Feist’s choreographed clip for “1234″ is, obviously, totally and completely endearing. At this point, what it would it take for everyone not to love everything she does? Seriously, that’s a question. Maybe a few more of those vertigo-inducing human domino scenes? We’re at a loss, Leslie. (And a little dizzy.) Patrick Daughters directs:
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I absolutely love this video.
All done in one take perhaps?
It’s like a gap advert that’s ok to like.
Just brilliant.
I am so incredibly in love with her. Beyond words. Pants shitting when the album is released.
Definitely a gap commercial.
It was all done in one take.
Guh-dammit, she is good.
It looks more like an American Apparel ad than a Gap commercial.
I want a pet Feist.
she kind of looks like jenny lewis.
I want to pet Feist.
geez, this video is bad for people with vertigo…i barely made it thru.
What a fox!
awesome i love this song. probably my favorite on the cd. i don’t so much love the dancing though.
why does this scene consider average women so hot?
is it just because there are no actually hot women in this genre?
She looks nothing like Jenny Lewis, moron.
@ dave: Because we’re not just looking at her tits, dude; we’re appraising her desirability based on personality, talent, attitude, and a hundred other things that somebody from some other “scene” might not even be able to spell :p
One day…well actually fuck it ..it will never happen….I was going to say that one day people will wake up and realize that dreck like this is not challenging, not good, and not interesting.
It’s like an entire nation of 20 somethings were hatched from pods, woke up in Brooklyn and instinctively started to think that dull as dish water indie rock was good.
See also:
TV on the Radio
Animal Collective
Spoon
et al
dave, agreed. and snooks, cat power is 10x better, more beautiful, and more talented! suckaaaas. but i’ll admit, this video and song is pretty great
TV On Radio? Dull as dish water? Wow.
snooks: I don’t know why people who shop at American ap and follow what blogs tell them are cool are any smarter and/or able to spell than people who shop at the GAP and watch MTV. seems like the same groupthink to me.
Oh you cynical fucks. Your chest is a sucking void and your genitals are out of commission if this doesn’t make you feel even a little warm&fuzzy. C’mon now.
I’m already in love with Feist, so that really didn’t do much for me.
Needs more Maia Hirasawa.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRIyb8Sqol8
I agree, it is impossible to not love this song. Feist is a total babe on a purely physical level and complete wifey material when one considers that she may be the nicest woman in the music business. I am so sick and tired of reading posts saying that this or that and sucks where the majority of the poster’s reasoning is because hipsters like it. That is as close-minded as one could possibly be. You know that that is essentially being the reverse of a hipster. Not liking something because the underground hip crowd likes it.
Also, I can see all those other bands being too artsy and difficult for you, gurple, but how on earth could you take issue with feist/spoon? Both specialize in pretty direct music to me. Elaborate, man!
um… i don’t really love feist. does that answer the question?
and she looks nothing like jenny lewis. what the fuck?
I’m not a hipster and I like her. And she’s a very pretty girl although she certainly doesn’t play up her sexy side.
and who the fuck is jenny lewis?
yay! this was my favorite off of the reminder. i looooove it.
Evan,
I was saying the opposite. I don’t find them artsy or difficult….I find them safe, boring,and unchallenging. Feist, Spoon, TV….all of this safe, yuppie, “indie” rock that people seem to love these days is a huge snoozefest.
As opposed to what, gurple?
Just how the fuck is Animal Collective not challenging? Have you even listened to their albums?
gurple, I don’t like TV on the Radio or Animal Collective either. but you don’t need to be a dick about it. not liking a band doesn’t make you better than anyone else.
and besides, nobody goes to Feist to be “challenged” (whatever that’s supposed to mean). it’s pop music. you’re not supposed to think about it too much. in fact, why are we even having this conversation?
oh, and I’m 100% with all the Feist admirers. she’s babe-a-licious.
@ dave: You’re making an assumption that people here who think Feist is attractive are sheep. I thought it was the sheep who made the blind assumptions, aye? Sad thing is, we’re all part of the groupthink, some flavor of it. Can’t avoid it.
