Comments | junolovesmars: Well, I don't know, I really don't think so

junolovesmars

Well, I don't know, I really don't think so

Feb 16, 2010 11:25

I know it's a tad late to be ranting about this but I'm officially irritated with the claim that "indie" is a genre. As far as I know "indie" = independent, right? The kind of music your band makes should not be considered " indie" solely based on what you sound like. Maybe I don't have all the pieces to make complete sense over all of this but ( Read more... )

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junolovesmars February 16 2010, 21:43:10 UTC

We never lose, never really.

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junolovesmars February 16 2010, 21:41:48 UTC

That is the part that bothers me.

earths_citizen February 17 2010, 05:17:34 UTC

indie has ALWAYS been independent from a label to me. Yeah, it really pisses me off when people say indie style. I don't really know what this 'movement' means, but just because some people started off as indie and become major, doesn't mean they get to keep the genre. One or the other, not both. I prefer the term 'scenester', because these people deserve to be icons in the mindless fashion they praise: fitting in. The golden flag of indie they praise makes less and less sense with each passing fad they feel obliged to enslave themselves too. I'm sorry kiddies, I eat.

junolovesmars February 17 2010, 21:51:14 UTC

This times a thousand!

tendo64 February 21 2010, 13:30:11 UTC

That's life. Someone used the term, it became a point of reference, and the general "sound" of "indie" shall forever be known as indie.

It's like if you live in the middle of nowhere, next to a McDonalds (or in my case, the almost unnoticeable street right past a big blue building). If you want anyone to know where you live, you reference that. You can't just say "I live at 123 Alphabet Lane in Exacto, Preciseland" (aka saying you have a unique/new sound). You tell your friends you live next to the McDonalds, you tell the pizza delivery guy, the 911 operator, the limo driver on prom night. Eventually everyone hears your name and thinks McDonalds. You can try to tell people you live down the street from the Indie Music Store, but people will still think you live next to McDonalds. There's no escape once [enough of] society gets the memo.

Then you get neighbors that "live next to Chadwick".