HIPSTER ROCK

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“Hipster” is a term co-opted for use as a meaningless pejorative in order to vaguely call someone else’s authenticity into question and, by extension, claim authenticity for yourself.
It serves no conversational function and imparts no information, save for indicating the opinions and preferences of the speaker.
Meanwhile, a market myth has sprung up around the term, as well as a cultural bogeyman consisting of elusive white 20-somethings who wear certain clothes (but no one will agree on what), listen to certain music (no one can agree on this either), and act a certain way (you’ve probably sensed the pattern on your own).
You can’t define what “that kind of behavior or fashion or lifestyle” actually is, nor will you ever be able to. That’s because you don’t use “hipster” to describe an actual group of people, but to describe a fictional stereotype that is an outlet for literally anything that annoys you.
The twist, of course, is that if it weren’t for your own insecurities, nothing that a “hipster” could do or wear would ever affect you emotionally. But you are insecure about your own authenticity - “Do I wear what I wear because I want to? Do I listen to my music because I truly like it? I’m certainly not like those filthy hipsters!” - so you project those feelings.
Suffice it to say, no one self-identifies as a hipster; the term is always applied to an Other, to separate the authentic Us from the inauthentic, “ironic” Them.

tl;dr: if you believe hipsters exist, you are a plebeian.

everything from radiohead to ratatat

>>73966553
t. triggered hipster

>>73966468
>dance-punk, gypsy punk, post-rock, garage punk, experimental rock, blackgaze

These were all big with college-age hipsters in the 2000s.
Said hipsters have grown up in the meantime and become greedy urbanite professionals. Now they snort coke while whining about Trump and listening to Young Thug and Beyonce.
This still does not prevent them from quietly petitioning against the development of public housing projects in the near vicinity of their hip gentrified neighborhoods.

>>73966553
where did you get this rare piero

>>73966633
You are too new to know where this comes from.

>>73966468

basically every pitchforkcore band from the late '90s-early '10s era.

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>>73966553
holy shit senpai. it all makes sense now.

>>73966660
I enjoyed this description

>>73966660
You live in Brooklyn as well, huh?

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>>73968767
I like Charles Mingus :(

>>73966468
Looking back at it all, was 2003-2008 really that bad?
We all complained about hipsters, but we didn't know what was coming next.

>>73966553
But it was CLT who came up with that copypasta.

>>73968801
What came next?
The 00s seem like a low point in music, but those were my middle school to early college years, so maybe I just saw them in a pessimistic light.