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This sem, I really got into indie music, and it's so hard to like any other music after that. Firstly, contrary to popular belief, the indie scene is exploding with artistes. There is a lot of variety with regards to genre... so it's not as if indie is truly speaking a genre in and of itself. There is the usual rock, pop blablabla.
Oh, and like I said, once I started listening to indie, there was so much variety I pretty much no longer needed the radio or MTV telling me what I should or shouldn't like (HELLO, they have shit songs on repeat). Another thing about indie music is that its not meant for mass production, so the lyrics are more unique, meant less for mass consumption and more for personal fulfillment. I mean, no longer do I have to hear seventeen year old disney stars singing about how crappy and hypocritical hollywood is (Selena Gomez). Ironic much?
Bye bye love songs, talking about the same old jazz, oh and OMG bye bye hip hop, I can't stand hip hop songs, if they're not about sex then they're about booze which leads to sex. No more hippie bands singing about how we should all be nice to each other and squeezing in every cliched line that ever existed. That's not to say all pop songs suck, I mean, Britney is super catchy, but most of the music on the mainstream media is crap. Well, even Britney is, but you know, old habits.
Music makes me happy, even when I'm listening to a band that no else here has ever even heard of. Indie music FTW!
I recommend:
1. The Flaming Lips, their album At War with the Mystics
2. Fanfarlo
3. MGMT
4. Iron and Wine
5. Kings of Convenience
Ok, I could go on foreverrrr!