FOSTER THE PEOPLE

http://i.imgur.com/7WOj5.gif

that one song is kind of like the diet mountain dew of songs

Helena Beat > Pumped Up Kicks >>>>>>>> the rest of the album.

They're not really hateable though, so I don't understand the reasoning behind this thread. Save it for someone who's worth the trouble.

that one song is kind of like the diet mountain dew of songs

― call all destroyer, Monday, July 25, 2011 3:54 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

it's like the Candlebox version of Animal Collective/PeterBjorn&John

haha i was about to say that this like the ugly reality of high school kids blown away by peter bjorn and john finally rearing its ugly head, but apparently this guy is like almost 30.

actually, in that regard these guys are maybe a lot like the orgy of lite-indie music.

I don't know, I don't mind "Pumped Up Kicks" when it comes on but I can't find myself going out of my way to actively seek it out. Unfortunately my wife seems to love it at the moment and I'm afraid I'll move into sheet hatred sooner rather than later if she keeps playing it.

haha i was about to say that this like the ugly reality of high school kids blown away by peter bjorn and john finally rearing its ugly head, but apparently this guy is like almost 30.

― apichathong song (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Monday, July 25, 2011 12:00 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i mean, yeah, this is essentially Owl City levels of major label spitting back glossy, neautered version of something that worked in the underground. Kind of weird that AnCo reverb/harmonies are finally seeing some influence on the actual pop charts.

i didn't mind it until i realized that it is like 90% chorus (and it's a v. simple chorus)

M: And there’s bits of Combat Rock shining through on “Pumped Up Kicks”

oh go fuck yourself

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABzh6hTYpb8

tbh i had no idea this shit had like multiple youtube clips with 2, 3, 4 million views each.

I liked their song but now I am sick of their song, don't really care about 'what they represent'

if they make whiney's blood boil they can't be entirely useless in this world

tbf whiney only facepalm.gif'd which i think is a totally fair non-overreaction to this mush

Everytime I see them compared to other bands (often negatively), I wonder why everyone is dancing around the fact they're a total bite on MGMT. I hear PB&J, Animal Collective, Vampire Weekend, etc...but there's a pretty straight and direct line from MGMT to Foster the People.

umm yeah i like both of the singles. haven't heard the album yet though.

the band name is fucking awful though... so is the album cover.

i like both of the singles

Stop there. Enjoy them. Don't tarnish your opinion of them by hearing what else they've recorded.

I don't like this song but i'm sure I would have when I was 19

Let's just agree that they'e better than Owl City.

does every song have that "young folks"/fujiya and miyagi breakbeat/liebezeit-for-dummies rhythm?

I think it's less that theyre watered down versions of things we already know and more that they are too similar in style bcuz frankly those mgmt singles are just as unlistenable to me now, but at least they had novelty going for them at one point. This ostensibly new song is like a song you heard so much you got tired of it, without having heard it that much at all

Tbh, I'm sort of surprised Whiney isn't more supportive of a song that encourages hipster-on-hipster violence.

More that they are JUST too similar - like I get why its a hit it just lacks any novelty

i don't get why it's a hit at all. it lacks even annoying-whistling-you-can't-get-out-of-your-head.

That hook is catchy enough, I've only heard it a couple times but could prob sing it + it has meaningfulcore hazy wistful vibes. Its charting but isn't top ten or anything iirc?

it's been number one on billboard alternative for like 5 weeks doggg

Actually when I do try to sing it sometimes it turns into that part of the drew carey theme where it says "all the little kids growing up on the skids...are going CLEVELAND ROCKS"

cool band or w/e

Billboard alternative huh? And where does that place it on the pop charts

Only can speak from empirical personal evidence, but four of my wife's friends have emailed me asking for more info about this particular song, so it seems pretty huge among 27-32 year old women.

xpost

some real lol talk from mr. "[insert rapper here] is actually as famous as michael jackson because they have a lot of YouTube hits"

Actually when I do try to sing it sometimes it turns into that part of the drew carey theme where it says "all the little kids growing up on the skids...are going CLEVELAND ROCKS" ―Gatsby was a success, in the end, wasn't he? (D-40)

irl lol

http://www.weirdandgilly.com/wp-content/uploads/ian-hunter_1457202c.jpg

ugh look at this

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ed/PumpedUpKicks.jpg

this is exactly the type of band that IRL people recommend to me/request when i'm djing months and months before they ever get their own ILM thread

it's at no. 38 on the hot 100 fyi

xpost: ugh whiney my eyes

cf: Miike Snow

regardless i play this on occasion /no shame in my game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2xhEerUrfI

ban gr8080's turntables

Pumped Up Kicks was around this time last year, so it's really old news tbh. Sorry you could've hated it for longer and were deprived of the opportunity, Whiney.

