I just see the bass face as part of their whole overselling of something that is in no way awesome. They remind me of NIN or Tori Amos in that way -- there's no point in getting angry at them, but there is no there there, although the artist is very good at convincing the fans that there is.

How enlightened you are.

Hang your egoless progressivism on any tree, geek.

"there's no there there" what does this even mean besides "you are stupid"

There's a simple solution.

Don't watch clips.

HAIM tricked us into liking their music by making videos filled with weaponized bassface

Hang your egoless progressivism on any tree, geek.

new board description?

They remind me of NIN or Tori Amos in that way

They are three very similar acts, it's true.

Haim one of the last bands I would accuse of overselling

If I had wanted to say "they suck, you're dumb" I would have said it. I just don't hear anything about them that excites me in any way and I do see people losing their shit over them, and I see their stage presence very much being one that signifies "what we are doing is worth losing your shit over -- watch us losing ours right now!" Some people, many of whom are assholes, get very angry when they see stuff like that. I heard them before I saw them and didn't get the hate or the love until I had seen video.

"Haim one of the last bands I would accuse of overselling"

Then I dunno what to say to you, because they appear to throw everything they have at this stuff in the live clips I have seen.

I see their stage presence very much being one that signifies "what we are doing is worth losing your shit over -- watch us losing ours right now!"

can you imagine? What nerve to see them excited about performing their songs.

It's a dumb reason to hate a band, I agree. I don't hate them.

If I don't respond to a band's music I expect them to acknowledge that by shrugging a lot on stage and saying "sorry" after each song.

"there's no there there" is never what is actually going on btw. There is always something there, you're just not required to recognise it or enjoy it.

How enlightened you are.

you're the one who actually used "there's no there there"

there there

as HAIM's most hitherto vocal detractor, imma say: wtf is wrong with a band trying to make a live performance fun & engaging - they may be 'selling' themselves to their audience but then, to some extent, so is every fucking live band ever, and if you can 'see through' the artifice it's probably just because you don't like the music very much, chill

^^^lessons I've learned from Tim F

hi there

Hang your egoless progressivism on any tree, geek.

I meant something very different by what I first wrote here than what I am being made to stand for, but it's too "get out of the way, OLD MAN" in here for me to want to explain.

http://i.imgur.com/J1l7tfg.png

Since most of you who love them are awful garbage people, perhaps I should rethink my lack of hatred.

― Three Word Username, Monday, June 30, 2014 5:16 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_OaqgskkK9gw/TTifOL-S_CI/AAAAAAAAHDE/dZtzQQAR_sk/s400/HAS3.jpg

"I don't get what other people see in it, therefore my opinion about them is correct?"

or what Tim F said

They seem pretty cool, like insanely cool, and 100% no-nonsense LETS ROCK THIS JOINT, yet have a good enough sense of humor about it to be fine w playing while some idiot waves around a giant print-out of bass face 50 feet in front of them. If someone showed up to just one show I was playing and was waving around a print-out of me making a weird face the entire time I would be like, dude, GTFO maybe call your parents cos obviously they never showed you enough attention.

este sign feels related to free throw distraction signs like jack blankenship

"what you gonna do with all that bass?"

― Tim F, Monday, June 30, 2014 5:15 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"all that bass inside your face"?