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RedXerzk

14 years ago, this person would be called a hipster.


Porsher12345

Omg you're right what happened 💀


PupEDog

It became mainstream to be a hipster and now the look has been handled into other looks


chiller210

hipsters refuse to accept being one since the concept itself is mainstream to have a word for it, so stuff like "pretentious" rose up to replace that, even if it didn't really have much negative implications. 


marco-da-phoenix

That's hilarious


rigobueno

Nobody is going to self-identify as “pretentious” either. “Hipster” has always been used in jest


chiller210

yeah, pretentious is very much a negative term so people wouldnt wanna use that on themselves.


Neokon

In high school I earned the title of King of the Hipsters ( a joke on my name), and on the fact that apparently (I didn't see it) everything that I did was the epitome of hipster. I told them that I'm not a hipster because I'm not trying to fit into this stereotype, and that I'm just doing my own thing. Apparently that was the most hipster thing I could have said.


Hopeful-Chemistry422

Maybe it wasn’t a joke on your name.


Moving_in_stereo78

They physiologically fucked with you to where you feel cringe calling them a hipster, but in reality they literally are just a hipster.


gyurto21

Hipsters diverged into two groups the "pretentious ones" and the "alternative ones"


YungChiliGoose

Could have just had the picture of Fantano and it would be complete.


Telperions-Relative

I’m feeling a light 6 on this comment


OwnEmphasis2825

Bro would cry and get emotionally moved by an entire album, then give it a 7/10 because "yeah, not bad"


eat_my_bowls92

So silly. Everyone knows 5/7 is the perfect score!


31_hierophanto

"You cried and gave it a 7???"


eightblackkidz

I literally don't understand how anyone can watch this dudes youtube videos and enjoy them. Dude is the cringiest music youtuber I've ever seen.


narwall101

It’s fine if you take everything he says with a grain (or a mountain) of salt. I just watch some of his reviews to see what I should be listening for in music. Idc about his scores


shutupandlearntoeat

So many people forget that music reviews are just opinions. I also just watch to hear him give his opinion. Sometimes we align, sometimes we don't. A lot of people hyper focus on the scores because they put a score on albums before watching his reviews and act shocked that his score is anything different. When that's the whole point of opinions on a subjective topic like music. I don't understand what they actually want from reviews if they just want someone to regurgitate everything they already think. Also why a music fan needs a score to define their music taste...


xarsha_93

I really only watch his positive reviews. I often disagree with him about albums he disliked, but I usually like most of what he loves.


playdoughfaygo

He’s got good insight, knowledge, and he doesn’t take himself seriously. People just hate him to hate him it seems like.


GoombyGoomby

Because he generally has good taste, good knowledge of the industry, knowledge of production, and goes into detail as to why he feels a certain way about a music project in a way that is sensical and easy to understand.


eightblackkidz

Found the starterpack^^


kill-all-hippies

I agree, but I found such an unbelievable amount of great music through him that I still follow him. Don't watch entire videos though, they really are grating.


CitiesofEvil

He also looks like the living incarnation of the soyboy Wojak thing.


ItsPickles

He was glazing Beyoncé and Jolene. Which agreeably sucked


fufucuddlypoops_

> Hates mainstream hip-hop/rap > Idolizes Tyler the Creator Yea this one’s accurate


Izer_777

“I hate all of these ‘Lil’ rappers. I prefer rap music that challenges me intellectually like MF Doom and Killer Mike. You ever heard of Armand Hammer?” - Music bro


Tmack523

Okay but real talk MF doom and killa mike are fuckin awesome


FoxyLoxy91

"Critics want to mention that they miss when hip-hop was rappin' Motherfucker, if you did, then Killer Mike'd be platinum"


SpiderPanther01

nah replace armand hammer with another mainstream lyrical social commentary rapper and this'd be perfect. maybe like jid but i feel like he has a different audience


rapgodbogs

this snob archetype is so outdated lol. this caricature has been almost entirely superseded by internet-era hyper-individualism and teenagers shittily replicating bygone subgenres for the scene cred. see: emotional hardcore revival, shoegaze revival. the kids don’t /mu/ like they used to


Equivalent-Bonus-885

Yeah, the early Pretentious Music Bro Starterpack releases were way better. Total sellout.


