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HOLMES: Do you ever get the feeling that some indie-rock kids like to keep their favorite music a secret? Or, that they prefer that the music remains within a small, exclusive scene? If I'm not just imagining this, what the hell can we do about it?
MIRAH: Honestly, I'm just as much a culprit of it as the next guy. I liked the White Stripes too, saw them in Oly [Olympia, WA --K Records WHQ] a couple times, thought they were really good and then what happened? I heard their video was really neat and I bet I'd like their new album but it's just not as interesting to me to be interested anymore. The popular kids are annoying because they used to be just like you and you maybe admire something about them but that's a total secret and so you have to dislike them instead and who wants that syndrome to destroy the precious relationship you have with your secret music love? Is that an accurate break-down? I'm not condoning this weird psychology but I've never tried to kick the habit either. Maybe we all need some kind of therapeutic process so we can just get over it and revel in the popularizing instead of the disappointment in all that we believe is truly good and deserving of praise.
MIRAH: Honestly, I'm just as much a culprit of it as the next guy. I liked the White Stripes too, saw them in Oly [Olympia, WA --K Records WHQ] a couple times, thought they were really good and then what happened? I heard their video was really neat and I bet I'd like their new album but it's just not as interesting to me to be interested anymore. The popular kids are annoying because they used to be just like you and you maybe admire something about them but that's a total secret and so you have to dislike them instead and who wants that syndrome to destroy the precious relationship you have with your secret music love? Is that an accurate break-down? I'm not condoning this weird psychology but I've never tried to kick the habit either. Maybe we all need some kind of therapeutic process so we can just get over it and revel in the popularizing instead of the disappointment in all that we believe is truly good and deserving of praise.