I love YACHT

So cheap! But the tunes are great - really!

summer song was my summer song

plus video is tapeheads tribute

Yeah YACHT is great.

yeah i love guys who enthusiastically promote ripping off audio software comapnies

http://www.analogindustries.com/blog/entry.jsp?msgid=1232779669878

btw fuck this guy

I miss him in The Blow.

Wow, that link. See a penny, pick it up -- quite literally

Maybe when he hits the big time (because he is danceable!) he can pay for the software he stole.

He offered to pay for it

i guess he was just being honest (and a bit stupid). y'know, i'm not saying that makes it right.

the new single definitely samples the sound ichat makes when you get a new message

i dont 'get' this band

worst show i've ever seen

unbelievably bad. hurt to watch. ironic hipster trash

music in the summer song wasn't too bad though

just read that article, it's funny, I don't have any cracked audio software any more and the only software I've paid for beyond my DAW is an Audio Damage plug-in. Discord v2, modeled after the Harmonizer that Tony Visconti used on the drums on the Bowie/Eno/Iggy Pop Berlin records.

http://www.audiodamage.com/effects/product.php?pid=AD011

it's pretty cool.

jaxon, this is why I like you :)
when i saw him open for LCD Soundsystem a couple years ago i was honestly embarrassed for him - aside from being the worst act i'd seen in years and years, my thoughts were pretty much exactly as you said: ironic hipster trash. what a load of bullshit, and the whole software stealing thing seems to fit right in with the aesthetic. ugh.

I really liked the psychic city song, but in a way that meant I never actually wanted to hear anything by this band ever again. Love that song tho!

good album imo, i can imagine it being a rough go live though

I saw him/them at a festival last year and had a good time! I guess seeing them do a bar show you are missing a few vital ingredients: sunshine, cider, and the knowledge that by being in this tent you are missing some really shitty alt-country acts on every other stage

I bet they'd be at their best outside, I liked their video where they were just performing on the street.

mike, it mighta been the same lcd show. i know it's kinda hard to do electronic stuff live, but maybe if he got a band instead of just him onstage dancing like an asshole singing along to the songs. just reminded me of the worst electroclash shit.

He sucked opening for LCD in Chicago, for sure.

just reminded me of the worst electroclash shit.

^^^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6unpB53eG8w

Is the live show just him now? When I saw him it was him + computer slideshow/animation + a woman, also singing and dancing (I don't think it was her from The Blow cz I think they'd parted ways by then). Which was I guess a bit more to look at than just him - the dancing would've been kind of corny on its own, but they were pretty sharply synchronised.

I really liked the psychic city song, but in a way that meant I never actually wanted to hear anything by this band ever again. Love that song tho!

this is where i'm at now

classix remix is amazing. it's just a lovelier, tighter, faster version of the song & basically it makes it sound like it should have all along. one of my favourite songs for a long time.

Sex tape scandal!

http://laist.com/2016/05/09/yacht_sex_tape.php

lol huh

this sucks.

i hope the person who stole this tape is discovered and held accountable in some way.

how come there's a band called yacht and a band called yachts? it's v confusing and now sex tapes are involved. shitty for someone to leak tho obviously

lol looks like a bullshit publicity stunt

https://thump.vice.com/en_us/article/yacht-leaked-sex-tape-fake-hoax-trolling

Bullshit is right. Revenge porn is a real thing that makes some people's lives hell, and for them to pimp a new single by pretending it happened to them is fucking gross.

eh

i stand with YACHT

Cool stand.

Bullshit is right. Revenge porn is a real thing that makes some people's lives hell, and for them to pimp a new single by pretending it happened to them is fucking gross.
--Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever)

Lmfao

Fuck you too.

like in the golden age of the music blog

JF is right, and shit like this is what makes me want to kick hipsters in the nuts in the street tbrh.

i don't think the target of this joke/stunt is victims of revenge porn, more like the weird discourse that pops up around/exploits these events.

