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From what I understand, Hanson used to be a band of three brothers from Oklahoma that consisted of tweens before the 'tween' demographic became a legitimate consumer force in America, since they all got cell phones + high speed internet. They were sorta like The Jonas Brothers, except the music marketing machine was kinda different in the late 1990s [via VH1 alt rock bands].
Hanson seems like they are 'making a comeback.' They cut their hair so they don't seem like 'inbred white trash' any more.
Wonder if Hanson is a 'relevant' band, or if they are just trying 2 be some sort of ironic meme, sort of like Rick Astley's career [via Rick Rolling]. Might try to 'save major labels' by converting their old starts into internet memes and getting licensing fees / iTunes sales bumps.
Not sure if Hanson will ever 'break free' of their previous image, no matter how 'soulful' they try 2 be, or how 'talented' as musicians that they want 2 prove that they are. Wonder if their new video would have been 'cutting edge' in 1993.
Here is a video from their previous hit, MMMBops, which achieved 'Best New Music' status on the popular website Pitchfork Media.
Do u think buzz bands in the modern indiesphere are starting 2 sound like Hanson, except 'fuzzier'?
I think the song MMMBop is actually commentary on how short the lifespan of buzzbands can be:
You have so many relationships in this life
Only one or two will last
You go through all this pain and strife
Then you turn your back and they're gone so fast
And they're gone so fast
So hold on to the ones who really care
In the end they'll be the only ones there
When you get old and start losing your hair
Can you tell me who will still care?
Can you tell me who will still care?
Wonder if Hanson are the 'founding fathers of chillwave.'
Do u think Hanson will 'crossover' and reach a new audience? Do u think inserting Weird Al Yankovic into their video was a good decision, or should they have booked the modern version of him? (Andy Samberg)
Is Hanson a relevant buzz band?
Do yall think Taylor Hanson is hotter than Joanna Newsom / Zooey Deschanel?
Should Hanson 'grow out their hair' again?
Is Taylor Hanson a 'cool dad'?
Should he make his kids form a band, sort of like Michael Jackson's father Joe Jackson?
Does Taylor Hanson still 'look like a bitch'?
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am i relevant
Their look and sound is now driving the current indie movement, as well as Urban Outfitters’ Spring campaign. East Coast beach is in.
@Gritto, they produced Britney’s “Toxic”. Needless to say, they know how to make things sound epic. Expect nothing less from their danceable sets.
@Andreas, "MMMbop" was probably the song of the decade [90
s] for many of you. Their new album is more beachy...
To be truly alt drummer has to mix and match that vintage kit like he bought drums, cymbals one by one off e-bay.
i hate white people
@pedro, I feel you bro, hokies should never dance
@pedro, FUCK! I meant honkies
@YALLisUS,
word.
i thought the band 'girls' wrote mmmbop
@failrar, hahahaha
Oh fuck yeah bro, Some guy told me Hanson are big stoners though. Really big on the ganga, the cheech and chong, the kush.... you know?
@YALLisUS, I don't follow
@YALLisUS, seems like they were hardcore into the christian god and then got a little older, realized they weren't getting 'satisfied', turned a lil alt and now smoke that weed every day for 'instant gratification'.
knew a girl like that in high school. aggressive born again, now she fronts a buzz band in the 'city'. is that 'selling out' or 'finding yourself'?
@bro noir, it depends. science cannot answer all questions yet. good that we have the LHC (hey, it gives me a lame topic for my thesis [via 'career' bullshit]).
I wish the girl/piano/skyblue pants one wasnt married, I would like to make mized babies with him :(, Catchy tunes
@AltBlackpixie, you are so fucking annoying. plz go kill yourself
@fuckmyass, I tried, did not work :(
And since when has Hanson(still a good band by the way) end up becoming indie, I seen it on their Wiki page.
Hanson>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Jonas Bitches
hanson makes my balloon knot pucker
@banger, Hah! Banger, you rock.
This is the next song LeBron will be dancing to when he beats Kobe down in the finals.
were the blues brothers the hipsters of the late 70s/early 80s? (via love of black people, dressing up in kewl clothes, shoplifting)
@f, they're saturday night live-core so it's hard to say. snl's been ridin the same negrobro for almost ten years now. feel like they've always kind of done that...
@chabby rammmp, true but this is golden era snlcore, much like hardcore even though it was still sorta mediocre at its prime it was way cooler than it is now
this is so sad - a sad story. it must be so hard to have banged all these chicks back when you were ten or eleven - and then suddenly you're thirty two and you're feeling so alone underneath a dog pile your kids have formed on top of you. yeah the hansons were little bitches back then - but at least they owned the free market. probably had a whack treehouse - whatever pet rabbits they wanted
@snacks, lol @ pet rabbits
looks like tay hanson has been doing a lot of mmboppin with that bitty.
hey carles, why r u bloggin about a 'tv commercial' for old navy or did i miss sumthin mayb
Not gonna lie, Taylor Hanson was was my first crush, then I learned he was a boy, OPENED MY EYES.
@Jonthewallflower, def had a crush on that chick/was crushed to realize 'it was a bro'
Hey, so, were the three guitarists and horn players ALSO the Hanson brothers?
