Bitter:Sweet
Bitter:Sweet’s track ‘The Mating Game’ is preloaded on the Zune. The LA neo-nova band is made up of Kiran Shahani and Shana Halligan. They met when Shahani placed a Craigslist ad for a lead singer for trip-hoppers Supreme Beings of Leisure (member Ramin Sakurai is Iranian-Japanese).
Halligan is the lead singer and the face in this vid. Shahani shows up as a WWII soldier in a Nehru cap, looking very Subhash Chandra Bose, and at the very end in black shirt and red tie.
Cansei de Ser Sexy (Tired of Being Sexy) has this preload, which sounds a whole lot like M.I.A., though the inspiration is probably in the other direction:
Here’s a grisly Zune promo about a cartoon lion eating an antelope. Welcome to the suicide:


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