I'm so over the '20 Worst Hipster Bands'
Briefly, couple of years back, it was trendy to go around town calling a few of my friends, my contemporaries and me the "hipster geeks" or "hipster nerds."
Never liked it much, but never figured out how to stop the internet from being wrong and derisive about things, so I just sort of let it go... It died out on its own, given time, and I'm sure the long term psychological damage will be minimal.
I'm gonna just go on record, by the way, as saying that I don't know what a hipster is. I'm also willing to bet you don't, either. Hipster is one of those strange new words that, more often than not, simply seems to translate as, "different, therefore bad."
So, when someone says, "That's so hipster of you," they're actually saying, "That's so different, therefore bad of you."
In that context, I'm actually fine with the term. It's certainly a better option than any of its predecessors. If some made up, all-inclusive bit of slang can take the place of other words that have traditionally evoked insult via the unearned ridicule of some innocent, uninvolved third party (e.g. gay, lame, retarded,) then let's do it. From now on, anything that's different, therefore bad is hipster.
And I'm willing to say that most of the bands on this list are different than bands I'd actually enjoy. So, they're both different and bad. In fact, some of them write songs akin to an auditory hate crime. So, yes, I'm willing to call them all hipsters, even though I'm going to reiterate: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
That's a story for another time, though. Right now, I guess all I'm trying to say is that I was getting called a hipster way before these guys started doing it.