The hipster's dilemma.

Cafe Society
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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.

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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.

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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. :smiley:

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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.

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Yellow completely destroys any good that Coldplay can ever do. That song is icepicks piercing my face.

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I also enjoy Coldplay and I love the new song.

Big fan ever since I heard Yellow.

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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.”

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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?)

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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.

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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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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! :cool:
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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Terry Pratchett in Lords & Ladies:

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(pulls out a tape measure and does a few contortions) Cool. I’m hip.

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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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Which is exactly what I would expect a hipster to say!

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And suddenly, millions of “hipsters” disappeared in a puff of irony.