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Welcome to All Up In MySpace, where we look at bands in the upper echelons of the buggy social-networking site's unsigned bands chart. Today, we look at Mindless Self Indulgence, that chart's current No. 7 act, and the band who some of you Internet old-timers may remember as the outfit that scored the above "Pokemon Bitches" clip, which was a viral video smash in the pre-YouTube days. (Guess what? It's still kind of funny. We love it when Pikachu gets saucy!)

Name: Mindless Self Indulgence.
Number of MySpace Friends: 256,402.
Influences: Apparently, they don't give enough of a fuck to properly fill out this section. How edgy!
Sounds like: Synth-heavy rap metal with totally stoopid lyrics.
Sample comment from a friend: "crazy fucking time in providence!!!!!!!Theres urine on my gf's shirt! Oh wait thats just your sig. MWAHAHAHA LOVE YOU!"
Can they be famous ... off the Internet? Well, there's that Pokemon video—oh, wait. Seriously, though, Mindless Self Indulgence have been kicking around for a very long time, cutting their first demo in 1997 and garnering a Spin writeup two years later. But their all-purpose offensiveness is tailor-made for those teenaged MySpace users who love using black backgrounds and bawdy animated GIFs. MSI recently achieved a bit of chart success, hitting No. 1 on the Billboard dance-singles sales chart with "Shut Me Up"; sure, it's not the Hot 100, but this band's lyrics aren't exactly FCC-friendly.

Mindless Self Indulgence [MySpace]