Honestly. If over-saturation is your thing, by all means, pick up a Vampire Weekend album. And by pick up, I mean, you're going to go to Hype Machine and search for every single song by them and download it track by track. You have fun with that, lame-o's.


Here's my problem with VW. I honestly cannot name 1 song by them, and I am totally fine with that. I have no idea how any of their songs even go, so as to mock sing along when it comes on in a little hipster bar on the Lower East Side.

I don't want to know anything about them.

Here's what happened: they were on a list last year of "NYC Bands You NEED To Know". Um, thank you, but I'll need to know who I WANT to know. And so began the plight of similar sounding bands and their VW-ish-ness lack of quality songwriting. This initially turned me off to ever trying to learn more about the band.

Then, VW was asked to play Saturday Night Live. Good god. At this point, my knowing anything/any song by the band, was beyond the point of no return.

Still, to this day, I have and will never own a Vampire Weekend track. I do not want to follow their inevitable rise to "The Vines level of fame". I do not want to hear their songs. I am sick of seeing posts about them and how utterly incredible they are.

I've never listened to them, and I already know, they are NOT incredible.

And so begins the backlash...

Let it rain down on me.