Just had to pullquote this from that Vice article:
“I feel like there has been created, in the past two to three years, an indie-yuppie establishment. Bands like Death Cab for Cutie, Iron and Wine, the Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, they are great bands, really great bands, with great albums, great songs, high quality. And to me, it’s just so fucking boring,” he says. “It?s like fancy-coffee-drinking, Volvo-riding music for kids. And kids should be listening to music that shakes them up more, makes them uncomfortable.”
Let’s hear your best Foxworthian “You Might Be An Indie-Yuppie If…” joke in the comments. Funniest one gets an O.C. Mix CD and a subscription to Paste.
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Oh, yeah… you might be an indie yuppie if you’ve ever listened to Interpol in your mini-van.
Leave it to the indie crowd to classify and put guidelines around something that doesn’t even exist:
“Many of the jokes here are about indie-wannabes, indie-idiots, and indie-assholes. Indie-yuppie is something else.”
Its pretty hilarious that this one throw away quote “indie-yuppie establishment” that was intentionally trying to stir up controversy, has gotten easily the largest reaction out of the Sgum crowd I’ve ever seen.
NP: Bloc Party/Silent Alarm (I love how this CD shakes me up, makes me uncomfortable)
things make us feel less lonely
You may be an indie yuppie if you know the source of these 2 quotes and how they apply to indie rock’s future.
1) Nature just gave up and started again. We weren’t even apes then. We were just these smart little rodents hiding in the rocks. And when we go, nature will start over. With the bees, probably. Nature knows when to give up.
2) But I stay on, I stay on
Where do I get off?
On to greener pastures
The core is getting soft
You might be an Indie-Yuppie if you’re so self-absorbed, people call you ‘Bounty’.
wow! this thread is over 200 comments, and scott hasn’t said anything about it… who’s the winner here?
a lot of these comments are funny, but dont necessarily pertain to indie-yuppies. They’re about indie-nerds, indie-posers and indie-snobs alike, for example, Joel M’s comment about listening to a CD and hoping you hate it. His other comment about trucker hats could pertain to indie-yuppies, but it could also be about indie-posers.
Finally, the most interesting thing I noticed is how in the article, VICE manages to be an indie-snob, indie-yuppie, and indie-hypocrite all at once.
only about 1/3 of the comments posted are accurate. Some are dead on, like the good ones about gmail, pitchfork, mozilla, arcade fire, and so forth but some people on here either have no sense of humor or don’t know what they’re talking about.
C’mon Scott, don’t keep us in suspense. You’ve opened quite a can of worms and I’m dying to know who has won!
i wish someone would send this list to my ex, with the “desperately trying to compose songs on your newly purchased powerbook with garageband” highlighted.
xoxo,
still bitter induppie
You might be an I-Y if you got herpes from Carlos D.
If you think Brandon Flowers could take you in a fight.
Matt, you are an indie yuppie.
Now, now shadowcat2012, leave Carlos D. and his herpes alone
*hides face and laughs*
No offense Carlos!
This is ridiculous. Why is there so much hatred in the world for people who like any kind of music defined or loosely defined as ‘indie’. Fuck the labels and just listen to what you like.
you kids need to simmer down.
and I hate to think of a world where a shitty-ass black flag record was dropped into the laps of any unsuspecting music lover. Egahd! Black flag is twelve shades of terrible.
ha, because there is such a fine line between “indie-yuppie” and “indie-wannabe”…
You might be an indie-yuppie if you thought that the vinyl first press of Le Tigre’s At the Desk of Mr. Lady was “remarkably better” than the cd re-issue.
