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Some of those bands that were implicated earlier are on an independent label in the U.K., but a major label in the States. "Indie" status aside, those bands are certainly over-hyped unnecessarily and undeservingly, and that is really why you hate them.
Quite like the phrase folk music when it became genre-fied in the 60's--thus excluding over half of the music from the American Anthology of Folk Music from the increasingly accepted definition of folk in America--the word indie has become tantamount to a genre-descriptive, whereas, like folk, it's historical definition has been to define the mode or process by which a wide stylistic variety of music is created.
But to get to really bent about mainstream media and ad execs hijacking a word and polluting its definition....that's really just a waste of time. There's no undoing the damage. The definiton changed for emo and hardcore, too, and enjoyment of hip hop no longer requires livin' the lifestyle like it did 20 years ago. Short of writing the proper definition in the best selling book of all time, no person can make it pure again.
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