When was it that "Indie" stopped referring to Velvet Underground soundalikes and instead to soft rock bands for teenage girls?
When was it that "Indie" stopped referring to Velvet Underground soundalikes and instead to soft rock bands for teenage...
Nathaniel Howard
Michael Campbell
in the 90s when garbage like modest mouse or built to spill (derivative indie rock) came popular in college spaces
Asher Hall
it just kinda lost its edge around the 2000s when it became more radio adult contemporary oriented and shit like portugal the man, bon iver, cage the elephant, kings of leon got called indie
Chase Walker
What's the difference?
Oliver Young
your living all over me was the last good "indie" album. Everything since then has been utter shit
Joseph Taylor
how the fuck isn't this 'soft rock for teenage girls'
James Ramirez
FROM THE TOP OF THE OCEAN
Christopher Sanders
Bug was hardly a step down from YLAOM though
Adrian Bailey
around the same time "folk" became synonymous with "the same old four chords but on an acoustic guitar"
James Edwards
Unironically it started with Mac Demarco
Bentley Nelson
nah it was before that with some of the soft mom rock bs in the late 2000s
Parker Roberts
No, he came about after it, I'm sure of it, not that he isn't something of a symptom of the problem and an instigator of a certain type of bland "indeh" music
Kayden Ramirez
beat happening
Camden Thompson
bell and sebastian
Brayden Stewart
the decemberists
Aiden Lewis
Certainly a distant precursor, but they still had a rawness and "indieness" to their sound. If I was to point to the turning point from that and now it would probably be Belle and Sebastian, but even then that's a far cry from shit like the 1975.
Gabriel King
You could argue The Strokes, Arcade Fire, or Arctic Monkeys
Jaxson Powell
indie is not a genre
Benjamin Adams
YEAAHHHEEAAHHH
Evan Cox
I would say ed sheeran was certainly a major step in that process
Thomas Sanders
They both suck ass, so I can see the confusion.
Brandon Perez
So do diarrhea and choking but you don't want to mix them
David Martin
have a (You) because nothing else in your fucking life matters
Levi Nelson
Nothing has changed
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Jack Brooks
fpbp
David Jackson
my friend and i make indie music soundcloud.com
Austin Taylor
he's right though
listen to this shit
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Henry White
I'm glad it stopped being such a ubiquitous term for any rock music that was played on NPR.
Being in college during peak "indie" was hell.
The "indie is my favorite genre" is finally dead.