If they faked a rape would you say the same thing?

no

i see what you mean. that's a good point.

i don't think the target of this joke/stunt is victims of revenge porn

Well I don't either, but to exploit the epidemic of it just to drum up interest in a new single maybe a few thousand people would ordinarily care about in hopes that a few thousand would become several thousand just pisses me off. Debut your video on Pornhub or something. Don't write a big sympathetic post about someone betrayed your trust when no such fucking thing ever happened to you. People have to write real versions of that post every day, and doing so makes that probably the worst day of their lives. For YACHT, it was completely artificial and money-driven.

Damn, Trayce nailed it to the wall there.

What if instead of making fun of your bad posts I rolled up and shitted on your dog

lol "what if they did something completely different than what they actually did" is the contemporary internet's greatest rhetorical trick

I like this out of context:

For YACHT, it was completely artificial and money-driven.

i mean, both things are violations that overwhelmingly affect women and it's true that our culture doesn't take this violation particularly seriously enough.

If they'd just offered a fake sex video without the whole backstory, I wouldn't care. But they deliberately played on people's sympathies and fear of betrayal to hype a song. Fuck 'em.

i still think it's different because the "leaked celebrity sex tape" is such a thing of our moment, and people have leaked their sex tapes before for publicity. (if i understand the kardashian situation correctly, i might be wrong.) there's also a kind of gallows humor to it because this stunt will get more attention than their single, even though most people who claim to be interested in this would also claim to be YACHT fans.

yeah but if they claimed they were purposefully offering their sex tape they wouldn't be staging the even the way these things usually are staged, and they wouldn't draw out the hypocritical reactions, whatever... idk it's sort of a layered stunt, even though the social commentary is secondary to the publicity

xp johnny

Why would anyone who isn't a YACHT fan even care? Porn is EVERYWHERE. Most of it for free! Why spend five dollars (or no dollars, as it turns out) in hopes of watching two pasty white art fucks get busy?

This was just a bad idea at its core, with added offense to people that it really happens to. Great job, pasty white art fucks!

they wouldn't. but this sorta shows that so-called fans are willing to participate in the "violation" idk it says something about how everyone are voyeurs now

I mean, reading this back, knowing that it's almost certainly fake, is maddening...

Dear everyone,

We are writing today because we want you to be the first to know some news.

This has been a hard time for us as a band. It’s hard for bands generally these days. We make music in a time where album sales are at an all time low. Tours are a formidable expense with no guarantees that we’ll make the money back. Not even t-shirts sell the way that they used to. Music isn’t art anymore, it’s just content. We don’t need to write yet another op-ed column to describe the intricacies of why mid-level bands like us are in trouble.

That being said…

Today, without our previous knowledge nor consent, a personal video was released.

For more than 10 years, Claire and I have been the frontman and frontwoman of a band that has been core to the meaning of our mutual existence. YACHT is the result of love, tremendous work and unending, unflinching collaboration. We have always operated under the principle of doing our best to maintain dignity and a commitment to openness and truth, both on stage and off.

But today, due to a series of technological missteps and one morally abject person, a video that we made privately has been released to the public. We have commenced legal proceedings against the aforementioned person, but now that it could potentially circulate, we feel like it’s important for you to know what happened and why.

Claire and I — who have been romantic and artistic partners since 2006 — made a “sex tape.” It was intended for us only. We don’t feel the need to justify the reason we made it. Anyone reading this who has been in a long term partnership understands that preserving the relationship is an ever-changing and challenging thing. It’s especially difficult when the lines between career and romance are as merged as ours are. The financial pressures that we’ve been under, which de facto extend into our extracurricular lives, created a circumstance in which we felt like we needed a bit of an escape from the day-to-day. So we turned on a camera, became naked, and had sex. We assumed that we were the only people who would be privy to that video. I guess we were naive. Now you have the option to be privy to that video. For us, that’s a shame. We feel like art is an act of generosity. The art we make for the public is for that expressed purpose. And now we’re in an awkward situation where the art that we made for us and us alone is being viewed by anyone who has the inclination to hit play — a true and humiliating blurring of the public and private.

