Is indie rock nearing its Judgment Day? Hipster Runoff thinks the first horse of the apocalypse may have arrived. A blog that capitalizes on cynicism (billing itself as “culturally relevant,” for example, only with the help of scare quotes), HR wonders whether Karen O’s “All is Love” is an indication that indie has become, or is becoming, passé. HR cites many of the song's features as examples of what is turning the genre into a cliche: tribalism, whistling, themes borrowed from children's music, a sense of belonging and meaningfulness. This song from the “Where the Wild Things Are” movie soundtrack “does not exist as an ‘indie song,'” writes the blogger, “but possibly as a ‘parodied version of an indie song constructed via overproduction,' sort of like how Coldplay songs are just parodies of the band Coldplay.”
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