Preston, I have remained a silent reader/listener of your blog for over a year now. I think you have done an incredible job of keeping your finger on the pulse of some great music for those who don’t know where to find it.
That being said, I think the “hipster douchebag” song is the equivalent to the “kill disco” movement of the late seventies.
In both instances, you have some great music that comes out of the genre (disco & indie/emo/et al hipster). However, you also have a total douchebag “scene” that accompanies it. It’s unfortunate for the hipsters that their m.o. and their chosen bricolage wasn’t even that cool when it was happening the first time around (early 80’s). It is simply a re-hashed reactionary movement with no substantive goal that I pray will soon die.
Man all of that other stuff was just ugly and senseless but the bikes blocking up traffic? Ugh. Bikers get hit on my street every few months or so even though we have bike lanes, and I bet it’s mostly by people with attitudes like that. You can’t go a block downtown in Austin without seeing someone riding a bicycle. People who have the frame of mind that bikes are a nuisance should seriously be run out of where ever they live. I know Austin has bikers to thank in part for the fact that you can go to an outside venue in the middle of the city, look up, and see the stars.
I’m probably taking statement too much to heart, but seriously, if you’re going to hate on a group of people don’t do it because they’re enviromentally conscious.
Today is a new day. Hipsterdom is once again alive and well. As long as there are UGA fratboys with JFK combovers walking our streets, we will always have the need for rail-thin emo kids with murses. Keep on truckin, Faster Mustache. You have the right of way.
The Attrative Eighties Women are so AEWsome that they make panties fall off whenever they enter a room. They are true heroes of American Rock and Roll and they are our only American counterparts worthy of rocking with us at rock and roll clubs that rock like the shaking thighs of thunderous rock and roll fury!
OK… I guess I’ll jump back into this discussion at this point. Mainly, on the “kill disco” references.
By the time the kill disco movement had come about, disco had blown completely mainstream. Everyone… and I mean EVERYONE was on the disco kick. It had spread to virtually every corner of the mainstream population.
As far as the modern disco movement goes, we’re still quite a small sub-culture that is barely on the radar of mainstream society.
All this is is infighting in the same scene. It’s a song written by hipsters, for hipsters. How else would they have such keen insight into world of the hipster douchebags?
AEW play all the hipster bars… they’re part of the same scene. Oddly enough, the barb could have more appropriately gone after MJQ or Lenny’s… but AEW play these bars.
Personally, I think DSC is the least of the hipster hangouts. We’ve got way too much of a pop, electronic, mainstream appeal to be completely hipster.
Regardless, I got a genuine laugh out of it and am quite flattered that anyone would think enough of DSC and me to immortalize us in a song.
While I have not heard the song, I will say that there is nothing I, currently, hate more than a bunch of skinny jean wearing, penis-wheel bike riding, murse carrying hipster fucks. I double dog dare you to ride your brake-less bike in front of my enivironmentally damaging big-as-fuck SUV. I will run you right the fuck over or at least push you so close to the curb that you inevitably run off the road or start crying in fear. Oh, and I live in cabbagetown, which is where a lot of these types live, so feel free to come and pay me a visit. I’ll run over your ass too.
Preston, I have remained a silent reader/listener of your blog for over a year now. I think you have done an incredible job of keeping your finger on the pulse of some great music for those who don’t know where to find it.
That being said, I think the “hipster douchebag” song is the equivalent to the “kill disco” movement of the late seventies.
In both instances, you have some great music that comes out of the genre (disco & indie/emo/et al hipster). However, you also have a total douchebag “scene” that accompanies it. It’s unfortunate for the hipsters that their m.o. and their chosen bricolage wasn’t even that cool when it was happening the first time around (early 80’s). It is simply a re-hashed reactionary movement with no substantive goal that I pray will soon die.
Preston, “Hipster is dead. Long live Hispster”
Man all of that other stuff was just ugly and senseless but the bikes blocking up traffic? Ugh. Bikers get hit on my street every few months or so even though we have bike lanes, and I bet it’s mostly by people with attitudes like that. You can’t go a block downtown in Austin without seeing someone riding a bicycle. People who have the frame of mind that bikes are a nuisance should seriously be run out of where ever they live. I know Austin has bikers to thank in part for the fact that you can go to an outside venue in the middle of the city, look up, and see the stars.
I’m probably taking statement too much to heart, but seriously, if you’re going to hate on a group of people don’t do it because they’re enviromentally conscious.
HUMMERZ FOR LIFE.
Today is a new day. Hipsterdom is once again alive and well. As long as there are UGA fratboys with JFK combovers walking our streets, we will always have the need for rail-thin emo kids with murses. Keep on truckin, Faster Mustache. You have the right of way.
The Attrative Eighties Women are so AEWsome that they make panties fall off whenever they enter a room. They are true heroes of American Rock and Roll and they are our only American counterparts worthy of rocking with us at rock and roll clubs that rock like the shaking thighs of thunderous rock and roll fury!
Goodbye, silly American hipster douche bags.
Long live AEW!
Sven Rocketcock
Stockholm
OK… I guess I’ll jump back into this discussion at this point. Mainly, on the “kill disco” references.
By the time the kill disco movement had come about, disco had blown completely mainstream. Everyone… and I mean EVERYONE was on the disco kick. It had spread to virtually every corner of the mainstream population.
As far as the modern disco movement goes, we’re still quite a small sub-culture that is barely on the radar of mainstream society.
All this is is infighting in the same scene. It’s a song written by hipsters, for hipsters. How else would they have such keen insight into world of the hipster douchebags?
AEW play all the hipster bars… they’re part of the same scene. Oddly enough, the barb could have more appropriately gone after MJQ or Lenny’s… but AEW play these bars.
Personally, I think DSC is the least of the hipster hangouts. We’ve got way too much of a pop, electronic, mainstream appeal to be completely hipster.
Regardless, I got a genuine laugh out of it and am quite flattered that anyone would think enough of DSC and me to immortalize us in a song.
Been offline a few days, so first I’ve heard of this. Amusing, but I imagine only about half of it means anything to people out of town.
Way to get name-checked, Preston.
I like Electronic music a real lot.
Glad you guys got a kick out of it!
xoxo
phoebe cates
Attractive Eighties Women are the greatest thing to happen to music in the last 20 years.
While I have not heard the song, I will say that there is nothing I, currently, hate more than a bunch of skinny jean wearing, penis-wheel bike riding, murse carrying hipster fucks. I double dog dare you to ride your brake-less bike in front of my enivironmentally damaging big-as-fuck SUV. I will run you right the fuck over or at least push you so close to the curb that you inevitably run off the road or start crying in fear. Oh, and I live in cabbagetown, which is where a lot of these types live, so feel free to come and pay me a visit. I’ll run over your ass too.
-writing in Bush for ‘08