Album Rating: 2.0

Boredom too.

> Hating this record is played out

you cant have this opinion, someone else had it first !!!

Album Rating: 5.0

In the haters defense, loving this record is pretty played out too. The only trendy opinion to have here is to have not heard it at all.



Or to be the ultimate hipster and only listen to the Spanish alt-country version by Melbourne indie band Trouble Peach.

Album Rating: 5.0

Hipster is such a meaningless word. W/e, i be jammin.

> Hipster is such a meaningless word

it would be useful if people used it according to the definition

Album Rating: 5.0

The world would be such a boring place if people only used words stricly according to dictionary defintions.



But in the interests of not coming off as overly defensive, yeah hipster probably is a meaningless word. I only really use it to make it clear than I'm not one. Even though I totally am

i think its useful to have a word which generally describes people whose presented opinions are based more on social capital and what others think, rather than how they truly feel. examples, and since we're on this meme album to begin with:

1. some people who 4.5-5 this album just because music critics / walter melon / rym / p4k / etc opine that its one of the best indie albums ever - even though they themselves might not ACTUALLY get much out of it, when you get down to it

2. some people who 2 this album just because the former group has slowly but steadily snowballed over the years - even though they dont actually mind the music much

anyway that word does not need to be hipster. but initially, thats how hipster was used. at least as far as the places i hung out at were concerned..

Album Rating: 5.0

Easy

1. Bandwagoners

2. Dumbasses (my camp usually)



As far as "hipster" as a word goes, there's 500+ definitions up on Urbandictionary:

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Hipster

Good luck trying to find the oldest modern definition.

it goes beyond bandwagoning tho

like for some people, fronting a contrarian opinion regardless of how they really feel is basically ingrained into their personality

Hipsters are people that try too hard to be different (and genuinely do think that they're being different), by rejecting anything they deem to be too popular.
Ironically, so many other people also try too hard to be different that they all wind up being the exact same, so hipsters arent actually different at all, theyre just people that are snobbier and more annoying about their taste in "alternative" things, which are all popular now thanks to the other hipsters.
Hipsters pride themselves on liking things that no one else likes, and normally only really like them because they think no one else likes them and that theyre being unique. This is being delusional because all the other hipsters also like the same things.


this seems decent enough by my standards and its 2nd

Album Rating: 5.0

"1. some people who 4.5-5 this album just because music critics / walter melon / rym / p4k / etc opine that its one of the best indie albums ever - even though they themselves might not ACTUALLY get much out of it, when you get down to it"



Yeah but how many people are really doing that though. Not very many i would think. People just listen to what they like.

Hipsters are a subculture of American consumer for whom the idea behind the marketing holds more value than the product being marketed.

The attachment of certain words, phrases or ideas to a product (e.g.; counter-culture, independent or "indie", progressive, alternative or "alt", organic, holistic, "old-school", etc.) whether that product is music, fashion, technology, food, social media or real estate, is enough to connote to the hipster "authenticity" and value, regardless of whether there is any innate value to be found.

Ironically, the hipster perceives him/herself as the counterpoint to mass-culture and conformity when, in fact the ease with which hipster "culture" can be appropriated, repackaged and marketed makes them the ultimate conformists (e.g.; tattoos were once a sign of rebellion and a badge of one's outsider status, now over 40% of all Americans under 50 have a tattoo, essentially making them all members of the same tribe.)



this one is also decent and its 3rd

> eah but how many people are really doing that though. Not very many i would think.

i too would liek to think this but the internet has proven me wrong on many occasions, and hardly just in the realm of music !

Album Rating: 5.0

"Hipsters pride themselves on liking things that no one else likes"

I'm a hipster now, fellas. See y'all later.

"normally only really like them because they think no one else likes them and that theyre being unique"

Maybe not.

yea people actually do that its wild

Album Rating: 5.0

I tend to associate it with the image of a smug, bearded, twenty-something in plaid with a man-bun who lives in some cosmopolitan inner-city neighbourhood and spends his weekends running shitty art installations above pubs that only serve mountain goat and espresso martinis. But maybe it's unreasonable to expect everyone to get that...



I'm (mostly) joking there, but yeah, I actually tend to use it to make fun of that stereotype. It's not a very useful word if you're seriously trying to discuss anything imo

Album Rating: 5.0

I do feel a bit proud of myself after finding some obscure indie stuff though

not sure why that's painted to be a bad thing, but if that's the case, I'll take that shot and start looking the part of a hipster.

Anyone got any tips?

Album Rating: 5.0

@wildinferno I dont see the problem with those kinds of people, ive met plenty of them. Most are nice, some are lame. Same goes with people in general.



Edit: i mean, if we're taking out the "smug" part anyways.

Album Rating: 4.5

sandwich@ early beirut is very hipster I'd say, but also rules so check