Hot off of covering Lykke Li, American Idol’s remaining hairstylist victims Adam Lambert and the Not Adam Lamberts kept it indie for this week’s Ford commercial challenge with New Magnetic Wonder’s “Energy.” Watch it here. Next week: “Two Weeks”?

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Comments (8)
  1. Zing  |   Posted on Apr 30th, 2009

    Didn’t watch the Idol’s rendition, but it couldn’t possibly be as good as the original because Frodo did not direct the video.

  2. god that’s all kinds of weird. plus that ad has new levels of cheesy filters/styles going on. interesting

  3. megaindiedouche  |   Posted on Apr 30th, 2009

    This is all just a setup for Jeff Mangum’s triumphant return to public life on this season’s finale.

  4. ian g  |   Posted on Apr 30th, 2009

    i turned it off when i realized the car wasn’t going to hit them.

  5. FlimFlam  |   Posted on May 1st, 2009

    My reaction is pretty “meh”
    I mean, this isn;t so far away from what the Apples do in the first place, so its hard to be upset. They are pop to the core.

    On the other hand, the cover isn’tgood enough to get exited about.
    The video isn’t funny enough either.

  6. Funny that Idol is sponsored by Coke in a BIG way. And yet this song is from that Pepsi campaign.

  7. Farmer Ted  |   Posted on May 1st, 2009

    This is the Apples worst song.
    It makes me want to vomit.
    So it was fitting for Idol stars to sing it.

    They should have covered “Green Machine.”

    -Farmer Ted

  8. Country PAul  |   Posted on May 2nd, 2009

    “American Idol” and “indie cred” in one thought? What an oxymoron!

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