Anyway I brought up the charts just bcuz I was agreeing w strongo that although I think its catchy enough its not top ten pop charts catchy, just more generic indiesploitation

this is exactly the type of band that IRL people recommend to me/request when i'm djing months and months before they ever get their own ILM thread

haha i was totally thinking this is the sort of thing i only hear bcuz of ilm

the one dude is p handsome tho

haha this is precisely the sort of band people (esp in my family) irl ask me about when the "so how's work going?" convo comes up

Unfortunately my wife seems to love it at the moment and I'm afraid I'll move into sheet hatred sooner rather than later if she keeps playing it.

"sheet hatred" makes it sound like there will be bedroom recriminations for her transgressions

this is exactly the type of band that IRL people recommend to me/request when i'm djing months and months before they ever get their own ILM thread

Where do people hear about bands like this? The first time I ever saw the name "Foster the People" was like last week. Only listening to "Pumped-Up Kicks" now b/c of this thread.

Stereogum called it the song of the summer while it was #1 on the alterna charts iirc.

"Where do people hear about bands like this?"

radio, youtube, word of mouth...where else?

there are many avenues to hear about this sort of thing, cf. all those emo bands kerrang covers who can sell out large clubs or even venues bigger than that while making no dent in the "cool" side of the online musical discussion world

yep

seeing as both "Pumped Up Kicks" and "Yonkers" are crimes against humanity, all you've done is earned yourself a spot on the wall when the inevitable cultural revolution comes

taylor doing her best phoebe buffay in that clip

so apparently this guy is a touring DJ and I'm opening for him this Saturday

how did that go?

anyway, heard "pumped up kicks" tonight

ubiquitous in 2011, now it's never on

that one song is kind of like the diet mountain dew of songs

― call all destroyer,

more like the Subway of songs

don't they have a new record out? that's gonna disappear

http://www.stereogum.com/1670848/the-week-in-pop-the-mis-mgmt-of-foster-the-people/franchises/the-week-in-pop/

I dont hate Best Friend tbh

ts: foster the people vs portugal. the man

were one to draw a line where i became seriously old, one could do worse than right here

I heard "Don't Stop" the other day at Taco Bell.

apparently really big in south america

i still like 'helena beat' whenever i hear it in the wild

That's the closest they came to MGMT imo

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-foster-the-people-mural-supermodel-remove-20140711-story.html

by RANDY LEWIS
LA Times

Foster the People's 'Supermodel' mural in downtown L.A. must be removed by July 14

Foster the People’s massive downtown Los Angeles mural, unveiled in January ahead of the release of the band’s latest album, “Supermodel,” will be coming down sooner than expected because of conflicts with city officials over its approval.

“Our Supermodel mural must come down by July 14th,” the band’s Mark Foster said in a statement issued Friday. “This news has come as a surprise and disappointment to me and everyone else that collaborated on making this project happen. This mural was our contribution to the city of Los Angeles - our kiss of color to the city we love. The permits that we were told were approved, have retroactively been denied due to a number of issues involving the building and the city.”

The 125-by-150-foot painting occupies the wall of a building at 539 S. Los Angeles St. and provided the backdrop for a free show that Foster the People played on Jan. 23 in preparation for the March 18 release of the “Supermodel” album.

At that time, Foster said: “Living down here the last four years, I've gotten to be part of a cultural renaissance. I feel like Los Angeles has given us a lot, and we wanted to give something back. There's a lot of people who live down here, who walk past or ride the bus to work past that wall every day. They have no idea who we are, but they're going to be able to see a piece of art that's making their neighborhood more beautiful, even if they never listen to the band."

Foster’s new statement didn’t detail what led to the denial of permits, but the city’s regulations on murals require that they cannot be advertisements, and there’s been discussion in the community since it went up over whether the mural constitutes an ad for the “Supermodel” album or is a legitimate piece of art.

“Never did I think I would be involved in creating an art piece of this scale and magnitude,” Foster said in his statement. “We feel truly honored to have been able to share it with you over the last year. Art brings to life things that can seemingly be dead, and can put a fresh perspective on things that are living. It's so important we keep creating.”

He also noted that the group will document the painting over of the mural and invited people to the site on Monday from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. to share their thoughts “about art, your history with Los Angeles, music, community, and anything else that you might have on your heart.”

A Foster the People fan has launched a Change.org petition to save the mural that had collected more than 2,400 signatures as of Friday afternoon.

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

this band....just....can they not?

omg i had no idea this band was led by this type of raving assclown, awesome

Living down here the last four years, I've gotten to be part of a cultural renaissance.

better run from my gums, faster than my bullshit

lol

I'm late to this but I saw this thread and it reminded me of something...

That single of theirs was a bit of an earworm for me when it came out plus it was a little atypical from what I hear in the pop realm so it stuck out and I kinda liked it.

