I was recently watching a youtube video of an indie bro watching a youtube video of a live performance by the popular indie female artist The St. Vincent. The video is compelling content, an open love letter to the female of his dreams. In the video, he pours out his emotional/spiritual/sexual/intellectual desires, letting St. Vincent know that ‘they could have a perfect life together.’
Transcription of youtube video:
Hey St Vincent. I’m sitting here sprung out watching ‘You Dig a Pony’ meanwhile I just want to be digging your pony. I think you’re sexy as hell. I’ve been stalking you since back when you were just an mp3 blogger meme, back in 2006. But I saw your potential, and here we are almost four years later, rich and famous. And I’m just so proud. I see you wearing those black tights all the time underneath your skirts and shorts, and to me, that just make a nigga go buck wild. The locks of your hair curl to perfection. You got a slammin bod and my dick raise up like a scissor kick when you hit the high note. But all I wanna know is, can you shred on your guitar like that bent over? I like that you sing in two microphones, because then it’s like there’s two of you, and I always wished that God made two of you so that I could fuck you while you lick my ass. Your lips are sexy red and I want to rub the large space in between your eyes. I’m best friends with Grizzly Bear, and I just want all of us to be friends in Brooklyn, and maybe live in your house and sleep in your bed. And I hope that when you watch this vid, you fall in love with me, because when I turn my swagger on, no one got it like this, and I be in your mother fucking dreams tonight. Thank you for watching my youtube, St. Vincent. Thank you for your music. And I love you.
I think many people would probably find this video to be ’sick’, ‘troublesome’, and miscellaneous feelings that would put them ‘above this type of cheap ploy for attention.’ But it’s important to talk about how altbros, indie bros, and music criticism middle aged bros view females in the alternative music scene. If we can assume that men are the driving force behind indie buzz, indie record sales, the indie media, and altEverything, then how do we fairly assess women’s role in ‘the whole scene.’ It seems like in this open love letter to St. Vincent, the youtubeBro gave us a valuable insight into the true desires of all bros who are alt/indie/etc.
This is what alternative males want:
- We to be loved.
- We want to be relevant.
- We want to ‘bang’ bitches in ‘mad crazy’ positions
- We want to live a perfect life in a relevant city
- We want to be bffs with bands
- We want to follow bands/artists and watch them grow and attribute their success to ourselves for being on the forefront of relevancy.
- We want ‘the most respected female’ in the indie scene to be our gf [via the altbaguette theory]
How does indie bro obsession impact the indiesphere?
Will an ugly/not cute girl ever ‘make it’ as an indie artist? It seems like indie bros who ’shape’ the indie world will always have trouble evaluating female artists. I think the first thing men look at is ‘how attractive is the female.’ That seems to be ‘the most important element’ when evaluating a woman in any profession (strippers, actresses, accountants, secretaries, etc).
I think it is also important for indie females to ’seem like they are real musicians.’ This can be accomplished by either displaying a relatively high level of ‘musicianship’, or even just by ‘appearing to take themselves seriously.’ Many say that behind every great woman is a great man, so even if a ’skilled male producer’ creates mad beats, the female band member/lead singer still has a very important task in terms of branding the live performance with the level of ‘into-it-ness’ of her presence.
Whenever I see coverage of an indie starlet, I imagine some music criticism bro wild a mildly erect penis while writing a blurb. In a short blurb, the music critic bro can project his feelings/hopes/dreams/desires. He can mention that the female artist is ‘hot’ but also say something that clearly indicates ‘we need to take her seriously.’ All blurbs about female artists by men are unintentional manifestos in which we ’search 4 a sexual identity.’ I wrote this post to ‘come to terms’ with my homosexuality/heterosexuality/bisexuality/pansexuality/indiesexuality.
I feel like I am in search of ‘the perfect alt woman’, and I can’t help but entirely identify with the St. Vincent Love Letter Vlog. I want 2 be loved, have krazie sex, and also have an authentic life. I am not sure if I like listening to music by women, but I feel like I will watch them if they are ‘hot.’ It seems impossible for men to ‘actually like’ music by women, since many of the lyrical themes are coming from the ‘fucking dreamworld’ that exists inside of a girl’s head.
Wonder if I would consider living my perfect life with the Dirty Projector altbaguettes.
