Fuck me I'm twee

[yunghustlaz]

A great bulk of twee music is all about being self-referential, it's a genre that really has a "scene". It wasn't quite so bad around the start of the genre, you won't exactly hear a lot of namedropping on The Field Mice tracks -- but nowadays, with Tullycraft and Los Campesinos! and The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, there's a lot of referencing of

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[fornikate]

the posies are awesome

otherwise no ok

[yunghustlaz]

I'm sorry Kate I thought you of all people would love bands from labels like "Slumberland" and "Little Teddy". You're kinda saccharine like that, right?

[fornikate]

i'm gonna kick your eyes

[yunghustlaz]

Maybe you would feel better if you listened to the gentle, jangly, starry melodies of The Softies. Or The Lovelies. Or The Smittens. Or The Pains of Being Pure At Heart.

Am I off-base here, I'm not sure if I'm picking up the right impression.

[haruhiko]

Fuck me I'm twee

Boy like I need a reason

[yunghustlaz]

HEY

Stop that.

[haruhiko]

Okay. :

[haruhiko]

But seriously, LOL TWEE.

[bluetooth16]

I tried listening to this stuff, and I really can't deal. All that's in my mind is LOL HIPSTERS.

[yunghustlaz]

Everyone's a hipster when you're painfully uncool. Megadiss

[bluetooth16]

[yunghustlaz]

That is not helping your case.