The Feeling, Scouting for Girls, One Night Only, etc...
What is the name of this 'genre' of music?
I'd quite like to know, so that when it's mentioned I can say 'Ah yes, <genrename>: that really is a pile of horrible, disgusting, twee shit'.
p.s. if there is not set name for it yey, my suggestion is 'C*ntpop'
*yet, not yey
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the genre is
faux-indie
Findie?
utter bobbins.
'indie-landfill'
culled from an article on the independent or somewhere, this morning.
Or I suppose
landfill-indie would work better as the actual genre name.
..
mortgage indie - from same article
Cuntpop. Nice.
Usually 'ITV indie'.
Or
Hollyoaks Indie
Mmm. That works that does
You win £5
Surely its just...
pop?
^ the voice of reason
Of course its pop
But its a sub-genre. Most indie is pop. Thats like saying the genre is "humans" or something.
Hindie?
Hondie?
That's for Hollyoaks Inidie...
FeyCore
Melodoentirelyforprofitmakretdrivencynicaldrivelcore
Yeah
this is all simply T4 music.
Virgin Radio Playlist
Jopop?
Named after Jo Whiley. She usually bigs this kind of thing up - see also David Gray, Sigur Ros etc etc.
Don't go putting Sigur Ros and David Gray in the same sentence
my son!
I was going to say
that doesn't really work does it if you're gonna put David Gray with Sigur Ros in what's apparently the same genre..
yeah
i guess Hollyoaks Indie or even TopShop indie is appropriate...
Irk the purists etc
they both write wall-paper advert music for Guadianista's dinner parties. Although Gray probably realises that playing the guitar with a violin bow is a little unnecessary.
Zing!
...zing.
I love musicians who do unnecessary things
Ah but careful these...
unnecessary things don't become necessary for you to love the music because then you'll only love musicians who do necessary things which just happen to be unnecessary.
I followed that, I think
I'm not sure where it leaves J Mascis' solos, but I'm going to carry on loving Dinosaur Jr regardless.
Topshop indie isn't it ?
i second
topshop indie, it makes sense
always referred to it as
Topshop indie, too!
or just vacuous faux indie, chart indie..the list goes on