@ Rob Z: Cat Power was cool to me ’till she sold her song to a diamond marketing company. I’m with Tom Waits on this issue; sell your song, suck a dick. Which aint to say that I don’t agree with you on her hawt factor; Cat Power is like way totally, omfg, cuter than Feist, omg!!lol!rotfsmod!!11 …but she lost 3d20 hot points when she signed the diamond contract so I just aint that into her any more.
Ok when i think “hot” i am thinking purely physical. “Desirability” is a completely different matter. Feist is one awesome girl and plenty desirable, but as far as hot goes: not so much.
Anyway, is this the video where there was an open call for volunteers? Because if so, these guys are on their fucking game considering they’re by and large not professionals.
The one take was pretty awesome too. Not that it doesn’t mean as much when Scorcese does it, but maybe he should spin his camera more.
This Feist video is about pure joy. Makes me wanna dance and sing around my apt. It may be one take, but, errr, where the hell did the people come from and where did they go at the end. There are some cuts in there that cannot be seen.
As for Miss Chan, she’s great too, but if you’ve been paying attention she has allowed herself to become the court jester (literally) of one of the most assholic human beings on the planet, Karl Lagerfeld.
PS to neanderthals: Feist is gorgeous – GORGEOUS. She just doesn’t work it too hard. Amazing face.
Animal Collective & TVOTR not challenging? Comparable to Spoon and Feist? I’m going to try to resist the urge to be condescending.
Feist has a great voice and is quite cute, but boy is she a shitty guitar player. When I saw her she was setting up loops and each additional loop was more offbeat with more mistakes just compounding into a big mess. And she was mean to the 15 year olds in the crowd when they didn’t swoon over her.
She needs to get over herself and stick with a backing band.
I think half of the arguing going on here really shows the underlying sexism that exists within a lot of people. Not that they mean to be sexist or anything, but here is a prime example of how female musicians have it a hell of a lot harder then men to have their music taken seriously, due to the fact that their attractiveness (or lack of) is often commented on just as much, if not more so than their music.
Why does her appearence matter? She’s not trying to sell that.
It’s her music that matters.
If you want to critisize her music, fair enough. But leave your opinions on her attractiveness at the door. Or go find some trashy celebrity-based magazine site to post on if that’s what you’re into.
I just saw this video last week on a different site and I love everything about the music and the video. Feist is so adorable!
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Who the fuck is Jenny Lewis?
(full dislosure: I, too, want to pet Feist)
Jenny Lewis is the lead singer of Rilo Kiley, to clear that up. She’s also a solo artist. And my dream.
As for all this talk about why indie music is so boring and lacking any real challenge, if you don’t like it, why bother coming on here and posting how terrible it is? Music appeals to some and not others, just like any art, really. So why bother coming and trashing an artist people care about? If you don’t like her or “hipster” music, fine. Just leave the board alone if you’re going to act like a dick about it. I doubt most of the people here come onto your Pussycat Dolls threads and liken it to “dishwater.”
Do you guys realize how HARD this video was to shoot……one shot on a digital boom. There must have been a bunch of takes and it had to start from the beginning again, so if one dancer screwed up in the last 30 seconds, the whole 3 and a half minutes had to be reset and started again……….My hats off to the director,choreographer and most of all, the cinematographer! And yeah, Feist is hot to!
Remember that time when you took a great song and an amazing video from a wonderfully talented, beautiful, and kind woman, and turned into some bullshit treatise about how you hate hipsters and turned yourself, inherently, into a hipster?
Hipsters are judgmental. Just like every other fucking group.
And Jenny Lewis is more attractive. And she contributed to the Postal Service, as did our lovely friend Leslie Feist. Small world, no?
Fake out, Jen Wood was the other PS singer.
My bad, Leslie. I think she contributed to some of their work, though, at some point.
I think Feist just as Björk, Momus and other arty fuckers is boring pseudo intelectual bobo shit.
It’s unbearable and so self conciously contrived that you almost want to slap her face if you had the chance to.
