Music

What Does “Indie Music” Even Mean?

admin211 views



Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code BLUSTRE for an extra 4 months free at https://surfshark.com/BLUSTRE

Indie music has slowly been losing more and more of its meaning and I’m here to yap about it

THANKS FOR WATCHING!

tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bruhstre
insta: https://www.instagram.com/blustreblustre/
subscribe: https://www.youtube.com/@blustre
patreon: https://www.patreon.com/blustre

#indiemusic

source

Related posts

Sertsebirhan Tadesse – ፍትውትው | Fitewtew – New Tigrigna Music [Official Video]

Wow-Odehyieba Priscilla Surprised Naa Jacque as She St0rm her E.p with P0wérful Performance

Serawit Haben-Wedi Mesfin ft Aynome -New Eritrean Music 2024

21 comments

@blustre September 3, 2024 - 1:29 pm
Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code BLUSTRE for an extra 4 months free at https://surfshark.com/BLUSTRE
@akashita September 3, 2024 - 1:29 pm
I've thought about this a lot and I've finally come to the conclusion that we need to let go of the origin word "independent" and let "indie" be its own thing. This has happened to a lot of words in the history of the english language, and already to genre terms like "underground" and "alt" so it shouldn't be too much of a problem.
@adityabhujbal6891 September 3, 2024 - 1:29 pm
Great video! I would love if you could please make a video on each song Elliott Smith wrote. Esp. Roman Candle.
@tophat3620 September 3, 2024 - 1:29 pm
A great example of indie and what is considered the first indie pop album is ram by Paul McCartney
@VincentKing-f9e September 3, 2024 - 1:29 pm
How about road runner records they are big but not own by the big 4
@Scigh-on September 3, 2024 - 1:29 pm
I feel like alternative is probably a better lable. But indie rolls of the tongue easier so 🤷
@jiffyviv5341 September 3, 2024 - 1:29 pm
I'm slightly confused why you solidified nirvana as "technically indie" because they started out genuinely indie but are saying it's weird that billie eilish is considered indie when she too started out genuinely indie. I would also say she's just as influential in respect to the current sound of indie-pop music, similar to how you said nirvana was for indie-rock
@randomguyontheinternet7940 September 3, 2024 - 1:29 pm
Whenever I focus on labels and names, I get sick and tired of music; somehow burnt out of vibrations. Can we just make shit without having a bullshit tribalist mindset. It's more about marketing anyway, but we've been brainwashed to use the same terminology that corporate higherupse use. Can't even say kill or mention death anymore. And we're being pussies, its our fault we've let ourselves get so fucked over.
@kpgames7288 September 3, 2024 - 1:29 pm
From the UK here, I feel like indie really does depend on where you come from, indie is used to describe things like blur, kasabian, arctic monkeys, etc, a lot of Brit pop really, it's more a style rather than if they are attached to a major label, or maybe we're completely wrong 😂
@thehearingaid September 3, 2024 - 1:29 pm
Also judging from the comments - it's a confusing term. In the UK indie music is used to define a style/genre of Alt Rock Pop, It's generally very commercially successful and doesn't ness have much to do with who they signed to. However, in the US it is stuck between maybe meaning independent Artist, or niche, and being a sound (as you say in this vid). There are artists like the Smiths that seem to be niche-indie cool for the US, but always seemed odd to me, as they are just one of the big (older) bands over here.
@Cantseemuch September 3, 2024 - 1:29 pm
I was once told that indie music which, I was listening to, was uncool because it was hippie music. That confused me because the music in question was fall out boy and I didn’t really see the connection to hippies…
A year later pitch perfect 3 came out and any thoughts of hippies or uncool were gone.
@CoolAnagram September 3, 2024 - 1:29 pm
When i hear "i like indie" i just interpreted as "i listen to music i found on the Internet thats extremely popular with my demographic but doesn't air on the radio"
@meghana.2.11 September 3, 2024 - 1:29 pm
whenever i use the term indie, i do have a certain sound in mind. ig its stuff like clairo, fay webster, hippo campus, wallows, still woozy, declan mckenna just to name a few. these guys r very popular obv. its more of the vibe for me ig😭 but when ppl ask me what i like listening to i just say indie/alt rock and hope it makes sense. (ngl i would include tame impala in that category- but i dont think i even know the diff b/w alt and indie rock)
@AlqhemyA September 3, 2024 - 1:29 pm
indie and alternative are 2 genres that are as much of umbrella terms as "rock and roll"
@hotrodjones74 September 3, 2024 - 1:29 pm
Indie rock has a certain style of guitar playing and equipment that is pretty common to it. In America that means a Fender Stratocaster or Telecaster guitar with fancy arpeggiated chords and simple solos and riffs. The sound is generally low gain or high gain as in grunge (an Indie genre). British Indie rock is totally different. Basically all modern rock has become Indie because rock is no longer the top genre and it's quite fragmented now.
@not_iris. September 3, 2024 - 1:29 pm
BEA MENTIONED
@JJRedy September 3, 2024 - 1:29 pm
Indie Rock and Indie Pop haven't been used as a descriptor for Independent artists for a while. It's a genre name, a style, a sound, not an artist tag. Every single music genre that exists gets blurry very quickly, after all. It's mostly subjective and based on vibes and/or scenes.
Try to explain to me what mainstream pop is, because if you do, i can tell you a bunch of different artists/bands that wouldn't be considered pop who make music like this.
And also, you implied here that The Strokes, of all bands, aren't Indie? LMAO
Tell me if there's much difference in sound between the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The Strokes. Or The White Stripes. They all worked within the Garage Rock Revival movement in the early 2000s. And the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and The White Stripes are absolutely independent bands!
@JacobRodriguez-pb8rr September 3, 2024 - 1:29 pm
When I tell people I listen to indie music, I basically mean just one music artist I listen is indie and it’s my favorite.
But my favorite indie artist is Good Kid
@phivs3375 September 3, 2024 - 1:29 pm
Nirvanas not indie
@meinerHeld September 3, 2024 - 1:29 pm
no, it isn't what lost its meaning. you just have to root through the fakers.
@mohammadalimokhtari205 September 3, 2024 - 1:29 pm
what a great video

Comments are closed.

Add Comment