Our tastes in the bedroom might seem uncommon to some, and possibly off-putting. But considering the variables that go into any sexual experience, wouldn’t anything seem uncommon, and possibly off-putting? This is our private life. And no one should have governance over what people do consensually in their private lives.

Just because we are public figures does not mean we asked for this. Like anyone, we still deserve to have a choice about what we share with the world. Today we no longer have that choice. But our hope is that you fundamentally understand that choice and you choose not to view a private act that was inadvertently made public. We hope you understand that this is not a delicious scandal. This is an exploitation.

We love you all and hope that you will make the right decision. And if you don’t, we hope that you will continue to enjoy our music regardless of what you’ve seen today.

With love and respect,
Jona and Claire

Only to be followed by..."Oh, all that stuff we just said? lol, here we'll sell it to you if you really want to see it!"

yeah.

they are fucking with people.

bravo, smart marketing. I applaud the yacht.

looking closely at the letter it's sorta funny, how they explain that they made the sex tape as a result of the "stress of touring" or something, as if they needed an excuse. they're trolling the way this stuff usually plays out in the media -- the kinds of positions people stake out for themselves -- but i don't think they are doing it in a way that necessarily trivializes the experiences of victims of revenge porn. if anything. it is poking fun at various ways in which these experiences are trivialized

lol I was wondering why a thread about this fucking band had 35 new replies

this fucking band

they're trolling the way this stuff usually plays out in the media

I get what they're doing. I don't think there was any malice involved. I just think it was incredibly dumb and insensitive and someone should have stopped them at the last minute by saying "hey, uh, this is dumb and insensitive."

i suppose it did work if it were a stunt as it's the first i've thought about this "band" since the middle of 2009

This band encouraged marc maron to play guitar.

i think about them every night when i have a nightmare about this album art

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0192/0262/products/Psychic-City-Single-Digital-Cover_1400_grande.jpg?v=1379453855

Photo taken after they pranked the LAPD by saying they witnessed a murder in the Union Station bathroom

haha classic YACHT

I'm gonna need a few more thinkpieces before I make up my mind on this one.

"Claire's position at Motherboard is based on her credentials as an expert in the way the internet and technology works."

IOW she's an SEO hack or a L1 tech support drone.

the only thing i have to say about YACHT is that i once vomited off the side of one on a school field trip when i was 8

the only thing i have to say about YACHT is that i am own one because i am very rich and i dislike these entitled fake hipster opportunists devaluing the cultural cache of the vessel i worked so hard, clawing my way up the corporate ladder from the mailroom to my current position as CEO of a major multi-national oil company, to be able to afford.

also this stunt is really gross

this really feels like something that should have been done in 2007, am i in a time warp

wtf at all of this

Here's a running list of outlets who claim this is factual just because an indie rock band said something on their Facebook page: Pigeons and Planes, Billboard, L.A. Times, Pitchfork, Vulture, Page Six, Jezebel, The Fader

Here's the sites that took the clicks but not the bait, tempering posts with some skepticism: Brooklyn Vegan, Vice/Thump, Death and Taxes, The Oregonian

I wonder if he has a Lil' Yachty?

people seem widely angry at this stunt

I guess I am too forgiving of mischievous mid-thirties art kids

mid 30s?? jesus christ

this sucks.

― Treeship, Monday, May 9, 2016 10:01 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i hope the person who stole this tape is discovered and held accountable in some way.

