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soulsmeetsbodys
indie used to mean independent. and i agree with deauthorized, the genre is mainstream.
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deauthorized
Yes "indie" is a genre now, even if it originally just meant "independent". And ironically, the genre is pretty mainstream.
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Comfort_Eagle
yeah, bathory, best indie band i heart of xD many metal band would be "indie" if you take the original meaning, but this radio pop shit up there is nothing but borring music that makes some mainstream kids feel special^^
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SirAlecHendrix
3. let's not be fooled by a groups BRANDING (as say coldplay), listen carefully to an artist's music which mostly isn't homogenic at all but comprises different styles and genres. can a track be "indie"?? if you can tell me what the music is, i might believe you :-) otherwise you might stop using a tag that doesn't create a consistent musical experience but only for yourself :-)
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SirAlecHendrix
2. the problem is that musical reality is changing much faster than our conceptual thinking. originally, the term "independent" didn't refer to a genre but to a BUSINESS status of the artists (not signed to major record labels). this is not a musical definition. what did change that people consider "indie" as a MUSICAL genre now? twenty years ago, i could tell how "indie" sounded. reality changes, but words stick in our brains until we die ... for me it seems it's only an umbrella term (nothing wrong with that) holding a wide variety of mostly guitar-based rock groups losely together. and i feel you have to positively make a list of genres and styles that go under this term TODAY. someone's going to start?
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SirAlecHendrix
1. what's the point. different people use the same words for different things. particularly when the concept of the word is fuzzy and ill-defined, and there always will be disagreement. everything has to do with the individual's understanding of a concept, and this is subjective. this holds for genres as "vague concepts with no fixed boundaries" (wikipedia). a GENRE in MUSIC should help us DISTINGUISH different kinds of music. how is "indie" capable of doing that? please tell me. i won't argue that listening to "indie" tag radio would suggest that "indie" is NOT a genre because a human crowd is capable of going wrong ...
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Comfort_Eagle
if indie is a genre, i'll start taggin my stuff as nuclear blast, roadrunner rec, sony/bmg etc.....QQ
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Vakarimasen
some years ago i was sure that "indie" means slight traces of postpunk and new-wave sound which was popular in 80-s along with independent performers and bands. but now yeah it means nothing exept being popular in cool indie style. anyway do you know why lastfm was called "social music revolution"? because of all that stupid proletariat tagging with meaningless shit and thereby leveling true meanings of tags to homogenized stupidity
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CatalystDM
If you created a genre called '4,' Aphex Twin would be the godfather of that genre.
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InASafePlace
damn kids, please stop tagging "indie", it says nothing about the music. Same thing with "seen live"
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Joostie
How long does it take for people to understand 'indie' is not a genre? the only thing 'indie' means, is 'independent' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_music) Hence a very large part of all music can be called 'indie', because the label the artist is signed to is not a major (and thus independent) label. That includes stuff like metal, hip-hop, etc., not the music usually called 'indie'. Furthermore, much music called 'indie' is not listed to an independent record label at all, but to some huge label, like EMI, Sony BMG, etc. Mostly, when people refer to 'indie', they actually mean alternative rock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_rock)
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lozsofalon
indie bands are envious-of-alternative/rock crap trying-to-be-weird-but-not-suceeding bands
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JakeJustice
I liked the music that is tagged as "indie", but as a label itself indie is retarded. indie is mainstream now-a-days.
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