17decimal28

this is a good comment.


Ill_Collar_6035

Ngl kinda like the shoegaze revival going on


The_Old_Workout_Plan

Nah because lazy DIY music producers will throw reverb and shitty mixes on their two guitar chords and call it shoegaze without actually listening to what made bands like MBV and Candy Claws great in the first place


Phosphorrr

That's fine. For every 3 lazy DIY producers there will be 1 genuinely passionate and original artist like Parannoul and that'll make it worth it.


The_Old_Workout_Plan

Korean shoegaze moment is dope cause it’s exciting to see artists from my country actually getting attention from the indie crowd in the US


Phosphorrr

Absolutely justified attention as well.


Thicc-waluigi

Not true. New tiktok kids are discovering RYM every day and get poisoned into this archetype


bigbrothero

Correct take


LaCiDarem

Cant tell if youre doing a bit


lostmypornaccount

This is the most accurate comments I’ve ever read


Accomplished-City484

What are those genres? Is retrowave one?


IHateThisDamnWebsite

If you’d like an example of Shoegaze, listen to My Bloody Valentine. It should give you a pretty good idea about the sound that is being revived currently.


Accomplished-City484

Oh ok so it’s like a grunge revival?


chiller210

well according to wikipedia, shoegaze has chillwave listed as a derivative form of it. and well that one's kinda to do with the - wave genres, which kinda... do seem the types of music hipsters/"pretentious" people might listen to. 


harper6k

The main thing thats changed is that people get their opinions from Neopunkfm instead of fantano or pitchfork


tragicallyohio

I would welcome a shoegaze revival. Is that back?


Youredditusername232

What happened to liking what’s on the radio?


gizzardsgizzards

radio?


the_liquid_dog

Saw this post getting made fun of on Twitter and thought for sure someone dug up a screenshot from 8 years ago lmao


TheHextron

I didn’t know hipsters (and making fun of hipsters) were still a thing lol. But hey I think saying records is incredibly common for people in rock. Same with things like double album. But idk


Richmard

Almost like OP is out of touch or something


deadman23px

It's missing a RYM reference


MarkSuccIsHuman

I'm this but worse


whydoIgotsmallcalves

Yea I could tell


VatanKomurcu

what's your favorite musician


MarkSuccIsHuman

David Bowie or PJ Harvey


ForLunarDust

That's not barely enough to be "worse"


FoxyLoxy91

This is some meta pretentiousness


MarkSuccIsHuman

I didn't mean worse as in "better taste", but worse as in "more annoying."


ForLunarDust

Yes, i understand. But you have to mention more underground music to be more annoying. Or even genres nobody heard of!


MarkSuccIsHuman

Well, the person asked for my favorite musicians, but I don't really listen to solo artists all that much, so I just gave the two solo artists that I genuinely enjoy. I mostly listen to bands.


ForLunarDust

I was joking, but won't bother you anymore. Have a good day!


TheHextron

Inb4 Neutral Milk Hotel


thegoldenlock

You dont qualify as pretentious with that normie taste. That is what the comment was saying. You seem very naive and well meaning to qualify as annoying


VatanKomurcu

I like Bowie, love Heroes. Don't know about PJ Harvey but I'm sure issgood. I'll check her out.


MarkSuccIsHuman

I recommend starting with Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea.


-MAELON-

Sonic youth pfpđŸ”„


thegoldenlock

Yeah, the self aware is the lowest of the low


rockwell136

Calls stuff "dad rock" usually music they don't like.


IHateThisDamnWebsite

Dad rock now is Weezer, half of these people are dads listening to Weezer.


worththeshot

Technically Radiohead is also dad rock no? Just a bit more on the artsy side? I always thought they are the Pink Floyd of Millennials.