Even the Zany SNL video meme bro got ‘roped in’ by the prospects of a ‘perfect alt life’ with Joanna Newsom.
How do yall think that the horniness of men impacts the critical acceptance of women? Can indie bros ‘put aside their desire 2 mate’ when evaluating females in music? Will an ‘ugly woman’ ever be very successful at anything, or does society naturally ’select out’ the uggos? Should we segregate the indiesphere by gender? Should there be a ‘pitchfork4Girls’ instead of reading men evaluating women?
Does some sort of subconscious sexual desire impact the acceptance of all females? Is the indiesphere an ‘equal opportunity’ hype machine?
Maybe indie bros are bisexuals. Maybe we do evaluate everything fairly. Maybe we just need to ‘learn 2 love’ regardless of (sexual) gender and (musical) genre.
Maybe we all need 2 take a lil ride on the chillwave…
How do the sexual desires of men impact the indie perception bubble/the Western World/the Middle East?
When u watch a female artist, what do u expect from her?
Are chick flicks/romantic comedies and indie-ish female musicians some sort of marketing gimmick to exploit the infamous ‘female’ demographic of humans?
If u like a band with a male lead singer, are u ‘kinda ghey’?
Do women like male singers because they want to ‘make love’ to them/get swept off their feet into a rock n roll lifestyle?
Is it realistic for men to identify with themes in music made by females?
Will men ever see women as ‘anything more than a fuck doll’?
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obsessively 1st
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//////////Reply by alex
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
@moomoo,
why u jockin jerkstore like this you fat fuckin mex
yo is it tru u friends with that bald gimp “jey” u guys run 2gether in beanertown, USA AKA san jacinto
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//////////Reply by alex
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
@alex, let’s keep it positive, guy
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//////////Reply by moomoo
//////////Posted October 29th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
@alex, what did moomoo ever do to you?
first? zomg!
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//////////Reply by JJ
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 1:30 pm
@JJ,
noooo my day has been ruined!
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//////////Reply by melbourne
//////////Posted October 29th, 2009 at 8:12 am
@JJ, JJ, more like FGGT
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yum.
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rofl hipinion
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//////////Reply by sexybabe69
//////////Posted October 30th, 2009 at 12:35 am
@just a bro,
DAT ASS
goddamn that jerkstore is fine
also, A/S/L? A2M?
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is the bebe zeda old enough to party
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//////////Reply by kbiz
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
@no fish today, Can someone ‘hook me up’ with bebe? Just want 2 be with some1 special!
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“and my dick raise up like a scissor kick when you hit the high note,” period.
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//////////Reply by ol strato
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
@b4hc, no doubt
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Women will always rule..behind every boy is a strong Woman..end story
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//////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
@Skybluponies, thought it wuz ‘the other way around’ [via doggystyle]
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//////////Reply by skybeard
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
@Skybluponies,
’spartan women give birth to spartan men’ – 300 meme of 2kforgot
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//////////Reply by margot.
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
@skybeard, agreed.
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//////////Reply by god
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 11:31 pm
@Skybluponies,
and behind her is his bebe…i mean babe
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i want to turn my swagga on for noah lennox
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//////////Reply by genevieve
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
@andrew,
just want 4 walls / adobe slabs 4 him
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//////////Reply by hey anony anony
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
@andrew, ‘don’t u know that i don’t belong 2 u?’
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please do not promote jerkstore’s videos
-the management
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//////////Reply by frans jioux
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
@nkozyra, please approve my registration nathan
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//////////Reply by Jerk Store
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
@nkozyra, it’s okay, you don’t need to watch my vids.
All that matters is that I express my love via internet.
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I gotta have patrone, yall!
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Ryan Dicks Jerkstore is the internet. Always deserved to be a much bigger meme than he is. Pretty much a Tucker Max for the altindie set.
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thanks for posting my vids carles =)
I’ll be sure to make you a lovelettervid.
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//////////Reply by jerkstore
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
Jerk Store this is the real jerkstore why are you being me in these comments. this is online impersonation fraud
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//////////Reply by Jerk Store
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
@jerkstore, imitation is the greatest form of flattery bro.
i wish i had the balls to jerk it on my webcam
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//////////Reply by Jerk Store
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
@Jerk Store, imitation is the greatest form of flattery
//////////Reply by Jerk Store
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
@Jerk Store, imitation is the greatest form of flaBBery [via 'fat' version of Jerk Store {via DanDeaconBro}]
“it seems impossible for men to ‘actually like’ music by women, since many of the lyrical themes are coming from the ‘fucking dreamworld’ that exists inside of a girl’s head.”
gotta agree, unless you’re with a chick that loves it then you totes get what shes talking about and impress the chick by listening to female singers.
