He’s so rugged…hip…emotional…the perfect man?
I’d been meaning to get to Bon Iver. The name is always floating around the music blogs I read. EVERY. SINGLE. ONE. I’ve heard a couple songs on Colbert etc. So I figured it may be worth it to check em out and see how they sound.
But I can’t anymore.
Wanna know why?
Life just keeps getting better for Justin Vernon and co. Bon Iver’s self-titled sophomore album has only been out on shelves and in digital libraries for a week, and in that week it has made its way to the No. 2 spot on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. The band’s sophomore outing sold an impressive 104,000 copies in its first week, beating out heavyweights Adele and Lady Gaga. The album was also the best-selling digital release on iTunes this week, and even debuted at No. 4 on the UK charts. (SKOA)
Shit. Indie cred out the fucking window. #2? Is this the post-super-record-label world we live in? I mean I get that hipsters (and tweens) are the only people who will still pay for music. But shit, this just backfired. Bon Iver is WAY too popular for me to even consider.
They are now on the same list as Arcade Fire and the Black Keys.
Life is just too real right now. I’m gonna go drink.
chuck n.
08/17/2011
i don’t know if you were being sarcastic or what, but an artist becoming mainstream definitely is a turn-off for me. how hipster, i know.
it’s like foster the people who are now being played on my local radio station that takes pride in only playing the best, hottest and newest pop music. even worse, pumped up kicks was on rick dees.
urghhh, i can’t.
shit excuse
12/01/2011
that’s a shitty excuse for not liking a band. Bon Iver suck and make shitty hipter drivel music, but you’re telling me that just because an artist is famous you won’t listen to them? So if this was 1960 and you went to a small club in England and you saw a little band called the Beatles play, and you really liked them, but then they got more popular a couple years later on and attracted more fans, that you wouldn’t like them anymore? Even if the subsequent albums they put out were great? Grow the fuck up. You guys are being a bit too elitist here.
And by the way, Bon Iver, Arcade Fire, and Foster the People (what a shitty name) all suck. They have their heads up their asses and think dancing like a tool and singing as contrived as they possibly can will make them look competent.
forgive me if this was a part of your whole “ironic” gag.
Chicky
12/01/2011
You are forgiven.
Rckflla
02/26/2012
You guys talk too much. Even if they have sucky names or they just sucks, atleast they are known to the world. They still win hands down. Oh wells.