Teenagers want to be edgy and in style but not to the point where they are actually being individualistic. They wear clothing embellished with rock references from the 60s that are borderline relevant. Teens buy faux clothing to match their new soft grunge personas.
On Rock Star Day during spir- it week students wore ripped black tights, shredded shorts, smudged eyeliner, and lots of beanies. That’s not the rock star “look”.That’s group- ie chic..
Everyone can rattle off The Beat- les’ top hits; most people still have “Penny Lane” or “Can’t Buy Me Love” buried somewhere in their iTunes library. However, to actually live the hipster-underground life- style, one must first listen to the truly obscure music.
Forgetify is a new program that allows users to listen to songs that have never been played on Spotify. Twenty percent of songs – over 40 million – have never been played, not even once. Pressing play allows the songs to escape from the ignored
depths of the website. When hear- ing the heart-wrenching noise of a Russian man angrily strumming an acoustic guitar while screaming in a foreign language, the listener learns the struggle of listening to obscure music. When the listener can feel the pain of a neglected musician, that is when they have begun their journey to hipster stardom.
Referring to Nirvana as “hippie music” shows the complete clueless- ness of people who claim to love Kurt Cobain: the young fan base is com- pletely misguided. Classic rock band pictures cling to shirts in Target, Wal- Mart, and Forever 21, though no one even knows what he or she is looking
at.The band’s music is already slipping away with fewer people listening to songs made decades ago. New sounds and styles are becoming more familiar, which is a normal trend in the music industry. However, rock bands that were crucial in the musical evolution are beginning to only be remembered through merchandise. The music in- dustry is dying in the most ironic way that the hashtag-2k14 generation could kill it: slowly and painfully.