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Originally Posted by Queen Boo
Every genre or scene or whatever you want to call it, once it becomes popular it goes through this period of commercial oversaturation, which then causes the whole thing to burn out.
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I'd say yes to this idea in general, but would suggest a modification about the whole thing burning out. That may ring true to people like Big3 who were into the genre during the early days, but don't forget that Indie music is also there, available to people like me who came across it in about 2015 and found a sprawling diverse genre that includes some pop stylings with wide appeal and also the early bands that Big3 is enthusing about.
A parallel to me is the career of Pink Floyd: they started out playing improvised pyschedelic music in small underground clubs, went on to fill stadiums with polished, precise Dark Side Of The Moon rock. Some people say Floyd sold out, but plenty more came late to the party and enjoyed not only Floyd's more accessible later material, but the bands that proliferated in their wake.
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Originally Posted by TheBig3
Feel free to tell me I'm an old man yelling at a cloud.
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I wouldn't do that, Big 3, but in the nicest possible way I might suggest that you are an old-timer who wants to wind back the clock to your glory days and you are forgetting that plenty of Indie music that sounds stale to you is going to sound fresh to late-comers like me.
Also, strictly speaking, I would query the word you used in your original question: "consumerist" = "characterized by a preoccupation with the acquisition of consumer goods." I haven't noticed that as a theme running through the Indie music I've listened to. If Indie music is now commercially successful, then it's just joined many other genres, like blues, which these days is a musical product, bought, sold and downloaded, rather than a protest against the hardships of slavery.