― Treeship, Monday, May 9, 2016 10:03 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

people seem widely angry at this stunt

― Treeship, Tuesday, May 10, 2016 12:32 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not too shabby for 14 hours' work!

wow, people hating on "hipsters" like it's 2008

I love YACHT

punk'd you, YACHT. it was a goof. i hate you.

looking closely at the letter it's sorta funny, how they explain that they made the sex tape as a result of the "stress of touring" or something, as if they needed an excuse. they're trolling the way this stuff usually plays out in the media -- the kinds of positions people stake out for themselves -- but i don't think they are doing it in a way that necessarily trivializes the experiences of victims of revenge porn. if anything. it is poking fun at various ways in which these experiences are trivialized

― Treeship, Monday, May 9, 2016 8:58 PM (Yesterday)

yeah, i'll toss an 'otm' your way

fwiw I hate to split hairs but I thought "revenge porn" was when someone posts pics/vids of someone they had sex with, not when a third party steals a sex tape. Both are bad, but the "revenge" part I thought referred to either getting back at an ex or slut-shaming someone for sleeping with you.

remember one week ago when people were making "Sex Tape Thing" jokes about Scott Stapp

the publications should be more ashamed, everyone should have already known yacht was junk imo

if no one is around to see the tree fall in a forest who GAF

well I just heard
the news today
seems that YACHT
faked their sex tayyyup

fwiw I hate to split hairs but I thought "revenge porn" was when someone posts pics/vids of someone they had sex with, not when a third party steals a sex tape. Both are bad, but the "revenge" part I thought referred to either getting back at an ex or slut-shaming someone for sleeping with you.

― JWoww Gilberto (man alive), Tuesday, May 10, 2016 10:03 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The incident in which J Law etc. were hacked by a stranger is a better comparison. I'm sure some people took a "the celebrities leaked these on purpose" stance in order to justify viewing that stuff.

Why "Not"?

Can someone tell YACHTband why not?!?

is "Not" a hit YACHT song idgi

fucking idiots. how did they think this would play out?

with the music press falling over themselves to get "sex tape" in a headline?

looking closely at the letter it's sorta funny, how they explain that they made the sex tape as a result of the "stress of touring" or something

in fairness, when touring is stressing me out I like to tape myself raiding the breakfast buffet at the Hampton Inn. got about a thousand hours of footage by now. eggs, cinnamon rolls. toast. really lets the steam off to watch my breakfast buffet tapes

psych there is no breakfast buffet at Hampton Inns, I have now successfully trolled the media, how did you like having a mirror held up to yourselves

tbf that would make an excellent music video

Wish we had a running list of posters who claimed Hampton Inn has breakfast buffet to contrast with an opposing list of sites that reinforced the shimmering truth castles of their posts with beautiful Oregonian glued laminated timber

psych there is no breakfast buffet at Hampton Inns

― The bald Phil Collins impersonator cash grab (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, May 10, 2016 11:40 AM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Kristallyacht

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=st21dIMaGMs

Nice to see their music hasn't improved in the past 12 years since I last listened to them.

tbf Key & Peele aren't known primarily as musicians

If it were Luna, on the other hand...

http://medium.com/@modernistwitch/here-is-what-it-feels-like-to-be-told-youre-crying-wolf-when-the-wolf-is-at-your-door-8976ce6c7af7#.4964ltrf3

You can call it a hoax, you can call it an art project, you can call it commentary on the state of media today, but it is an abuse of people’s trust and faith, it is an abuse of hard-won public empathy, it sets the work that I and others have been doing for decades back.

It is irresponsible and cruel.

It is a false claim.

And the band can walk away from it after their performance of victimhood, leaving real victims worse for wear. Which is why I am writing this: I want them to know how much this hurts, how what they thought was a cute stunt was in actuality a cynical betrayal. And maybe next time they’ll think before they pull something like this.

jes skolnik above

I don't see this related at all to 'revenge porn'.

Revenge porn, hacked and leaked porn, whatever. The initial wave of this story was that their sex tape had been taken and made public by a person they knew and trusted. Nitpick if you want, but whatever it was they were trying to parallel, they shouldn't have.

did anyone watch the video?

i don't think it exists

just turns on your device's camera and live streams your face with DO YOU SEE beneath

Why "Not"?

― Mark G, Tuesday, May 10, 2016 5:40 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Can someone tell YACHTband why not?!?

― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, May 10, 2016 5:42 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is "Not" a hit YACHT song idgi

― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, May 10, 2016 6:02 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sorry, had to dash..

