Our generation, particularly this music subculture, doesn’t really like what we say we like. It’s fiction, complete with trite ideas and tastes, where people only pretend to be knowledgeable, well-rounded individuals so that others will accept them. Listen to this commercial from Above the Influence (an anti-drug campaign):
Now I don’t pretend to like indie rock or anything like that (.mov)
This sounds like some weird mashup between marketers who can’t target our generation and the ‘hipsters’ who jumped on the train in ‘05 only to jump off and point fingers when bands like Panic! at the Disco started embracing the image. Therefore they must know the ins and outs of the entire indie music realm. Their judgments are no worse than some pompous indie kid.
I don’t even smoke pot, but in some weird way I almost want to go get blown out and skateboard off the Capitol building’s steps and make fun of the squares in suits who don’t just pretend to be good politicians…they are good politicians.
