Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Wikipedia says we really are Hipsters.

So just get over it::
Avoiding labels our entire lives and fighting off being stereotyped or categorized has been an endless battle we all have been trying to win. Well kids, guess what! We lost.

This is probably you, defined by Wikipedia:

""""" In the 1990s and 2000s, the 1940s slang term hipster began being used in North American to describe young, well-educated urban middle class and upper class adults with leftist or liberal social and political views and interests in a non-mainstream fashion and cultural aesthetic. While definitions vary, the hipster scene is often associated with alternative music and "indie" culture ( independent rock and independent film), and other non-mainstream products, such as vintage clothing, 1970s-era vinyl records, magazines such as Vice and Nylon and the Pitchfork Media music website.

In North America, hipsters may dress in a campy or ironic manner, in which retro 1970s-style sportswear is mixed with Salvation Army store clothing. The social scene in some major cities is centered in a gentrified downtown area where DJ clubs, fair-trade coffee cafés, and organic restaurants sit side-by-side with thrift stores and working class taverns."""""
(For more, go to: )here.

But it seems "Scenesters" aren't cool enough to make it into Wiki. Urban dictionary pretty much says these kids are just trying to be cool. Scenesters are wanna-bes.
"""1. scenester

a person who tries very hard to fit the stereotype of a certain scene. often having to do with a specific genre of music emo.indie.punk.rock. dresses and acts in a prescribed fashion. image focused. vain. """"

So if you're not a damn liberal who shops at thrift stores and drinks fair trade coffee in a gentrified neighborhood or downtown... you still have hope to be un-defined. Now that we have a label, let's just hope we're not cool enough to have one of our pictures posted with the definition...
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(Pooor, poor girls. They probably would rather be "Hipsters".)

So, being called a "Hipster" may not be that bad really.
HEY!
...at least we can't be called "Hippies" or "Yuppies"... but that's another whole blog isn't it!?!

1 comment:

natalia said...

this reminds me of summer