When all your members hail from the same Ivy League school and Cape Cod figures in the title of one of your catchiest tracks, music journos are gonna come up with some tags with which to handle you. "People call us Ivy League or preppy or whatever," VW singer Ezra Koenig told SPIN this month. "But those are such racially and socially loaded terms." Later in the piece, drummer Chris Tomson says, "I read something that called us prep rock. I have no idea what that is. Maybe we've invented a new genre?" Now watch the band's first video:
UPDATE: We've replaced the MTV embed with one our foreign readers can enjoy:
Yachts and shades? Either that's a big ol' "Fuck you" for a lack of critical thinking, or it's a "You get us! You really get us!" with some satirical winking. Either way: Well played.
Vampire Weekend is out 1/29 on XL. If you need MP3, revisit our intro.
