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The week before Labor Day ranks somewhere around the week between Christmas and New Year's as far as slow music-news weeks go—everyone's out of town, or dreaming about being out of town, or getting blind drunk in order to be mentally ready for the MTV Video Music Awards. But still, no slow music-news week is so slow, it requires three stories about the new trend of whistling and how said boomlet was inspired by the Swedish pop group Peter, Bjorn & John, and their catchy-beyond-all-hell track "Young Folks." The proof? A quote from someone who runs a whistler-aficionado Yahoo! Group and a bunch of twentysomethings who were presumably found while swinging on the flippity-flop. (Ah, trend stories! Your stone-soup something-outta-nothingness made you my favorite things to write during my brief stint in journalism school.)
Sure, they're playing Boston next week, and this is a cute way to preview that gig (if a little early, since the show isn't until Sept. 7). But was the "how to whistle" sidebar necessary? Or the list of songs that feature whistling, even though it does fill a void left by Wikipedia?
On the bright side, maybe now that the art of whistling is being picked up again, PB&J will be able to find ringers in each city to handle the trickier parts of "Young Folks."
Finally! Whistling is cool again [boston.com, via Gawker]
Comments
Next trend: hollerin'.
Bubb Rubb and Lil' Sis, THY TIME IS NOW. Strike while the whistle tips still goo WOO WOO!
whooooo-wheeeeet, swooooooooooooooo. Heeeee-wooooooo-oh!
/attempt to type up my whistled comment
@loudersoft: your comment didn't show up when i typed my last one, that is pure gold. I had no idea anyone in the world knew of the glory that is Bub-Rub.
It go WOOOOOO WOOOOOOO!
@Aquemini: that's only in the mawnin. you spose to be up cookin breffis or somethin'...that's like an alarm clock talkinboutha WOO WOOOOOOO
@loudersoft: @Aquemini: Two Bubb Rubb references in one post? I didn't think my day could get any better. And remember kids, it's just for decoration man.
Isn't the premise of the story ever-so-slightly undermined by the fact that nobody actually knows who Peter, Bjorn and John are?
@Lax: Actually "Young Folks" is all over the airwaves up here. It started getting the shit played out of it a couple months back.
The fabricated trend piece should be about how Peter, Bjorn And John stole every ..., hanging out with Kanye, even their album title.
Whistle while your low. Ow! Oh, that's ok. My marrow's just low.
@GovernmentNames: OK, for some reason half that post got eaten up by ellipses (possibly the YouTube link?), so I'm gonna try it again just so it doesn't look so nonsensical:
The fabricated trend piece should be about how Peter, Bjorn And John stole every idea they had from the Diplomats: the "whistle song", hanging out with Kanye, even their album title.
There is way better swedish pop with whisted hooks/solos.
So this means I should put away the ukulele?
Please. I was whistling and crab-dancing back and forth a good 20 years ago. Hi, my name is Axl Rose.
@Lax: really? Are you sure you're on the right website?
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