Hipsters Are Extinct
Article by
Cal
Mar 21, 2009
Genre: Electronic
Category: Audio
Artists: Don Diablo, Tila Tequila
THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT HIPSTERS
We get a lot of stuff in from Don Diablo’s promoter, and I’m not sure why we don’t just publish it all. It seems to me that no matter the track right now, if it gets posted it’s bound to hit the hypem popular list. I find this surprising I guess, because really it’s not a particularly popular genre in North America right now. He’s not a bad producer, and some of his music is quite good, but it has almost no mainstream appeal.
I use that term loosely of course because, ironically, mainstream culture these days is dominated by ‘hipster’ music and fashion, which claims a nonconformity and uniqueness so underground and cutting edge that no one but those on the bleeding edge could possibly understand. But if being trendy in this manner has been popularized in the mainstream, can we deduct that hipsters are extinct? Is the latest wave of 80′s inspired neon graphic tees just one of our many passing fascinations with fashion from the past? Can you really claim that this “outrageous and funky” style of dress is really “hipster’ish” when fashion forward ladies all over Toronto are flocking to rubber boots as the latest footwear craze, despite the fact that it’s March?
We’ll see.
Don Diablo - Give more Expect less.mp3
Tila Tequila - I love you (Don Diablo Remix).mp3
Dude, thats like so last year, Now Magazine already announced the death of the hipster http://www.nowtoronto.com/lifestyle/story.cfm?content=166405 and they are the HIPPEST.
But yeah, I think the reason Don Diablo is doing so well is saturation. Getting his shit out to every blog, getting a lot of big blogs to put his shit up leads to smaller blogs leaching those files and then tossing them on their own site out of admiration for the bigger blog. Good viral marketing is his whole deal.
PEACE!