Angstrom wrote:I just don't understand the sub-culture hating.
I have no problem at all with people who 'dress weird' or 'want to get noticed'. In fact hooray for them, because although it's easy to label them as a gang of stereotype dull posers - for fucks sake this forum is filled with musicians and DJs. The epitome of self-loving converstaion killing tedious me me me culture.
Once, long ago, I was sat in a bar with my new girl of the time, she was a nurse. She had no idea what I did for a living. Anyway a bunch of musos came in and of course I knew them, I was in a band with some of them even. She said :" look at those wankers, you can tell they're in a band, because they think they are fucking IT, looking round the bar to see who's noticed them. God I hate musicians". And she was totally right, the subtle behavior that permeates most performers in public is one of checking the room, making deals, telling tall tales, self-agrandizement.
You see, just to be a musician that steps outside the bedroom you must be a self-involved egotist, you must think that your genre, your interpretation, your very personality is simply fascinating. Even the introverted musicians are self-involved.
So really, anyone in the 'music biz' who wants to castigate people who dress unusually for wanting to draw attention to themselves really needs to remember all those posters you printed out with your stupid made-up name on, and the whole thing where you stand on a raised platform in front of people and make them look at you in the hope they will like you.
remember that minor detail?
I think to be fair and clarify, there are authentic people who just are hip, iconoclastic, move to a different beat.....Have had many unique experiences that are expressed through their style.
Those types are purely inspiring and a breath of fresh air. No judgement upon them.....
Then there are the "posers"...those talk the talk......dress the dress....but have no authenticity, originality, or personality beyond what the pop culture they are regurgitating is..... while ultimately every time we point the finger and judge, there are three pointing back at us (so it is best to live and let live), I can't help but feel a sense of "despair and disillusionment" regarding the dilution of originality.
That probably makes no sense...... thanks for at least reading my rhetoric.
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