(you'll find a player at the bottom of this post to listen to each song in its entirety)
Margot and The Nuclear So & So's - "Broadripple Is Burning"
- This song is a few years old, but I just started listening to this band and they're incredible. I had to share them with you guys.
Margot & The Nuclear So & So's - "New York City Hotel Blues"
- One more example of the "less is more" stylings of a great indie band, mixed with some New York City vibes i can certainly relate to.
Drake - "Look What You've Done"
- His new album 'Take Care' leaked 2 days ago, and after listening to the whole thing, i think this is my favorite track on the record. He talks about real life and shows the human side of his music/lyrics. This song can be about romantic love or family love, it applies to both sides of the spectrum.
- My favorite quote from this song is: "You love me and i love you, and your heart hurts, mine does too. And it's just words and they cut deep but it's our world, it's just us two. I see painkillers on the kitchen counter, i hate to see it hurts so bad."
Childish Gambino - "L.E.S."
- On a lighter note, here's Childish Gambino's (aka Donald Glover) ode to New York City's Lower East Side, along with some Hipster references (both positive & negitive)
Death Cab For Cutie - "Codes & Keys (Yeasayer Remix)"
- The official "Codes & Keys" Remix EP won't be out for another 11 days, but i got a hold of this Yeasayer Remix to share with you Death Cab fans. The EP will also feature other artists including.. 2 bears, Cut Copy, RAC Maury, and Ulrich Schnauss (among others.)
Sigur Rós – “Lúppulagið”
- This Tuesday, the 15th, Sigur Rós will be releasing their new album 'Inni'. Here's a precviously unreleased studio recording of Lúppulagið. In case you were wondering, it means "Loop Song" in Icelandic.
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I find it interesting you explicitly pointed out the hipster references in Childish Gambino's song. This coupled with your original post on the "hipster" concept makes me wonder, do you consider yourself a hipster? Or perhaps you embody the ideals of a "hipster" but aren't one yourself?
ReplyDeleteWell, I'll try to answer your questions as best as I can. I'm not really sure if you're asking out of pure curiosity or if you disagree with something I said, but regardless, I don't mind responding to you about it. That's correct, I did post an article on here quite a while back about the "hipster subculture."
ReplyDeleteChildish Gambino makes his "hipster references" pretty blatantly in his song "L.E.S." (in my opinion,) and I thought that he was somewhat on the fence about whether or not he likes or dislikes hipsters. Also, he's specifically focusing on the girls in that song.
You asked me: "do you consider yourself a hipster?" and also if I fell that I: "embody the ideals of a hipster." I don't classify myself as a hipster. At the same time, I don't classify myself as a particular "type." Sometimes my friends will refer to something I DO, or something I SAY, or something I WEAR as being "hipster," but I personally just think of myself as being someone who cares about art and culture and writing and music and peaceful solutions.
You might think of those ideas or lifestyle characteristics as "hippie," and that doesn't really bother me.. if I could go back in time, I'd probably go back to the time of Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s and feel most "at home." I think the word HIPSTER has gotten to become very taboo now, and I think it's also overused now, so it depends on the context really. At the time when I wrote that article, it was a few years back, and the term wasn't being used as an adjective and/or an insult NEARLY as often as it is now. I'm accepting of everyone, I really don't care what you wear or what you look like, I just care about how you treat other people and the mark you leave on the world, whether big or small. I hope this helped clear up what you were curious about.