Do you recognize this scene:
The dance floor at a hipster party looks like it should be surrounded by quotation marks. While punk, disco and hip hop all had immersive, intimate and energetic dance styles that liberated the dancer from his/her mental states – be it the head-spinning b-boy or violent thrashings of a live punk show – the hipster has more of a joke dance. A faux shrug shuffle that mocks the very idea of dancing or, at its best, illustrates a non-committal fear of expression typified in a weird twitch/ironic twist. The dancers are too self-aware to let themselves feel any form of liberation; they shuffle along, shrugging themselves into oblivion.
A hipster party caught on video:
Hat tip, Sher.
1 comment:
1) I'm pathalogically incapable of not dancing to that song. I used to play it at SPO and have trouble talking to people because my brain was all "DANCE!".
2) Also, yes, it is a fault of hipsters that they have not come up with a particular KIND of dance that exemplifies something, but what do you expect?? Hipsters (by which I mean the poseurs who hang around in skinny jeans and never do anything remotely interesting with themselves) are built on irony and a series of strung together "whatevers". CBrown and co. here look genuinely happy, on the other hand, and each Peanut is digging his or her own little groove-- perhaps the opposite of whatever and the exemplification of something rather than nothing. In any case, people who choose to dance over not dancing always get extra points in my book.
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