Not About Vampire Weekend

What occurred to me after seeing this video was: Think about all the terrible rock bands you had to deal with at your Ivy League school. (We actually had one of those rap-rock bands too, whose frontman was this guy, to give you an idea of the aftermath.) Maybe the drummer was in your expos class, or maybe you shared a toilet pre-frosh weekend with the bassist, who (it's worth mentioning) also brought his bass to pre-frosh weekend, (you know) just in case. The guitarist, to put it plainly, wore all the wrong shirts to all the wrong parties. Every Monday night for about three years you got an email from that guitarist about his stupid fucking solo show at the Rock Bottom, and every Tuesday morning you ran into him and had to pretend like you really wanted to come but something came up. Rockstar Ben! Veritas Records! This was the closest any of them got to Blender. (Except for maybe Chester French--who?) Or if it was one of those really serious bands that tried to play actual venues off campus, somewhere that wasn't Loker Commons or the Quincy Cage or that frathouse started by all the guys who couldn't get into actual final clubs, maybe--maybe--they had a webpage with some MP3 links and pictures of Asian chicks dancing with each other, ostensibly to the music. Most of them haven't listened to much rock music except what's on the radio and MTV, most of them haven't seen a concert not attended by over 10,000 people, and I remember at least one rap-rocker singing the praises of and claiming as influences the "seriously underground" rappers Common and Mos Def. By/large these guys' musical educations stop at around age 19--yet they play, and systematically ruin Ivy League college campuses everywhere.

Do you remember how awful these guys were? Critical opinions aside, I would gladly read a mass email from the lead singer of Vampire Weekend.