Comments on Biters

I think it's cool that Vampire Weekend blazed forth such a new path for music videos. Maybe someday (if we're lucky) film will also catch on to this exciting new "one take" technique?!?

once bitten, forever smitten

god they are soooooo boring

ughh. not since Garden State has a piece of pop culture seemed so blatantly fabricated to appeal to my age/class/racial demographic. fuck this band for reminding me that the overwhelming majority of art is still primarily just business and marketing.

I like it...pulling up in the white monte carlo with plush maroon interior was a nice touch...

What Brian said. This band sucks.

Ugh, so lame. Lazy music and lazy video idea.

Golly gosh, stop hating on these guys, cause they rule. Y'all must not like melody, or rhythm, or story-telling in songs, go gaze at your shoes or something.

...One thing though, their roadies do look like they're cooler than the band.

Why? ... for the same reason that I'd lie about how much coal I have.

jesus christ grandy get off their nuts, what a horrible band.

"Bobcat" @ 10, why would you lie about anything at all?

Dirty Projectors

I long ago realized that the Stranger and lineout are good places to learn about local events -- dates, times, etc. -- but that any opinions of taste are absolute garbage.

And lining up the horrible write-off of Cold War Kids from the Sasquatch guide with all of this Vampire Weekend masturbation just proves me right again.

#4 nails it.

#4 nails it?

jesus christ, just because you don't like vampire weekend now it's garden state? are you for real? these guys are a band that made their own brand. garden state is "indie style" for scientologists. you are realy dumb if you think there's some giant conspiracy involved in people liking VW. how dumb are you? exactly as dumb as the superfans you hate, because you are equally reactionary to the contrary.

nice backlash, dude. what else sucks? everything you are "supposed" to like?

you are a snowflake, just like me.

Word, Matson. Obviously, Vampire Weekend are being marketed, and well. The boat shoes, the academic bona fides, the Cape Cod as Cape Town ennui—it all makes for a really nice package. But I don't know how fair it is to get mad at the band about that packaging, when it's just as much the work of PR flacks, music journalists, photographers, art directors, and the like.

Would it be better if these dudes attempted to obscure their class backgrounds by dressing like poor urban bohemians? Because then you just get the Strokes. And if it doesn't matter what they do with their class backgrounds, whether they exaggerate or obscure or are honest, then are you just hating on them for being bourgeois? (I can relate, but just call it what it is.)

@15 - calm down. i just don't like the band. it's just an opinion. and like every other overhyped act on the market, having to hear about the band all the time gets really irritating.

you wanna know what else i'm gonna hate on? Wes Anderson movies. hate 'em. don't find 'em amusing. so to see a band that every new millennium yuppie loves paying homage to a film maker that appeals to the same demographic, it becomes doubly unappealing. but a giant conspiracy? no, it's just savvy marketing. congratulations to everyone involved with the record that's making millions. you found quite the formula.

we all want to be individuals, but we also all want things that bind us together as a culture. i don't think VW is really worthy of entering into the canon of indisputably classic records. it ain't no Dark Side of the Moon or OK Computer, so don't get so bent out of shape by people rolling their eyes at their two-and-a-half minute four chord pop songs.

really looking forward to that new Hold Steady record, though.