I was meaning, Why is "hawking a sex tape by two people you know for malicious reasons" not "revenge porn"?

I know that's not what happened, but for all those upset and/or disturbed by this, why decide the statute of limitations of the definition?

(I know that's not what Sufjan was saying)

i do not think this stunt makes revenge porn, or any other scenario in which prurient photos are released without consent seem any less horrible. i cannot imagine people would take victims of this particular crime -- at least it should be a crime -- less seriously because of this. if anything, this revealed how gross the media is for right away jumping all over the news of this alleged violation, feigning outrage but obviously -- by reporting it -- serving to magnify the situation.

Yeah, shame on them for reporting on a press release...

idk. i think that this event but more so the jlaw one was blown out of proportion by media companies trying to get hits.

anyway, there is another dimension to this. the "tape" is released now. it's like, a nightvision camera and they're goofing around and then they pull their skin off and it is revealed they are grotesque slimy aliens with weird slimy glandlike parts

the jlaw one was blown out of proportion by media companies trying to get hits.

how do you figure

like, newspapers could have just briefly expressed solidarity with the victims and not turned it into a whole circus by listing the names of everyone who was exploited by that hacker

that's probably not realistic. reddit at least should have taken down that thread about it. they're part of conde nast/the media

bwwahahahaha @ ppl taking this seriously give me a fuckin break jeeze

they're part of conde nast/the media

by that logic General Electric is "the media".

those aliens are cool

bwwahahahaha @ ppl taking this seriously give me a fuckin break jeeze

I'm a firm believer in calling people on their bullshit, even if the intent wasn't malicious, in the hopes that fewer people will do a similar thing in the future.

Of course, being snide like some people in this thread is another way to approach it. Enjoy yourselves.

did we already joke about changing the title of this thred to "I hate YACHT"

THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH MAKING A FAKE SEX TAPE WITH ALIENS. It does not set back with work of victim's rights advocates. It doesn't "breach the trust" of the music buying public. It's a sex tape with aliens. PS I've never heard this band.

the fake sex tape w/ aliens is not the issue people have w/ this whole situation

o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8cavxA10Gc

oh I guess people now think it's funny to post joke songs itt

this is a serious song about disappointment

it's a cover of a robert johnson song

what YACHT did was maybe a bit misguided, but nobody deserves to have that music attributed to their brand

i honestly had NO IDEA how corny they were. all i remembered about them was psychic city

this has been a trying time for everyone

One of those band names that I would just never pay attention to. They're a little like Pomplamoose.

"This was not designed to make money or sell records, but to explore the intersection of privacy, media, and celebrity."

oh.

please.

she's swiping left to some fine ass dudes wtf

Did no one tell them that this could and probably would backfire on them? Congratulations YACHT, you have now reducted your career down to a one item joke.

^otm

yacht should not have lied abt aliens being real

really loving the "frankly, we're disappointed" tone they give in their tua culpa

right? they were just exploring, they are explorers!

they've spent a decade creating multifaceted projects that unfold over time!

Did no one tell them that this could and probably would backfire on them? Congratulations YACHT, you have now reducted your career down to a one item joke.

― Elvis Telecom

they had a career?

seriously yacht aren't a band, they're a vignette on this year's "black mirror" christmas special

Kat Bee
‏@katbeee
Friendly reminder YACHT collaborates w/ known domestic abuser, so remember this when they claim to "support victims"
http://www.laweekly.com/music/adam-forkner-aka-white-rainbow-will-not-face-criminal-charges-in-alleged-domestic-assault-6762519

have they collaborated with Forkner since his domestic abuse was made public?

i do not know, but i think a lot of the discussion around the white rainbow and the healthcliff beru incidents are that these men are often known to be dangerous in scenes but somehow enabled and not called out on their behavior for many years

My takeaway from all of this is "this is not the best way to learn about the existence of a band"

Hah, the same with me too.

my take away was to youtube 'yatchting type' cause i had forgotten how that song went.