You might also be an indie-yuppie if you ever use the following words:
hipster, indie, yuppie, irony, self-aware, the, music or post-punk
hhmm….im not trying to win the prize, but i feel kind of stupid, because there is very compelling evidence that i am indeed an indie yuppie. does that word even make sense(?)., i dont kno, i feel like not being all main stream is refreshing, not because i want to fit into the catergory of indie, but i like it better when not everyone knows my favorite band, idk, that does sound snobby, but its like i can keep it all to myself, i cant explain it. idk, i feel like more catagories are branching off, like “emo” what is that shit? wtf is emo? idk, i mean i feel like whatever u like, u could, in some light be looked at as a poser, i mean there are a lot of actual posers, but idk. i wouldnt listen to music that i didnt like, but “being indie” i dont think they are many ppl that are actually the real deal, mostly rich kids shopping at thrift stores to look ironic for the sake of “being indie”. blah, idk, i think its cool if u like what u like, but it makes me feel really poserish now. idk, i cant speak for all…..
P.S. i really did get excited when i heard there was going to be more volkswagon commercials. o lord, how sad…..
The fact this post has generated so many comments is proof that the majority of you ARE way too focussed on music as an accoutrement to your image. As a group, you’re laughable with all your rules for who’s *really* indie and who isn’t. Who’s a sellout and who’s acceptable. You make the social rules that the snobby cheerleaders and jocks operate by look tame by comparison. Grow up.
If the person who told you about the Tara Reid nip-slip so you could link it on your blog was your mom.
And it’s true. Do we win now?
i think an indie yuppie is a guy who’s a marketing exec for a car company who drinks starbucks while driving in his new leased volkswagon and pops in the new bloc party and thinks it’ll go really well in that new tv commercial.
You might be an indie-yuppie if you’ve ever had sex with a broker while listening to Death Cab…and NOT cried. You are definitely an indie-yuppie if you are also a broker.
You might be an indie-yuppie if you have a detailed plan for exposing your small children to music so that they might develop good taste. You are almost definitely an indie-yuppie if you have similar plans for them as regards food and movies.
Senior, what’s your last name, Citizen?
You might be an indie yuppie if you are entirely convinced that your carefully aquired state of being exudes specialness never before seen in any other human alive.
You might be an indie yuppie if you are exactly like the people you hate, and yet neither realize nor admit it, even if someone cares to point it out.
You might be an indie yuppie if your t-shirts, buttons, and other belongings can say more than you can.
You are a indie yuppie if that fat lip and black eye you have were given to you by two trailer park living, metallica black tee shirt wearing, rusty ford pickup driving hillrats in the parking lot at the Landing Strip for trying to pick up their mom after work there. Please consider Royal Oak the wrong side of the tracks, Romulus is much to dangerous for you indie yuppie types……..
You might be an Indie Yuppie if you choose the prixe-fix meal at the French restaurant just to save a few bucks to put towards the cover charge at Emo’s later that night.
You might be an indie-yuppie if you have a livejournal.. with a paid membership.
If you worry about what you should NOT like more than what you do like.
…if you like to revel in the slightest romantic problem that you have because it’s so earth-shattering, you wouldn’t want to miss out on the chance to brood over something.
omg, these are all so true. seriously, i feel like thats wut all this indie business is becoming, focusing on what not to be, instead of just liking wut u like, this is so dumb, its not about ppl who actually want to listen to good music for a change anymore,its now exactly like cheer leaders and jocks, like senior said, although u were kind of harsh. idk, i mean obvisouly, not everyone is like that, but i feel like im starting to become all retarded and living inside a box of wut i should like. not that i listen to music that i dont like just to feel indie, that would be insane, but idk….
Dani, uh, wow…just wow.
Dani, I almost commented after your first post and let it go, but now I’ve got to say something. You are hilarious! That has got to be the best impression of a clueless teen I’ve ever seen. The misspellings, the self-doubt, the attention whoring, the naive realizations, it’s all there! It’s priceless! Don’t worry about it, it’ll be all right. Don’t take my criticism too harshly. You’ll grow, you’ll learn. It’s just so darn cute! Awww
…if your favorite music comes from car commercials. (sorry if someone said this already; too many comments to read.)
