[ben221]

I'be been arguing with my mate has been labelling me a hipster because I don't like mainstream music. I will listen to mainstream and the top40, but its been a long time since I've heard anything that I like hence why I dislike it nowadays.

I listen to a lot of 60s, 70s, 80s, - Beatles, Rolling Stones, Kinks, Bob Marley and all sorts of stuff, and I do love bands from this decade like The Libertines, Arctic Monkeys, The Strokes, The Kooks etc

In general its mainly indie rock I listen to, which is apparently hipsters music, but I think mainstream music nowadays is just fake autotuned rubbish, and every time I tell my mate that most mainstream nowadays is 'fake autotuned rubbish', he just calls me a hipster

I'm a normal person, normal fashion, normal beliefs, normal life, I'm 17 etc, with a different music taste to my mate, but that makes me a hipster for some reason

So am I a hipster?

[DaniCalifornia]

Why label anyone anything?

You are YOU.

X Dani

[CliffARobinson]

I agree with Dani, it's just a label. However, if you really want to know, see if this quote from an infamous post by Douglas Haddow from the AdBusters blog-zine sounds like you.

Hipsterdom is the first "counterculture" to be born under the advertising industry's microscope, leaving it open to constant manipulation but also forcing its participants to continually shift their interests and affiliations. Less a subculture, the hipster is a consumer group -- using their capital to purchase empty authenticity and rebellion. But the moment a trend, band, sound, style or feeling gains too much exposure, it is suddenly looked upon with disdain. Hipsters cannot afford to maintain any cultural loyalties or affiliations for fear they will lose relevance.

I don't think taste in music is the only qualifying standard. ;)