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//////////Reply by jennifer
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
@Al X,
What are you saying, that you have to always ‘identify’ with lyrical themes to make it good quality? I’m white, I don’t personally relate with most lyrical content in black music, does that mean it’s crap?
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//////////Reply by Pyry
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
@jennifer, Yes. The other option is that you’re ridiculous trying to ‘relate to’ rap lyrics about ‘driveby shootings’, ‘gangbanging’ (both in the social and sexual meaning of the word) and ’selling crack cocaine to black kids in your hood’.
You being a white woman leaves you in a difficult position to listen to/get music. Conceptualcore is about issues too complicated for you. Since you can’t chill with your bros, you can’t truly get the essence of the chillwave. Maybe the only option left for you is to listen to those indie artists singing about relationships/feminist issues/social issues in microscale/’other indie female bullshit’.
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//////////Reply by Wut
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
@ Pyry: 70% of rap and hip-hop music is consumed by white men. What does that say about 1) who is being “ridiculous” and trying to “‘relate’ to rap lyrics about ‘driveby shootings’ etc? and 2) who is really propagating these images of the black community that you cite as so prevalent in rap lyrics?
To say that if your own personal life doesn’t directly relate to lyrical themes, means you can’t understand or enjoy a diversity of music is ridiculous. If I listen to a song written by a man that’s talking about the painful experience of a breakup or the death of a loved one, does that mean I can’t truly understand or relate to it, just because I’m not a man, even if I’ve experienced the loss of someone I cared about? NO.
//////////Reply by yea
//////////Posted October 29th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
@Pyry, Fuck. That.
sometimes i worry if im sexist cause like 90% of bands i listen to are male dominated and i only ‘really love’ like music made by bros.
find it hard to like st. vincent, she looks too ‘zany’
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what if i am with a guy who just got dumped by ‘the most respected woman in the indie scene’?
feel sad.
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//////////Reply by fairydick
//////////Posted October 29th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
@grizzlycunt, are just a rebound cunt?
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duuuuude… wtf?
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how bout the chick from the gossip
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//////////Reply by el fggt
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
@HJ,
i am a flaming homo but i wanna plow DDDDDDAAAAAATTTTTT AAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSS
so hard
wanna wanna lose my dick in the soft immense folds of beth dittos
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//////////Reply by sie
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 8:19 pm
@HJ, u’d get lost in her womanliness.
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//////////Reply by HJ
//////////Posted October 29th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
@sie, what part of her is that? afraid that ill nvr get laid and ill be giving myself tugjobs 4evr :(
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once agin. girls give you cooties and r gross. why would you want to tuch a girl?
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mad jealous of jerkstorebro’s vlog skills
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CRLS, thanks for this post. The Jerk Store kid lives near me and I look forward to completely fucking him up next time I see him around. It’s going to be fun.
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//////////Reply by jerkstore
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
bagthorpe you’ll have to knock on my grandma’s front door because i don’t ever leave my room. i would feel glad to have a friend….
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//////////Reply by god
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
@Bagthorpe,
wut r u gonna do, condescend him 2 death?
btw, jerkstore, congrats on finishing that burrito. thing was a beast
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Feel like, as an alt bro, telling a keut indie rocker chick my feelings for her and the hornie things I want to do to her and not be afraid of what she thinks (via post-feminism). Feel like we are in an age where we can return to typical gender roles (via AnCo’s My Girls) – feel like my girlfriend should “quit her job” and make me some vegan cupcakes.
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i like The Moldy Peaches, even if Kimya Dawson is ugly as fuck.
Bjork is a genius, etc.
But in the other hand, i had just like to have “wild zexx” with Lissy Trullie
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//////////Reply by jenna
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 10:32 pm
@Jrt 89, sorry bro she’s gay
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//////////Reply by Jrt 89
//////////Posted November 13th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
@jenna, well, in my fucking mind she isnt.
