Lex 20p Indie Prize: 2009

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

As I try very hard not to die too much, I bring you the news that the nominations for this year's Lex 20p Indie Prize are now open. For those of you not familiar with either the prize or the Lex, the principle is that the winning act is sent 20p in Lex's name. The possible reasons for why you would nominate acts for this I will list under this here cut:


In all cases the act are indie but the following qualifiers can also be used to define said act, indiscriminately and probably (preferably) in a contradictory fashion:
-the act are good
-the act are hated by the Lex (who is alexmacpherson)
-the act are liked by the Lex
-the act are hated by you
-the act are liked by you
-the act are universally hated
-the act are universally liked
-the act are really, really indie
-the act are not really indie at all
-you feel like talking about the act for some reason
-the act are a repulsive plague on the face of music, ie: Scouting For Grills
-you want to get a good ol' haterade party going on in the comments about a particular act
-the act are the only indie act you've heard anything by this year

I was going to go and make a flowchart on OKCupid to demonstrate this but it turns out work have blocked FUN and I can't be 4r5ed with MS Paint.

RIGHT THEN, is that all clear? Nominations away!

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Comments

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Watch it, dude, that does actually make him angry.

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

So what's it about that song? Just the general white fratboy entitledness of the whole thing? Watching the video made me aware that this is related to some kind of comedy enterprise (SNL?), though I didn't find it particularly funny per se. I suppose the danger is reading it as simply comedy, in which case it fails, unless you think rappers wearing silly hats are de facto funny. I would argue that (i) they're not, (ii) that the song is not particularly funny either, but that (iii) it's really FUN. And I don't even like boats. It's a strong 20p contender in any case.

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Really? I was about to exclude it for not being indie.

I think it is because he feels it is mocking hip hop and yeah, the white fratboy thing. Which I fully understand and in fact I hated the song for awhile before it earwormed me so badly I gave in to the idea of T-Pain fucking a mermaid. There is something hugely annoying about how smug they are though, if you let yourself think about it for five seconds. The trick is not to think but merely to enjoy, obv.

[hoshuteki.livejournal.com]

Is indie-ness really a major criterion for this prize? I don't even know what it is anymore, and I'm not sure it applies to La Roux either...

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I refer the honourable gentlemen to this post here (http://community.livejournal.com/poptimists/708498.html) which may or may not sum up poptimists' viewpoint on this matter.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

It takes something which is already FUN and pretty funny too (Khaled-culture hip-hop) and then just bashes you over the head with spelling it out unnecessarily obviously. And, what Hazel said about mocking hip-hop, (tho) I don't think it's as bad as this as it could be - it's just a minor irritating element.

And yeah I hate comedy, all comedy.

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

Eh, it makes me really irritated, but not properly angry like Dan Black and La Cunting Cunt Roux, who both piss me off so much that I get angry whenever I see anyone so much as defending the worthless little bitches.