Dude, you're so fake.
Indie bands have been the rage for years, but don’t tell them that – they’re ‘indie’. The original idea behind indie rock was just as the name applies – independent, not of mainstream, not of record label. How many indie bands do you like? None! You don’t know any, they’re indie, they’re not known. Unless you want to count your buddy’s unsigned garage band that is the musical equivalent of a chinese woman behind the wheel of a car… you probably don’t know any legitimately “indie” groups.
Ok… the truth of course is that Indie Rock has come to mean something entirely different. You can go ahead and google the sh*t out of the term looking for some semblance of a definition but it is simply a genre of music with distorted and blurred boundaries which work out quite nicely for the “real fans” who are free to subjectively judge which artists have or haven’t sold out according to their unfounded, elitist point of view.
How do you know if you’ve run into an indie rock elitist?
1. You’ve just been informed that your favorite bands are all sell-outs and so fake.
2. It has come to your attention that you’re just a part of the corporate machine**
3. You’re enduring an argument about the legitimacy of Neitzschean nihilism from a guy in his late 20s who runs the soundboard for Mercury Lounge and supplements his income as a barista at a coffee shop in Williamsburg because Starbucks is just so fake.
4. “Dude, you’re so fake”
**This may also be a hippie, the differentiating factor would be whether or not they have showered.
Meanwhile, enjoy the link below as Zach Galifianakis interviews the “most indie rocker” of our time… in the form of Michael Showalter.
http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/05/galifianakis_showalter_strive.html
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