Introduction

I don't like indie music. For the most part, I find it far too simple. Four chords (if you're lucky) and quaver-based 4/4 rhythms just don't do it for me. I've heard it all before. I am not a fan of indie music and I do not listen to much of it, whatever it is, (because I find it boring) so my perceptions of it are likely to be uninformed. To me, indie musicians seem to want to project an I'm-not-professional-I'm-just-following-my-dreams kind of image and this conscious image-seeking seems to manifest in the writing process. A professional musician might try to extend their chord "vocabulary" beyond I, IV, V and vi, experiment with dissonances or play in a time signature other than 4/4 and 6/8, but indie musicians seem to want to resist any kind of development of ability.

Anyway, blah blah blah, I don't like indie music - rant over! From reading through academic articles, I hope to achieve with this blog is a more empathetic understanding of the indie scene and its ideals (and get a good mark). In other words, if I can like indie music (or at least get some musical/intellectual satisfaction from it) by the end of this, then I will have succeeded. Now I just have to hope I can keep an open mind.