Sinister: Maybe I'm not Indie Enough

[Brett Smith]

Hmm...

Reading all the "indie" controversy I thought I'd throw my own hat into the
ring.

I thought the original post was pretty cool, and certinaly pretty perceptive

After all everyone (the InDiE hIPSter (tm) Mafia) knows that the genuine
InDiE hIPSter (tm)

1) Loves everything about The Strokes
2) Would't be seen in anything that hadn't come straight out of their
grandparents wardrobe
3) Buy acres of obscure vinyl
4) Hangs around pubs making a pint last all night
5) Makes a religion of slagging off the girl in the bar for her cookie
monster backpack

Oh well, I guess  the rest of us indie types will just have to cope with the
stigma of not even being alternatively cool

how terrible!!!!











----- Original Message -----
From: "jarkko frantila" <chamomile1 at xxx.com>
To: <sinister at missprint.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 12:59 PM
Subject: Sinister: People who call themselves indie are shite


> There, I've said it. There's been some talk about indie do's and dont's,
and
> I thought I'd contribute something to the list.
>
> All genres of music have their very own cliques. They think they are
better
> than other people. But lately I've started to think that indie hipsters
are
> maybe the worst of them all. Hand on your heart; Look into the mirror and
> say: "I do not sneer at people who dress like everyone else does." Were
you
> able to do that? Were you honest? Could you ever go out with someone who
> doesn't have the right hairdo, the right clothes, the right albums in
> his/her cd- collection?
>
> Most indiehipsters (well, maybe I could say "us", but more about that
later)
> aren't actually bad people in such, just... closeminded. There's some
> hipsters who are truly evil in their heart (hello), but there's rotten and
> deceptive people everywhere in the world. But not being able to understand
> that there can be people who don't really give a rat's ass about 7- inch
> singles, that's just... Example: If I should say here that i really don't
> care much about gay people, what would your reaction be? Anger? Think
about
> it: That's what the worst indiehipsters do. They don't care much about
those
> people who are into that "crappy, mainstream music", do they?
>
> As I write this, wearing faded, darkblue jeans, old Converse sneakers and
a
> B&S- t-shirt, I know I look like an indiekid (sic). But I don't think my
> clothes or my cd-collection makes me somehow better than other people.
Some
> people seem to think that wearing cardigans straight from the 70's is like
a
> secret handshake between indiers (nice word!). No, that's just the image
of
> yourself you give out to people. In my case, I just like the way they look
> on me. If someone feels like s/he knows me just because I wear the same
> clothes s/he does, two words for them: piss off.
>
> I am not a better person because I listen to music that doesn't sell well.
>
> I am not a better person because I wear these clothes.
>
> I am not better because I have this hair.
>
> I am not a better person than people who aren't a part of this list.
>
> -JF
>
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