Rev your engines, it’s time for Flashion Forward, a new UI feature in which we endeavor to explore the ever-expanding universe of sonic style. Each week, we’ll pluck a recently added interview from our warehouse of current clips and try to read between the artist’s sartorial lines. Today, we’re tapping Miniature Tigers to see what the cat’s meow is.
Alterna-popsters Miniature Tigers are no strangers to the coeval godsend and menace of media attention, having basked in the ferocious glow (and pressure!) of Rolling Stone and Spin’s hearty endorsement and bonhomie.
When does a little welcome regard become suffocating overexposure? (Probably around the same time a former crush’s once-charming engrossment in the most minute details of your life becomes creepy and 911-worthy, or your new favorite purple mini-skirt snagged at H&M morphs into a totally humiliating purchase now that every mall chick in Kansas City is sporting it. But I digress).
Anyhoo, the adorably outfitted band’s media savvy extends way beyond the standard “how prevalent should our presence be on MySpace?” concerns. And OMG, if anyone else wore a sweater featuring teddy bears holding hands they’d totally get their ass kicked. Not the mention the gramps-esque sunglasses strapped for security? safety? onto the front of their shirts would mortify the most clueless member of the debate team, but how cute are they?
Let’s all put on our thinking caps and contemplate deeply as they venture into the outer limits of abstraction and existentialism regarding the importance of associating visuals with bands – but not too many visuals, and don’t even get them started on overly commercial ones, mkay?
TOPICS: Flashion Forward