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“It seems impossible for men to ‘actually like’ music by women, since many of the lyrical themes are coming from the ‘fucking dreamworld’ that exists inside of a girl’s head.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuoTjYYqe4c
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HPN NIGGAS STILL RUNNIN THANGS
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//////////Reply by Xsox420
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
@pedro, Shut the fuck up
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//////////Reply by pedro
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
@Xsox420, ENTS THREAD BREAK |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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If u get with me, it can be our ‘dirty lil secret’. Just want ur alpha alt peen, crls.
xxx
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is it alt 2 ‘objectify’ a man (via a double standard)?
http://rapexegesis.com/lyrics/Lil-kim/Suck-my-dick
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so insanely upset over the first 5 seconds of ‘ride the chill wave’ video. completely soaked my blaq maqbook with chunks as i projectile vomited uncontrollably after hearing him go “OhH” for .2 seconds. thanks for ’shitting’ on my day crls.
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//////////Reply by god
//////////Posted October 29th, 2009 at 11:12 am
@gnar sesh,
i had those .2 seconds on a loop while i tugged it like the ship was going down, and it did [via metaphor]
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i like chick singers and dudes who sound like chicks. jerkstorebro seems beyond carles. feel like hes messed up in the head
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I think St. Vincent is great. Not sure what the point in posting this is, other than to embarass her. I’d be weary of saying that most guys who like “Female Indie Alt Celeb Musicians” are freaks like the guy in this video, but it shouldn’t be such a shock that guys will fantasize sexually about female singers, and girls will do the same when it comes to men. Just because that’s a natural thing doesn’t mean you can’t actually enjoy the music itself. That’s just feminist B.S. being espoused by a man. Sad.
Saying that you should turn off your sex drive when listening to music shows someone out of touch with their own sexuality. But that doesn’t automatically make someone a weirdo stalker, which you seem to suggest.
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//////////Reply by chong
//////////Posted October 29th, 2009 at 1:37 am
@RJC, u tell crles. we all care
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Carles, how does it make you feel when all the people commenting on your site mimic your style and phrasing and spelling? Does it make you proud in a sense, like you’ve created something that others enjoy and like using and think is valuable in some sense or another? Does it make you feel sad, like these people can’t think of any other way to communicate or articulate themselves and are just ripping off your “personal brand,” either to fit in or, by some total misreading, separate themselves through some imaginary posturing as “the next Carles?” I’ve only been to your site a few times but I really like it, and each time I visit it I try to remind myself that I have to come back more often to check it out and see what you’ve been thinking about; but the comment sections just make me feel sad. Sometimes a comment will make me feel really protective of whoever wrote it, because they obviously must be very self-conscious to just completely give over their method of communicating to an attempt at replicating yours; it’s like when I see a kid who tries to act exactly like the cool kid, the result being just heartrendingly pitiful, where you end up almost liking the imitator more than the “original” kid because he seems to have a lot more to deal with in terms of confidence and feelings of self-worth; you just want him to do well and be well and happy, which he probably isn’t because he’s trying so hard to be someone else. But, by the same token, the pitiful aspect of it just makes me resent the “imitator,” who can’t seem to craft any identity remotely of his own, impossible though this may be. If you came across your site, would you like it?
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//////////Reply by boards
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 8:04 pm
@Ain’t No Junk, when you’re done shitting on the commenters because you’re too good to join in on the party, let us all know, k? you ever wonder if maybe the kids wanted to fall off the cliff, holden? kinda feel like u jst dont “get it”
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//////////Reply by @boards
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 8:41 pm
@boards, OMG A CATCHER N THE RYE REFERENCE. rlly alt.
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//////////Reply by ol strato
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
@@boards, all yall are children
//////////Reply by boards
//////////Posted October 29th, 2009 at 1:56 am
@@boards, yeah you got me, tryin to show off my alt roots/cred by referencing a book
//////////Reply by d00dz
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 8:24 pm
@Ain’t No Junk, tl;dr
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//////////Reply by brobro
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
@Ain’t No Junk, h8 that u don’t ‘get it.’ feel scared yall.
what if cmmntrs are ‘misinterpreting’ the blog/content of HRO?
should cmmnts be part of the ‘literature’ of HRO?
do cmmnts ‘mimic’ Carles or r they ‘original’?
are the cmmnts ‘fucking worthless’?
are ppl who cmmnt ‘fucking worthless’?
