Hipsters

[mrtourette]

From what I gather, Hipster is synonymous with being 'pretentious' - you wear a pretentious style of clothing, you listen to pretentious music, you watch pretentious films, you live a pretentious lifestyle. Essentially, you're trying far too hard to be different or to be an individual. Hyper self-conscious. You will listen to Sharon Van Etten when everybody else listens to Laura Marling. You will watch La vie d'Adele rather than the new Star Trek film. Not down to preference or because you really want to; purely down to the fact that in your own mind, it makes you cool to be doing something that others aren't, and actively flaunting this lifestyle as if being condescending is a positive trait despite the fact that what you're being condescending about, ultimately you know nothing about.

Edited June 4, 2013 by mrtourette

[James Bolivar]

From what I gather, Hipster is synonymous with being 'pretentious' - you wear a pretentious style of clothing, you listen to pretentious music, you watch pretentious films, you live a pretentious lifestyle. Essentially, you're trying far too hard to be different or to be an individual. Hyper self-conscious. You will listen to Sharon Van Etten when everybody else listens to Laura Marling. You will watch La vie d'Adele rather than the new Star Trek film. Not down to preference or because you really want to; purely down to the fact that in your own mind, it makes you cool to be doing something that others aren't, and actively flaunting this lifestyle as if being condescending is a positive trait despite the fact that what you're being condescending about, ultimately you know nothing about.

[scmusic]

Serious note #1: All the Dalston Hipsters were at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, I know because I counted them. They were all prostrating themselves before James Blake and pretending to be too cool to go see Blur but all snuck in after "Girls and Boys" and started throwing pints of piss at each other.... ironically.

Serious note #2: Dalston is probably so over now. It is destined to join Shoreditch as a latter-day West End full of roving stag party idiot-cliques in identical t-shirts who think it's cool to vomit on a wall so long as there's some faded edgy graffiti there.

Bonus joke round:

Q: Why did the hipster burn his mouth on the pizza?

A: Because he ate it before it was cool.

[Zoo Music Girl]

I think they are already priced out of stratford.

I suspect SE london is next. New Cross maybe

[mrtourette]

Serious note #1: All the Dalston Hipsters were at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, I know because I counted them. They were all prostrating themselves before James Blake and pretending to be too cool to go see Blur but all snuck in after "Girls and Boys" and started throwing pints of piss at each other.... ironically.

Serious note #2: Dalston is probably so over now. It is destined to join Shoreditch as a latter-day West End full of roving stag party idiot-cliques in identical t-shirts who think it's cool to vomit on a wall so long as there's some faded edgy graffiti there.

Bonus joke round:

Q: Why did the hipster burn his mouth on the pizza?

A: Because he ate it before it was cool.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

I think that's the general jist of it.

They seem unwelcome at festivals as they aren't '4 REAL' and value style over substance, although as others have pointed out they're generally pretty amiable and far less objectionable than some others that you see around.

[mrtourette]

The term 'Hipster' is applied to too far broad a group of people nowadays. You're not a 'Hipster' because you shop in Top Shop. 'Hipsterism' is a way of life that focuses consciously on what is leftfield. A real 'Hipster' wouldn't go anywhere near Top Shop because it basically just sells and homogenises what 'Hipsters' wore before it became commonplace.

What 'Hipsters' wear isn't the problem - nor their taste in music, films, art, books or whatever. The problem is their attitude. A 'Hipster' who owns a limited edition of 'Playing with Fire' on vinyl will not enthuse with you about Spacemen 3 or discuss the true lasting influence of La Monte Young on the history of popular music; he will tell you that you are not a real fan because you didn't happen to be the fourth or fifth in line at Rough Trade whenever they sold the only ten they had of that album in the country.

