Sleigh Bells played at some fake awards show called the "MTVu Woodie Awards." I think they sold a lot of albums, but performances at MTV won't really help u to win over Pitchforkian-wave critics who resent u for selling so many albums and licensing your songs to Samsung commercials. Anyways, they played some song called "Riot Rhythm" at the MTVu Woodie Awards. I think MTVu is MTV's attempt to have an indie channel, but basically all of the bands that go on there are only hoping to make it to MTV2, then make it to the MTV big leagues.
Did they 'crush it'?
Is this a 'bad career move' by Sleigh Bells?
Here is some funnie ass post posted by the MTV blog that writes like we are living in the 1990s or something.
If you've at all followed the career trajectory of noise-pop duo Sleigh Bells, you already know that a live performance by singer Alexis Krauss and guitarist Derek Miller can feel like a blow to the head in the most appealing way possible. And if you've heard any of Sleigh Bells' sweet-then-salty, loud-and-then-LOUDER songs on their first full-length album Treats, you know the tunes deserve -- make that DEMAND -- a performance of EPIC proportions. (We here at MTV found this out when we gave Sleigh Bells their very own Live In NYC show at Webster Hall.)
And that's precisely what they gave us at the 2011 mtvU Woodie Awards, a performance of epic proportions that only managed to get more epic. As if we weren't already scratching our heads over how just two people can make such a great big painfully pleasant noise, Sleigh Bells was joined on stage by the thunderous (and seriously sexy) sounds of Prairie View A&M's "Marching Storm," which launched their already out-of-this-world track "Riot Rhythm" into a whole new stratosphere of rock.
Here is 'Sexi Lexi Krauss' being all sexi, trying to make cool dads lust over her.
HEre they are walking the red carpet and the dude is like 'hey there's more 2 our buzzband than just Alexis Krauss.'
Is Sleigh Bells just an overground buzzband?
Will their strategic brand alliance with MTV help their career or hurt it in the long run?
Do their live performances 'crush it'?
Do u <3 Sexi Lexi Krauss?
Will she ever have as good of a voice as Vicki LeGrand?
Will she ever bleepbloopslutwave like Alice Glass?
Will she 'go solo' and release a Feisty piano album, or will she go solo and try to mimic the careers of Ke$ha and Vanessa Hudgens?