Photo via Brooklyn Vegan
I was looking at this picture of a Dan Deacon concert, and it was kinda weird. I expected a bunch of entry-level altbros and female alts in headbands to be in the crowd. However, I feel like his audience has sort of weeded itself out. In this picture you will notice that every bro has one of the following physical traits:
- a beard
- glasses
- balding
I guess in a way, every1 wants to ‘look like their favourite musician.’ If it is a tween girl wanting to look like Hannah Montana, or a bro wanting to look like Dan Deacon, there is a certain ‘kewl’ aesthetic that surrounds a famous person. Think it’s pretty interesting how no ‘entry level girls’ are at the front, maybe cuz the guys in the front might ‘too mature’/'creppy’/'not their idea of a guy 2 randomly make out with at a Dan Deacon Concert.’
The audience is full of ‘getting older’ bros who ‘actually like Dan Deacon’s music. I’m not sure if I like his music. I don’t think it is ‘electro’ even though it is made with electronic instruments. From what I have read, he has a new album out, but I think it probably sounds like his old albums, and that means it is ‘pretty whatever.’
Maybe I should see him live, because I hear he puts on a conceptual show, but it seems like it would be some sort of sausagefest without any twinks, and I’m not sure if that’s ‘really my scene.’ Also wish he’d perform on stage so that people could see him. Think he is ‘trying to be artsy’ or something, but he probs needs to ’sell out’ and hire a female singer or something who is ‘hella sexy.’
Previous funnie Dan Deacon meme with a fatbro in the background
http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/2008/08/save-america-end-obesity.html
Do yall like Dan Deacon, or do you think you would have naively been more into him if u could travel back in time to the year 2002?
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//////////Reply by Yeah Right Radio
//////////Posted March 31st, 2009 at 10:27 pm
That fat dude in the last picture was at the 2008 Popped! festival in Philadelphia. I took so many pictures of him. That guy definitely whipped his wiener out a couple times during Dan Deacon’s set. It was gross but oddly enticing.
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//////////Reply by HOMOSAPIEN_FUCK
//////////Posted March 31st, 2009 at 11:49 pm
@Yeah Right Radio, That’s great you little fucking piece of shit
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//////////Reply by fuzzyduck
//////////Posted April 1st, 2009 at 11:08 am
@Yeah Right Radio, I took that actual picture. Carles needs to warn me if he’s going to repost it again so i can get my blog in order.
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I read about this blog on pitchfork and thought I’d check it out
you seem racist and have bad taste in music
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//////////Reply by Anonymous
//////////Posted March 31st, 2009 at 6:33 pm
@joelp, like the honesty, but no sense of humor? race is 23rd on list of culturally important topics on hRO
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//////////Reply by bubs
//////////Posted March 31st, 2009 at 6:37 pm
@joelp, unless he’s asian. I wonder how he feels about “taste.” Is taste alt?
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//////////Reply by dax jax
//////////Posted April 1st, 2009 at 12:56 pm
@bubs, Is fat alt?
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//////////Reply by corydan
//////////Posted April 2nd, 2009 at 2:49 pm
@bubs, no
//////////Reply by tripler
//////////Posted March 31st, 2009 at 7:48 pm
@joelp, i think the anco bros ‘invented taste’ in 2k9 on their ‘oldie but goodie’ album MPP. used 2 b alt. miss u ‘taste’
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//////////Reply by joelp
//////////Posted March 31st, 2009 at 11:50 pm
@tripler, lol @ the hro fanbois not even getting it
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//////////Reply by david davidson
//////////Posted April 1st, 2009 at 5:28 am
@joelp, agreed
trolled hard
//////////Reply by Anony
//////////Posted April 1st, 2009 at 6:08 am
@joelp, You have to follow or at least backread HRO to “get it”. You can also visit the HRO faq at stuffwhitepeoplelike.com
The Les Savy Fav guy behind Dan
“Invisible Knitting” [via lolcats]
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hippie turds
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this guy sucks so does anco so does everyone but MEEEEE
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I have finally found where I belong. Thankyou carles.
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I don’t understand this “Dan Deacon” thing. Someone explain plz???
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//////////Reply by Anony
//////////Posted April 1st, 2009 at 6:12 am
@ntreelvlaltgrrrl89, I haven’t heard his music but he looks like some kind of circuit bending geek. Probably only uses linux and his it installed on his cellphone. You can’t tell from the picture but there are serveral people wearing old dot.com t-shirts non-ironicly.
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can’t groove to d.d. idk. 2 much build up or somefing.
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dan deacon is for alt-nerd-bros and unattractive-but-incredibly-alt-chicks. he makes music for people who go to shows to ‘get crazie’ and ‘hop around a lil bit,’ but aren’t cool enough to just see the crystal castles like everyone else. there’s only one deacon in my life, and it’s sometimes spelled with a k.