I liked it even more when I heard about the subject matter. School shootings are tragic but maybe if we talk about them a little more and a little differently we c an come up with some ways to try and curb them from happening down the road. And maybe since we apparently cannot discuss these things right after a shooting, maybe a song that referenced them could be the start of a conversation.

I know that's all a bit unlikely, but still, it was a thought.

Then I saw their stupid video. Instead of possibly hiring some up-and-coming videographer who could take the song's lyrics and make for a powerful visual statement akin to Pearl Jam's "Jeremy," the band just threw together some images of the band winking at girls in the crowd of shows and random-looking offstage hanging out.

It was a wasted opportunity for the band to make a real statement about something kinda important and I really haven't forgiven them for that.

You should not forgive them. Their lead singer does a terrible shruggy shoulders dance that is the worst.

The moral: don't go to videos for important statements

That's what the youtube comment section is for

I doubt they could get a conversation started about gun violence, if they can't even get a (wider, outside of this message board duh) conversation started about themselves these days.

meh Pumped Up Kicks is less Jeremy and more Come Out and Play imo

i always forget that the dudes last name is actually Foster, so lol/terrible

It's a pun on his surname. How wonderful.

i hate that i know this, but it was originally "Foster & The People" and when a show was promoted w/ a typo they decided they liked that name better. still annoying though.

Ctrl+f fester the
oh good someone did this for me

I actually like both of the new singles -- "Coming of Age" and "Best Friend." Kinda just get stuck in your head and don't leave.

the horrible shrug dance begins at 37 seconds

Hey-eyy, come out and age

"our kiss of color"

Looks like gangrene

Prediction still holds true 4 years in!

Moka wrote this on thread We're more than a third of the way through 2010 and we still don't have a thread for our favorite singles/songs/tracks of the year? on board I Love Music on Jul 12, 2010

Foster The People - pumped up kicks

http://bit.ly/akFkng

So yep... it's sort of 'young folks' revamped and most of ilm might hate it but I'm extremely addicted to this song atm.

Meaning I predicted this hate thread by a full year.

at first glance i was like hey as far as murals/street art goes, that's not a terrible one but once i got a closer look, yikes

http://i.imgur.com/KtyMBGu.jpg

I liked it even more when I heard about the subject matter. School shootings are tragic but maybe if we talk about them a little more and a little differently we c an come up with some ways to try and curb them from happening down the road. And maybe since we apparently cannot discuss these things right after a shooting, maybe a song that referenced them could be the start of a conversation.

yeah this def worked

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-foster-the-people-mural-saved-mayor-garcetti-supermodel-20140714-story.html

By RANDY LEWIS
LA Times

Foster the People’s “Supermodel” mural in downtown Los Angeles, which had been scheduled to be painted over, has been given a full reprieve by Mayor Eric Garcetti and will remain, according to the band’s publicist.

An online petition to save the mural, signed by nearly 12,000 people, and coverage of the story in The Times were cited in Garcetti’s decision to intervene.

“We just received a call from the mayor’s office,” Foster the People tweeted late Sunday. “@EricGarcetti saw your petition and decided against repainting the wall. The Mural Stays!”

The 125-by-150-foot mural went up in January on the side of a building at 539 S. Los Angeles St. in January, part of a free performance the band gave ahead of the March release of its latest album, “Supermodel.”

Foster the People leader Mark Foster said the mural, replicating the cover of the album, was created as his way of giving something back to the city of Los Angeles, and the downtown area where Foster lives.

But some argued that it constituted an advertisement for the band and the album, and regulations on murals in the city stipulate that they cannot be ads.

Resident Hanna Ross started the petition to preserve the mural at Change.org, and it quickly gathered thousands of signatures. “The mayor’s office cited the petition and your coverage as big influences on the decision,” the band’s spokesman told Pop & Hiss on Monday.

The band and fans turned what was to be the daylong filming of the painting over of the mural on Monday into a celebration of its preservation. The artwork was created by Dutch artist Young & Sick and painted on the building over the course of nearly two weeks in December and January by artist Daniel Lahoda, street artist Leba and graffiti art groups L.A. Freewall and Vyal.

Additional coverage is coming soon on the Times' Culture Monster blog and in Calendar.

K, thanks for the mural!

-LA

if people already dont give a shit about the album, what's the exponential on how lame is this mural going to be in like, a year's time

I agree w LimbsKing on this tbh

Def state of the art fake-indie for the radio

I didn't care much about the first album but I like this one. I don't like set aside time to listen to it but there are moments where I remember it exists and like giving it a listen.

New one is an instant strip club classic

https://open.spotify.com/track/4BdGO1CaObRD4La9l5Zanz?si=CdK0BYHd

And so is "doin it for the money" obv

I have finally found a version of "Pumped-Up Kicks" that I like:

https://youtu.be/HRVWaK-izbo

Just think: had "Pumped Up Kicks" been released last year it might've gone #1 on streams alone a la Twenty-Obe Pilots.

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