I prefer a catcht Britney spears than that crap just as i’d rather have some beer with street bums that going to an art opening with “liberal” types-
The horror-
I like Feist’s boobs.
This is an awesome video. Sit back and think it through. Looks like all on take too. Wow! Amazing. She’s cute too.
all u negative commenters probably went into ur little dark corners and masturbated to this video! buncha freaks!! shut the hell up and go back to ur dungeons!! the song is catchy and the video fantastic! at least Apple thot so since it made a catchy ipod commercial.
Feist and Austin Powers would make a SWINGIN couple, baby…..YEAH and I really liked the video maybe her and mike myers could go on tour.
This reminds me of when everybody went gaga and was singing Be Happy every frickin where I went. The song is catchy and cute and a little different than everything else right now and everybody will look back and think to themselves “Yeah that was kinda silly but I did Like it,” and then it will be put on some weird one hit wonders album 10 years later.
google translate says: “???? ????? ??? ??????? ????? ??? ?? ?? ??”=”Please send your latest movies and all that is somewhat”
Fiest… ah… a grandma I would NOT like to fuck.
I love this video and song. I could be considered an old fart, at 66, but I do intend to go out and buy this CD, “The reminder”
I’m not a blogger but I found myself on a mission to know who the woman was on the ipod commercial and blah-blah-blah, right? Hey, some of the blogging about Feist was pretty cool. Some (of what I’m sure YOU read too) was pretty lame. Listen. -Did you write/produce/sing the song? I like a lot of different music(cliche-risk) but you know what?.. It SOUNDS different, ok?! Good for her and shame on you lames for attempting to minimalize her vibes. She’s fresh!
Wanna know the words to this >http://lyrics.astraweb.com/display/177/feist..the_reminder..1234.html
The Making of 1234. Amazing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hfn7EPM9CE
YOU FUCKING PEOPLE ARE SOOO GAY!!! THIS SONG SUCKS! IT WAS MADE FOR FEM-MEN AND BUTCH DYKES! THE CHOREOGRAPHY TOOK ALL OF TWO MINUTES TO PLAN?!
FUCK FEIST AND FUCK YOU, THE PUSSY GENERATION!
i totally agree, this song and video is just indie wuss extremo, hard to stomach. seriously, look at it again, please. people in cutesy bland harmless clothes doing little ditsy witsys together in harmony. grown women and men. and the lyrics. 1,2,3,4 – need i really say anymore? feist is all production, her voice is distilled nonsense in its purest form. perfect bullshit for indie couples that are his and hers versions of each other that you see everywhere these days.
tried watching it again.
are.you.f.ing.kidding.me?
these people need to be locked in that room and never let out. feist should be tried in front of a court for weilding such flights of sappiness unto a vulnerable public.
“At this point, what it would it take for everyone not to love everything she does? Seriously, that’s a question.”
apparently, have her music video appear on an ipod commercial. seriously, that’s the answer.
I cannot say enough about this video. It is absolutely great! I love the song. ooooh teenage hopes. BTW I am 66 yrs old. I will never forget my first teenage love, I can still see her in my minds eye at 16.
i feel sick to think that this is a top 10 song in america. what has modern music come to nowadays when shit like feist and t-pain are 2 of the most popular artists in the industry. this song is so annoying… i mute it everytime i hear that shitty ipod commercial. why would anyone enjoy this song… there’s no guitar riff, there’s no drum rhythm… the lyrics are shitty… give me one reason to like this song other than it “makes you feel happy, and it has a good music video.” LOL…. fuck feist.
Music doesn’t have to be fucking METAL to be good; just because Feist doesn’t have twin-guitar solos or speedy drum rythms doesn’t mean she can’t qualify as having good music except for on a completely opinional basis. Define “shitty lyrics” do you mean lyrics that aren’t about drugs, suicide, anarchy, global warming, how much the president sucks, or any other socio-political left-wing wank that you hear people whine about everyday?
This song sucks huge balls
FEIST IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN ON THIS PLANET. end of discussion.
