Vampire Weekend Video

2010-02-19 by Kiran EMERITUS | 48 Comments
Vampire Weekend have released the video for their single "Giving Up The Gun", off of their recent chart-topping sophomore album, Contra. The video features celebrity cameos from RZA, Jake Gyllenhaal, Lil Jon and a Jonas brother. It can be seen on their homepage: http://www.vampireweekend.com/
Tagged: Vampire Weekend

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Kiran
Emeritus
February 19th 2010
6134 Comments


best song off contra

lil jon steals the video

sexualsoybean
February 19th 2010
931 Comments


I agree and I agree. Also, theyre going to get so much shit for this.

theacademy
Staff Reviewer
February 19th 2010
31889 Comments


shit band gets slightly cooler for celebrity cameos

Kiran
Emeritus
February 19th 2010
6134 Comments


people give vampire weekend shit for having attended a good college, theyll get knocked for doing just about anything, soybean

its nice to see a band acknowledge that and sort of make fun of it though

theacademy
Staff Reviewer
February 19th 2010
31889 Comments


nobody gives them shit for attending a good school

people don't give morello shit for going to harvard

they get shit because they're douchy and make bad music


robertsona
Emeritus
February 19th 2010
28661 Comments


ah yes, another post by the internet's "theacademy", what a great guy

theacademy
Staff Reviewer
February 19th 2010
31889 Comments


nice burn, man. you got me. i posted.

robertsona
Emeritus
February 19th 2010
28661 Comments


your posts are so bad that no further explanation is needed. Owend.

theacademy
Staff Reviewer
February 19th 2010
31889 Comments


you misspelled "owned." acceptable spellings: owned, ownd, own'd, pwnd, pwn'd.

you fail. nobody is surprised.

robertsona
Emeritus
February 19th 2010
28661 Comments


i meant 'owen'd' you retard

Kiran
Emeritus
February 19th 2010
6134 Comments


what makes them so douchy, academy

im not really trying to defend them, im not their biggest fan at all, just want to know why people take such a strong disliking to them. there doesnt seem to be any middle ground, you either like them, or despise them.

theacademy
Staff Reviewer
February 19th 2010
31889 Comments


i despise them bc of their music.

you said people give them shit for having attended a good college, which I take as an extension of their rich-boys-playing-hipsters-in-nyc image, which many people write off as douchy.

personally, i have no problem with their privileged background, because i just fuckin' hate their music.

Kiran
Emeritus
February 19th 2010
6134 Comments


you said people give them shit for having attended a good college, which I take as an extension of their rich-boys-playing-hipsters-in-nyc image, which many people write off as douchy.


yeah, i mean personally i couldnt care less about their background and that they sing about what they know makes sense, but it just defeats me how people can really hate a band based solely off what is, honestly, a really unassuming image thats exaggerated by most. they even wrote songs like oxford comma to make fun of the pretentious pseudo-intellectualism people accuse them of.

FattyKnee
February 19th 2010
490 Comments


what does their background have anything to do with liking their music? if you enjoy it, you enjoy, background has nothing to do with it.

sexualsoybean
February 19th 2010
931 Comments


Not everyone subscribes to that logic ^^^^

Personally I love their music and their rich smarmy backround doesnt bother me because thats what they sing about. Its not like they try to hide it.


Homunculusninja
February 19th 2010
112 Comments


"i meant 'owen'd' you retard"

My name is Owen. I sometimes say this, when I beat people.

SatoIsNotPlace
February 19th 2010
99 Comments


Awful video.

dcha
February 19th 2010
990 Comments


The stig's cousins!

theacademy
Staff Reviewer
February 19th 2010
31889 Comments


k thanks

sexualsoybean
February 20th 2010
931 Comments


Atreyu and Limpbizkit a 5? really guy?

theacademy
Staff Reviewer
February 20th 2010
31889 Comments


i do what i want

theacademy
Staff Reviewer
February 20th 2010
31889 Comments


na, i think im pretty funny.

brainsheldis
February 20th 2010
320 Comments


I like Vampire Weekend and the video was humorous, I just find this song pretty dull. I prefer Cousins.

crazyblinddude
February 20th 2010
3388 Comments


theacademy
maybe youre getting a bit trolly
but i do share your dislike for this band

Illitoris
February 20th 2010
211 Comments


academy talkin shit like he evens listens to music

ant4tbc
February 20th 2010
373 Comments


awesome video, would've loved to see a video for Holiday, though.

theacademy
Staff Reviewer
February 20th 2010
31889 Comments


academy talkin shit like he evens listens to music


118 comments = no respect for u, bro

tiesthatbind
February 20th 2010
7441 Comments


Oh snap, academy is taking y'all to school!

