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I don't think I've even heard the term 'hipster' in a decade. It's weird how it died off. There are threads on here discussing them the way people discuss the Iraq War.
 

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Something like Nathan Barley feels hopelessly antiquated to me now because nobody cares enough to be that angry about it anymore.
 

luka

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Matthew Ingram says he was the inspiration for Nathan Barley. It's on his CV. That's not a joke, it's literally on his CV.
 

version

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I guess there's the craft-beer-and-beard contingent people moan about, but I don't sense quite the same venom there.
 
was it just middle class? the hipster anxiety was a collective realisation of the impossibility of authenticity projected onto / channelled through one group
 

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I remember a bunch of hipster bands with hipster fans writing songs about hipsters as though they weren't hipsters themselves.
 

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luka

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was it just middle class? the hipster anxiety was a collective realisation of the impossibility of authenticity projected onto / channelled through one group

Quite a lot of different things were grouped under that label. I think being middle class was intrinsic to it though. It was the first time in history
there's ever been a middle class youth movement.
 

linebaugh

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I don't think I've even heard the term 'hipster' in a decade. It's weird how it died off. There are threads on here discussing them the way people discuss the Iraq War.
I still hear hipster quite a bit. It's devolved to mean anyone that has interests
 

josef k has it right on this thread. the projected self hatred bit. we are all hipsters, that bit. and that's how its played out in the last decade
 

grave

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I remember a bunch of hipster bands with hipster fans writing songs about hipsters as though they weren't hipsters themselves.

That's pretty much what Vice was.

I always thought of hipsters as a distinctly American thing until the 00s. Beastie Boys being the first and then bands like Royal Trux. Electroclash (+ Vice/Pitchfork) felt like the moment it took root in the UK.
 

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The main things I think of when I hear the term are "nu-rave" and people like Noel Fielding going on about Shoreditch and Camden in 2007.
 

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64. Coil, The Hills Are Alive

Sleazy and Balance cruising the metropolis in Matrix gear like a couple of cyberpunk detectives.

I'm not as into Coil, or anything to do with TG, as I used to be, but they're probably the group I rate most highly from that whole thing and I still go back to this one and some of the stuff off LSD, The Ape of Naples and The New Backwards from time to time.

 
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