EJE's First Blog Post!

Hipsters: "Someone who tries to be original but fails."

This is my definition, at least. Most people would probably define a hipster as someone who hates anything mainstream, from music to fashion. But this style of, well, person, has now become mainstream, which is the irony in it. Hipsters can't acknowledge that they're hipsters, because then they're acknowledging that they're mainstream and popular. AH! SO CONFUSING!

Personally, I find this style rather annoying. Sure, there's some great unknown music, but there's also some fantastic popular music. You can't write off all popular music, because generally... there's a reason it's popular. This is just as stupid as saying you hate pop music because you hate Justin Bieber, or that you'll never read a book written by a woman because it'll suck (yes, I've heard someone say this, and it was a GIRL who said it). As a fan of some popular music and some indie music (The Beatles and Bombay Bicycle Club are two of my favorite bands, the former being one of the most popular bands of all time* and the latter being an unknown band from England), and all genres, I think that all kinds of music are valuable**. You shouldn't say you don't like something until you've seen a good enough selection of it.

Also, you shouldn't dress like this:

 A classic hipster, with classic hipster glasses.
Photo credz to PJ Gallagher/Chromewavesdotorg on Flickr.

Sincerely,
EJE

* See my article "Roll Over Beethover, The Beatles Are Here" in our upcoming spring issue.
** See Clyde's article "Rage Against The Machine" which talks about why all kinds of music are valid forms of music.