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[Sabre]

hi, i'm gonna sound like a total tosser here, but what is an Indie and Emo and all those other stereotypes?

[Inlander]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!












EDIT: I'm sorry, I don't mean to sound like an arsehole and I know you're new and everything, but we've had this topic so many times before.

[neomang5]

Yes, you do sound like a total loser, but its ok, we all start somehwere...
*forgiven*
Emo is bad... very bad... Take livejournals, add bad overly fuzzy or pseudo-hardcore music, and add grease and tears. Its basically the whiniest form of music around, and has such a following nowadays becaose most people like to complain.
Indie is... Indie, Independant music. Basically musicians who havent "sold out." I personally think the idea is stupid, but the music can be pretty good. Indie can be many different kinds of music though, so a genre doesnt really define it well.

[movielife_girl]

whoa.  ::sensing:: alternate universe and/or possible sarscasm.  

Anyway...

1.  Emo
Genre of softcore punk music that integrates unenthusiastic melodramatic 17 year olds who dont smile, high pitched overwrought lyrics and inaudible guitar rifts with tight wool sweaters, tighter jeans, itchy scarfs (even in the summer), ripped chucks with favorite bands signature, black square rimmed glasses, and ebony greasy unwashed hair that is required to cover at least 3/5 ths of the face at an angle.

 1.  indie
The term: Short for independent rock. In terms of music it would be independent of major labels/mainstream stuff.

History: grew out from 60s garage, 70s punk, and 80s post punk it started in the mid 80s as alternative/college radio music. Once nirvana hit big the alternative genre split: the popular side was just alternative(Smashing Pumpkins, Hole, No Doubt, etc.) and the other half that wasn't mainstream(by choice or not) became indie rock(Pavement, Sebadoh, Built To Spill, etc).

Some bands have signed to major labels but are still considered indie(Modest Mouse, etc.). Go figure.

Sound: In the begining indie sounded like alternative(because it was) but it grew more experimental and weird. In Britain indie has more of a typical sound like Radiohead, Muse, etc. rather than a definition based on 'the scene.'

The scene: if you really think all indie kids do is try to be cooler than other people then... well.. you're mostly right. The main point is, don't take the scene and the whole hipster attitude seriously. No one does. And if you do, well, then I'm cooler than you.



Taken from http://www.urbandictionary.com.  Lovely.

[neomang5]

Actually belongs in Music
To hell with that, actually belongs in N00bville.

i forsee locking.
VERY soon
please god

[movielife_girl]

Well, if you think about it, the person who posted it apparently had no idea "emo and indie" had anything to do with music so...yea, this thread is better locked than moved.

[Sabre]

Thank you, for clearing that up for me

[SeanBateman]

annnd steal a post before the thread gets locked go!

[siobhan]

i should've known what kind of torture i was subjecting myself too when i opened this...