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//////////Reply by aw, fukk
//////////Posted October 30th, 2009 at 1:07 am
@brobro,
i appreciate your comment
i appreciate you
<3<3<3
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//////////Reply by RJC
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
@Ain’t No Junk, the whole point of this site is that hipsters are just style-clones. That’s the irony, their search for being “authentic” is itself being a conformist.
I think Carles is a smart guy but even I can’t tell if he really thinks being “authentic” is just a brand, or if he’s completely oblivious to the fact that one can genuinely be authentic by dropping their allegiance to “brands” in the first place.
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//////////Reply by Molly
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 11:20 pm
@Ain’t No Junk, how does it make you feel when your critical voice exactly resembles that of every other pompous bloated commenter to grace the history of ‘not getting it’? Does the fact that at least twice a week, someone says the exact same thing that you do mean that you do not possess a single original thought? Does the fact that you have been preceded even in mediocrity make your ignorance that much greater? Are you “The Next Douchebag Commenter”? I want to hear an original ‘bitter, deluded critique of the internet’s hipster community’, but all I get is this ‘cheap imitation’. If you came across your comment, would you like it??
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//////////Reply by boards
//////////Posted October 29th, 2009 at 1:58 am
@Molly, this is what i meant
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//////////Reply by Ain't No Junk
//////////Posted October 29th, 2009 at 7:12 am
@Molly, Sorry you and everyone’s so mad. I don’t go to this site that much, and, in all honesty, I did look at other postings just to be sure I wasn’t repeating something that I was sure had to have been said, and I definitely didn’t want to just shit on everyone or come off as some douche,; I see how I did, though, and I got carried away with and then bored by the cool kid and the cool kid imitator analogy and ended up not really even doing anything except being an asshole, and really, I am sorry about that, because I hate assholes. No, I wouldn’t like my comment if I came across it; is that unusual? Do people like any of their stuff when they come across it? The comment was totally lazy and I got bored and stopped before I really said anything; I guess I didn’t know how bonkers everyone would go, but apparently this is what most comment spaces are like: I remember reading a Times article about it a little while ago about that, about how people new to comment sections are totally thrown off by them. Essentially what I was wondering was what people think the comments can be for. Carles does such a good job of couching these thoughts about “authenticity” – things I think most people think about, at least most of the people who come to this site; and it’s something he’s so good at not explicitly make fun of or just wearing open-hearted on his sleeve: his mixture of wariness of both is just so good – with concerns about other topics, and the result is just really smart and engaging and touches I think really acutely on a lot of things; and then most of the comments do – no matter how many times it’s been said, although really I didn’t intend to be just the dick who said it this time; I really thought I’d scanned at least the recent comments – come off as just these little sad unfunny imitations. And is that part of Carles’ intention? Does he know that most comments will just imitate him and that this will make some point of without him even having to say anything? What do the comments add to the site that Carles didn’t already put there? Are the comments just fulfilling what Carles wants them to? Do they add to the site or just kind of augment its arguments? I should’ve checked again for these other douches’ comments, because I’m probably just reiterating stuff board’s already gone apeshit over a thousand times and I don’t want to cause that guy any more stress, but I’m really just sincerely wondering. And probably this just either isn’t the right space for it or it’s already been discussed or it’s just not even that interesting, which it’s not, which is what makes me wonder why I’m even responding again. But I am sorry if I just took a dump in the keg, especially if I just did it again.
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//////////Reply by generk witty cmmnt
//////////Posted October 29th, 2009 at 10:30 am
@Ain’t No Junk,
fggt
//////////Reply by Sandile
//////////Posted October 29th, 2009 at 10:56 am
@Ain’t No Junk,
I agree with everything you said and someone said the same thing to me once when I expressed an opinion (note: I didn’t attack anyone) about something Carles had raised which i found fascinating.
It’s that whole story about not ‘getting it’, which is cool, if that’s what you’re about. I don’t think it’s that difficult to ‘get’, though, really. It would be interesting though to gain perspective on what HRO commenters were thinking about Carles’ posts. If it could be like Tao Lin’s blog comments circa 2006 when Tao used to debate with people and some really interesting things where thrown around.
But anyway, if people are having fun with it, then why not? Maybe they don’t have anything to say and are just bored or whatever.
