"...both categories: both mainstream, populist indie records and weirder, rowdier sounds. Most of the time, those things have gone together really well; the sense has been that the average "indie" listener would like a bit of both, some pop records to sing along to and some stranger ones to be wowed by, plus plenty in between. That's probably still true of most of you! But now, more than ever, there's also this tension between the two, and a feeling of sides-taking."
I really hate using the term 'indie' (it's as appropriate a genre name as 'alternative' was in the 90's.) but I wholeheartedly agree with what Abebe wrote- people seem to be into music either for the push of the envelope or for something that sounds nice. I'd like to think I swing between these in a nice balance but hey, who knows. It's definitely something to think about.
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Good read. I hate it when people tend to use it as a genre, you know "it sounds like indie", but it really is something that says something about your label (not major). So indie hiphop, indie noise and indie rock, don't really sound the same, but their all indie because of a small label. People nowadays tend to react like "sounds like indie" just because it sounds odd to them, pretentious of hipster.
Btw im from hipsterfork blog, hi ;)
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