Now I'm not as big of a fan of Indie music genre as some of my friends, but I like several Indie bands. It's my understanding that Indie is short for independent artists, but my colleges inform me that it is much more than that, it's a "lifestyle". I've also been told "if you can't sing for shit and you're in a band, you're indie." I guess the indie that everyone else imagines is different than mine. What I think they think is indie is bands like Okay, that have very strange vocals and little dinky guitar riffs and clappy drums 'n stuff. I prefer good music, I mean, I don't know about everyone else but that's the kind of music I like. As long as it's good, I don't care if it's mainstream or from the dark, dark depths of the indie garage.
What I further cannot comprehend is there are mainstream bands that are indie. Pardon my French but what the fuck? How is Metric indie? They are signed, labeled, and playing shows at BFD (Live 105.3). And Radiohead, according to myspace the last time I looked, is the most popular indie band. What??? If that isn't an oxymoron I don't know what is. I'm probably just talking out of my ass here but does anyone else get what I'm saying? I feel like I'm on an island here.
Bands like Mike Falzone and the Peppermint Trick that are totally independent but have good vocals, and good guitar, and bass, drums, synth and whatever else I can totally listen to. But if you're listening to a really shitty indie band or "mainstream-indie" bands like Metric just to seem indie, then go jump off a cliff or rid the world of your stupidity in some other way. Remember, there's nothing wrong with good music, but don't listen to anything to appeal to a certain crowd, it just makes you look like an ass.
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