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Guys wearing "skinny" pants

#81
Milk said:
Basically, the more ironic a hipster is being, the more deserving they become of a punch in the face. Like this one i recently saw with a Phil Collins But Seriously... shirt. I couldn't tell whether they were going for "haha, Phil Collins...that's funny brah" or if they were trying to outhipster everyone by making a powerful statement that Phil Collins music is cool and hoping to spark a discussion on his need to be rehabilitated and embraced by the hipster community. A normal person into Phil Collins would just be into Phil Collins. But for a hipster to be into Phil Collins, they either have the choice of keeping it secret from everyone OR go the potential trendsetter route and try to convince every other hipster that Phil Collins is not lame mainstream pop, but a talented melodist, a trailblazing pop master crafter that all hipsters should feel a kinship to. Next thing you know everyone is wearing a Phil Collins shirt and NOT understanding the amazingness of Collins music would get you shunned from the hipster community.

Either reason they wore that shirt, i knew one thing for sure, their **** was all ********.
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You forgot the 3rd possibility; can't get laid.
 
#82
Milk said:
It's all about being "interesting", really. That's why they also have fashion that goes over the top. A typical hipster suffers from an acute case of "LOOK AT ME, I'M DIFFERENT!" syndrome. Unsurprising that most of them are middle class white kids (which i am incidentally and yes, for a second there many years ago, i thought i might have been a hipster). Its an identity crisis thing, really.
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It's really funny how young people try so hard to be "different" in the exact same way as each other.

If a hipster really wanted to be different, they should dress up like a '70s pimp and listen to funk. That's different.
 
#84
punkjazzben said:
I have had some unfortunate encounters with ironic hipsters. Things I've heard:

"My electro-acoustic minimalist banjo side project..."

"All of my original copies are all scratched up, so I just downloaded a whole heap of ELO."

"Kanye is amazing."

"I'm really getting into Norwegian black metal. Mostly stuff from around 1990 and 1991, you know."

"Have you got any Black Flag? I should probably know some Black Flag."

"I hate jazz, and I hate Jack Kerouc."

"Mastodon, yeah they're amazing. I've heard really good things. Opeth? Never heard of them." (Pitchfork watchers will get that one)

"I didn't have anything when I moved here. I was getting up at 4am to work in a bagle shop. It was tough. I didn't have any of my instruments. So I saved up for, like, ever, and went into this quirky little music store. All I could afford was a ukulele, so I bought that."
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Those are pretty funny. :D But...

"Intersectionality."
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...I don't know how the hipster used the above term, but it is a term used often in sociology. It refers to how having multiple statuses (stati?) of being in a disenfranchised group interact within one another. For instance, it's one thing to be Black. It's another thing to be Black and gay.

But seriously, I'm waiting for nu-metal to come full circle. The day a reissue of Limp Bizkit's Significant Other gets a review by Birkut on Tiny Mix Tapes will be my day of vindication. I will also be reforming my high school rap metal band.
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Yes! And much like van Gogh, Fred Durst will be heralded as a genius who didn't receive the critical acclaim that he deserved until after the zenith of his artistic productivity. Then when Limp Bizkit becomes passé, the truly hip hipsters will move onto scouring the used CD market for Crazy Town albums.
 
#85
MrBKerth said:
Honestly I can't believe that there's even a thread on style in a forum for bass of all things. Oh well.
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Image is a big part of music for some people...alot of people actually, both on and off the stage for some. To each their own I guess. I hate skinny jeans. My wife is always trying to get me to wear them though. Every time she buys me a pair of jeans they seem to be a size smaller than the last. I keep losing weight just to give me some more room. I guess I could just buy my own clothes...nah, I'll just skip another meal, and put the extra cash towards more gear, and hope the wind doesn't blow me away. :D
 
#87
Anyone who has enough sense of a fashion norm to call out a fashion outlier has bought into an arbitrary and stupid culture to the exact same extent as the people they're questioning or criticizing.

That's right, the very instant you gain the type of perception necessary to criticize what other people wear, you lose the justification to pass judgment on what they're wearing without being a hypocrite.
 
#88
dullsilver_mike said:
Anyone who has enough sense of a fashion norm to call out a fashion outlier has bought into an arbitrary and stupid culture to the exact same extent as the people they're questioning or criticizing.

That's right, the very instant you gain the type of perception necessary to criticize what other people wear, you lose the justification to pass judgment on what they're wearing without being a hypocrite.
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So, no one's entitled to an opinion except for the people who don't have one is what you're saying then. :hmm: :confused:
 
#89
bassinplace said:
So, no one's entitled to an opinion except for the people who don't have one is what you're saying then. :hmm: :confused:
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As it pertains to buying into a moronic system as a whole, pretty much. I'm saying that if your opinion based on an arbitrary system is "that guy has a dumb opinion based on the same arbitrary system," then you're a hypocrite. The only reason people are wearing loose-fitting pants instead of tight ones is that it was type of pointless fashion that they bought into.

I haven't worn a single garment in 12 years now and life is pretty good away from the pretenses of the cult of fashion.
 
#91
dullsilver_mike said:
As it pertains to buying into a moronic system as a whole, pretty much. I'm saying that if your opinion based on an arbitrary system is "that guy has a dumb opinion based on the same arbitrary system," then you're a hypocrite. The only reason people are wearing loose-fitting pants instead of tight ones is that it was type of pointless fashion that they bought into.

I haven't worn a single garment in 12 years now and life is pretty good away from the pretenses of the cult of fashion.
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So you're a nudist? That's not really an aesthetic in terms of fashion. Just curious, how do leave the house?
 
#92
dullsilver_mike said:
As it pertains to buying into a moronic system as a whole, pretty much. I'm saying that if your opinion based on an arbitrary system is "that guy has a dumb opinion based on the same arbitrary system," then you're a hypocrite. The only reason people are wearing loose-fitting pants instead of tight ones is that it was type of pointless fashion that they bought into.

I haven't worn a single garment in 12 years now and life is pretty good away from the pretenses of the cult of fashion.
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Precisely, the aforementioned combustability of eclectic pomposity is directly related to the continuity of prevalent societal specifications...see look I a smart guy too! ;) #Soimpressedwith yourbiglanguage
 
#96
lol. My jeans fit. Period. I don't sag and I dont squeeze. They might be a name brand like Wrangler, Levi, or Lee, or they might be some knock off from the Dollar Store. But they fit pretty much the same way they did in 1975. They never cost me over $30 and I relic them myself thank you.
 
#97
dullsilver_mike said:
Anyone who has enough sense of a fashion norm to call out a fashion outlier has bought into an arbitrary and stupid culture to the exact same extent as the people they're questioning or criticizing.

That's right, the very instant you gain the type of perception necessary to criticize what other people wear, you lose the justification to pass judgment on what they're wearing without being a hypocrite.
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Why is it that Talkbass seems to become more postmodernist by the day? Did Lyotard hold down the low-end for some funk project that we never knew about? :bassist:
 
#99
We talk way too much about what cats wear. Y'all are some judgy dudes. hell, I'll wear leather pants, a velvet blazer and a ruffled shirt. And rock that ish. Why do you care?
 
#100
P Town said:
I am not sure what "skinny" pants are, but I was having a drink in a bar once, and the lady sitting next to me was wearing pants that looked like they were painted on. I asked her how hard it was to get into her pants, and she said, "You could start by buying me a drink."
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I have a friend in Ca who is a airbrusher. His last gig was painting pants, shorts and , tops on naked women. He makes more then enough money to select who he will and will not paint.:thumbup:
 

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