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What is Indie?
Tom:
I should have clarified that.
Firstly, by "one" I mean any entrepreneur and secondly, obscenely rich companies tend to end up succumbing to their greed and I can't justify feeding that.
ALoveSupreme:
--- Quote from: jimbunny on 06 Dec 2007, 06:08 ---I've always thought of adult contemporary as the more palatable side of (90s, in my mind) commercial pop music. Bands like Gin Blossoms, Better Than Ezra, Spin Doctors, Natalie Merchant. Maybe it's just nostalgia speaking, but what's so horrible there?
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I guess my point is that Indie, weather using the quantifiable definition of affiliation with non-major labels or not, is usually praised by fans and critics alike as being some kind of wondrous, completely visionary form of music. I believe that about 90% of the time it sounds exactly like extremely basic pop music.
There's absolutly nothing wrong there, and I do love many acts classified as indie for their genuine creativity and ability to create something completely different, and even some acts that just sound like pop-crap. I guess it's just a pet peeve of mine, and usually I'd just rather listen to something that I haven't heard a hundred times before.
ALoveSupreme:
I wish I had more time to read these boards so I could catch conversations like that one.
Patrick:
I thought the mods started locking "what is X Genre" threads like 3 months before I even registered for the boards. That was two and a half years ago.
--- Quote from: jimbunny on 06 Dec 2007, 06:08 ---I've always thought of adult contemporary as the more palatable side of (90s, in my mind) commercial pop music. Bands like Gin Blossoms, Better Than Ezra, Spin Doctors, Natalie Merchant. Maybe it's just nostalgia speaking, but what's so horrible there?
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Let's see here...
--- Quote from: jimbunny on 06 Dec 2007, 06:08 ---Gin Blossoms, Better Than Ezra, Spin Doctors, Natalie Merchant.
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Oh yeah, that. [/rude]
Jackie Blue:
--- Quote from: ALoveSupreme on 07 Dec 2007, 05:18 ---I guess my point is that Indie, weather using the quantifiable definition of affiliation with non-major labels or not, is usually praised by fans and critics alike as being some kind of wondrous, completely visionary form of music.
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People see what they want to see. You have a prejudice against what you perceive as an "indie" community. I think you'll find that fans and critics of all music, indie or otherwise, praise it as being wondrous and visionary. You just probably come into contact with a lot more "indie" fans than, say, metalheads or country enthusiasts.
For example, a friend of mine who writes for the New York Times and is a nerdy white-boy from way back who grew up on indie rock now goes batshit insane over Rihanna and T.I. as though they're the messiahs of a new revolution in sound.
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