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Hey man, any hipster worth their salt loves Common and M.I.A. It’s the fake hipsters employed by major media corporations that don’t. The people who are simultaneously music snobs, but also really really want you to know that they are so super cool and HERE ARE THE COOL BANDS THAT I KNOW YOU WILL KNOW ARE COOL SO LOOK HOW COOL I AM.

Magazines and newspapers are awesome. I read more than one daily. But their art, literature and music critiques? Often, although certainly not always, leave something to be desired.

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Galamb_Borong said on December 23rd, 2007 at 3:39 am

I don’t pretend to appreciate hip-hop; I don’t try to denigrate it either. I’m an artistic relativist who can only rate music by how much I enjoy it.
It is true that newspapers can give the impression that alt rock and hip-hop collectively encompass the entire popular music scene, but maybe I’m just used to bias in music reviewing, coming from a largely classical background until this year. Gramophone would have you believe that most of the best music written after WWI is British, specifically English.

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I hated hipsters before it was cool.

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THUNDAH!!

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To be fair, the Ghostface album came out Dec 4, and most of the media people probably already had their lists made by then. It’s also a terrible album, especially compared the the one-two punch of Fishscale/More Fish in 2006.

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Genevieve said on January 9th, 2008 at 2:22 pm

I don’t even read the newspaper anymore, because it is a LIAR about most things in my life. I got a free subscription to “Blender” magazine, and they seem to have reviewed a LOT of different stuff; in their “Top 100 ‘Top’ Things in 2007” type article, Kala was named the number one album of the year. I also distinctly remember Ghostface Killah and Ozomatli being mentioned at least 3 times in the past few months.

I wouldn’t call myself a “hipster”, as a nerd and all. For example: I don’t trust anyone who declares that they loved the “Umbrella” song. It stuck in my head, but I think it’s annoying as hell. Also, I didn’t download all the music I wanted to put on my last generation non-iPod MP3 player because I’ve been busy studying and not getting paid. Fuggin’ medical clinicals…

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