Businesses have noticed that marketing an experience yields higher sales and are now marketing experiences to the Millennial demographic. Independent musicians have often deluded their music with pop themes and production in order to appear more marketable and attractive to major record labels, thus blurring the line between indie rock and mainstream pop. I conducted research on the top 5 year-end songs according to Billboard and Pitchfork from , Billboard representing mainstream pop and Pitchfork representing indie rock.
I analyzed these accepted indie rock songs against accepted mainstream pop songs to find that there is no distinct overarching difference between what is deemed indie rock and what is deemed mainstream pop.
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Millions of people played indie music, but only a few were able to reach worldwide success and influence younger artists to do the same. Their album, Doolittle, inspired a lot of rock bands to follow their lead. Nirvana was one of the inspired bands, which tells you a lot about how great The Pixies were. The band was known for its dynamic shifts and controversial lyrics. A lot of their songs featured offbeat subjects, including conspiracy theories.
Although they originated in the US, their popularity surged in Europe more so than in their birthplace. In , the band broke apart, but they came back in Joy Division is an iconic band, to say the least.
When it first started, the band was known for its punk music. Since then, they started drawing the attention of some indie producers , such as Tony Wilson, who signed the band to Factory Records. Sonic Youth had a long career; they kept producing music for nearly 30 years, although their lineup changed a couple of times amid their journey. The American band started off with an experimental wave , and they played Shoegaze music for a while. They got known for their alternate tunings and noise music, which got them their place as one of the most prominent American rock bands.
The band inspired a lot of young artists with their unconventional music, including Kurt Cobain. They broke apart in , leaving an immortal legacy of indie music. I mentioned R. M a lot in this article, which gives you an idea about their influence on indie music. The band was responsible for the new direction of indie , away from the punk rock scene. M always went against the mainstream. They were one of the first bands to stand against lip-syncing. Their singer, Stipe, was known for singing live over pre-recorded music.
Not only that, but the band also took their music to a folksy rock direction , when most of the bands back in the day were singing synth-pop and disco. Yes, indie is at heart the English expression. In the U. In the wake of punk rock in the late s, the do-it-yourself ethos had flowered in England. Yet at some point, the simple classification changed. Many point to the iconic cassette compilation "C86," which was given away with an edition of the English weekly "NME " in The album sought to chronicle a burgeoning English guitar-pop underground called either "cutie" or "shambling" at the time.
As these descriptive names suggest, these bands played a twee , amateurish form of home-made music drawing deeply from sunny '60s acts like The Byrds and the Velvet Underground. Rough Trade recording artists, The Smiths, were the biggest band in the U. Known as a proudly indie band whose obvious debt to The Byrds contrasted their frontman Morrissey's Oscar Wilde rakish wit, The Smiths unsurprisingly released "C86" to great critical acclaim.
Sometime thereafter, indie meant being synonymous with this particular style, this particular cassette. Stylistically, this meant a retro-phonic, largely sexless form of music with jangly guitars and the vague taint of nostalgia.
Indie no longer referred to the factual realities of record distribution. Indie was somewhere between a state of mind and a singular guitar tone.
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