Hipsters killed the radio star

Why I hate trendy people Reason #4: They have commandeered indie music and are corrupting it.

Indie music used to be an amalgamation of every kind of music that evaded a label. There was rap, there was rock, there was music for every kind of person who was done listening to music that made their ears bleed from the stupidity of it. Now where is indie music? In every 12 year olds favorite music section in the info part of their facebook profile. What could be the cause of this?

1. Sell-outs. Indie darling bands that quickly jumped to a bigger label as soon as their bills got too expensive. I think we all know who I'm talking about here...
2. Al Qaeda? Now, that's just silly.
3. TRENDY PEOPLE! They are at the root of all evil commercialization of music.

There used to be a place for poorly dressed, under appreciated, angry people to listen to the jams that got them through the drive home. The "low end of the dial", used to be reserved for students who had no other place to go, the people who were tired of the sugar coated, computer manufactured voices that corrupt the minds of young girls and give boys unrealistic expectations of those young, corrupted girls. This was the safe haven for anyone who just didn't care about where their music was classified. Then trendy people swooped in once again, stole that unidentifiable music and slapped another designer label on it. It was no longer that obscure band that you happened upon just by chance, it became "indie" and "alternative", and that label turned into more; elegantly disheveled by Marc Jacobs. Alterna-chic by Prada.

There went the once pure musical genius that was the unnamed, the special, the different from all the other mass produced kind of music. Now, indie is a genre on itunes. A special XM satellite radio station no longer restricted, or rather privileged, to the low end of the dial. Now indie is just another label to have purposefully sticking out of your button-down, "boyfriend" fitting, cardigan collar. Thank you trendy people. You have once again poisoned something so sweet and innocent as the nameless safe haven for musical outcasts. And all in the name of trying to be cool...