I hang my head in shame at the musical taste of 14 year old scenesters

[dfd3657]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11BNqG1WXlc

Brokencyde is probably one of the worst bands on the face of the planet, and it boggles my mind that anyone would actually consider this music. After reading the comments on youtube of their song "Skeet Skeet," I'm absolutely speechless.

want this cd so bad!! love BC13!!! <3 this song is amazing <3

[someguy]

how about this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2MCwbOZkBA

[Powerslave]

Brokencyde is the funniest shit in the world.

[Tyler_Durden_208]

My... brain. I thought it couldn't get any worse than Fall Out Boy.

[g1ng3rsnap9ed]

My... brain. I thought it couldn't get any worse than Fall Out Boy.

Fall Out Boy is pretty terrible, but lil wayne still holds the top of the line (of suck).

And 14 year old kids' taste in anything is shameful, you should hear how much they love Meet the Spartans and Twilight. :rolleyes:

[Le_Big_Mac]

Don't completely lose faith. When I was 14, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Eraserhead and La Dolce Vita were already in my top 20.

[John Galt]

My faith is long lost.

[Jerk Shapiro]

Yeah, I mean, that was really bad. But no different than any other kind of 'crunk' music coming out today. Or no different than Nickelback. No different really than anything a dumbass fucking fourteen year-old wannabe hipster would be into.

[Le_Big_Mac]

I don't know any hipsters who like Nickelback.

[ericdraven]

....

[ericdraven]

how about this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2MCwbOZkBA

Jesus Christ.

[Tayzlor]

how about this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2MCwbOZkBA

watched it on mute and couldn't progress past the wish-fulfillment of blonde girl being genuinely attracted to douchey dude in the Lebron throwback

Like, she's walking with Alpha Male and her eyes are magnetized to his pale, tatted physique

"hey girl, heart is melting because your hot like the summer"

hot like the summer

The record company knows their niche

And Big Mac is right in his own way, the word 'scenester' is not applicable in any way to this thread. This is like the music the kids from "Paranoid Park" would listen to.

[Badbird]

Great. Now I'm deaf.



Actually, I wouldn't really say either was the worst thing ever. I've always felt that pop music has genuinely been bad for many, many years. These guys were pretty irritating for sure, but I've heard so much bad shit that I just kinda shrug it off at this point.

[Jerk Shapiro]

I don't know any hipsters who like Nickelback.


You're right... I guess what I meant to say was fourteen year-olds who think they're hipsters.

[Tayzlor]

No one actually strives to become a hipster

Its negative connotations run so deep that even fourteen-year-olds can pick up on it. I guess it's become one of those terms people bandy about carelessly without regard to its meaning or whether it even has meaning at this point. Right now, it's more a word people use to make themselves feel better via what they're not OR what they're afraid they might be.

All the same man, it's remarkable how many people actually hit the designated checkmarks for hipsterdom. Like, they're desperate for an identity and a group to belong to

[Danger^Cart]

I still think that other band is far worse, though I forget the name. They're a bunch of white dudes who wear Slipknot masks and thug-rap. There's a thread on it here somewhere.

Though I do want to Falcon Punch every member of Brokencyde, that's for sure. I'm starting to get sick of you fuckers. It seems everytime I wander into the music forum, someone is here to introduce me to horrible new music...

*curls into the fetal position and jams Pink Floyd while gently rocking back and forth*

[Le_Big_Mac]

No one actually strives to become a hipster

Its negative connotations run so deep that even fourteen-year-olds can pick up on it. I guess it's become one of those terms people bandy about carelessly without regard to its meaning or whether it even has meaning at this point. Right now, it's more a word people use to make themselves feel better via what they're not OR what they're afraid they might be.

All the same man, it's remarkable how many people actually hit the designated checkmarks for hipsterdom. Like, they're desperate for an identity and a group to belong to

Regardless, it's still the closest (or least farthest) thing to a clique that it's sane to be a part of. Being surrounded by people who are obsessed with Modest Mouse, Animal Collective, Sonic Youth, etc. only because they're sufficiently quirky and non-mainstream is far preferable to being surrounded by people, as I am inadvertently, who actually are obsessed with Queen and Journey or Dream Theater and Avenged Sevenfold, which adherence to certain other social stereotypes seems to entail.

