Just need to get this off my chest. Posted this on some rage thread as well, so if you're insulted by some bad language I suggest you turn away.
Why the fuck is Vampire Weekend so liked? I don't get it.
Why does everyone like this hipster trash? They only play pretty much max 4 chords per song, and still manage to make it sound like a fucking mess. They're all talentless shitheads. And what do they get? Critical and commerical acclaim. (I mean seriously, how do you manage to make a 4 chord song with a 4/4 time signature sound messy?)
Just listen to Holiday, and say to me with a straight face that that is good music.
They throw in some weird sounds and then call it experimental. Just how fucking pretentious can a band get?
That shit isn't experimental. The Mars Volta, that's experimental. They also use plenty of weird sounds and whatnot, but those sounds actually add something to their music and they make great music with intricate harmonies and complex time signatures, shit that requires some goddamn talent to make. But of course they aren't commercially very successful (by far not as much as Vampire Weekend at least), because they're too different. No but Vampire Weekend is just a little different, that's why it's popular. In a few years that music will be mainstream, then nobody will like em any more because hey that's how a hipster works. But the Mars Volta will be something you can let your son listen to when you're older, just like my dad introduced me to bands such as Yes and Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
I just can't stand people liking a band because it's different in the most pretentious way there is. (I know I'm generalizing here, but from what I've seen it's mostly true. Though of course there are always exceptions as with everything)
Sorry for the long rant but I just REALLY FUCKING HATE VAMPIRE WEEKEND!