Rostam (Vampire Weekend) ends world with “Call Me Maybe” / “Walkin’ On Broken Glass” mash-up

Jun 13, 2012

You can stop turning off the radio whenever your boo walks in: Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend and Discovery has mashed up Carly Rae Jepsin’s smash “Call Me Maybe” with Annie Lennox’s “Walkin’ on Broken Glass,” meaning that it’s okay to admit to liking the things you like. Don’t believe me? Take a cue from Rostam. Even though he’s been experimenting with pure, uncut mainstream music, he manages to retain all that priceless indie cred simply by saying that he’s above his own remix: “this one is strictly for the lulz” he writes on his Tumblr, which means it was made ironically, for you to enjoy ironically, until the artifice you’ve built around yourself collapses like a house of cards, and you’re left with nothing permanent, with no solid dreams or ambitions to guide you, while voices of Annie Lennox and Carly Rae Jepsin, their voices sealed in the eternal youth of pop superstardom, sing the death knell of everything you once were and could still be.