[russycarps]

Surely New Cross was hip years ago? I went to Goldsmiths and you couldn't move for 'cool' kids. Still cheap round there though, surprisingly.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Of course, there are loads of pretentious people who aren't hipsters. When I lived in Oxford, I used to find myself surrounded by them when watching Argentinean or Persian films at the Phoenix or at the contemporary music events; especially folk/jazz/classical cross-over concerts. You'd even find a fair few pretentious pseuds at the jazz club. Come to think of it, they were everywhere.

[Chinaski_]

The term is too over used nowadays. When I think 'hipster' I think someone who likes cult indie bands/alternative bands from the past, reads stuff like Kerouac and Ginsberg etc, but doesn't necessarily dress in 'hipster fahsion'. But then you have the pseud fashion 'hipsters' who hang around in 'trendy' areas like Dalston and Shoreditch and listen to electro and dubstep music, whilst dressing like morons and go to festivals as a fashion statement. There were a load of the latter at Primavera a couple of weeks ago.

[thesecretingredientiscrime]

SHE'S ONE OF THEM. GET HER EVERYONE!!

Edited June 4, 2013 by thesecretingredientiscrime

[mrtourette]

The term is too over used nowadays. When I think 'hipster' I think someone who likes cult indie bands/alternative bands from the past, reads stuff like Kerouac and Ginsberg etc, but doesn't necessarily dress in 'hipster fahsion'. But then you have the pseud fashion 'hipsters' who hang around in 'trendy' areas like Dalston and Shoreditch and listen to electro and dubstep music, whilst dressing like morons and go to festivals as a fashion statement. There were a load of the latter at Primavera a couple of weeks ago.

[Zoo Music Girl]

SHE'S ONE OF THEM. GET HER EVERYONE!!

[Dave The Hedgehog]

Absolutely, when places like Top Shop have their festival collections every year it's hipster chic but of course they aren't 'real' hipsters. I suspect it's these people that are seen at festivals and accused of being hipsters.

[James Bolivar]

I hope this isn't miscontrued, but that is easily the funniest thing I have read today. I may have got it wrong though, as a bit of dope I ate earlier has kicked in and rendered me incapable of clear thought.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Well, I hadn't eaten any dope when I wrote it - it wouldn't have got passed the tongue in my cheek.

[staggerlee]

Barcelona in general is full of hipster expats! Primavera was packed with em.

I thought that was an increased number of hipsters or cool kids at Glastonbury 2011.

[Mardy]

Hold on, from reading this thread, if I like spaceman 3 and kerouac and have black rimmed glasses I'm a 'hipster'? I tell you what, that's a fucking result. I feel like I've been promoted. I bet they get more gash than a 'washed up over the hill fat fucking forty something'.

[James Bolivar]

Hold on, from reading this thread, if I like spaceman 3 and kerouac and have black rimmed glasses I'm a 'hipster'? I tell you what, that's a fucking result. I feel like I've been promoted. I bet they get more gash than a 'washed up over the hill fat fucking forty something'.

[majormajormajor]

The term is too over used nowadays. When I think 'hipster' I think someone who likes cult indie bands/alternative bands from the past, reads stuff like Kerouac and Ginsberg etc, but doesn't necessarily dress in 'hipster fahsion'. But then you have the pseud fashion 'hipsters' who hang around in 'trendy' areas like Dalston and Shoreditch and listen to electro and dubstep music, whilst dressing like morons and go to festivals as a fashion statement. There were a load of the latter at Primavera a couple of weeks ago.

Edited June 4, 2013 by majormajormajor

[King Kong]

I'm normally a placid guy but I really want to punch number 12 in the throat. Really hard.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/types-of-hipster-you-encounter-in-london?s=mobile

[James Bolivar]

I'm normally a placid guy but I really want to punch number 12 in the throat. Really hard.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/lukelewis/types-of-hipster-you-encounter-in-london?s=mobile

[monkey1989]

prefer a hipster over a shirtless festival lout

[monkey1989]

^ sounded very gay haha

[harty_devon]

Melbourne is as hipster as it comes...