You Pour A Pearl

From New York, YPAP is a trio consisting of Jessica, Wallace & Marjorie dedicated to making experimental music. They are probably best known for bringing mash-up to Song Fight! during the Dinner For One fight, where they mashed Metallica's "One" with Suzanne Vega's "Tom's Diner".

You Pour a Pearl's first song ever was "Girls who Park in Cars (Driveway Seed)", a title which refers to a 1950s American high school social propoganda film called "Are You Popular?" (which does in fact attempt to instruct young boys and girls how to be popular) The film contains the line "Nobody likes girls who park in cars, not even the boys they park with." Upset over the horribly unusable songfight title, the members decided to make a horribly unlistenable song. The song was composed entirely of samples from songs whose titles shared a word with the song title in question. The samples used were "Girls" by the Beastie Boys, "Who Are You", by The Who, "MacArthur Park" by Donna Summer, "Palisades Park" by Freddy Cannon, "Cars" by Gary Numan, "Driveway to Driveway" by Superchunk, and "Johnny Appleseed" by NOFX. As a subtle hint that their awful song was a reaction to the awful title, the band chose a name that was an anagram of the title of the movie from which the quote was taken. (That is to say "You Pour a Pearl" is an anagram for "Are You Popular?")

You Pour a Pearl was originally designed to only create music composed entirely out of samples of other people's music, but decided to expand their creative boundaries for "Cur" and "When it Snowed", both of which contain music that is not sampled from other sources.