Just for a change, here is a non-development blog.

I once was talking about music with my brother and ranted about someone claiming their music taste was the best and they kept on hyping up obscure bands. It seemed to me they just liked them because of their obscurity, and then trashed any band that was popular.

My brother responded; “damn, I hate those Pitchfork hipsters”.

I asked him what he meant, and he told me about the music review website Pitchfork. They tend to cover music outside the mainstream eye (apart from Kanye West for some reason), and my brother said he knows loads of people that listen to obscure bands, plus Kanye West, and also think their taste is elite. A weird coincidence.

Music is all about having your own opinion, but yet there’s loads of people that just accept the music that plays on the radio. Then there’s a large group of people that are very anti-radio, yet just follow Pitchfork instead. Ironically, they are just doing the same thing and following trends, but then pretending they’re not a sheep.

At work, a guy keeps hyping up how cool his music taste is. He does listen to quite a range of stuff; a combination of obscure rock bands, electronic/indie-pop, and hip-hop.

One day, I take a look at The Needle Drop aka Anthony Fantano aka Melon, and noticed many of these obscure and cool bands that they love have been reviewed by The Needle Drop; and reviewed highly.

It seems we have a Melon Hipster on our hands.

Today, he starts ranting about how bad Green Day’s new album is; “Father Of All…”.

Melon Hipster hadn’t listened to Green Day since American Idiot, presumably after that his music taste “matured”. So what makes him listen to “Father Of All…” when he hadn’t listened to 21^st Century Breakdown, Uno, Dos, Tré, and Radio Revolution?

Well, The Needle Drop had just reviewed it, hated it, and gave it a ridiculous score of 0. Melon Hipster had listened to it just to trash it.

I’m not saying it’s a good album (I haven’t heard it), but listening to an album once and then ranting about how bad it is isn’t an honest opinion. Echoing the “opinion” of a media outlet or social media influencer doesn’t make your music taste cool either.