On May 27 2011 17:13 Shamrock_ wrote: I think it's a bit of a stupid mentality. I even feel it myself sometimes, like when a band becomes popular I used to be like "Oh that's gay, I liked them before anyone blah blah blah," my idea being that I was the first to have ever known about them and that somehow made me special.
Now I kind of realize that with things you like, other people catching on and enjoying them is actually a really good thing. Not only do the artists make more money, which they deserve, you share a lot more with the people you meet and interact with.
I agree to an extent. It is a bit annoying when people start to "enjoy" the same things you do when they're the type of people you don't want to be grouped with, and because they like the same things you do now, you inevitably are.
That's a good way to put it, and it is true you don't want a bunch of douchebags enjoying the same things you enjoy, especially if their appreciation is shallow, but there isn't a lot you can do. Just enjoy things in your own way. When, where and how you found out about it doesn't matter.
I start listening to some fairly unknown band and like them very much, then suddenly their new album becomes mainstream hit and everyone's like "yeah I've listened to them always" so annoying. Most recently happened with Pendulum, now it's very popular here in Finland and everyone's listening only the newest album...
I don't understand the 'hipster' mentality at all. You enjoy a band, genre, game, series, etc. before it gets popular and you, the supposed supporter of whatever it is, don't want it to become popular? Talk about absurdly selfish as if the band was playing music just for you.
When Starcraft gets cool in the future and everyone plays it and it's what the people you don't like do, will you stop liking it? I hope not, because then you're just basing your likes/dislikes on what other people approve of, albeit in an inverse way. It's just instead of the kid saying 'Oh I like football now because it's the popular thing and I want to be popular' you're the kid saying 'Oh I don't like WoW now because it's the popular thing and I don't want to be a popular kid'
Dubstep (or Dub) was actually a sub-genre of popular reggae in the 60s, therefore I'm almost 100% sure that it was heard out of the UK, hence why it was called "Jamaican Dub".
well it's obvious, the people who liked it in the first place, only liked it because it made them feel different or "indie", not for the actual content.
Dubstep would probably be my thing started listening to it in 06 and was basically alone amongst people I know at least (nobody really liked it until a bit later). Now hardly sounds anything like it used to and it's at an all time high in popularity, some of it's ok I guess but they basically took the bits I liked the least from the genre and now that happens to be the 97% of dubstep being thrown around.
I guess it's similar to liking old metal and now all they play is screamo or whatever and call it metal and everytime you talk about metal meaning the former people think you're referencing the latter (I don't listen to either but a lot of people don't listen to dubstep or any sort of electonic stuff even).
I don't give a crap that it's popular, I give a crap that once it became that I don't even like it (well the popular wobblyfilthfingering stuff). It used to sound a lot more varied, now people don't think it's dubstep unless it sounds like an elephant being sat down onto a traffic cone for at least half the song.
You have to care less about this stuff. We're on the internet a lot more than the average person so we find out about things much earlier than they do. Hipsters find out about stuff when it becomes more mainstream through friends, TV, magazines etc. I've been in a million situations where a classmates says "have you heard about this?" when I myself heard about it over 2 years ago. It doesn't bother me because I can say "yes, I know about it" and then have a conversation. Don't let it bother you.
EPT
(well the popular wobblyfilthfingering stuff). It used to sound a lot more varied, now people don't think it's dubstep unless it sounds like an elephant being sat down onto a traffic cone for at least half the song.
