Comments on: New York Times Popularizes the Term “Blipster”–Guaranteed To Offend Just About Everyone

By: C

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:59:03 +0000

Over here in Merrie Olde England, we call people like me (into ‘indie’ music since birth, but whatever) ‘bipsters’.

It’s all pants.

By: C

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:58:48 +0000

Over here in Merrie Olde England, we call people like me (into ‘indie’ music since birth, but whatever’ ‘bipsters’.

It’s all pants.

By: Andre

Andre — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 15:45:20 +0000

I believe the article attempted to highlight a segment of ethnic youths who set themselves apart from communities not as diverse as the white community. It was and probably still is very difficult to seperate yourself from the cultural herd especially when conformity is the status quo. I grew up in DC in the late 80’s/early 90′ indie/punk scene and could easily relate to being the only black kid at a indie shows. At first it was awkward but since I loved the music I and usually at had to pay, I enjoyed myself. Everyone was usually cool, except the idiots who singled me as the local drug dealer. Most of the discord came from peers and to a certain extent parents. Being taunted as “uncle tom” or asked “why do you want look like your poor?” was odd for someone like me who grew up in a diverse city and didn’t care about fashion. But to me, the music is what mattered. I’m in NYC now, still go to shows and sometimes find myself at what seems like a “whites only party” but there so much diversity abound that it doesn’t even matter anymore, The article was just lame. Trendy labels suck!

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 04:26:57 +0000

” ‘blipster’ is a dopey term, but not as bad as ‘wigger’.”

Agreed. “Blipster” is one thing, and I still can’t get over the fact that many people I’ve encountered who use the word “wigger” never even thought it was the least bit offensive. Overstating the obvious, much?

What blows my mind about the whole “blipster” thing on two aspects is that A) someone was even dumb enough to write this article and come up with this term, and B) I’m a bit taken aback that in a city as diverse as NYC that black hipsters (or any other minorities for that matter) stand out in the first place and/or seem to get mixed reactions. At least that’s what I’ve gathered over the past year or so. I’m black and whenever I’m in New Orleans, I (or any other black hipsters) rarely or never get stares, weird vibes, etc. and there’s quite a few of us. Hardly anyone thinks twice about that. Interesting regional observations there.

By: afrobella » And Now For Something Completely Different

afrobella » And Now For Something Completely Different — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:19:41 +0000

[...] The Modern Age had a fitting take on the new word, and I agree. Stop trying to make “blipsters” happen! [...]

By: NIKKI

NIKKI — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:01:02 +0000

New to this blog but I wanted to say one thing. WHY Is it that when it comes to blacks in this country people do everything to categorise and separate them “Blipsters”? I WOULD be offended if someone referred to me as that. Hipsters is a word used to describe a “Group” of people (especially those who ride the L) But why is it necessary to call out the Blacks who decide to follow this shallow trend and label them separately from the rest? I mean come on. This is a good example of why we will always have issues in this country - everything always always boils down to race. And like the other person said above, what they’re going to start defining all races now? And if not why call out the blacks? What whites are the ONLY ones who can be hipsters? there are tons of Asian hipsters and Latino/Hispanic hipsters and i dont see an article being written about them and separating them from the masses. Absolute shite!

By: douglas martin

douglas martin — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:52:11 +0000

when i was being interviewed for the article, what i got from the questions i was being asked was that it was going to turn out to be an insightful feature on an overlooked subgenre of people. by keeping a correspondence with the interviewer, i found that the article went through nine editors. she even told me she cringed when she read the final version. and if i can quote the essay i did on my band’s website about the article, “what could have been a great article got diluted into ‘black indie rockers for dummies.’ ”

if you click on my name, it’ll take you to my band’s website, where i write a lengthy piece on this article. it’s obvious that us “blipsters” love aggressive self-promotion.

By: PetStarr

PetStarr — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 08:21:23 +0000

As if they couldn’t come up with anything better than ‘blipster’.

PS: love the obligatory Jack White photo. There should be more of it on the interwebz.

By: giulia

giulia — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:13:11 +0000

Alll hipsters are “a little bit gay.” Or at least, so says my (real) gay hipster friend…

By: tsuyoikuma

tsuyoikuma — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 00:40:26 +0000

I’m still looking for a word for gay hipsters. Living in San Francisco there are just so many and god knows we hate to use phrases/words with more than two syllables when pigeon-holing eachother.