“Dani, uh, wow…just wow.”
hahahahahaha
- You might be an indie yuppie if you like totally love Grey’s Anatomy, now, and rub your kick ass ipod, full of awesome music that no one in your med school class recognizes, in all of the asian kids faces.
- You might be an Indie yuppie if you read every post on here and thought “jesus, i’m not as far along as all of these true fans”
- You might be an Indie yuppie if you mix lexapro with your high grade chron that you scored from some guy you don’t even speak to.
I might be a repeat. It’s not all that original.
You might be an indie-yuppie if you think those Converse “videos” are really art.
You might be an indie-yupppie if you wear wrist cuffs while drinking your starbucks coffee and pressing the gas pedal in your dad’s SUV with your pink Converses listening to Conor Obersts ‘legendary’ crooning from your iPod inside your messenger bag.
If you pay thousands of dollars on clothes just to look like a nerd
You might be an IY if your Starbucks tall extra hot double shot skinny latte relieves your post-modern angst for 10 minutes.
if you google mapped 11211 thinking it was the les and said oh fucking billyburg…from your rhinestone studded sidekick
You are an Indie Yuppie if you have a coffee table book out about playlist, called “The Pocket DJ.”
tltrec, your not too lazy to get personal!
You might be an indie yuppie if you listen to episodes of This American Life on your iPOD at the gym.
You might be an indie yuppie if you downloaded Since U Been Gone from iTunes and didn’t tell anyone until you saw on blogs that it was okay to like it and now you never shut up about your “guilty pleasure.”
You might be an indie yuppie if you order a glass of red wine at Lit.
You might be an indie yuppie if you go to the Arcade Fire show but leave after five songs because you have an early meeting the next morning.
(And I should know, because those are all based on me. Sing for Absolution.)
Would Dani please reveal if she is really a teenager or someone very cleverly pretending to be a teenager? Because OMG that totally sounds like me when I was in high school (sheepishly hiding face behind arm).
OK I’ll do mine.
You might be an IY if you import your entire iTunes library onto your work computer so you can share it on the network and show the other lawyers at your firm how hip you are.
You might be an IY if you stand in the back at the VHS or Beta show so you can step out if you need to take a cell call from a client.
You might be an IY if you download every album from a P2P network before it’s released so you can listen to it first, then actually buy the CD when it comes out, because you want it “in your collection.”
You might be hippie-undies if you smell like feet, pot and tennessee and you’ve been to 47 STS9 shows… oh wait, wrong blog. Particle rules!
you might be an indie-yuppie if you write the same comment as somebody else on Stereogum without realizing it.
And you might be an indie-yuppie if you wonder if the other contractors at your office talk about your hair when you’re gone.
You might be an indie-yuppie if, when traveling abroad, you tell people you’re from Williamsburg, not New York.
You might be IY if your co-workers think your favorite band is “Oh, You Wouldn’t Have Heard of Them”
You might be IY if you ironically remind others with air quotes that Jem was truly “outrageous, contagious”
You might be IY if you get upset because only poker spambots visit the Factory Records ’81-’83 focus MP3 blog you curate
You might be IY if you if you heard these jokes six weeks ago
You might be IY if you are deeply troubled by M.I.A.’s implied endorsement of violence in Israel
You might be IY if you wear a white belt after Labor Day
You might be IY if you invite people over to your “space” so they can get away from their dready “apartments”
You might be IY if you have your homepage set to http://search.ebay.com/vintage-adidas-jacket
You might be IY if you bought horm-rim glasses in the perfect shade to match the colored pill bottle for your OCD meds
You might be IY if you got miffed because they wouldn’t let you into the LCD Soundsystem afterparty taking place inside the bathroom
at the Interpol afterparty
You might be IY if >Sigh<…
Joel M.
you might be an indie-yuppie if you wash your jeans after wearing them once.
and still
you might be an indie-yuppie if trent reznor has never kicked you in the face.
sorry i just like it.