I’ve found it’s mostly best to just read the posts and be done with it. Leave the comments. That’s what I usually do, but sometimes, like now, I skim through them and try to find somewhere where someone is giving an opinion. Which is how I found your comment, which I enjoyed reading, by the way.
Stay up.
//////////Reply by Ain't No Junk
//////////Posted October 29th, 2009 at 11:40 am
@Sandile,
Thanks for your kind note and sober consideration of the comments section; it makes me feel a bit abashed for getting, however briefly, so caught up in it.
//////////Reply by brobro
//////////Posted October 29th, 2009 at 4:10 pm
@Ain’t No Junk, tl;dr
//////////Reply by boards
//////////Posted October 29th, 2009 at 11:28 pm
@Ain’t No Junk, no worries bro. wasnt tryin 2 “go apeshit”. honestly, i think the comment portion of HRO is just a “chorus”.
//////////Reply by anon
//////////Posted October 30th, 2009 at 1:07 am
@Ain’t No Junk, TLDNR
now st. vincent knows how it is to be brandon boyd.
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hilarious post. one of the best in the last month.
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Thankyou CRLS for creating a dialogue abt alt-ness
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the contrast between his chillwave video and this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeNotu_n52I creates a great synergy
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Man wtf? Was i just hypnotized by white ass?
AND COME ON WITH THIS FUCK HORINITOS! NO ONE WANTS THIS SPIC SHIT!
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//////////Reply by Lunar Sea
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 1:34 am
@Xsox420, ‘whoa’.
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gross
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oh, ‘cool’
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Feel like I can’t relate to female indie human beings like Taylor ‘Beyonce’ ‘Johnathan’ Swift’s. ‘You Belong To Me’ brings up issues of underage sex/sweaty handjobs, voyeurism, and human trafficking [via 1 human being 'belonging' to another]. Feel like these are ‘deviant’ themes yall. Feel like we need more censorship in the indiesphere. Feel like things r getting 2 ‘XXXtreme.’ Feel scared.
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weird, i was recently thinking about this and now you blogged about this. seems like we’re on the same wavelength. maybe not.
i don’t genuinely like any girl bands/singers, feel like i’m being semi-sarcastic by listening to them. where is the female radiohead or an-co or anything? seems like women have to work a lot harder for respect in the alternative music world. i mean look at the last fm charts, it’s all bro bands. if i was a girl right now i’d probably be pissed or try and be like “there are great girl bands, just no one pays attention, like mika miko” but deep down know that I was lying, then i would probably go buy a micro-korg and start making weird songs and added friends on myspace.
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//////////Reply by anonymous
//////////Posted October 29th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
@CARLES JUNIOR,
yeah. i don’t really like girl artists. i am a girl. i don’t do it on purpose. I do enjoy when female vocals or other musical skills accompany males musicians. THey just can’t stand alone. And i don’t get why. I think it has to do with the way girls are programed by society that makes them unable to be good artists.
The coolest chicks are the ones who think more like men… You know. girls are always worried about what other people think about them, which makes them less confident and less bold. Less able to make decisions on their own. Girls have been taught to value themselves based on how others see them. Where men see themselves how they want to see themselves.
Girls are taught at a young age to fill their minds with information about makeup, fashion and celebrities, where boys are taught to think more about more practical things. i hate girls.
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//////////Reply by newbie
//////////Posted October 29th, 2009 at 5:47 pm
@anonymous, i hate being a girl
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//////////Reply by flowers4alger-anon
//////////Posted October 30th, 2009 at 9:29 am
@newbie, i h8 being a girl ‘trapped in a man’s body’
carles u need to incorporate his new one into this post its high art with much improved lyrics http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrS4etrxb7s
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<3 electrelane band <3
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i must agree it seems there aren’t many good chick musicians these days, famous or not.
browsing through my library, i realize most of musicians are male, even though i am a girl.
but i think kim gordon’s done some good stuff. the last free kitten album had a few good tracks. are cibo matto or death by chocolate still around? dunno. most of the music i listen to is older anyway. definently recommend delta 5 if you wanna hear some good chick music.
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imma girl and can’t be friends with guys too much anymore. it’s like hanging out with a drug addict, and you have that drug, and he knows it. he’s chilln with you but is mostly thinkn about the drug in your pocket.
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//////////Reply by andrew
//////////Posted October 28th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
@jenna,
haha that’s great. You’re a smart girl.
