oucheh wrote:same wrote:mattw wrote:I'm thinking of a guy who was at the Fucking Champs show who had an Interpol haircut- he kept walking around, showing off his ironic t-shirt and keeping his greasy hair neatly tucked behind his ear. Awwwww, but he was so cute...
this (and pretty much every other post in this thread) is a pretty good example of the pointless bitterness toward "hipsters" that i find probably more annoying than some guy or girl who dresses trendily. i've got some advice for you all: try not to be so shallow and live and let live. comparing what some drummer from x band wears compared to a random guy at a show and bitching about him without knowing the first thing about his personality is trite and presumptous. i'm sorry to come off as some high ground taking prick, but everybody has bad personality traits, from being prejuciced to accepting and employing fashion trends.
Amen. Salut Msr. Same.
-Jeremy
I mainly agree, and decided that any irritation on my part towards people openly trendy was a pointless and negative expenditure of energy. The only reason I'm inclined to disagree is not really music related, but...
I was in Hoxton a few months ago, at a performance and video projection evening which sounded pretty interesting. The event was at least 90% attended by "hipsters", who spent the entire evening ignoring any of the art on show, talking over it and distracting me from it. This actually turned out to be not such a bad thing, as the event was piss poor anyway. But it was the principle: even those people who had PRODUCED the videos were talking over theirs and others' work! It really did give the distinct impression of people putting on a social with some "clever" art in the background, just to show that they can be "clever". There was very little interest in the art itself. I found this very irritating.
But I'm aware that this was a one-off really.
Certainly in the UK, you have to weigh up the hipster "threat". "Hipsters", generally are easy to ignore, and should be ignored if they are likely to increase your blood pressure. I would still rather attend an event frequented by those who I would label "hipsters" than I would an event attended by aggressive chavs downing pints and starting fights. There is no contest. This type of primitive life-form consumes any positivity and pukes it out in a bilebeer scumthrust. Be thankful that a "hipstar" is too busy looking cool to get in your face like that.
Ha ha! "Hipstar". I like that typo, so I'm keeping it in.