One hit wonder??? clearly someone has been too busy in the last 5 years paying attention to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton to realize that some things are actually… um… GOOD.
Now, I’ve been a fan of feist for a looooong time, but I don’t like this song. I could stand it at first, but now I’m tired of her singing it over and over and over again on every talk show. I haven’t even seen the ipod commercial. That doesn’t mean that the video isn’t amazing though… because IT IS. There’s a reason why the song has been playing over and over. Don’t say that Feist sucks just because of ONE song, at least try and listen to her older stuff first and see her evolution, then make up your mind. You don’t HAVE to like her, it only means that you’re dumb, but you’re entitled to your own opinion.
I forgot to add that even though I’d prefer it if she didn’t sing this song anymore, her entire album is AMAZING.
I just needed to make that statement.
For the record: to all: 1- animal collective is one of the most unique groups I have ever seen. I program samples for live and album use in a rock band so I know how much time and talentit actually takes. 2- feist is a talent lacking fuckbag that needs to quitsinging, if not talking. I love all genres of music as real musicinas do, but this stupid cunt is so flacid in every aspect, I can’t atnd those FUCKING ipod comercials. If my shit was on a commercial that much, i’d fuckin hang myself. Fuck microsoft, Fuck i-anything, fuck music theives, and fuck all you mother fuckers who judge a musician on their looks, you outta be ashamed to even listen to music. 3- It is obvious to me that all of you who are “blinded by her beauty” are also deaf and can’t hear shit if it had a horn tied to it. THE BITCH TALKS, shes not even trying to sing AT ALL!! how the fuck did she even get a career!? how can you veiw her as a legitimate artist when all she does is talk to a 2 note song, not kidding either the whole song is based on a 2 note progression, what a pile of shit. Every time the comercial comes on I turn the fucking channel, hope someone with some control oer that factor reads this and gets a fucking clue! she sucks, rip up her contract or make her sign up for a talent transplant.
if I may add as well, Rap is dead. Since degrading women and bragging about shooting people and drug abuse in rhyme doesn’t qualify as music, I don’t owe it any respect, unless you want to talk about the days of rap that does have talent which is long gone. If you like rap, you had better defect to another genre real quick, major record labels are pulling the plug on this pile of shit as fast as thye can to make way for the kids with broken sounding guitars and fag haircuts. Not sure which is worse….
This song is just not very good. I don’t get the stupid “baby doll” voice. Is that the way this artist always sings? I have to laugh at the fans who are saying that she is NOT selling sex. Watch her wiggle and squeak her babytalk googoo lyrics throughout this entire song. Totally contrived winsome submissiveness and completely sickening.
Pass on Feist.
Feist sucks…….
sounds like a bunch of whiny, please try to be happy, mel0dramatic scripted garbage
PLEASE, people. In my opinion, Feist is simply trying to lighten our hearts in an otherwise heavy time. She’s probably making fun of herself in the 1234 video with the sequined jumpsuit and leotard-clad dancers. She’s GREAT, and gorgeous. I can’t wait to see her in concert in a few weeks.
FEIST SUCKS and she is as ugly as a gorilla. I know music these days is lacking and people are looking for something different but this girls sucks. Please kill Feist
You people need to lighten up, I really like this song, it makes me feel good listening to
it. To me its about coming of age, something we all have to do. I only heard feist after the award show here in Calgary. This the first time I saw the video. I bought her cd
a few weeks back and I like her music. I noticed most of the comments are from last
year….do you know how many units she has sold since then? She is laughing all the way to the bank so all you wanna be music critics stick that in your pipe and smoke it!
Wow! Everyone sure seems to be vitriolic toward one another about whether this is a good song or a bad one… Feist is a genius vs. Feist sucks et al. Has everyone forgotten that music is experienced on a purely subjective level, and such factors as set and setting have a lot to do with it? For crying out loud, I like the color orange, but I wouldn’t paint my house that color. This is a simple little song. Funny how it made a fortune and skyrocketed to fame. Guess ya don’t need no complex guitar riff for that.