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nothingwitty:
So I was driving home from school the other day. At a red light I pulled up right along side this "pimped out" civic with ultra-black, tinted windows. Inside the car was a skinny white kid blasting Ja Rule with his super-high bass . He, of course, was wearing his baggy urban uniform that was seven or eight times too big for him. You know, "Playaz 69" jersey, FUBU pants, backwards visor, etc.
Jeez, what a poor, misguided stereotype. Then I looked at myself.
I was wearing my four year old, paint covered vans, courds from the local thrift store, an ugly button-up shirt from the mid-90s. I was blasting The Decemberists in my shitty, 1991 Ford Tempo on my shitty, half-broken stero. I have that poorly cut, shaggy, tasseled haircut. I'm an English major. I'm an indie-kid.
Now, I always kind of joked around about it with my friends. I always knew I appreciated the delcious indie sounds... but this? I didn't ever want to think I was so easy to drop into a sub-culture just by someone looking at me. Crap, now what I do?
I mean, I could try to not be so stereotypical... but since it just kind of happened one day, and I never made the decision to be "an indie kid", wouldn't un-happening it make me a sell-out poser? Am I being true to myself by wearing ugly shirts because it's ironic, or is it impossible to be true to one's self if they fit so well into a Stereo Type.
These are questions that are rocking the very foundation of my being.
a pack of wolves:
Ironic clothing is lame. Sorry, but it just is.
But you should just wear what you're happy wearing. Why worry if someone can ascertain your musical tastes just by looking at you? People make various instantaneous judgements about you as soon as they see you. It's just the way our brains work, a means of quickly processing the vast amount of information the world constantly presents us with. So since you like indie, people are at least making a correct assumption and one I presume you're comfortable with.
rynne:
Learn from Raven: you are more than just the way you dress.
--- Quote from: nothingwitty ---Am I being true to myself by wearing ugly shirts because it's ironic, or is it impossible to be true to one's self if they fit so well into a Stereo Type.
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My first reaction is: isn't being "true" via irony impossible by definition?
But my second and more serious reaction is: why is being true to oneself necessarily incompatible with fitting into a stereotype? Indie-lovers' mannerisms started the stereotype; the stereotype did not start indie-lovers' mannerisms.
ASturge:
being an indie kid is better then being a 'playa'
muffy:
true, and the inherent snobbery that plagues indie kids as a whole is merely another part of our charm.
We ARE better than everyone else, simply because we try that much harder to emulate tramp chic and spend that many more hours in second hand stores hunting out the rarest of rare Stone Roses b-sides and Velvet Underground rarities, to prove how superior we are.
Embrace your superiority complex!
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