Wish there was a hurtful enough racial slur for white ppl that I could call these bros. :((((((
mmmm flop
hanson haters are fart huffers
How'd you miss it--this video is an, ahem, "homage" to the Ray Charles music shop sequence from the 1980 movie "The Blues Brothers".
@Larry Hastings,
Thank you Larry! I scanned the entire article and thread looking for mention of the Blues Brothers. Certainly you all knew that, right? Right? Ugh. If you're old enough to know the "original" Hanson girls , you're old enough to know The Blues Brothers!!
Compare: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN5V-6yCbpg
That was way better than she & him
@torbro y moi, feel like 'she & him' is for youngsters who used to like hanson and still have marginal taste in culture/artistic expression. like fat girls who work in a big office for snap on tools and want more out of life but aren't quite sure what.
@sasha 'n' malia,
like fat alt girls w/ shitty hair cuts
these kinds of people make me like myself
Im 19 and I dont remember this shit, maybe I watch too many sick cartoons and didnt have cable
Group happiness (as seen in this video and High School Musical) makes me feel really really uncomfortable.
ps-INBRED WHITE TRASH HAHAHAHHA
Feel MMBop is cool again since House MDs featured it as his 'ring tone'. Think I should make it caller specific on my own phone for people I 'hate', but dance every time before answering.
Because.
i think we are all missing the point hur
a band/group/perforin artist ensemble NEVER dies
and HANSON is missin the point tht they cannot growout the munster that is the 'mbops'
Wait. Chad Kroeger was in Hanson when he was younger? (via Ike Hanson?)
somehow this band came to my mind yesterday. now they have new vid and crls blocks about it. rocked mad in the backseat back then when they were on.
m i crls at night?
is this post 2 long 2 be read by n e 1?
cutest tween bros that look like chicks ever! [via childhood]
flip flops now im talking flip flops do do do yeah yeaaah
can i like them now if I was a big fan of them when i was four?
I feel like a true "early adopter"
i cant say anything bad about them. my gf is a fan. i was waiting in line with her for a concert where she had a "members" ticket and i had a "you're not a member so fuck you" ticket (and by that i mean no ticket) and since i was the only guy in line the hanson brothers dad (mister hanson senior, i think is his official title), started talking to me and after a few minutes was all like "ok you're on the guest list now if you want to see the show" so i got to see them play their new album. which would have been good if i could have heard their playing over the sound of screaming tween girls.
Damnit dude, when the fuck did Hansen start dressing like me?
They are not trying to prove
They are not trying to prove anything. They had less popularity 'coz they QUIT the major record label Island Def Jam in 2003 and at the ages then of 18, 21 and 23, decided to create their own record company instead so they will have more creative freedom as musicians and artists.
It is in the film documentary "Strong Enough to Break"...
When Hanson left Island, Arista Records courted them but Hanson declined because they did not want to get into the major-record-label-business-first system, and made the mature, crucial, life-changing decision to make it on their own. Make music - and invest the money to promote themselves...So no more financial backing from rich record comapnies, no more massive popularity or "relevance"...Hanson has "been there, done that"-the whole crazy fame. They are wiser. They own their own record company and they are their own bosses...
They are crazy for their love of music. They are talented musicians. Some beautiful Hanson music, among many-
Been There Before (2007)- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMk7oXWR_U0
Penny and Me ('04) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNXSts4ptbE
Underneath ('04) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og8How4IYZ8
They are not trying to prove
They are not trying to prove anything. They had less popularity 'coz they QUIT the major record label Island Def Jam in 2003 and at the ages then of 18, 21 and 23, decided to create their own record company instead so they will have more creative freedom as musicians and artists.
It is in the film documentary "Strong Enough to Break"...
When Hanson left Island, Arista Records courted them but Hanson declined because they did not want to get into the major-record-label-business-first system, and made the mature, crucial, life-changing decision to make it on their own. Make music - and invest the money to promote themselves...So no more financial backing from rich record companies, no more massive popularity or "relevance"...Hanson has "been there, done that"-the whole crazy fame. They are wiser. They own their own record company and they are their own bosses...
They are crazy for their love of music. They are talented musicians. Some beautiful Hanson music, among many-
Been There Before (2007)- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMk7oXWR_U0
Penny and Me ('04) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNXSts4ptbE
Underneath ('04) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og8How4IYZ8
They are not trying to prove
They are not trying to prove anything. They had less popularity 'coz they QUIT the major record label Island Def Jam in 2003 and at the ages then of 18, 21 and 23, decided to create their own record company instead so they will have more creative freedom as musicians and artists.
It is in the film documentary "Strong Enough to Break"...
When Hanson left Island, Arista Records courted them but Hanson declined because they did not want to get into the major-record-label-business-first system, and made the mature, crucial, life-changing decision to make it on their own. Make music - and invest the money to promote themselves...So no more financial backing from rich record companies, no more massive popularity or "relevance"...Hanson has "been there, done that"-the whole crazy fame. They are wiser. They own their own record company and they are their own bosses...
They are crazy for their love of music. They are talented musicians. Some beautiful Hanson music, among many-
Been There Before (2007)- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMk7oXWR_U0
Penny and Me ('04) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNXSts4ptbE
Underneath ('04) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Og8How4IYZ8
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