Posts tagged carles
Wal-Mart Supports Phoenix.
http://soundcheck.walmart.com/risers/phoenix
And so does Axe Body Spray! Reminds me of this post by Carles:
While Phoenix’s songs are ‘catchy’, it is impossible to decipher ‘what the fuck they are talking about’ in their lyrics. This possibly has to do with a French to English language barrier. Imagine if u had to write ’smart-sounding’ pop lyrics in a foreign language and ended up making weird/forced/generic metaphors in every1 of your songs. Phoenix has sorta turned into Jonas Brothers tween pop for hi level music criticism bros.
Also, tangentially:
It seems like I would hear this song in a local coffee shop when an entry-level barista selects a playlist to try to seem ‘authentic.’ They would also probably play something by the Knife followed by a Fever Ray song, just to prove that they ‘understand’ that the broad from the Knife is Fever Ray.
If you don’t read the site, please know that Carles uses satirical elements in his writing and is very tongue-in-cheek. I guess it’s like the Colbert Report of blogs.
Despite all this, I still think I like Phoenix.
(via stereogum)
On HRO & Carles
“When I heard this song, I seriously felt like ‘indie’ had officially become everything it could be and it was officially time to ‘close the book’ modern history’s indie era. Much like we have moved on to ‘mock’ eras like the grunge era, the 80s, emo, posthardcore, bloghouse, disco, and the era where woodstock happened, it seems like a song like this leaves us no choice than to admit that the INDIE era is over. Feeling like this song does not exist as an ‘indie song’, but possibly as a ‘parodied version of an indie song constructed via overproduction’, sort of like how Coldplay songs are just parodies of the band Coldplay.”
-Carles
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2009/09/is-all-is-love-by-karen-o-and-the-kids-the-first-song-of-the-indie-apocalypse.html
This sort of commentary is exactly why I love Hipster Runoff so much. It’s similar to the Daily Show in that half of the observations being made are real while the rest are outlandish. Satire gives him more room to make statements that are very truthful, under the guise of a blogger persona that no one is supposed to take seriously. It’s smart stuff.