[g1ng3rsnap9ed]

I still think that other band is far worse, though I forget the name. They're a bunch of white dudes who wear Slipknot masks and thug-rap. There's a thread on it here somewhere.


You mean Hollywood Undead? Yeah, they suck.

[The Postmaster General]

It's kind of funny, but "hipster" used to be a term that actually described someone based on their personality, and not a brand given to how people look. For example, Kramer from Seinfeld is aptly described as a hipster, because he's hip to different lifestyles, and cultures.

Hipster as scenesters and 14 year olds posing as them --- I honestly feel any 14 year old is a poser to a certain extent. Is a 14 year old into old DK seriously in touch with the political aspects, or is a 14 year old into art house movies seriously attending festivals and hanging out at gallery openings? Even 14 year olds that like Britney Spears probably don't really get the full extent of sexuality or why they are dancing to it by gyrating their pelvises.

But anyway...

This song isn't that bad. The band looks pretty contradictory to what they are singing, but then again, looking at Elvis no one probably thought he was going to be singing songs like he did.

Whatever, man. I've found no matter how ridiculous I think other people are, I'm never any better because of it.

[Danger^Cart]

^

You're such a fucking hipster.

[The Postmaster General]

Only because it's hip to be square.

[X-Nightcrawler]

Only because it's hip to be square.

Ah. A song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself.

*blocks self from Brokencyde*

[Tayzlor]

Regardless, it's still the closest (or least farthest) thing to a clique that it's sane to be a part of. Being surrounded by people who are obsessed with Modest Mouse, Animal Collective, Sonic Youth, etc. only because they're sufficiently quirky and non-mainstream is far preferable to being surrounded by people, as I am inadvertently, who actually are obsessed with Queen and Journey or Dream Theater and Avenged Sevenfold, which adherence to certain other social stereotypes seems to entail.

Are you in high school? I'm not aiming to be snide or somesuch, it's just that I cannot recall the last time I've heard the word "clique" (maybe high school). The great thing about getting older is that your community becomes decentralized from, say, the insularity of high school (excepting those who attended those Optimus-Prime-sized schools in California, etc.) and you're free to basically associate yourself with whomever.

I'd probably say that the two cliques you're referring to are equal in that they both rely on their music to be a form of branding---identity replacement near enough. They'd probably be different in terms of authenticity--like the AC, SY, MM subset base their identity on something presumably pushing against the mainstream (whether it actually does or not) and all have their designated bands they're supposed to like (of which, in my encounters, they've heard little).

[Jerk Shapiro]

Regardless of everyone'd different opinions and definitions on just what hipsters and scenesters are, to get down to brass motherfuckin' tacks.

Brocencyde sucks dick. I listened to like 10 seconds on the YouTube vid.

[jolanar]

These guys make Fall Out Boy sound amazing. :(

Also I think it's unfair to 14 year olds everywhere that they get generalized into listening to this crap. Bad taste is ageless. There are plenty of 14 year old kids who listen to real music.

[Heisenberg]

Hollywood Undead suck fucking ass, but nothing can beat Brokencyde to the worst band ever. They made me hate music for a small while.

[JohnLocke2342]

I'm gonna go drop kick something

[chinton]

You know at least that second example has some kind of sense of melody even if its dull generic, and completely forgettable.

But what in the world is Brokencyde. That didn't even sound like a song. It sound like a bad SNL parody of a song. I mean that is awful stuff.

[X-Nightcrawler]

You know at least that second example has some kind of sense of melody even if its dull generic, and completely forgettable.

But what in the world is Brokencyde. That didn't even sound like a song. It sound like a bad SNL parody of a song. I mean that is awful stuff.

Haha, exactly. Anyone remember the "Zen" music Michael Caine's character listened to in "Children of Men"?

[Smarmy Douche]

Haha, exactly. Anyone remember the "Zen" music Michael Caine's character listened to in "Children of Men"?

Which is actually a remix of Aphex Twin, whose loud and industrial stuff I'm sure some people here would probably say they genuinely enjoy. Though I am not one.

I'm not up and jive hip daddy-o on my labels these days, so I'm not sure exactly what a "scenester" is, but if they can listen to that Brokencyde (or is it BrokeNCYDE???) and not laugh hysterically, someone must have dropped them on their heads in infancy.