Love or hate the band, Vampire Weekend has done an unimpeachable job branding itself. Their most recent record oozes undergraduate, Ivy League-educated, New York hipster pretense (by the second track, we've heard about horchata, balaclava and Richard Serra). This in mind, the folks over at GQ blog The Verge (yes, the same magazine that ranked college douchiness) have assembled a list of 16 words and phrases Vampy Weekend needs to include on its third LP.
It begins:
Start a pool in your dorm! If "Sriracha" doesn't get a name-check on the third record, we will eat a Tretorn.
And, to the tune of "quattro formaggi," it only gets better. Check it out.
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