Is it just me or has “indie” lost its meaning?
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- Опубліковано 9 лип 2024
- When indie music becomes anything but.
00:00 - introduction
01:25 - History
06:00 - Debunking
10:20 - Renaming
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To me, indie was always a label put on a smaller/not that popular/nesh band. It doesn't matter if they're with a label or not. If the band has fool freedom of making music, the shows are small and cheap, probably in some kind of a basement and the whole event feels personal, it's an indie band to me.
Kinda like to call it "Small Room Music" (SRM) and I like the reference in the name. But honestly, it's always going to be called indie music.
That would be "niche" not "nesh". Also, those terms were originally coined by college radio, not corporate shills.
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Alternative and indie once meant pretty much the same thing. Music and musicians who were not signed to a major label, whose music was not played on commercial radio stations. Most of what gets labeled alt and indie these days are ON major labels or on smaller labels owned by major labels. Personally, I think those words should only be applied to "bedroom producers" these days. (As much as I detest most of the garbage produced in "bedroom studios"). Because that is just about the only music these days not owned by some entertainment corporation. Although, of course, most of these "artists" would gladly sell their souls for corporate sponsorship.
For me, I feel like indie kids have been subgenre-ing for decades. Almost to rediculous levels e.g. jangle pop.
Love the terms "small room" and "post-indie".
Post-indie could be good but then 'post' does has a musical connotation of long progressive structures (e.g. post-rock and post-metal) so I don't think it would quite work.
Note on 'big room' techno, it also denotes a kind of commercialness in it's accessibility as it refers to a big-room club space as opposed to a more niche / scene venue playing a left-field / forward variety of electronic music
I agree post does mean progression, not just “after”
The truly indie artists don’t need labels any more, since the internet went popular. Doesn’t help that music / fashion doesn’t seem to have that spunk it any more but hopefully that’s just me becoming old.
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independent music content creators vs major music content creators. I.e those people who accept money from major companies to promote/ review music and those who don't. Everyone has a price it's a question of whether or not you have morals
Did you work in Indiemusic for 35 years? It’s having a research right now that it hasn’t had since the grunge era… you should talk to people like me first before you retire anything.