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@3ricsparrow Was introduced to many of these things against my will by millenial teachers
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honestly most millennial things I hear about now - stomp clap, epic whisky guys, quirk chungus humor, etc. - barely even existed to me and people I knew outside of like popular (mass marketed corporate) media, niche reddit communities, and youtube channels for children
Haydn, 🇵🇸@bilbosfootcomb
Anyone else 30-35 remember when we bemoaned that the previous decades all had a vibe except ours
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@BaudanzaJoseph ya that was just my experience. my point is we had the internet and everyone was into different stuff. I liked rap and early dubstep too, we also had a ton of metalheads and emo/scene kids, there were guys who only listened to lil wayne, and LOTS of ravers (psytrance was huge)
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@3ricsparrow Idk about your characterization of millenials either
IMO millenial music was rap or dubstep. Rap was split between those who liked modern stuff and white kids who would only listen to stuff from before pac and big died
And the only subculture beside normal was young drug addict
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@_uncoolniece same I remember hearing about them as this dark brooding depressing band so one night when I was feeling super down I went for a walk in the woods and put on the queen is dead for the first time and was met with fucking frankly Mr shankly lmao
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It’s not at this level but I remember when I first started listening to The Smiths being surprised at how 1. Jangly and 2. Funny the songs were, because that’s not how people talk about them at all
cowboy postbop@cowboy_postbop
are there other pieces of media with as wide a gap between its assumed vibe and its actual vibe as “Saturday Night Fever”?
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@3ricsparrow you graduating high school in 2011 makes you Gen Z, this is why you're getting confused.
1995 is the cusp.
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@MazzyMission @mickeyhynes there's a huge indie revival online that might even have a small local scene depending on where you live. obviously it's not exactly the same, it's more focused on electronic/hip hop stuff inspired by mid 00s indie (because kids can't afford to have bands now) but it's there.
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@mickeyhynes @3ricsparrow Yeah I'm currently revisiting that 2002-3 era atm, as my teenager has just started getting into bands. What a time that was. I do hope there's an indie revival, I feel so bad that there's no decent scene (that I'm aware of) for her to grow into
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@DarkseidIsNot sure I was 16 in 2009 and a lot of the newer stuff I was listening to was for people my around my age, but millennial music was also 2000s indie rock and emo. I'd much rather that represent millenials then the 2010s pop that was even more for younger ppl than stuff I listed
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@3ricsparrow they themselves may have been millennials but the audience they curated were 16-21 in 2013ish
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@etxekoandreamix not entirely sure what you're trying to say but if it's that you don't think you'll be remembered for Benson Boone because you were into niche stuff also then you're missing my point. correct me if I'm wrong though
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@3ricsparrow I agree with what you're saying, but it’s not entirely true, gen z was also part of niche internet subcultures, we were consuming what millennials were creating. In 2012 older gen z was just entering our teens and discovering our tastes...we were right there in those tumblr posts
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@DarkseidIsNot well I'm later but not quite cusp, but all the artists I was into were in their 20s when I was in highschool which makes them pretty solidly millenial
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@MazzyMission @mickeyhynes honestly you're lucky, millenial/gen x cuspers made like all the music that's cool now. early indie rock, emo and shoegaze revivals, skramz, a lot of underground rap - this is all the stuff most of my friends and I were into
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@mickeyhynes @3ricsparrow Yeah exactly, I was a 30-year old mother when these songs came out, they dont define my millenial youth at all
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@PNW_Shane and ya ik it's not all stomp clap in this video but really this whole era of pop music was extremely hipster-influenced. The rest of it - Geronimo, Happy, Thunder, Honey I'm Good - were kinda straight up hated outside of like frat parties, clubs, and your parents cars lol
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@PNW_Shane right but I feel like the hipster backlash predates a lot of this stuff and I have a hard time believing anyone who really hated hipsters was listening to stomp clap, which was basically a corporate attempt to market their interpretation of the hipster lifestyle to pop audiences
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@ringolos1111 I also had to look up like four songs in this video cuz I had never heard anyone talk about them or even heard the songs outside of tiktok clips lol
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@ringolos1111 yeah exactly, local natives, beirut, wolf parade, arcade fire, etc. but that was indie rock, totally different thing from anything in this video and way more of a real scene
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I was in the belly of the beast for this stuff and it was definitely not mass marketed or corporate at all. It was a genuine swing away from the youth culture of the late aughts.
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honestly most millennial things I hear about now - stomp clap, epic whisky guys, quirk chungus humor, etc. - barely even existed to me and people I knew outside of like popular (mass marketed corporate) media, niche reddit communities, and youtube channels for children
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@PNW_Shane like it would be like if gen z, who are is super into weird underground music and have probably the most diverse taste out of any generation before them due to sheer exposure, end up being remembered for only Benson Boone and Ice Spice
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@PNW_Shane yeah it was pop music which was massive and inescapable by design. I just don't like that a generation known for being pretentious hipsters who bragged about listening to music no one's ever heard of is being defined by the pop music gen x music executives tried to sell them
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@NicheSSBM ok don't even get me started on neon signs in restaurants/bars that say shit like "love me love tacos" and "fuck social media I'm dope in real life", those only avoid the hate they deserve because people can't resist taking pictures in front of them
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@hue444444 yeah hipsters were obviously the generation defining archetype, my friends and I included, but hipsters turned off their radios and looked for cooler music in record stores and online. this is all pop music that we wouldn't have been caught dead listening to unironically
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@3ricsparrow when you enter a hipster bar coming from the real world and you see what all the fucking furniture polish and wall-mounted antiques are about: a backdrop for selfies in suspenders, yearning for the anonymizing masculinity of icons such as mustache
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@3ricsparrow i cannot emphasize to you enough that 99% of the national songs from their first ~4 albums are about crying in your whiskey because your dick don't work. no stomps, no claps, no heys
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@dlwiest @3ricsparrow they're kind of more of a shuffle-feet cry
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