Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Fuck Vampire Weekend
Much like Jeff's hatred of Slap Your Glans Say Bleahhh, I just don't fucking get the hype. This band is fucking terrible. It's the worst kind of precious, twee shit. It's double worse for being constantly aware of its own preciousness. Go fuck yourselves in the earholes with rusty lobster hooks, you pathetic hipster douchebags.
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I'm not going to sit here and tell you anything you said (apart from "this band is fucking terrible") is untrue or undue. I think they've made some awful image/marketing decisions that leave certain cultural outliers (me, you) in a position where hating them on principle is possible.
However. I also think they actually did, for the most part, what people say they did. I started out suspicious and was won over.
When I hear a song like "M79" based on a harpsichord-and-string-quartet hook, does the upper-class-hating part of my brain send a "make more bile pls kthx" signal to my stomach? Yes. Do I want to heat up a burrito in the microwave, then rip off my own face and put it in the burrito and feed it to the poor when I see them in their stupid sweaters? Yes, and with plenty of Cholula. But ultimately I like the music in spite of all that.
On a personal note, it's delicious to be on the other side of this kind of a statement for once. Now I can graduate to other music-nerd endeavors, like being really into Pavement and hating everyone who rips off their sound in such a way that someone would actually be able to listen to it without tearing their ears out of their heads in agony.
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