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Originally Posted by Hip Priest
I remember back in the day, when 'indie' meant 'indie', it wasn't always so great. For a while everything was cool in the land of indie, but then along came Kylie Minogue, and she'd always be top of the indie charts, because Stock Aitkin Waterman where an independant label. The top ten would be nine jingle-jangle guitar tracks followed by the latest Kylie pop-sop clone-a-tune pocket-money-stealing abomination. It was annoying.
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I remember being somewhat naive and being astonished to see Steps at the top of the indie charts. Still, great band.
Has anyone mentioned that rnb seems to mean something from what it used to? I think it's absolutely shocking. Or, alternately, lives move on and it becomes harder and harder to actually give a shit about such things. Indie is a genre rather than a description. You will probably all notice that words change their meanings over time. This is a natural process. It is not anything to be afraid of.
Big up the linguists in the house etc.