The Music Elitist

Ohio indie rock band Lovedrug had an interesting post on their Myspace blog on Tuesday. Seems they don’t care too much for “hipster music”:

I can barely take it anymore. The amount of horseshit music out there on the internet and how the hipsters eat it up like it’s honey flavored oatmeal.
Hey guess what dude, my dead grandmother just started this crazy new folk/indie/electronic project that she totally recorded on garage band(you know, that computer program that plays the intruments for you so you don’t have to actually learn anything). Yeah man, she’s totally gonna be the next MGMT. So hip. So sweet. Totally boss… soooo bosss.

While I don’t really mind MGMT (in fact I like quite a few of their songs), I kind of agree with this guy (which ever member of Lovedrug this may be). When I first heard MGMT I was expecting to hear some amazing revolutionary music simply because of how some of my friends talked about them. When I heard their music I wasn’t necessarily disappointed, but I didn’t get the hype. Then again, most electronic music never really “moves” me that much anyways.

And yeah, whatever happened to people playing instruments? I must be getting old because it kind of scares me that playing instruments isn’t something a lot of these new “hipster” bands like to do. It’s usually just two DJ’s that might occasionally play a synth or if you’re lucky, a guitar.

I think my favorite thing about these hipsters is that they for some reason think that the music they listen to is so much more superior than anything else out there, when in reality a 12 year old could do the exact same thing if he had a Mac and Garage Band.