No, see, they were good back then. They were fuckin’ punk rock, man, not a whiny emo band.
I’m sure your friends will still accept you for being gay.
I think I was just at that bar tonight in Manhattans West Village:
2$ PBR special - CHECK
Charity event for some Asian disaster or something - CHECK
Unknown indie regae ska alt rock jam band - CHECK
Eclectic mix of unemployed MBAs, homeless investment bankers, aspiring film industry guys and random people dressed like slobs who probably earn at least six figures - CHECK
Elvis Costello glasses guy - CHECK
wierd guy in bathrobe - CHECK
From a British comedy show:
Hipster #1: Aha, I see you’re looking a porn mag. But you’re doing it in a post-modern ironic style.
Hipster #2: No, I’m looking at it because I’m going to have a wank.
Hipster #1: [flicking fingers] Nice one - sincerity is the new irony.
Hipster #2: You wanker.
I’m usually rather positive about the hipster mindset. But when they are dismissive towards something that is obviously great quality pop, it jars me. How can it be cool not to be able to realise that something is good? It’s the same with Oasis. My hipster friend: “Yeah, I think Under byen is a better band than The Beatles.” Yuk.
slightly OT: I no longer try to deny the influence Radiohead had on Muse (hell, Muse doesn’t even deny it), but I think it is a bit silly to refer to them as “Radiohead-lite”. Have you heard Muse? More like “Radiohead-heavy”…
Coldplay is pretty lite though…
Is that from Nathan Barley?
Yeah everybody check out Nathan Barley for a guide to the London hipster aka Shoreditch Twat.
Dublin seems to have loads of hipsters, unknown bands sell out in nanoseconds.
I think it was “Style Wankers” from the 11 O’Clock Show (?).
Well Jackson, yeah! In on the ground floor!
Hawkeye Pierce?!
I don’t think people use the term “Radiohead-lite” to necessarily mean that bands like Coldplay and Muse are sonically softer than Radiohead, just that these bands attempt to reach Radiohead levels of painstaking brilliance and fall quite a bit short of the bar.
Edit: I mean that in the sense that Coldplay and Muse, rather than incorporating the Radiohead influence into their own unique identity, at times sound as if they’re just trying to be Radiohead, but since they can’t pull if off it comes off like “Radiohead-lite”
I was part of the hardcore college-town hipster community for a good two years. I can tell you, in my experiendce you can like pretty much anything you want and still have “hipster cred”. Everyone has “guilty pleasures.” It’s actually more hip than not to have them. I know a lot of hipsters who like everything from Justin Timberlake to AC/DC, and really like them, not just like them “ironically.”
There was a time when she was awesome by association. Alas, no longer.
Radiohead fell from their levels of brilliance when they decided they were too cool to be just a guitar band. I think Muse has done a brilliant job of incorporating the Radiohead influence without sounding forced and becoming an awesome band in their own right.
I bet that over the last year, my most heavily played album is Maroon 5.
It’s nice to reach the age where you don’t give a shit what people think about what you listen to. That age should be about 8. For many of us, it’s not until late twenties. I know people who are over 40 who still can’t listen to a popular band for fear of being thought uncool. I feel sorry for them.
Too true. I hated being shoved into that crowd. I mentioned liking POE to a hipster and I got “ugh, she’s way to pop.” That was at the art school I went to where everyone aspired to their own levels of artsy irony and the designers hated the fine art-ers and the illustrators looked down on everyone else and the animators just did their thing in the computer labs and ignored everyone else.
After learning that it’s impossible to make friends, even casual friends, with that kind of holier-than-thou hipster mentality, I stopped caring.
Now I can happily admit to loving cheezy anime soundtrack music, sci-fi, and go to the Spice Girls reunion tour and have a blast.
Eff that crap.
I can’t believe someone going by the name Hoopy Frood didn’t throw in, “I’m so hip I can barely see over my pelvis.” (Assuming I didn’t mess up the quote.) It’s what I came in here to post, but it would look so much better coming from HF.
RR
more like Bruce Willis from 12 Monkeys
That’s why Starbucks has such an eclectic mix of music playing all the time.