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Obama Is Winning Because Our Generation Stopped Hating Gwyneth Paltrow [Crappy Hour]
Published 5/14/2008 by Moe at Jezebel
paltrowobserver.jpg I'm sick of fine presidents and good presidents and mediocre presidents. I'm sick of Rutherford B. Hayes and James Buchanan and Franklin Pierce and Millard Fillmore. We got Barack Obama! Barack Obama, for crying out loud! That's Win Butler, lead singer of the Arcade Fire and a supporting character in a New York Observer piece predictably self-consciously devoid of the word "hipster." Which is to say, it's a story about my generation and how we hate ourselves but love Barack Obama despite our fears of being associated with the "naive moron vote," ...

Obama Is Winning Because Hipsters Stopped Hating Gwyneth Paltrow [Crappy Hour]
Published 5/14/2008 by Moe at Jezebel
paltrowobserver.jpg I'm sick of fine presidents and good presidents and mediocre presidents. I'm sick of Rutherford B. Hayes and James Buchanan and Franklin Pierce and Millard Fillmore. We got Barack Obama! Barack Obama, for crying out loud! That's Win Butler, lead singer of the Arcade Fire and a supporting character in a New York Observer piece predictably self-consciously devoid of the word "hipster." Which is to say, it's a story about my generation and how we hate ourselves but love Barack Obama despite our fears of being associated with the "naive moron vote," ...

Twee Gets Tough Thanks To Barack Obama, Arcade Fire, Iron Man, You? [At The Count Of Twee, Wake Up]
Published 5/14/2008 by Anthony Miccio at Idolator
... for this way of life is nothing new. If you have ever not muted a Target ad, you've heard it. Think Nico's voice over a Phil Spector song. A few songs written from a kid's point of view. And all over an air of pleasant, suggestive insubstantiality, suburban neighborliness and nostalgic pastiche. Suze Orman. Belle & Sebastian. The unpopularity of Carrie Bradshaw. It all makes sense! Too high, too high. American Cutie [New York Observer; HT Kate Silver via Matos] Mighty Lemon Drops - Too ...