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//////////Reply by daffy
//////////Posted October 29th, 2009 at 11:22 am
@andrew, lold
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//////////Reply by aw, fukk
//////////Posted October 30th, 2009 at 1:12 am
@jenna,
no, hes thinking about ur cunt
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feel like CRLES just exposed my whole ’sense of being’
without indie babes ‘lyf’ just wouldnt be worthing ‘lyfin’
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I once accidentally saw St. Vincent perform. It was ok.
I think this is a good Carles post. I don’t totally agree with it though… Bjork, Fleetwood Mac, random house/r’n'b/gospel/soul tracks, the B-52s, Blondie, Yoko Ono, uh lots of other female vocalists are great and their vocals aren’t dependent on their looks or heterosexual male desire (but their “general aesthetic” does contribute to their sound).
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//////////Reply by d
//////////Posted October 29th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
@andrew, women are 50% of the population. you just named 5 bands.
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the girls we get are simply the best. seriously there is nothing better than these girls we get.
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i really hate the tequila ads…
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bb – thx for the meme
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Went ‘buck wild’.
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is a bro liking girl musicians ‘ghey’ [via homo/heterosexuality]?
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im gay
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there’s come cross-blogging going on http://lovetopost.blogspot.com/2009/10/dear-diarytoday-i-felt-excited-to-be.html
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i beg to differ crls, passion pit is my favorite band.
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billy
bollox
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love u jerkstore
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this dude suggz. doesnt seem like he understands how to construct an authentic indie aesthetic, much less appreciate\criticize music. i think he may wank off to porn\st vincent vids too much and not spend enough time thinking about other things.
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That guy looks like a young Joe Frasier with his dance-boxing stylez. I think this is your most astounding (via best) post to date.
http://www.theawesometrain.blogspot.com/
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it seems like more girls dont “‘make it’ as an indie artist” in general… not via sexism as objectification but via sexism of males telling each other that girls live in a ‘fucking dreamworld’.
Most alt music seems like it comes from a fucking dreamworld. Examples pls of male indie music that is more real-world based (non-dreamworld) than female music.
Y is non-dreamworld music better 2 u?
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“HRO” is now “officially” TRASH.. good job “carles-bro”..
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NOOOOOOOOOO that dick from Lonely island has stolen my dream woman???? :-( :-( h8 him so much rite now
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//////////Reply by generk witty cmmnt
//////////Posted October 29th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
@:(,
I really thought you were gonna hit it too.
:’(
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feel like emokid21ohio was a much better farcical-alt-meme circa 2k6. guess this new ‘zany’ approach will do…
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I liked the line about pitchfork4girls- instead of having men evaluate women. But, first of all- I want a word to describe females that are not girls but not women. There’s “guys” for males- but females are limited to being “girl” (young and naive sounding) or “woman” (A 22-yr.-old is not the same as a 30-yr.-old. I want it differentiated.) And second of all- women do the same thing to men. Yes we like good music- but we also like good music with attractive men involved in the making of that music. And perhaps- music can sometimes be less good but their attractive singer makes it better. We all just want to sleep with each other. I know that when I’m at shows I pay attention to comments about ‘the hot guitarist’ or ’sexy keyboardist’. You don’t often hear comments about the ‘rad guitar riff’ though.
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//////////Reply by aw, fukk
//////////Posted October 30th, 2009 at 1:17 am
@gina,
‘chick’, duh, are u some sort of retard
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//////////Reply by Lunar Sea
//////////Posted November 3rd, 2009 at 1:42 am
@gina, ‘young lady’
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just want to get ‘vulnerable’ with a cute musician/creative.
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ugly women don’t exist, just different ideals of beauty. duhhhhhhhhh.
and hay what about beth ditto
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//////////Reply by aw, fukk
//////////Posted October 30th, 2009 at 1:32 am
@lolz, http://img194.yfrog.com/img194/2196/23o.jpg
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//////////Reply by lolz
//////////Posted October 30th, 2009 at 1:56 am
@aw, fukk, lolz!!! thats just mean!!!
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sexism is so mnstrm
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I want to make teh sex with Angel Deradoorian. She’d make a nigga go buck wild. I’d like to piss in her anus too.
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Jerk Store just moved to the top of my Alt hit list. Too bad there’s too many that could replace him.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Second_Sex
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