Thursday, July 30, 2009
Music Another Person Thinks Hipsters Are The Worst, Isn't Good Enough at Writing to Explain Why
Posted by Mike Conklin on Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 4:47 PM
Sorry I haven't been posting in the past couple days. I've been sitting at my desk for 24 hours straight, eyes held open with tape, trying to figure out what in the name of christ Quietus writer Mimi Haddon is talking about in this bullshit article, Dirty Projectors & The Curse Of Brooklyn's Hipster Ephemera. Her point, allegedly, is that Dirty Projectors "stand for everything that's wrong with the hipster mentality." She finds them sexless, I've gathered, which I think a few members of each gender might take issue with. She thinks the line, "Is everything under the sun just a crazy, crazy dream" sums up the "indulgent apathy of swathes of youth," even though that doesn't make any sense. The problems are endless, really. In an attempt to explain how the Dirty Projectors example carries over into other Williamsburg bands, all she can come up with is Bear Hands, School of Seven Bells and, ooooh... er, Vampire Weekend?
Some day soon, people will stop writing these articles. There is a reason no smart person has ever tried to write one.
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First, I love how you criticize everyone else's writing. I'm honored just to be able to comment on yours.
Second, what is it with hipsters who need to search the web to find anti-hipster screeds, and then bash the writer.
If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck...
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Come out of the hipster closet and I'll agree you're the smartest dude this minute.
What's hilarious to me is that anti-hipster stance is really old-hat. Who wants to hear another writer bitch and moan about trucker hats, checked shirts and stovepipe jeans? It's been done and done and done. Anti-hipster screeds are a yawn-fest.
Hipster hating is kind of like gay bashing. Methinks the writer secretly wants to get f*cked by a sweaty drummer in a Bushwick loft.
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