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Originally Posted by potter
What do you mean "indie" is a label? "Indie" is a definition, not a label or scene. Man you are really falling off track here.
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yes, a definition, ok so now you'll define what's independent by labeling it "indie" ah I get it now
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And who "pimps" these bands? What do you mean? Where are they being pimped? Do you think these bands are on tv or the radio or something?
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I don't know, how should I know.
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Here you can see the grudge you have. You say you are anti-"pop music", but then bash local bands playing in college towns for no money or fame?
You make no sense dude.  |
So what you're saying is that you can suck as much as you want unless you take money for it?
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Originally Posted by potter
and this?! so annoying!!! You talk about hating labels and shit. But you use the term "indie" like some snot nose little mtv watching brat.
• Indie means independent, not signed to a commercial record label. /definition
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Yes, in other words a lame band that you label as "indie" and market to people who are limited in decepting style but big in decepting pose
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If you go to a R&B club downdown and watch some dude freestyle who isn't signed to a commercial record label. That is Indie. If you go watch some "Cure" wannabe drowning in his own sorrow and isn't signed to a commercial record label, that is indie.
Indie is not a "style" of music. Stop referring to it as such.  |
Music is music and should speak for itself without any bullshit labeling,
indie is a swindle - it's either bands that are so lame no major label will ever sign them or something too extravagant and outside of sane world that no major label will ever sign them, then they pick one of those very lame bands time from time and give them a little airplay and ALL OF A SUDDEN an INDEPENDENT and INDIE explosion arises!
And boards all over the internet are filled with "independent" fans sharing all the "indie" shit etc.
Music is music,
if you're taking your music seriously you definitely don't want to be labeled as "indie" cause that means something worse then those official bands, that means you can't make it and that you're a loser, a poser.
Ok then they turned it around and they made a style for kids that are starving for "independent" they picked one of those 100 lame bands up to market to kids that never had a chance to create their own style but are hungry for "independent" music.
Here's an example of independent - aay for example Guns n Roses and the song "One in a million" - now that was independent!
They were a bunch of jerks getting high and making millions of dollars, in 1988 they made a song that was so politically uncorrect that it caused major heat, that song would never ever be released today in the bullshit world of political correctness.
That's what I call independent and it doesn't have nothing in common if someone is under the contract or not.
The day real music will make money again is the day of revelation.