Sunday, March 29, 2009

Indie Pop

The term Indie pop bugs me. It's an oxymoron. Don't get me wrong I want good bands to get big and make lots of money and live rock star lifestyles there is no question about that but lately I wonder if we have lost track of the meaning of certain words. For instance the term indie rock is defined by wiki as "Indie rock is a genre of alternative rock that most notably exists in the independent underground music scene". So how come bands like the killers and Modest Mouse come up on the first page of the Myspace "Indie Genre" page? The very fact that, that is the wiki definition means that "we" defined it. So we define "the independent underground music scene" by what is played by Ryan "Fucking" Seacrest on his top 40 show? Underground Music Scene and Ryan Seacrest Top 40 don't seem to be phrases that belong together. So the Term Indie Pop for short or "Independent Popular" in it's entirety proves to me that we have no respect whatsoever for the terms that "we" coin.

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