Currently Listening: "Looks Just Like The Sun" - Broken Social Scene
People who watch Laguna Beach and The Hills like The Beatles, Death Cab For Cutie, etc. Some people talk about The Shins as if they are this amazing godly THING that is so underground that no one has ever heard of them. Other people think they are so above all because they like of Montreal. These people associate themselves with other people who are *the biggest fans* of Fall Out Boy and All Time Low. They also listen to new "rock bands" such as Paramore thinking they're so cool for liking music that no one else likes. But everyone is thinking the same exact thing.
Skinny jeans, dark eyeliner, and patterned hoodies resembling Kidrobot hoodies are being worn by those who in the past shopped at Abercrombie and were afraid to enter Hot Topic. Now Hot Topic and H&M are *THE* stores. Places are exploding with things that say "I love rock", have designs with skulls and broken hearts, or guitars and mixtapes. All the scene kids who say "fuck the mainstream" have *become* the mainstream. Seventeen, CosmoGirl, Teen People, etc stress that emo has in fact hit the mainstream.
"I love rock music" is probably the most hackneyed thing to ever say. All the things I ever liked have become the most cliched things on earth.
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ATL does pwn though. But I mainly like them because they're MD boys and only a year older than me! And my friend used to take pictures for them. AND Matt Flyzik is their tour manager & lol Matt Flyzik... Out of Line.. Hahaha.. How are you, Susan? Hope you & my sister are keeping out of trouble at that silly institution called River Hill. =)
All Time Low does pwn.
I have an article about All Time Low stashed in my room, just in case they become famous and it becomes valuable. By valuable I mean $5 on eBay.
HACKNEYED. VOCAB WORD FTW.
Hm, I know what you mean by everything becoming cliched, though. But isn't it better for kids to worship The Shins than to worship, say, Fergie? They might be doing it just to act pretentious, but people change. They could change.
And about the "I love rock" craze. It can be used as a stepping stone onto something a lot less pseudo. 'Cause like, d00d. MTV introduced me to two of my most favoritest bands evahh. I can't say that I hate the media without being a total hypocrite.
Who are we to say that we're above those people, anyway?
I may cringe at the sight of Pete Wentz's taste in tattoo placement, but Fall Out Boy has done some good things through their music. Not my cup of tea, but ehh. Until we know the inner workings of their minds, we don't really have a right to criticize them without mercy. Maybe in the grand scheme, they're visionaries and we're ignorant teenagers.
What's wrong with worshipping Fergie? Lollllll... =)
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