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In this premiere episode, Jenny and Paul immediately get right into it. They discuss why it’s valid to take all culture seriously, even when it’s culture that other people deride and look down on, and how Jenny’s Precious Moments lecture made the hipsters cry.
Show Notes:
- Precious Moments Chapel
- Jenny’s Precious Moments Talk
- 3-D Tupac
- MetalStorm!
- Canonical wookie medal
- Fake Nerd Girls
- Patton Oswalt’s Death of Geek Culture
- Sound of Young America/Bullseye
- New Sincerity Movement
- I Hate This Fucking Hipster
- Kip Winger
- Gotye
- Ian MacKaye
- Weird Al Party in the USA
- Weird Al WTF Interview
- ShaNaNa
- Lee Greenwood’s Hit
- Patti Scialfa
- Billy Joel Can’t Live in Manhattan
- Phil Collins on This American Life
Folks down in Virginia listened to y'all sell out, and are wondering exactly how culturally relativistical you'll be able to get further down the line. We'll be keeping our ears pricked.
I think the overlooked thing about hipsters is that they never called themselves that. It's recent usage has always been an epithet. It never started as a label that hipsters gave themselves. The term and the culture of the hipster shortcut the broad cultural appropriation process and went right to derision.
Gah, I should have typed "Its usage."