Indiescreet

higginst:

prettylittleviolet:

takewarning:

vaporeon:

ciccone-youth:

Just because you do the following things,

• Decided you like The Smiths since you saw 500 Days of Summer
• Started wearing jeans tighter than your sisters
• Shaved half of your long hair off and invested in Wayfarers
• Bought tickets to every music festival you know of to update your status live from the event
• Take obscure and shitty photos with overpriced cameras you can’t even work
• Listen to Triple J as of six months ago
• Watched Control and decided you love Joy Division
• Own a vintage Bowie shirt you actually stole from an uncle but cant name one record
• Still think MGMT fall into ‘indie’ even though they’re signed to a label.
• Call yourself post modern, even though we’re living in a digital age where everything is conceptual and really considered post-post-modernism you stupid fucking cunt.

This does not make you ‘indie’.. This makes you just another fucking clone making a fuckery out of culture.

Fuck, now I know how the emo kids felt when their genre was completely taken out from underground and exploited for bubblegum.

All hair cut and no soul. Fuck, right, off.

This applies to one too many people i know. ugh. fakes.

i kid you not i once quizzed someone on the meaning of indie and she said ” umm it stands for indian right?”    LOL!

The person who originally posted this is a douchebag who clearly has some anger management issues.  Sure some of what is written here is true but most of it is a blatant overreaction.  What the fucking fuck is post-post-modernism?  Don’t go pretending like you understand that shit enough to be transcending it now.

Just because you name your tumblr after a SY side project does not make you indie.

God I hate indie kids.  And the “real” ones are even more annoying than the fakes.  I hate you, I hate you, I hate you all.  If you identify as an “indie kid” then I fucking hate you.  Got a problem with it?  I don’t give a shit.

“Pitchfork: The Contra album cover is really striking— what’s the story behind it?

Ezra Koenig: The picture is an actual candid document of a person in New York City in 1983— those are the clothes that she was wearing and how she did her hair that day. We didn’t hire one of our friends to throw on a vintage Polo shirt or anything.

Pitchfork: Her expression is intriguingly blank— it almost looks like she’s frightened by something behind the camera. What was your initial take on her overall vibe when you saw it?

EK: The first expression that I read into her was some sort of hesitation. We had a lot of discussions trying to figure out how old this person was when the picture was taken— she could be 15 or 27. The ambiguity of her age and expression made me feel like she was on the cusp of something, which really matches the vibe of the new album. Because you see people in their 50s with a family and children, and they can have a look of self-assuredness. But people between 13 and 30— the age range seems to grow every year— don’t have that sort of stability. Sometimes it comes across in the way that you carry yourself. Wrapped up in her expression is this question: “How is she feeling?” Maybe she wasn’t even really sure at the time.

Pitchfork: Who is she?

EK: I don’t want to give away all the details about the photo just yet, but I learned that she’s now living in Malibu.”

http://pitchfork.com/news/36671-vampire-weekends-ezra-koenig-talks-new-album-confronts-the-haters/