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I wrote a post a while back about stuff that hipsters like. Due to the popularity of the post, I think I will now try a sequel. I doubt this will turn in to a serial type thing, mostly because it gets kind of old.
Polaroid Film:
This is fairly obvious, check out most any hipster Flickr account, or photo/party blog and you should see a fair spread of poor to extremely poor pictures of friends, celebrities and animals with human clothing. The allure of polaroids is much like the allure of vinyl. Even though there is a much quicker and easier way to take pictures, there is something very cool about a polaroid. Polaroid has recently decided to stop producing the much coveted film stock, making the film much more expensive and elusive. Two things that hipsters seem to adore.
Dance Parties:
Dancing has always had it’s ups and downs, from it’s controversial beginnings to Rock and Roll, to Rave culture to whatever it is we have now. It’s been loved and hated, and probably everything in between. This is why it’s hard for hipsters to really get in to dancing. Depending on the venue, the “hipster stance” varies but commonly involves standing at the back of a venue and silently judging the situation with crossed arms.
Thankfully for those of us with some rhythm and the need to dance, hipster credible band “The Rapture” sung the song “Whoo! Alright-Yeah… Uh Huh”. This little tune declared “People don’t dance no more, they just stand ’round like this, they cross their arms and stare you down, and drink and moan and diss”. The Rapture got it right, even at the most opportune times hipsters and other concert goers alike had a very bad habit of bringing everyone down with their frowning.
The reasons for not dancing are plentiful, the music can be; Too Obvious, Too Ironic, Not Ironic Enough, Not Danceable, Just Plain Terrible. However the reason to dance are fairly limited when you think about the hipster scope. Luckily someone had the genius idea to throw a “Dance” party to let everyone know that simply crossing your arms and taking a mental tally of the DJ’s selection simply was not acceptable.
This also gives hipsters an excuse to listen to music that transcends the normal threshold of ironic listening. Depending on the DJ and his or her sense of humour, the selected tunes may range from the ironic, to the painfully ironic. To end this point, I was once an active thrower of dance parties. They are in my opinion much more fun than the “DRINK/PUKE/FIGHT” parties which can normally be found at Frat houses.
Mash Ups:
One of the hipster’s oldest pass times is musical one-up-manship. Activities such as “I saw them first”, “I have that obscure release in an obscure format”, and the ever popular “Six degrees of indie rock”. Now with the invention of such audio processing programs like Ableton Live, Reason, Logic and ProTools, there is now a new outlet for your music knowledge.
For all who don’t know, a mashup is usually a song derived solely from the elements of another. The first really famous mashup I can remember is “A Stroke of Genius”, which featured the Strokes instrumental from “Hard To Explain” with an A capella from Christina Aguilera’s Genie in a Bottle.
There is a real love/hate relationship amongst most music snobs, but that what music snobs do best. Now, at dance parties (see above) can not only dance to ironic music made even more ironic, but they can test their friend’s music knowledge. Thinking up songs to mash together isn’t the only fun part. You also have the pleasure of thinking of a witty pun or such nonsense for the title of the song.
Just look at them all…. http://hypem.com/search/mashup/1/
I’m sure that’s much more than you can handle. Have a nice day.
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