What makes music "indie"?

what makes music "indie"?

indie is short for indifferent which means it doesn't follow popular trends.

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Soyboy numales dressing up as hipsters and making whining songs about love or Trump.

skellys, beards, whiny low test voices, ukeleles, self awareness, etc...

being signed to a record label that specializes in indie music

you're a retard
Indie just means "independent label" So anything on an independent label.

scrawny white soyboys

No, no, no. Alternative is like music that bridges the gap between mainstream and independent/underground, that takes influences from both conventional and unconventional. Indie is purely separate from the mainstream; it doesn't set out to mimic mainstream trends. However, Indie music can get just as big as the mainstream, but still be indie at its core.

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>what makes music "indie"?
indie today just means they didn't have max martin write the songs for them.

Why?

a whiny bitch with an acoustic guitar

Kek

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The only requirement is being boring soyboy music that high test males could never relate to. This is why major label corporate shit rock like Imagine Dragons gets tagged as indie

But Imagine Dragons is indie (musically). They're quintessential indie pop; had they existed in the late 90s, I guarantee you they would be part of the Elephant 6.

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indie trash

Endlessly recycled indie tropes and soaked with smugness = indie music

fucking KEK

dumb ass everyone knows it's music made by indians