After I wrote the comment joking about Dani Huster above she went over to my blog and posted this comment: “you are not funny and you are phony. omg, like, i’m a laywer, omg, and like, i listen to “indie” music.”
Yep, real teenager definitely!
I vote for Lindsay, Eppy, or YoYoMan to win, and I think YoYoMan should get some sort of special super prize if he or someone inspired by him really does use the name “They Might Be Indie-Yuppies.”
I actually wish I could sing or play and instrument just so I could start a band and steal that name.
You might be an indie yuppie if you’ve ever wondered why !!! comes before +/- on your iPod.
…you were doing this indie-yuppie backlash FIRST.
You took out a home equity loan to pay for your trip to SXSW.
You might be an indie yuppie if you typed Les Savy Fav into a translator to see if it means something in French.
You might be an indie yuppie if you are still talking about when you saw Ian MacKaye walking around Adams Morgan four months ago.
if you subscribe to the idea that there is such a thing as an indie-yuppie, you just might be one.
… if you complain about Crate & Barrel not playing the new Wilco album to enhance your shopping experience.
(C&B really should be playing it – I mean, have you heard Wilco’s last one?)
You might be an I-Y if you complain constantly about how hot it is at Coachella, but refuse to take off your blazer.
OR
You are forced to take off your blazer because Brandon Flowers is wearing an identical one.
Help me out with this. Did I become an indie-yuppie as a result of simultaneously hating myself and thinking I’m better than everyone? Or did I become a self-loathing, pompous weirdo -after- this whole indie-yuppie disease got its hooks in me? BTW, is it still cool to hate yourself? Thanks for the help!
- you’ve ever described the band keane to your coworkers as “elton john with less gay”
- you’re already thinking how to market shirts with “indie-yuppie” on them in some sort of ironic font… cooper black maybe? No, too ironic. Helvetica nueue maybe.. yeah thats on its way out
- you’ve ever used the word “jawn” in a conversation.
- you got tired of explaining what in the hell the word “blog” meant and were actually happy when CNN started using the term.
- you’ve gotten pissed at stereogum for not including full mp3 filenames in his posts and yelled “WHY CAN’T YOU BE MORE LIKE FLUXBLOG” to no one in particular.
You might be an indie yuppie if you think stereopathic soulmanure is “far superior” to any of Beck’s subsequent recordings.
‘nother one:
You might be an indie yuppie if get all indignant when you hear “I Am Trying To Break Your Heart” playing on the stereo at The Gap.
(Because that’s YOUR song!)
(But…you’re still at The Gap.)
you might be an indie yuppie if you think “dogs die in hot cars” is a bad name… oh wait, that’s indie puppie.
you might be an indie yuppie if you take out a 2nd mortgage just to have a place where you can book “an albatross” when they go on tour again.
you might be an indie-yuppie if
you complain about hearing Q¬U, Bloc Party, and Franz Ferdinand during a taped segment on Anderson Cooper 360.
while buying an older, essential, album (we’ll use The Replacements’ Let It Be as an example) at the record store, you silently hope that nobody you know comes into the store and sees what you’re buying.
you like anything about The Killers.
You are an indie-yuppie if you live in Williamsburg and you are white.
You are constantly cultivating your image with 250 dollar perfectly destroyed Diesel jeans and 50 dollar hair gel that promises greasy bed head.
…you don’t like an artist unless you’ve heard them on a commercial. And even then, it depends on what show it appeared during.
You can’t sleep at night because you are wondering if you should still admit that you like the Bravery because Sam Endicott used to be in like some poser ska band or something
upon listening to Is This It for the first time, you immediately moved to the East Village, started bulk-buying Converse and switched from Marlboro Lites to Marlboro Reds
Senior, are you just bitter because the 70s are over?
If you read Stereogum.
Oh shit.
Or if you have to paint your jeans on because the really tight ones you bought won’t fit over your ankles.
