Bad News Indie Rock Kids
Driving home 3 nights ago (i'm driving parents car seeing as i have no money to replate my car) i was listening to c95 and thinking about how the world is so different than i remember it yesterday, when suddenly wabaham! c95 was playing Broken Social Scene! i don't even know how to comprehend the many thoughts i had driving home listening to broken social scene on c95.
c95 for those that do not know is the mainstream garbage radio station that plays black eyed peas, madonna, nickelback, theory of a deadman and etc... on repeat. Rawlco (the company that owns c95) is responsible for killing the minds of all the men-i-knights in saskatoon. it is basically the anti-christ to all indie rock kids.
Broken Social Scene for those that do not know, is pretty much the definition of indie rock, some of the songs are purposely as melodacious as possible to sound as different and unique as possible. it is so indie rock that the people in the bands have other main bands that they spend their time usually focusing on while this band (BSS) is their artful kind of different band.
What this means is that indie rock is no longer independent rock, it is mainstream baby! it is popular.
hell my dad went to a trip to regina and all he had in the car were my cds, and he came back a lover of mars volta, the future heads, and is now downloading indie rock music like crazy. anything he can find.
this is the same guy who embarassed me to no end when he picked me up from kickboxing while all the guys are standing outside smoking or whatnot, and my dad pulls up in a convertable blaring backstreet boys " i want it that way"...
he likes the backstreet boys!
and thus the problem. indie rock was loved by indie rock kids because it was mainly a cry out to be different, perhaps even orginal, but all that is now in the past.
indie rock is mainstream.
c95 for those that do not know is the mainstream garbage radio station that plays black eyed peas, madonna, nickelback, theory of a deadman and etc... on repeat. Rawlco (the company that owns c95) is responsible for killing the minds of all the men-i-knights in saskatoon. it is basically the anti-christ to all indie rock kids.
Broken Social Scene for those that do not know, is pretty much the definition of indie rock, some of the songs are purposely as melodacious as possible to sound as different and unique as possible. it is so indie rock that the people in the bands have other main bands that they spend their time usually focusing on while this band (BSS) is their artful kind of different band.
What this means is that indie rock is no longer independent rock, it is mainstream baby! it is popular.
hell my dad went to a trip to regina and all he had in the car were my cds, and he came back a lover of mars volta, the future heads, and is now downloading indie rock music like crazy. anything he can find.
this is the same guy who embarassed me to no end when he picked me up from kickboxing while all the guys are standing outside smoking or whatnot, and my dad pulls up in a convertable blaring backstreet boys " i want it that way"...
he likes the backstreet boys!
and thus the problem. indie rock was loved by indie rock kids because it was mainly a cry out to be different, perhaps even orginal, but all that is now in the past.
indie rock is mainstream.
posted by Doc at
5:10 PM
5 Comments:
meh, i like indie rock that isn't crappy
the term indie is so polluted anyway
because BSS is still on Arts and Crafts, which is an independent label, they are still Indie
same shit with Arcade Fire. Much Music/C95 is so out of it that eventually anywhere from 1-5 years after a band is popular they get wind of it and think they are doing something worthwhile
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joe, at 6:01 PM
Indie rock, for the most part (there is some okay stuff out there), is crap anyway, its about time the radio destroyed it.
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Clifford, at 7:23 AM
I'm not saying my music is better than indie music (although clearly I think so, otherwise i wouldn't listen to my kind of music) I'm just saying that indie rock is way overated by the people who listen to it.
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Clifford, at 11:40 PM
i listen to indie rock and i don't think i over-rate it
too many blanket statements in this post
DOWN WITH GENERALITIES!
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joe, at 10:27 AM
you know that if rawlco has gotten their hands on this that means that it has been mainstream for a while. Rawlco is not exactly ever with the times, they are usually flirting with the edge of shittyness all the time. This since they never pick up on good singles until they have already started coming down the charts, at which time im sick of the song, and to boot they will play it 24-7 resulting in me disliking the song even more.
So if they started playing it last week that means that its been mainstream for a while.
LDUB
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Anonymous, at 2:58 PM
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