This is (another) new section of my blog which i will probably not do again but what the hell:
It's called "So what's annoying me today?"
Well two words: Alternative and Indie.
I'm going to spell out the facts and everyone who disagrees is simply wrong.
Alternative is not the word you give a band/track that is 'cool'. Alternative is a type of music that becomes popular fast, but is not the accepted popular music type of the time. Therefore, that type of music cannot be 'alternative' for long because it becomes popular
For example; Grunge was alternative for a while until it became popular and then it was simply grunge.
The interesting thing for me is that if you look back in time, music that was truly alternative at the time is always alternative. An example is Placebo in 1998, that music was alternative at the time and still is, but bands that got on the band wagon of that particular brand of punk (post post punk, yes i meant to write post twice, glam punk whatever) did not release alternative music.
Indie music is not a fucking genre. It is just a 'cool' way of saying the band is releasing their music through an indie-pendant (see what i did there.....) label, not a major label. So if you call your music Indie, good for you, you're not actually saying anything descriptive at all.... bully for you....
Now fuck this, i'm off.
There are heaps of "genre's" like this. There are independent rock, blues, metal and all sorts of labels, but the bands on those labels are accurately "rock", "blues", "metal" etc. "Indie" is another word for hipster-bullshit, so in a way it's like the Croc's of the music world. It's only use is to tell smart folk like you and I that the music is bullshit and best avoided. When it becomes real music it will be duly given a real genre. Call me when Bon Iver goes electric.
ReplyDeleteBon Iver has won the Grammy for best new artist, and the Twitterverse wants to know: Who the heck is Bon Iver?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m9V7a_-DzU
yeah I have both their albums. The first one is ok for the right mood, the second one is exactly the same so therefore unnecessary.
ReplyDeleteOK, I should probably borrow that album. I am working on a massive rant about modern alternative music and it would be interesting listening.
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