Sinister: Hello Misery, and how it is hard to define some things

[Chris Paluch]

Ok,
This twee definition is amusing because this is the
third time i heard this argument.
Twee is about being dreamful and poetic, with an added
touch of unrequited love and misery, and sorta cute. 
It means being hopelessly shy, and well sentimental,
but not towards things, but towards memories,
relationships, etc.  Photographs and souvineers
usually avoided, since true sentiments come from the
heart.  Songs though twee people are extremely
sentimental about, thus vast record collections. 
Belle and sebastian are not a strictly twee, band, but
they do have alot of twee songs.  But most strictly
twee bands do not write songs like a century of
fakers.  But twee tends to have its serious moments, 
and a search for meaning that is well, perfectly
human.  Twee is all about well being yourself. 
Sheesh, i cannot really defne it, maybe if you read
the Little prince one   more time you would
understand.  Maybe twee is all about the beauty of
life, and how simplicity may just be best.  Definition
is not always the best thing.  Twee is probably all
about being nice, and not worrying about other
differances, but i could be wrong.  Basically everyone
has a bit of twee in them, I think so at least. 

If it was just about bunny slippers, cardigans, and
pretty days, well that would be cuddle core.

 As far as Belle and Sebastian being refered to as
twee, well it is pretty inacurate, they have twee
songs, but no twee band would produce something as
adult as IYFS.

Chris

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