Limburger talks Music

linebaugh

linebaugh

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I think the 'made fun of for liking indie music my whole life' needs to be explored more.

When I was into 'indie' in highschool and early college I was considered hip and cultural.

And even now indie is still mostly what people our age listen to. Only place I see indie as a general concept ridiculed is here and a with few like minded personal friends.

Who was doing the bullying @suspended ?
 
sus

sus

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When I was in high school, everyone saw it as "hipster"—purposefully pretentious
When I was in college, everyone saw it as "basic"—like really bro, you haven't moved on
When I was in Dissensus, well, y'all know better than me
 
sus

sus

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Thanks linebaugh, it was, I felt sad, it really devalued something that had been so important to me. But it was OK, it also set me on a path of discovery—my music knowledge is so much broader, the genres I listen to so much more diverse. So in the long-run it was productive trauma
 
linebaugh

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It was looked at as pretentious in highschool for me as well but once everyone caught up around junior and senior year I had enormous cache amongst my peers. Like the madman turned prophet in times of apocalypse
 
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linebaugh

linebaugh

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suspended said:
When I was in high school, everyone saw it as "hipster"—purposefully pretentious
When I was in college, everyone saw it as "basic"—like really bro, you haven't moved on
When I was in Dissensus, well, y'all know better than me
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Were people at NYU not into mac demarco or parquet courts? Or was that not considered indie?
 
sus

sus

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mvuent said:
what did these people you met in college think wasn't basic? please give me some idea so i can internally ridicule them
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They were typically either fans of Silver Jews and Young Marble Giants, or else hyperpop hyperpop hyperpop
 
sus

sus

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Uptown kids have an inferiority complex which drives them to be edgier than their downtown equivalents, basically
 
luka

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suspended said:
time makes the "status halo" of prestige slowly disappear, and avenues for appreciation that were not previously viable become viable. Preference falsification regimes lift because no one has a real stake anymore
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theres something in this and im interested in revaluations happen with the passing of time too but i think its more complicated than 'people stop pretending to be cool and admit -band x- were good all along. theres a whole host of other factors eg the way history develops subsequently and how the present conditions our perception of the past etc
 
sus

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luka said:
theres something in this and im interested in revaluations happen with the passing of time too but i think its more complicated than 'people stop pretending to be cool and admit -band x- were good all along. theres a whole host of other factors eg the way history develops subsequently and how the present conditions our perception of the past etc
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Well let's think about this through disco, the most obvious example

Or if you prefer, The Monkees
 
Leo

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most things I've come around to in retrospect are things I didn't fully understand, and thus appreciate, at the time. I sometimes dismissed a band, film, etc. at the time because I misunderstood it, thought it was trying to be one thing when in actuality it was about something else that I wasn't aware of.
 
linebaugh

linebaugh

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suspended said:
Well let's think about this through disco, the most obvious example

Or if you prefer, The Monkees
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Its hard to say when exactly both examples became cool but maybe the revival is as much to do with contemporary trend of poptimism and the hyper sincere exaltation of pop and consumerist culture as it is people giving up the cool act
 
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