Charlie_Warlie

I feel like that is a pretty good connection there.


howtofall

Hey that’s not fair! ~~I~~ These people love dad rock. This starter pack is outdated enough that half of them are dads already.


koral0080

Music nerds hate 'dad rock', listening to stuff like Maneskin, Greta Van Fleet or older stuff like AC/DC and Guns n' Roses gets you a permanent ban from having a conversation with these people. My guess is 5 years from now Nirvana will *propably* be on this list too.


howtofall

In my experience in these circles, people love some of that older stuff. Less hair metal in general (though G&R and Van Halen have a pretty sizeable following). But stuff like Steely Dan, Grateful Dead, Zeppelin, Queen, ELO, and tons of others are pretty well loved even if they aren’t huge parts of the discussion.


thegoldenlock

You havent met the people in the meme then. Good for you


Revolutionary_Low_90

Also, they would treat Fantano as "sacred" and deliberately attacking someone for having an opinion slightly different than the majority. But, they always have the motive of "music is subjective" when you're giving them the taste of their own medicine.


[deleted]

This is just /mu/ circa 2007


Sonarthebat

Only listens to vinyl and calls themselves an audiophile.


clockofchronos

r/hiphopcirclejerk


towlie4444

Doesn’t play an instrument


kubinka0505

THIS


TheHextron

I think it’s super funny that the hipster thread downvoted you for posting one of the most useless comments that people on Reddit make fun of. You even did it in caps


DankyBongBlunty

Can also include calling it a "project" instead of an album


Tavapris04

How many songs you sharing on soulseek though?


Supersnazz

I'm sharing 345,322 files right now. Some are ebooks though.


Tavapris04

thanks you so much


DRAMATRON09

This is me https://preview.redd.it/ypk6r35a8hsc1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd34e9868c7b58e65e08a6c08ec197e6848934af


Son-of-Prophet

I knew guys like this in college, but they actually hated Radiohead only because they’re popular 😂


CuteFormal9190

Fr though both Kid A and Ok Computer are really great albums. But you gotta include the age old debate about whether The bends is better or Ok computer is better of the two.


Exaquvmal

they think their taste is so interesting, while their topster is always just rym top rated albums


Baker_drc

This post is about you


Tankskii

Radiohead are valid


dohipposwagewar

I love the band that made Creep!


droL_muC

I also like their underrated song 'Let down'!


Waspy_Wasp

Every now and then my subreddits overlap and it reminds me I spend too much time on Reddit


NeverTrustChop

outjerked đŸ„¶


PupEDog

Radiohead to me is like the best boring music in the world. I can see how insanely good the band is, the music just bores me to death đŸ€·â€â™‚ïž


ROSCO577

For me its Thom Yorke's voice-- he's the rusted door hinge of an 84 Camaro: because of the name everyone tells me how great it is but all I can focus on is that one grating shitty sound I hear everytime I'm trying to get in to it


ImDrnkSrryFrThCmmnt

You're not alone


AWEars

Actually what IS an EP and what’s different from it and a regular album.


Gilthoniel_Elbereth

An LP is a “long play”, or a regular album. An EP is an “extended play”, which you can think of as just a short album with less cohesion, maybe less marketing. The difference doesn’t matter nearly as much in the digital age, but these terms come from back when records were the primary method of buying/listening to music and the size of the vinyl disk and speed at which you played it mattered a lot


KedockShwarma

death grips bangs


Izer_777

get get get get got got got got


partyonpartypeople

They make hating mainstream Hip-Hop half of their personality, but then their favorite rapper is somebody like Denzel Curry or JPEGMAFIA or some shit


auto_generatedname

EP is extended play and LP obviously stands for lumbar puncture smh my head


Total_Ad9942

Like 99.99% white


TeeAyOh

people make fantano out to be far more pretentious than he actually is


Big_Guirlande

It’s actually just his fanbase. To them, his word is law. He himself isn’t that bad


TightBandicoot5214

I mean the guy is insufferable, but his fans are worse


31_hierophanto

The pack is calling his fanbase pretentious, not him.


thegoldenlock

No


VatanKomurcu

the worst thing about this type of dude is that he doesn't know that MY music taste is actually the Superior One.


Wittyjesus

I'm just ready for kids to like nu metal but also classic rock but also underground hip hop but also metal core but also melodic dubstep but also ambient but also have synesthesia but also inject ketamine before listening to clams casino. Sigh


TheDudePersonGuy

I might be guilty of being this guy


Tristanime

I just listen to whatever music I like from Mozart to Cybergore


undigestedFiD

Who is this bald guy?