You are an indie-yuppie if -
1. you try to predict the next indie band going mainstream
2. you tell everyone that you don’t buy CDs anymore and brag about your iPod playlist
3. you got your iPod engraved with your name at the back
4. you try to go to a concert of a band you like no matter what and can afford to pay triple the face value when its sold out
5. your guilty pleasures include pop star’s reality shows (oh and the OC) but no one knows
6. you sport a sidekick or a treo or a blackberry
7. you spend so much money buying designer and brand name clothing that look like you bought it from a thrift shop (where you used to shop years ago)
8. you surf mp3j’s a lot to get the latest scoop on bands and download mp3s from iTunes because you think downloading is illegal and you don’t want to get in trouble
9. you blog at work when no one is looking and read other’s blogs as well
10. you watch a movie or tv show or a tv commercial and shout out the name of the bands and songs being played in the movie when no one really cares
11. after naming the song and band, you tell people that you’ve seen the concert and give a little history about them
12. you converse with your indie-yuppie friends about indie music over fine dining and some wine
13. you have a huge collection of import music which is more expensive than the ones released here and brag about having an album before anyone else does
14. you are a frustrated artist, writer, photographer, musician, etc at one point of your life because your parents wanted you to go to law school or finish college
15. your parents used to listen to new wave music and own vice
You might be an indie-yuppie if you think this list is sad, and you say so via your brand new powerbook in your home you own while your kid is taking a nap.
Keep buying albums witten by people in their late 20′s and thirties and you’ll find yourselves at shows populated by people like us. Find your own music, bitches, if you don’t like our culture.
Love,
chad – 32 years old, wearing expensive jeans, and listening to beulah on his ipod.
If you felt a sense of loss when you heard The Shins on the radio.
If you coin the term “Yupindie”… and secretly hope it spreads.
you might be an indie yuppie if
-you just spent the last hour or so trying to read what everyone else thinks an idie yuppie is
-you say shop at the salvation army and good will for fun when the reality is every weekend your at jean machine
-you have no fucking clue what the hell an idie yuppie is
-you have a lame ass hair cut and/or a stripped sweater somewhere
-that striped sweater just happens to be from jean machine
-conor oberst has helped you get through the past 5 years of your life
-you say you thought the killers were once cool but sold out when they were on SNL
You might be and indie-yuppie if you found a yellow ‘Livestrong’ wristband, didn’t know what it was for but wore it just cuz you saw cool guys wearing them at work.
Then you bought a fake Nike anti-racist one for the same reason.
If you secretly hate the taste of Stella Artois, but drink it (in bottle form only) because you once saw a picture of Interpol drinking it.
You wore a Killers shirt to a Bravery concert, which you don’t remember why you went to
…you were just as pissed as me when you had to update your version of soulseek and lost all the shit you had on your wishlist.
you have so many famous friends you have to read Gawker every day to keep tabs on them
… if you’re totally pissed at stereogum because you SO said “indie-yuppie” first.
you might be the biggest indie-yuppie ever if you seriously consider Chromeo to be the type of music that shakes you up, makes you uncomfortable.
If you bought multiple IPs so that you can post on message boards with multiple names without being detected, you might be an indie yuppie.
vote for joel.
You might be an indie-yuppie if…
You grow up and get a job with a big corporation that isn’t really all that bad, I mean everybody has right to make a buck and all, and you have to move to the gated community soon because some really bad people have started moving into your neighborhood lately and they like don’t have jobs and the commute won’t be so bad because you can listen to your Awakening the Giant Within tapes on the way to work so you can move on up and tune in and fit in with this new group who in a way are soooooo indie.
wow you guys are up late. this keep you awake?
you might be an indie yuppie if you can’t get to sleep for worrying about whether you are one or not
You’re probably an indie-yuppie if you just spent a good amount of time comming up with a “You might be an indie-yuppie if…” joke.
You might be an indie-yuppie if you care if someone thinks you’re an indie-yuppi or not.
