Indie is not a Genre

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• Itterashai

  "actually indie has involved into a genre as well." - no. it hasn't. It hasn't involved, but it has certainly evolved. Arctic Monkeys and the like are consistently labelled indie, even though they are as far from the original sentiment of the movement as you could get in 2008. Nowadays I'll grant you that you can talk about Indie the genre and indie as an abbreviation of independent, specifically referring to a label affiliation, anything less than than this is just hipster talk.

  March 2012

• aos16ie

  "actually indie has involved into a genre as well." - no. it hasn't.

  January 2012

• Holyto

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  December 2011

• Cordett

  damn plebs just listen from the master http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjWXen-Niqc

  December 2011

• brandonmjones

  Smo Queed

  October 2011

• milb0t

  You are all pretentious and I hate you

  August 2011

• Alejnu

  http://indieisnotagenre.blogspot.com/

  August 2011

• indie_demigod

  What an absurd group! Any ear can differentiate an "indie sound" from anything else nowadays although some don't know shit on how to do so. Alas, many dimwits tagged Katy Perry (the queen of generic pop) as indie. INDIE IN ITSELF IS STARTING TO BECOME A STYLE OF MUSIC, WHICH COMPLETELY DEFEATS THE LITERAL MEANING OF INDIE/BEING SIGNED IN AN INDEPENDENT LABEL. A LOT OF BANDS RIGHT NOW ARE STARTING TO DESCRIBE THEMSELVES AS HAVING AN "INDIE" SOUND AND THEN DESCRIBED MY FOOT IN THEIR BALLS AS "PAINFUL". UNDERSTANDING "INDIE" AIN'T ROCKET SCIENCE AND IT'S NOT FOR HIPSTERS ONLY!

  August 2011

• MarioYoho

  you can't play indie music you can BE an indie band but... it's not a genre

  July 2011

• hotterthanjuly

  Actually, Arcade Fire has always been independent. And at this point, so is Radiohead...

  July 2011

• SupahShadow

  Indie is a good way to group boring, shitty psuedodeep music. There are some exceptions, of course.

  April 2011

• mistersirband

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  March 2011

• Volt-Age

  For instance, Patrick Watson and Belle & Sebastian are both top-tagged as "indie" when in fact they sound nothing like each other.

  February 2011

• Ljercina

  i'm sure it's only a matter of time before bands like queens of the stone get the fucking indie tagg too. -.- nothing is sacred anymore.

  February 2011

• dUMB_Maslacak

  http://metamathics.org/denny/fuck_this_shit.jpeg

  February 2011

• FormaldehydeKAT

  and btw radiohead and arcade fire certainly aren't INDEPENDENT ARTISTS which is where the name indie stem from dumbshits

  February 2011

• FormaldehydeKAT

  you guys saying indie is a genre below are wrong, please leave this group

  February 2011

• Biz__

  My opinions: Indie Rock, Indie Pop, etc are...somewhat valid...although I think there are always better tags to use. Through time the words have evolved to actually describe a certain sound, though it's still pretty un-specific. Indie on it's own is an awful tag and should die in a fire.

  October 2010

• occer

  actually indie has involved into a genre as well. [2] It has pretty distinctive traits, I'd prefer to call something indie pop or indie rock but there's no problem with calling something indie.

  September 2010

• straylight88

  "I did a speech on it this semester. " well, that changes everything

  August 2010