Talk:Indie rock/Archives/2016

Messed up Article
INDIE is a catch all phrase like NEW WAVE, and ALTERNATIVE in the current way rock is being labeled. Indie is just a continuation of the term ALTERNATIVE. Americans started labeling anything that sounded different as "alternative" at the end other the 80's. Most of the Article is retrospective labeling. This mess needs to be unraveled and fixed up. A BRITISH music term was applied and used to describe new music in America in the mid 2000's. The term INDIE was pulled out in the mid 2000's by American hipsters to label aspects of the then 2nd wave post punk music. The original term INDIE was associated with the UK ONLY. IT NEVER HAD A U.S., OR ANY OTHER EQUIVALENT. IT WAS VERY SPECIFIC, AND WAS ONLY AROUND FOR ABOUT 3 YEARS, WHEN IT WAS ACTUALLY HAPPENING IN THE 80'S., more if you want to go back and include early Smiths and Billy bragg. You will notice the term "Indie pop", This is American usage....like how they label Punk as "Punk Rock". The term was NEVER EVER USED FOR MUSIC IN NORTH AMERICA at the time. The terms used in North America were - punk, new wave, underground, college radio. all this became ALTERNATIVE. INDIE became a catch all phrase 1n 2006 for anything that sounded different, like NEW WAVE, then ALTERNATIVE. Whatever happened to ELECTRONICA, that was a catch all that started in the late 90's for anything "different, rockish with synthesizers, or a bit of experimentation. Starbwoy (talk) 17:46, 2 May 2016 (UTC)