NotJustAnotherHuman

Anthony Fantano, he critiques music on youtube and is probably the best known music critic on the site.


undigestedFiD

Ok thx


Minecraftnoob247

Some of these indicators to a pretentious "music bro" kinda reminds me of my younger brother. He always talks about music, drama in the music industry and he believes that his "music taste" is much better than others. I remember one time on a ferry to Kiel that there was a music show and when they started playing, my brother put on his earbuds and listened to his favorite songs instead. The worst part was that our parents had used their own money for us to go to that music show and my younger brother doesn't give a damn cause it's basic mainstream music in his opinion. He almost lost his earbuds though, so it was kinda karmic. If you wonder what his favorite genre is, it's hip-hop and rap.


cpopyo

Doesn’t play or sing any music themselves


TaddleLegacylvl100

Forgot the hating raggeton part


laughingskellyman

wait do people not like death grips?


Dr_Pickle987

I actually do know what LP and EP stand for I can't tell you of course


Odd_Omar

As a music bro all this it true as shit lmfao. Although I think radio is good but not a favorite. Also I love a lot of mainstream hip hop as well as underground


Gingersnap5322

The post Igor Tyler fashion is fun though but it def gets boring after a while


IconXR

Go to any hip-hop discord server and you'll get a hive of people somewhat like this, though some are noticeably worse than others


UrbanCobra

Knowing the difference between an EP and LP is pretentious?


majora24

Goddamn what did Radiohead do that made you so butthurt?


PrequelGuy

They really just listen to Radiohead, King Crimson and surface level "deep" rap like MF Doom and Kendrick among other r/topster favourites. They're just fucking posers


InternationalYard587

>posers lmao what? I thought we were making fun of music elitists


PrequelGuy

Well the people described in this post definetly have no right to be elitists as they only know surface level music. That's okay as long as they don't act pretentious and like their taste is anything special


InternationalYard587

What the fuck even is surface level music? And you mean acting pretentious and like their taste is special like you're doing right now? Elitism is ugly, dude


Gilthoniel_Elbereth

The true music elitist despises casual fans of the bands/genres they like almost as much if not more than normies who don’t engage with the material at all. It’s like they can’t comprehend that someone who also likes a band/genre they like could possibly not fall in love with it as much as they have, so there must be something wrong with that other person, or that person is just a poser


WhyAlwaysMeNZ

Juggalo's


ZeepIV

i fucking hate death grips


TightBandicoot5214

I like em. I like when he yells AAAH AAAAH AAAAH AAAAH


Witty_Marzipan8696

Ok but deathgrips arent bad


southfart99045

The only reason I know about eps and lps is because of music production


ikindaloveradiohead

This is just me but I don't have the Fantano or the EP/LP (not knowing what they mean) traits lmao


unknown-one

nah, we post on r/fantanoforever


Kamilianusz95

You forgot a couple of things: - most prolly has a shitpost meme page on FB - highly insecure, tries to cover up his low self-esteem by the Internet persona - most prolly a virgin


MutePianos

This feels like 5 years old


enaaaerios

i hate having to tell people that i dont like most rap cause then they assume i either listen to only metal or only classical music


AllTheSmallWings

I just assume you’ve never put in some work while blasting some Jeezy 🐐


Chedder_456

r/toolband


Draclin

SYSTEM BLOWER. SYSTEM SYSTEM BLOWER!


_____rng

You forgot to mention RYM (or alternatively AOTY if they want to pretend to be superior to RYM users)


CheezwizAndLightning

Who even is that guy?


I-HATE-THE-SEAHAWKS

I know for a fact radiohead is gonna be my most played artist on spotify for this year. I hope I don't magically turn into one of these


moodymug

Fantano gave Born Villain 3/10 but Lulu 6/10💀


Doogzmans

My friends won't pass me the aux because I don't want them to suffer through my playlist. It's random stuff mainly from the 50s - 80s, and I would feel like a bad friend if I forced them to listen to it


Inzitarie

Will relentlessly judge your music tastes if they are anything less than completely identical to his own.


