Word: hipsterism
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...hipster bars in Central Square; we may have organized a kick-ass fundraiser for an amazing cause. We may have a sizzling wardrobe or mix a mean martini. We may have people knocking on our doors every Saturday night looking for a good time. We may be amazing in a million different ways. But because we don’t hold the key to a mansion, we’re robbed of the status we deserve. It smacks of a different century...
There’s a reason for this: Arular is a truly great album, one that more than meets even the absurdly high expectations many have built up for it. It remains to be seen whether M.I.A.’s hipster-friendly formula will translate into the widespread success she deserves. Just to get the ball rolling, all readers should get their hands on a copy of this album by any means necessary, cruise through their hoods blasting it on the fattest Prius soundsystems they can find, and watch the rebel rhythms trample past the hype...
...also adds a little bit of the nonconventional. In one piece, de la Durantaye traces the cultural significance of the elephant, from Paradise Lost to the eponymous White Stripes album. It was this piece that led the Advocate to label de la Durantaye a “hipster...
While de la Durantaye recognizes that being a hipster can sometimes be useful, he rejects the epithet for himself...
...English department is not a release party for a new soft drink, and there one does not wish to be singled out as a hipster,” he says...