Alt tweens get buzzed & make a Vampire Weekend Tribute Video

Published on Wednesday 3/3/2010 @ 10:01 PM by the ALT REPORT Robot

“Giving Up The Gun” by the Vampire Weekend has been the most successful song of 2k10, since it is a ‘poppy masterpiece’ played by an indie band that also has a bloggable music video starring tons of search engine optimized celebs. In order to align their personal brands with this video / band, a group of alternative teens / tweens made a ‘tribute’ video, in which they put on alternative gear + tennis gear, then pranced around in front of their webcam aimlessly, giggling, being young, being alt, being free.

Is this video a ‘fucking disgrace’ to the Vampire Weekend brand or is it indicative of their core audience?
Is the Macbook webcam the most important tween innovation of the past 20 years?
Do u wish u could be a tween again? What song/video would yall have done a tribute 2?

Tags: I Wish They Had Macbooks when I was a tween, Vampire Weekend, Youtube Douchebags

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44 comments to “Alt tweens get buzzed & make a Vampire Weekend Tribute Video”

artfggt
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:07 pm

first this post is fggtish though

//////////Reply by Naomi Wolf
//////////Posted March 4th, 2010 at 8:52 am

@artfggt, This video is indicative of their culturally bankrupt audience. This is a disgrace. These kids and their parents should be ashamed. This is what has happened to the imagination. Dressing up and pretending to be a fake band. Disgusting. Vampire Weekend deserves their fans.

stillnessisthememe
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:14 pm

kinda wish @arze had taught these tweens when he was ‘for america’

could’ve been a ‘hard-ass’ w/them and told them to put away their webcams until they demonstrated 80% proficiency at lipdubs on an ‘authentic assessment’ (via relentless pursuit of results)

//////////Reply by MultipleHeadTraumas
//////////Posted March 3rd, 2010 at 11:07 pm

@stillnessisthememe, YEAH!

rmzy
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:45 pm

video is ‘gay as fuck’

wish tweens would go back to shitty radio musics like ‘kings of leon’ and ‘coldplay’

//////////Reply by chong
//////////Posted March 4th, 2010 at 12:11 am

@rmzy,

for real. i cant like anything now, cause in 2.4 months tweens will be dancing around to it like fggts

//////////Reply by meaningful bro
//////////Posted March 4th, 2010 at 1:40 pm

@chong, h8 tweens. h8 myself for being a tween once.

//////////Reply by marvinbanana
//////////Posted March 7th, 2010 at 3:14 am

@chong, yeah. Because one’s personal tastes should be dictated by how others react to a shared affinity for something. I’m interested to know, how and why does one stop liking something because of an irrelevant reaction a group of people you’ve never met and never will reacts to it?

//////////Reply by chong
//////////Posted March 7th, 2010 at 3:30 pm

@marvinbanana, did u watch the video?

//////////Reply by artfggt
//////////Posted March 4th, 2010 at 12:11 am

@rmzy, ‘vampy weeks’ is entering begining to enter the dark realm of shitty radio music (if it hasn’t already)
i like it anyways though

//////////Reply by Spencer
//////////Posted March 5th, 2010 at 1:48 am

@rmzy,

Vampire Weekend belongs half a step above Kings of Leon.

bradlee
March 3rd, 2010 at 10:58 pm

its at 167 views and 1 comment right now
posting this for historical purps

//////////Reply by Alex
//////////Posted March 3rd, 2010 at 11:14 pm

@bradlee, we can study it and see what kind of influence HRO really as on the whole of the world wide webs.

//////////Reply by chong
//////////Posted March 4th, 2010 at 5:44 pm

@bradlee, 900 views

damn

shapes
March 3rd, 2010 at 11:00 pm

fucking disgrace

mymothertoldme
March 4th, 2010 at 12:18 am

RoyalTennybumCore = new genre of ‘tween wankery’

joey
March 4th, 2010 at 12:54 am

Pendejos, nuff said

808 hand clap
March 4th, 2010 at 2:20 am

I would dress up as a hippie and do video tribute to a generk punk band like black flagz or reagan youthz

//////////Reply by riley
//////////Posted March 4th, 2010 at 5:13 am

@808 hand clap, me & my alt grlfrnd do that:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEHlxwERzec

//////////Reply by 808 hand clap
//////////Posted March 4th, 2010 at 12:42 pm

@riley, preciate teh ’slam dacin’

h8 that u beat me to that idea tho

//////////Reply by Reminds me of...
//////////Posted March 4th, 2010 at 5:23 pm

@riley, “In about 3 years, holla at me Miley Cyrus” —-Mack Maine

Naomi Wolf
March 4th, 2010 at 8:52 am

Indicative of their culturally bankrupt audience. This is a disgrace. These kids and their parents should be ashamed. This is what has happened to the imagination. Dressing up and pretending to be a fake band. Disgusting. Vampire Weekend deserves their fans.

//////////Reply by stillnessisthememe
//////////Posted March 4th, 2010 at 9:59 am

@Naomi Wolf, u have the ‘aura of election’ upon u

//////////Reply by U Left Me Speechless
//////////Posted March 4th, 2010 at 5:27 pm

@Naomi Wolf, If this just someone doing an impression of Naomi Wolf, should be more funnier. If this is ‘actually’ you, what r u doing here? And why does Vampy Weekend get your knickers in a twist? R u a ‘conspiracy feminist,’ NomiWolf?

//////////Reply by Bloodsucking Weekend
//////////Posted March 4th, 2010 at 5:37 pm

@Naomi Wolf, Kids have done stupid shit like dress up and dance listening to a song since as long as there’s been recorded pop music. It’s just now there’s YouTube and social networking. Who cares?

Garp
March 4th, 2010 at 9:26 am

whatever vampire weekend is lamesauce anyway

Pleether
March 4th, 2010 at 9:28 am

@rmzy, no this video and the original video and song and music and it’s pppl suck azz completely

Pleether
March 4th, 2010 at 9:29 am

my avatar tells me i gained weight

piadro
March 4th, 2010 at 10:00 am

OMFG ALT TWEENS EXIST IN PORTUGAL ALREADY

yah
March 4th, 2010 at 11:53 am

this is stupid.

and those do not look like alts.. but like teens who decided they would be a “bit on the wild side” when they made this video. they look like teens who usually wear abercrombie&fitch.

//////////Reply by fb
//////////Posted March 4th, 2010 at 4:16 pm

@yah, they look like teens that had one wish.

//////////Reply by chong
//////////Posted March 4th, 2010 at 5:42 pm

@fb, lol

90s comeback of 2k11

fumanchu
March 4th, 2010 at 12:01 pm

@rmzy

ur more h-mo than fggt

flunk
March 4th, 2010 at 12:11 pm

Aaaaw. They look like they’re having FUN! Imagine THAT.

//////////Reply by Grrr Whine Grrr
//////////Posted March 4th, 2010 at 5:32 pm

@flunk, Fun is outlawed, we have learned here at the Alt Report. Also, sexuality is BAD, we learned from American Apparel. BAD….witchhunt…bitchhunt… Freedom isn’t free, yallz…. There’s a hefty fee of ppls being themselves and having fun and sex and other horrors… Naomi Wolf for Prez… of something

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