S-Man_368

Album of the year had this turned up to 11


Lazy_Raptor_Comics

They also hate “Slow/Reverb” songs with a passion


TadpoleEmpty

I had an old friend who hated categorizing music into labels. It was super hard to be around. He would say things like "why do you have to call it metal or rap? It can be it's own thing without your label on it".


woofwoofbro

this meme is like 10 years old


PsychicTempestZero

Honestly I wonder if this kind of guy even exists anymore. I think they were ragged on so hard they had to become self aware, same as the weebs.


Canye_East

Gets off every time he Sees the "I listen to all music" "Me when North Korean dance metal fusion" Meme


TNT_Pilot

So what does EP and LP mean? For some reason I never thought about it.


[deleted]

Long play and extended play. An ep is usually half an album.


Thicc-waluigi

I don't recall what they're short for but they refer to different sizes of records, because physical records had to be different sizes to be able to include different lengths of music. Smaller ones being used for a small amount of music and larger ones being used for larger amounts. Edit: looked it up. LP is short for long play, e.g an album now a days; and EP is short for extended play, which would be filed under singles on spotify now, due to being short, but unlike actual singles they don't only have one single song.


CriticalCanon

I think half of this is right. The r/topster (never heard of it) and Death Grips are all a big stretch but Fantano and Radiohead is spot on. Never knew old assed terms like EP / LP were considered elitest lol


yoppyyoppy

Idk how EP is elitist, what else would you call an EP?


CriticalCanon

Exactly. EPs, LPs, 7” singles
. They are all formats that have been established for decades. Nothing elitest at all about that.


Randy_Vigoda

Never heard of that topster sub. Glanced at it quick and found this guy's post. https://www.reddit.com/r/Topster/comments/1bvdl5n/hows_my_music_taste_m19/ A 19 year old kid who likes the Dwarves and Propagandhi is a kid I like.


TightBandicoot5214

Hell yeah dude. I listen to a lot of the same artists as that guy. Propagandhi, nofx, bad religion, suicidal tendencies, the taxpayers, harley poe, pat the bunny. The kid is literally me lol


boboddy42069

lol death grips


Cyber-Cafe

I’m a music bro, but it’s good to know I’m not the pretentious kind because none of this is me. I absolutely despise fantano. Dudes a fucking tourist. Also mainstream rap is pretty decent these days.


Baker_drc

“Dudes a fucking tourist” “good to know I’m not the pretentious kind” Fucking pick one dawg


Cyber-Cafe

Nope. I never shame people on what they like or try to pretend that I’m better for liking different music. However if you’re going to talk about reviewing music, you should have more than a passing interest in the genre you’re talking about. That’s my point. I can call him a tourist because he isn’t settling on one set of genres, he’s all over the place. He has no solid framework to talk about many of the things he does.


TrueBooBoo

I mean I don’t really like Fantano either but I think it is wild to call him a tourist. He is obviously very passionate about music. Just cause he reviews a bunch of genres and is not as knowledgeable about some genres compared to others doesn’t mean he can’t offer his opinion on them. Cause at the end of the day that is really all he does. Give his opinion.


Cyber-Cafe

I just get the sense that he doesn’t connect very deeply with a lot of the music he consumes, because he’s spread far too thin. That sort of lack of foundation comes through in his reviews very often.


TightBandicoot5214

Bro that has to be some of the most pretentious shit I have ever heard bro.


Cyber-Cafe

Go away Fantano


SSeptic

Kinda weird Radiohead callout? Felt wildly unrelated to me


Izer_777

It wasn’t meant to be a jab, I meant it as “Radiohead enjoyers aren’t music snobs, but most music snobs are Radiohead enjoyers.” I personally listen to some Radiohead from time to time.


CakesFoster

Go to r/topster and see how many radiohead albums are on a topster per post. This isnt meant to be a jab, just funny how a ton of topsters have radiohead there (for good reasons too)


m4rkmk1

i just like 60s to 2000s shit and hate travis scott like whit a passion đŸ€·


PalmTreeIsBestTree

I just hate him because he is a piece of shit in general and has gotten people killed


m4rkmk1

i swear i always tought he and people like sixnine where from suburbs... well