No one seems to have argued this yet, so I'll give it a crack. The line,
"It's a new art form showing people how little we care, yeah"
is a comment on hipsterism, whose dominant characteristic is ironic criticism.
Others have described it better than I have, so I'll let them do the speaking:
Rob Horning's April 2009 article "The Death of the Hipster" in PopMatters, he states that the hipster might be the "embodiment of postmodernism as a spent force, revealing what happens when pastiche and irony exhaust themselves as aesthetics." In a New York Times editorial, Mark Grief states that the much-cited difficulty in analyzing the term stems from the fact that any attempt to do so provokes universal anxiety, since it "calls everyone's bluff".
No one seems to have argued this yet, so I'll give it a crack. The line, "It's a new art form showing people how little we care, yeah" is a comment on hipsterism, whose dominant characteristic is ironic criticism.
Others have described it better than I have, so I'll let them do the speaking:
Rob Horning's April 2009 article "The Death of the Hipster" in PopMatters, he states that the hipster might be the "embodiment of postmodernism as a spent force, revealing what happens when pastiche and irony exhaust themselves as aesthetics." In a New York Times editorial, Mark Grief states that the much-cited difficulty in analyzing the term stems from the fact that any attempt to do so provokes universal anxiety, since it "calls everyone's bluff".