You might be an indie yuppie if you read this entire page of comments, I mean damn thats a lot of comments.
You might be an indie yuppie if:
–you’re wearing a t-shirt that says “Fuck Corporate America” while listening to Fugazi on your Ipod and drinking a double latte from Starbucks.
–you’re agnostic and send your children to a Catholic school.
–your conversations with coworkers when browsing through music magazines start with, “I remember when I used to hang out with them…”
or you might be an indie yuppie if you changed ur screen-name 3 times cuz you kept thinking up new ones but you dont wanna look like a loser..
I haven?t ejaculated in three weeks. The longest I?ve gone without ejaculating was a little over four weeks. I ended up ejaculating in my sleep.
I say I haven?t ejaculated, but that?s not to say that I haven?t masturbated. I masturbate probably as often as people my age ejaculate. But I refrain from ejaculating. I almost feel guilty about ejaculating (even though I?m ashamed of the fact that I?m so concerned about ejaculation).
I notice the longer I go without ejaculation, the more vigorous I am. Not only does life seem more vivid and interesting, but also, I become a better speaker. I have a hard time speaking up. People think I mumble and talk fast. They?re always telling me to speak up, and so, I try to; then they think they?ve hurt my feelings, and add, ?I?m sorry. It?s just that you mumble and talk so fast, so it?s kind of hard to understand what you?re saying.? Well, they?re right?I do mumble and talk too fast, but what they probably don?t notice is that most of what I say out loud isn?t even coherent. I?m too filled with dread in the presence of others to be able to calmly articulate what I mean to say. Sometimes I?ll refrain from saying what I mean to say just because I know that I?ll be too nervous to say it coherently. Anyway, I speak louder and more clearly if I haven?t ejaculated in a while.
I also cry more easily when I haven?t ejaculated in a while. I very much enjoy crying, or just being miserable enough to cry. I?m not sure why. I?ve often wondered why. I suspect everyone enjoys it, secretly, but I?m not sure. Sometimes I think crying is a compensation for dissatisfaction. But maybe not. Sometimes I?m even excited about a new failure, since it promises me a lot of misery. Sometimes I avoid putting in too much effort as I tell myself that my life stinks anyway, and maybe I secretly think then that ?this is one more excuse for misery.? But, I don?t know?maybe not. I?m aware of how shameful it is to enjoy crying so much, but I do enjoy it, and I?m not so ashamed of it, even though I?d probably never tell anybody I know.
The day after I ejaculate I become very susceptible to crying as well. But it doesn?t last long. I also become very irritable.
A long time ago, I once heard or read somewhere that football players are told that they shouldn?t have sex like 4 days or so before a game.
I wonder if it?s just all in my head. I mean, maybe I don?t really feel more vigorous after not ejaculating for a while, maybe I just think I do because I have this supposed memory of what football players are told to do?
Maybe, maybe, maybe! I can come up with a billion maybes!
You might be a self important douche bag if you preseume to tell me that I should be listening to music that in YOUR estimation. “shakes me up”
You might be an IY if you are affiliated with any of the blogs listed on the right hand column of any number of hipster blogs that continue to marginalize themselves by their proliferation.
holy crap, jose! where did that come from? that just blew me away.
you might be an indie-yuppie if you listen to pitchfork’s itunes station…or you might be an indie-yuppie if you already know about pitchfork’s itunes station since it only went online about an hour ago
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com:8000
You might be an indie-yuppie if you feel like a jerk walking out of starbucks with Beck’s latest and a soy chai latte in your hands, but you do it anyway.
Jose, dude maybe you should get urself a dart board, that way when ur about to come you have something to aim it at
you might be an indie yuppie if you enter a graduate program with the GOAL of writing for pitchfork
If:
You go straight to the touch screen wall in Hollister to pick The Killers, Kaiser Chiefs and Interpol on the play list, so they’ll play when you shop.
please make it stop!!! it burns!!! it burns!!!