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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  3598 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Shoegaze: An Oral History

TuneUp always attempts to relabel the genre of lots of my music. It wants to call everything "shoegazer" and I have to tell it "no, fuck you, it's '4AD' fucker."

I knew of absolutely no one who did not use "shoegaze" as a pejorative at the time. But then, it was New Mexico, Bon Jovi had just crested and I only knew of about eight people who could even tell you what Lush sounded like and that's only because they had a video that played on MTV's 120 minutes. I drove six of us out to Lolla Palooza 2 in Dallas. One of us was asked what kind of fag band name "soundgarden" was upon our return.

You kids with your spotify and your youtube.