DhA
February 20th 2010
421 Comments


"people don't give morello shit for going to harvard"

yeah because he runs around pretending he's an aggrieved working class immigrant

theacademy
Staff Reviewer
February 20th 2010
31889 Comments


uh he might not be an immigrant but he was working class... he was raised by his mom alone, a public school teacher... not that this really matters, though.

my point here is that people don't criticize vampire weekend for being smart, they criticize them for being douchebaggy.

TheDanSandwich
February 20th 2010
141 Comments


It's okay, as soon as I heard that you like Limpbizket, I began to regard all of your opinions as false.

dylantheairplane
February 20th 2010
2181 Comments


I loved it

wewillbelegends
February 20th 2010
122 Comments


agreed. great song, great video.

FattyKnee
February 21st 2010
490 Comments


jebus its not that big of a deal. its one person's opinion

El_Goodo
February 21st 2010
1016 Comments


you misspelled "owned." acceptable spellings: owned, ownd, own'd, pwnd, pwn'd.

you fail. nobody is surprised.


You call the band douchy and then call someone out for misspelling something on the internet, do me a favour and google this "define: contradiction"

I like the band, but I based them off their music...which I find catchy and original. Unlike most people I find no connection between a person's personality and their music/songwriting abilities, for some reason I think music should be about...music...but my kind seem to be the minority.

FattyKnee
February 21st 2010
490 Comments


^agreed

theacademy
Staff Reviewer
February 21st 2010
31889 Comments


i'll just quote myself to because i'm done writing new philosophy for you idiots to quibble over:


i despise them bc of their music.

you said people give them shit for having attended a good college, which I take as an extension of
their rich-boys-playing-hipsters-in-nyc image,
which many people write off as douchy.

personally, i have no problem with their privileged background, because i just fuckin' hate their
music.


OhDarn
February 21st 2010
8 Comments


hey theacademy you said "i do what i want" or something like that. if you do want you want, let other people do what they want and stop being so negative . don't give other people shit if you don't wanna get shit other people about they're music. we're all entitled to our own taste, don't tell other people what they should like or not.

theacademy
Staff Reviewer
February 21st 2010
31889 Comments


hey, skippy^

the only thing i said in this entire thread that wasn't provoked was "shit band gets slightly cooler for celebrity cameos" which i think is in my right as a sputnik user, and do not thing was out of line at all. how bout you stop this fucking witch hunt and go back to masturbating in your own feces or whatever you do when you're not interrupting my breakfast.

what makes them so douchy, academy

im not really trying to defend them, im not their biggest fan at all, just want to know why people take such a strong disliking to them. there doesnt seem to be any middle ground, you either like them, or despise them.



Kiran
Emeritus
February 21st 2010
6134 Comments


idk why you quoted me again but i accepted when you said you didnt like them for their music. the point i made after that was just in general.

theacademy
Staff Reviewer
February 21st 2010
31889 Comments


only quoted to show that the previous quote (the one that prompted ohdamn) was actually a response to you, and not just a targeted rant.

shoulda made that clearer my bad, man.

theacademy
Staff Reviewer
February 21st 2010
31889 Comments


i'm also watching jurassic park!

Kiran
Emeritus
February 21st 2010
6134 Comments


movie rules

has that fat ass cop from 3rd rock from the sun been eaten yet

dylantheairplane
February 21st 2010
2181 Comments


Jurassic Park = My childhood

sexualsoybean
February 21st 2010
931 Comments


who the hell knows him as "the fat cop from 3rd rock" and not Neuman from Seinfeld

Kiran
Emeritus
February 21st 2010
6134 Comments


not a big seinfeld fan. i didnt watch 3rd rock either, for that matter. didnt watch much tv at all in the 90s tbh.

theacademy
Staff Reviewer
February 21st 2010
31889 Comments


lol at 3rd rock + seinfeld + wayne knight all of it is awesome


TMobotron
March 4th 2010
7253 Comments


"who the hell knows him as "the fat cop from 3rd rock" and not Neuman from Seinfeld"

Hahaha



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