| Arcade Fire – Rococo Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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Yes, let's play the oh so easy game of kill/hate/blame the Hipster. I know many "modern kids" who are exactly as palindromic and Arcade Fire describe, but I think that attacking kids who use "great big words that they don’t understand" misses the point. Those kids at least are trying to overcome the meaninglessness of popular culture. They may be pretentious, self-righteous, and judgmental- but at least they aren't mindlessly consuming the corporate, mass-produced, shallow culture of the mainstream. The difference between palindromic's self-righteous invective and Win Butler's lyrics are that Win is lamenting how these kids get sidetracked in the "rococo" elements of their subculture instead of being authentic human beings. He knows his fans are those kids, and he wants to help them, not look down on them and stroke his ego. This post was the result of seeing so much mindless hipster-bashing, not just here but in my life in general. |
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