Hipsters have claimed that it is only a “matter of time” before the current darlings of the dance music scene, Disclosure, become “too big” and “make the inevitable crossover into mainstream acceptance”, at which point they insist that they’ll “deny ever liking them” or at most say they thought the first album was “okay but a bit over-hyped.”
“There reaches a saturation point for every big band, cultural moment, fashion or genre,” insisted the former Kings of Leon fan who used to be into skateboarding, drainpipe jeans and dubstep, Calvin Brown. “Most of them have their day in the sun for about 2 months before you start hearing them on the radio or seeing their name printed somewhere other than Hypem. At that point you’ve got a distance yourself from them.”
“That’s what has happened with Disclosure,” continued Calvin, while slicking back his comb back hairstyle which he claimed he has had long before everyone else started doing it. “Like Icaras their wings have been scorched by the sun of popular culture and they’re now falling to the death of their relevance.”
Calvin insists that some of his student friends, who like to smoke rollies without filters, slouch and play frisbee during the summer, “stopped liking them ages ago” and thought that the writing was on the wall for the dance duo “the moment they decided to make music”.
Calvin’s friend Malcolm continues, “Yeah I think bands just immediately lose their edge the second they actually try to make music. Putting an album out in is just a bit desperate and graspy, no true artist would put out an album of painstakingly crafted artistic work for someone to judge, or worse, buy. Doing anything with your time is basically a cop out.”
Malcolm claimed that so far Disclosure have just had it too easy, moving from internet popularity with several big tracks last year to headlining major festivals this summer and “now that your mother or little brother knows who they are” it’s time to move on and that they’ll only be able to recapture their hip currency “in about fifteen to twenty years time when the current cultural zeitgeist is inevitably seen as the high watermark of cool music” but that until then any time someone mentions them the appropriate response will be “they used to be okay, but they’re gone a bit shit now”.
“Calvin’s friend Malcolm continues, “Yeah I think bands just immediately lose their edge the second they actually try to make music.” :,D