Talk:Independent music

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I don't think that this article adequately sums up how superior listening to indie music makes me feel. I mean, sure, this article is full of pretentious bullshit, but it's just not enough. Get a Pitchfork writer to add some of his pseudo-intellectual semantics, and then maybe we'll have something going. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.255.10.48 (talk) 15:36, 11 April 2008 (UTC) No-one has EVER used the term the way this article does. Not since the mid 90s anyway. So we're defining a term as it was used 10 years ago....? Ok so some kids think that they're noteworthy for not liking major label music; but do they use the term consistently to describe any independent music? I doubt they do...

So the way the kids try and use the term 'indie' [independent indie rock; not "all indie rock", and not "all independent music"], that's what this article should be on imo. Is this independent indie rock an underground music? Then why are there so many of you? And why isn't 'indie music' [as it is used today] a subcategory of 'underground music'?

And so on... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.136.28.193 (talk) 03:39, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

And PS i want to congratulate wikipedia for being so easy to format. I'm being sarcastic BTW; you complain about multiple edits yet it's impossible to start a new paragraph... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.136.28.193 (talk) 03:43, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

I love that you all are too pretentious to see that I was mocking you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.13.206.245 (talk) 15:50, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

Don't get cocky. We all understood you.174.50.216.137 (talk) 19:20, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

Major Labels

I've been told that, once an artist is signed to a major label, he or she is no longer "indie". They must record solely on an independent label to be indie. 76.126.15.78 (talk) 18:50, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

I wish. I don't think a lot of people agree with us on that. The Of Mice and Men page still proudly describes them as indie, even though they're signed with Universal Records. By that metric, Justin Bieber is indie - he started out solo on Youtube, so, ya know, indie forever.174.50.216.137 (talk) 19:24, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

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