Pomplamoose: Making a living on Youtube
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Then again, I guess it's just as shocking that I'm still surprised by the vitriolic tone of commenters on the internet.
I think, from here on out, anyone who hopes to break the mold in any way via the web will just have to ignore 99.9% of all comments. Too many people get their rocks off anonymously tearing people down, and sites just don't care enough about building a thoughtful community to combat it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vEStDd6HVY
It's considerably better than the original (in my opinion). The video style is also pretty interesting. The guy in them (Jack Conte) had this to say about it (from wikipedia[1]):
>What you see is what you hear. (No lip-syncing for instruments or voice)
>If you hear it, at some point you see it. (No hidden sounds)
They also make money from selling merchandise (soap [grapefruit scented, pomplamoose is french for grapefruit], tshirts).
Really really awesome music, and seemingly awesome people making it.
Actually, 'pamplemousse' is French for grapefruit, but yeah, phonetically it's about right.
Man this quote from the Pomplamoose guy really does a good job of making a spot-on observation while managing to diss his own band.
He's right IMO. The music and music culture of my generation is self-centered, and pompous (see hipsters). But I still enjoy it. I think by making music that's "very normal and very accessible" you wind up in the land of vanilla like Pomplamoose.