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//////////Reply by ntreelvlaltgrrrl89
//////////Posted March 31st, 2009 at 7:51 pm
@AstroCandy,
oh, he’s for ppl who think they’re TOO alt for alice glass & her krayzee krystal kastlez? wack
ps. luv u deakin. <3
(kinda ambivalent toward u, dan deacons)
. . . luv panda more tho
srry :(
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//////////Reply by tripler
//////////Posted March 31st, 2009 at 7:52 pm
@astrocandiez deakin missing from mpp + deacon ‘droppin a new bloggable album’ = not a coincidence?? somethin 2 ‘think about’ yall.
i went to a dd show. lotsa ‘add bros’ hoppin round + gettin sweaty + ‘not carin what ppl think’
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if the dan deacon is for uggos, if the dan deacon’s fans adapt to his personal brand, then i don’t want to travel back 2 2k2 && “discover” him before the whole “bloggable” “electro scene” latches on2 him
jus want 2 stay pretty…… i dont care if i have to sacrifice 1 gb of bloggable dandeacons mp3s for it …….. id rather “”miss” “out”" on dan deacon than be like invisibleknitbro.
viva la vida w/o dan deacon [via thee coldplayedout]
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allyall r killn it + ur blog is hot like vice @2k2…….take advantage of teh apex
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miss u, Deakin. <3
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dude’s playing on a stage from now on, i believe, with the new album. get with it carles!
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@ carles, the griz bear post made me sad coz i felt like so many of yr commetnsters didn’t ‘get it’
now this post too
miss u ‘ppl who ‘get it”
<3 <3 <3 the idea of ddeacon seellign out n ‘going sexy’ i always found him ‘kinda watever’ but actually his new record is ‘kinda different’ and still epic build no groove but has something new n relevant. yall should give it a lil’ listen.
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//////////Reply by kd
//////////Posted April 1st, 2009 at 10:42 am
@cp,
I’m never really sure If i “get” anything said on this blog. It mostly makes me think about things that are not important.
I like Dan Deacon. Kinda too scared of all the big sweaty guys to go to one of his concerts though.
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most of the crowd is LARPing after the show.
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fatbro is from some other baltimore band i forget their name
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whoops i am on hipsterrunoff my lyfe is ‘complete’. We Are The Seahorses, ‘we’ were from New Jersey, ‘we’ are very happy, ‘we’ are best friends with ‘MC Steinberg’, who is ‘viral on HRO’. Thank god.
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//////////Reply by $$$$$$$$$$$
//////////Posted March 31st, 2009 at 10:43 pm
@gfysd, love you!! you get it.
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//////////Reply by gfysd
//////////Posted April 1st, 2009 at 12:43 am
@$$$$$$$$$$$, fuck yeah!
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whoopsie i was on it like seven years ago fuck you whoever called me a feist impersonator i am so gloriously happy
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dan deacon sux ballz
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this blog is like that fat kid in film class who talks all the time and thinks he is funny and ironic and that you need to be really intelligent to ‘get’ him, yet everyone does get him, no one thinks he’s funny, and most want him to end his pathetic life and stop wasting precious earth air. fortunately, the internet can bring all these wastes of life and resources from around the world to finger one another’s prostates. please, indie kids, keep trying to be funny and ironic, just remember, everyone in the real world laughs at you when you walk by.
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//////////Reply by Hung Fa Lo
//////////Posted March 31st, 2009 at 11:55 pm
@mos, uh, ru bein ironic?
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//////////Reply by cp
//////////Posted April 1st, 2009 at 2:44 am
@mos, intriguing. tell me more about this ‘real world’.
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//////////Reply by Juju
//////////Posted April 1st, 2009 at 2:16 pm
@cp, dudes real world is a lot like film class >> fascinating!@
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//////////Reply by EL FGGT
//////////Posted April 1st, 2009 at 6:06 pm
@mos,
I AM THAT KID.
except i’m not fat, v. skinny, not bro-ford cox marfans skinny, but hella mad skinny.
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//////////Reply by Icanhazaltmuzic?
//////////Posted April 1st, 2009 at 6:25 pm
@mos,
You went to film class?
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rly like dan deacon
just wish he was pretty
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k i saw dan deacon a year ago and he did put on a good show. he was fun to see because he involved the crowd in some quirky games but his actual music wasnt so good. did i enjoy it? yes. would i do it again: no, because my arms started to hurt when doing the human tunnel.
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omg
its adam
ps h8 new font
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hate fat people. so much
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real talk* no chics in the front because it’s kinda scary how fuckin excited those altdouchebros are to be there. yea as a female getting a bloody lip @ the last deacon show thnx to this fggt tryin to make it to the front so he could hump deacon’s face, i’d rather chill in the back.
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I think Dan Deacon’s music is pretty rad even in 2009, but his Flinstone’s shirt is questionable. Also, doppelganger fans are weird, especially when you consider that DD has a fluffy Aryan beard.
He’s so famous that he gets jetlagged, though, apparently, so I guess lots of people like him?
http://exclaim.ca/articles/points.aspx?csid1=131
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Dan Deacon / Girl Talk is techno / house dumbed down and pop-ified for lazy, idiot alts…never quite got why in their quest for ‘authenticity’ none of these pasty p4k worshipping morons did enough research to find detroit techno / chicago house aka real good dance shit…well at least that panda bear guy knows his shit. He did sample Frankie Knuckles for My Girls…too bad his fans aren’t interested in digging up the real good shit…
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Wearing a Flintstones t-shirt is never questionable.
At least I can change my shirt.
You’re stuck with that goofy look on your face.
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Are his crowds always Ugly people?. I want to see him cuze I heard his sound is ‘vernacular’..but I don’t want to be ugly person in his corwd.
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