The fact that they didn't realize that people might think that their crying wolf about a sex tape might provoke the exact type of reactions leads to believe they aren't as media savvy as they think.

hope 'white rainbow' dude understands how rainbows work

it sounds like a shitty faux-clever name for a white nationalist blog

still think yacht's a good band name. i also △ all the triangles because they harken back to a simpler time at the beginning of this decade.

I now see that 'white rainbow' is an already used term for moonbows and fogbows, so we are ok

I was also mad at Bill Callahan for saying "they say black is all colors at once" in a song about a well, but what can you do

spectrumsplaining

what a disaster for rainbows

tbh referring to 'moonbows' as 'white rainbows' is a confusing disaster, and someone should have pushed back on this

what a disaster for rainbows

^^^ this was the working title for A Moon Shaped Pool

new △pology from Y△CHT:

First off, we’re sorry.
The reaction to this endeavor highlights a glaring error we made in positioning ourselves as the victims of a leaked sex tape. We understand that positioning it that way from the beginning was an egregious mistake, and are so ashamed we hadn’t considered this beforehand.
Yes, this was all a “hoax” or “PR stunt,” and one we were so excited to share. While there is inherent deception in pulling a hoax, it was never our intention to mock or make light of anyone who has been a victim of a privacy violation like the one we mentioned. This was a lazy starting point for what we wanted to be a much more fun story about the expectations of a sex tape and the frenzy surrounding the taboo of sex, especially juxtaposed with our own non-celebrity. We failed to tell that story. Instead we told a much darker and more disturbing story.
We’ve been going back and forth on what to do about the music video this was all supposed to lead up to. We were leaning towards not releasing it at all, but we think it’s important that people be able to see and assess for themselves our intent.
So here it is: https://www.facebook.com/JashNetwork/videos/1145980565466351/
We take full responsibility for what has happened, and we are truly sorry. We know we’ve broken a bond of trust with many of our fans and friends. Thank you to those that called us out and helped us to understand the gravity of the mistake we made. We should not have hinged this entire project on the fiction that we were the victims of a leaked tape, and we’re equally disappointed in ourselves for taking so long to get over being shocked at the response and write this apology.
After all is said and done, of course you should be mad at us. We’re mad at us too.
Love,
Jona & Claire
PS: We’re sorry for our shitty non-apology yesterday, too. There’s no justifying it. We clearly didn’t get it then. We get it now.

pretty good apology! let's all do like we were gonna do in the first place and not watch the video!

Jash?

new song is pretty catchy

so fucking dumb

i remember liking that yacht song about los angeles and also jona did good stuff when he was in the blow and also lol o dear

i dont 'get' this band

― butthurt (deej), Wednesday, August 5, 2009 5:04 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

worst show i've ever seen

― jaxon, Wednesday, August 5, 2009 1:39 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

unbelievably bad. hurt to watch. ironic hipster trash

― jaxon, Wednesday, August 5, 2009 1:40 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

1st interview, but conducted before the (second) apology
www.papermag.com/yacht-speaks-to-us-about-their-sex-tape-hoax-1791237681.html

Yacht is very disappointed in Jezebel!

The most sanctimonious people are the only ones keeping yacht's name in headlines I swear

Y'all know this song was originally by Family Fodder...?

https://youtu.be/F-Ca61aoeZU

It's not like we're not feminists or whatever.

Claire L. Evans: A lot of our projects in the past have been high-concept or gimmicky about media

...

Yeah, I mean that's something we're always worried about. We don't want to be a gimmicky band.

Make up yer mind, lady.

We got our friends together and made something goofy on the blockchain. It’s been so long since we’ve had fun on the Internet!

Our NFT bumper stickers are priced cheaper than most IRL bumper stickers & minted on the energy-efficient Tezos blockchain! https://t.co/SrqzuCuYGt

— ʏ 𝗔 ⊂ ᴴ ᴛ̞ (@YACHT) April 9, 2021

https://i.imgflip.com/2ctbn5.gif

Is one of them the sex tape?