I really like that new Coldplay song, Viva La Vida . OMG, how am I gonna break it to my peers?
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I really like that new Coldplay song, Viva La Vida . OMG, how am I gonna break it to my peers?
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I like it too.
I’m going through exactly the same thing. I also really like Violet Hill as well. I think it’s the little soldier boy drums the do it for me, and the beat that circles my brain for ages.
I…I think I might actually like Coldplay.
I’m horribly unhip, but I want to learn. Can someone explain to me why it’s hip not to like ColdPlay? I seem to remember when they first appeared on the music scene all the alternative music radio stations were soiling their pants over them.
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I’m horribly unhip, but I want to learn. Can someone explain to me why it’s hip not to like ColdPlay? I seem to remember when they first appeared on the music scene all the alternative music radio stations were soiling their pants over them.
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“When they first appeared” is the important phrase here. If every other jerk likes them then they’re not hip. 
I blame the iTunes commercials. They make it seem like Coldplay is the new U2 and if you aren’t hip to that then you’re out of the loop; sorry, but I don’t “discover” up-and-coming
bands that have international endorsement deals without some suspicion.
Yellow completely destroys any good that Coldplay can ever do. That song is icepicks piercing my face.
I also enjoy Coldplay and I love the new song.
Big fan ever since I heard Yellow.
Never apologize for something that you like, even if it’s horribly unhip. If challenged and you you absolutely must, say that you enjoy them “ironically.”
I think I must be out of the hipster age group now, because they’re quite likable (I think by hipster standards I shouldn’t like Arcade Fire or Interpol anymore, though).
But, Coldplay funs, what’s up with “Talk” on X & Y? As a Kraftwerk fan, the first time I heard that song I thought "WTF? I’going to assume that this is a conscious homage. . . "
(And I’m grumpy about having to feel unhip in ownership of old U2 albums already. What’s wrong with Boy, October, or War?)
I don’t think it was a conscious homage as much as them going to Kraftwerk and asking to use the sample. It was pretty deliberate; there was nothing underhanded going on.
Are you really a hipster? Find out:
Hipster Bingo
The true definition of hip is to not give a flying fuck what anybody else thinks about anything.
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Are you really a hipster? Find out:
Hipster Bingo
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Thanks for the link, it’s a topic I have a lot of fun with on my blog:
http://zen-denizen.blogspot.com/2007/11/po-po-mo.html
http://zen-denizen.blogspot.com/2007/10/diwali-cocktails.html
http://zen-denizen.blogspot.com/2007/04/am-i-hipster-doofus.html
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Thanks for the link, it’s a topic I have a lot of fun with on my blog:
http://zen-denizen.blogspot.com/2007/11/po-po-mo.html
http://zen-denizen.blogspot.com/2007/10/diwali-cocktails.html
http://zen-denizen.blogspot.com/2007/04/am-i-hipster-doofus.html
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hehe. Awesome! I actually saw the hipster-doofus one first. Great blog! 
ETA: So. . .did you see people coming to your site from this page and . . .
Yep, I’ll bet that’s how it worked! You hipster!
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The true definition of hip is to not give a flying fuck what anybody else thinks about anything.
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Terry Pratchett in Lords & Ladies:
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The Monks of Cool, whose tiny and exclusive monastery is hidden in a really cool and laid-back valley in the lower Ramtops, have a passing-out test for a novice. He is taken into a room full of all types of clothing and asked: Yo, my son, which of these is the most stylish thing to wear? And the correct answer is: Hey, whatever I select.
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(pulls out a tape measure and does a few contortions) Cool. I’m hip.
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hehe. Awesome! I actually saw the hipster-doofus one first. Great blog!
ETA: So. . .did you see people coming to your site from this page and . . .
Yep, I’ll bet that’s how it worked! You hipster!
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I write about anything and everything so yes, I’m always excited when I reach a new audience by any means! Me, a hipster? Nah, I’m only interested in them in the anthropological sense.
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Me, a hipster? Nah, I’m only interested in them in the anthropological sense.
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Which is exactly what I would expect a hipster to say!
[QUOTE=plnnr]
The true definition of hip is to not give a flying fuck what anybody else thinks about anything.
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And suddenly, millions of “hipsters” disappeared in a puff of irony.