Sorry this isn't an essay.

I was thinking a bit about the era of Indie pop that really took a hold on mainstream music and how and when that era really came to an end. For me personally, I was introduced to the scene through groups like Vampire Weekend, Two Door Cinema Club, Grouplove, Arcade Fire, Young the Giant, and Foster The People. But Obviously this was a huge scene. I remember going to Austin during SXSW and these were the type of bands sort of just RUNNING the scene at the time. Were y'all a fan of this era? And what do you think led to its demise. Of course, many of these bands still exist but their influence is much less.

Trends come and go, and hip hop quickly overtook the indie crowd as well. However, these acts and even new indie bands are still around, the reception is just different.

I was a fan of this era but it’s also false to lump them as a monolith—they all had their respective scenes. Lots of these acts peaked in the early 10s, while Arcade Fire were contemporaries with bands like The Strokes and came up with bands like Broken Social Scene

most definitely.

and the era thing is pretty loose. I mean in 08 when Vampire Weekend came on the scene looked quite a bit different than when GROUPLOVE came out in 2011

Definitely. I call stuff like Young the Giant, Grouplove, Foster the People, The Drums, Fitz and the Tantrums, Glass Animals “mainstream indie.”

They had what predecessors like MGMT, Arcade Fire, Bloc Party, The XX, Peter Bjorn had, but in a more modern package. Literal claps, more jangly/folky, more synthetic beats and drums, among other things, it paralleled with the entire “alt pop” thing as well. Those “annoying” stomp and holler/stomp rock bands took cues from that stuff, or the other way around

riiiight and yea it's strange how that stomp and holler bands which I guess you could say may have been influenced by the indie scene became the STANDARD sound for mainstream "indie" music as well.

I also think about how much influence the indie music scene had on hip hop at the time too.

This album had ktt1 on a chokehold

Yea, XX/Jamie, 1975, Peter Bjorn, Santigold, Lykke Li, Florence and the Machine, Tame Impala, etc, influenced a lot of rap and rnb acts

Lana too :rocky:

Good Kid mad city had mad indie samples on it

Bon Iver too

It kinda started with Strokes, Ryan Adams, Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem in the mid 00's and it peaked in the 10's (2013-2014-ish) it kinda fell away after that as Hip Hop (Drake) become more and more popular

The only Black kid at Sufjan concert

they are Lost In The Stereo (all time high)

I think Kanye started the trend of rappers linking up with indie rockers when he worked with Maroon 5

Then Wayne with Robin Thicke, Jay with Coldplay

Even early Drake was sampling Peter Bjorn and John

Ive been saying, what killed the rock scene was that young white dudes decided to rap or build an AI startup instead of starting a band

i just started listening to tokyo police club i missed out on that era

and they were all just white guys from toronto

Condé Nast is what happened

the consolidation of Pitchfork??

S*** never felt the same since

wagwan crodie

had no idea this had THAT many views wtf

I hear this s*** randomly all the time in like department stores. Always get the craziest wave of nostalgia