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BREAKING NEWS: YEAH YEAH YEAH'S DEFEND CRAPPY NEW ALBUM WITH PREDICTABLY IDIOTIC STATEMENT
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So. Can we please kill this silly old stereotype already? I mean not even singer-songwriter folk shit that supposed to sound "whiny" sounds "whiny" anymore: Bon Iver is SO NOT whiny. And look - The OC is no longer on television. Ben Gibbard of Death Cab For Cutie married the hottest babe in existence and Elliott Smith is dead. Of course, sad mopey indie rock will always be with us, but more importantly perhaps the new face of indie is uptempo dance music made by bearded post-hippies hoped up on coke and neon colored American Apparel tights. Oh, and wearing headbands too. Natch. The reason the Yeah Yeah Yeah's made an electronic dance-pop album isn't because they are responding to a lack of fun electronic music everywhere - it's for precisely the opposite reason. Namely: everybody is making uptempo club friendly dance songs so we should probably do that too - afterall, our record label would love for us to make them some bread in these hard economic times. Plus, people want to dance when they are going financially bust, so we must feed this cause....and think of all the awesome remixes we could release...virally....
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Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes supposedly is the "king of whiny." He has a new record coming out on Merge soon. I'd post a track from it but our crack technical staff at Bank Robber has failed to procure what will surely be a very non-whiny/whiny new release. Instead I'll post a song from his very good older record in anticipation. Enjoy "NYC - Gone Gone" off Conor Oberst (Merge)
I say let the Yeah Yeah Yeah's do what they want for now; can you really blame Ms. O for her attitude? That's what we love about her. I'm just hoping they come back to create a solid album on the next run around. I have to admit that "It's Blitz" is definitely sounding like a shaky cup of cow dirt as an "indie-rock" album but it would be good to mention that I need to burn off a few calories as an indie-rocker and have had fun dancing in the living room to this stuff with my girl. Karen O's voice is still sounding pretty good too.
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I'd still give it to karen o.
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