Twitter Takes A Moment To Remember The Scourge Of 'Stomp Clap Hey'
Picture it: 2011. Barack Obama is president. Rage comics are the height of memeing, and there are 400 pop bands on the radio dressed like traveling balladeers from the 1920s plucking banjos and going "hey!"
There are many going names for this genre of music, which included such acts as The Lumineers, Mumford and Sons and Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeroes: "Indie Folk," "Stomp and Holler," "Hey Ho" folk music, etc. Earlier this week, a Twitter user revealed their name for the genre, "Stomp Clap Hey," and all at once it seemed people remembered how much they did not like it.
If The Lumineer's "Hey Ho!" or Edward Sharpe's "Home" was your jam, you may want to look away, as what followed @lemonade_grrrl's post was some brutal descriptions of the scourge of early 2010s radio.
There were of course some Stomp Clap Hey apologists, but their voices were quickly drowned out by the naysayers.
Remember when you look back on the past with rose-tinted glasses that while the early 2010s had some good qualities, it undoubtedly had a weird, toothless folk-rock period of pop music that has, thankfully, been lost to time. Hey, ho.
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wisehowl_the_2nd
Reject pop folk, embrace bluegrass Appalachian Americana folk.
I still really like Mumford and Sons and Avett Brothers tho…
Hakajin
This is still my favorite kind of music. Sort of. I was never a fan of "Ho Hey," but when I heard The Lumineers' first album, I liked it a lot; I think there are still several stand outs. I like the following album, "Cleopatra," a lot more, and "III" is kind of a concept album about the ravages of generational alcoholism… I tend to go for literary elements and thematic cohesion. That's why my favorite work of all time is The Oh Hellos Anemoi Cycle (Notos, Eurus, Boreas, and Zephyrus), which is thematically about a personal journey away from fundamentalism. All kinds of extended metaphor, language play, and motifs (including melodic ones), and I love their sound, anyway… Darlingside is fantastic, Birdtalker, Lowland Hum…
I think at its worst, indie-folk is generic and shallow (this is why I never liked "Ho Hey"), but there's also a lot of fantastic stuff out there!
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Victreebong
People rag on Nu Metal now, but this is what replaced it. Millennial hipsters with folk music and horrible, PERMANENT body modifications. And it’s not limited to “artists”; our entire generation is plagued with this style while continuing to ruin music.
Kenetic Kups
Oh no
tatoos!!1!1!1!1
Steve
i think hes talking about gauges
Kenetic Kups
Gauges?
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kirbman
Wait, what? This was a thing? This is literally the first time I ever hear about it.
A Concerned Rifleman
Ah yes, Hipstercore. When songs wanted to be "Happy" and "Deep" so they can mask the appearance of your sad, shallow ass.
Timey16
Remember when full beards were associated with hipsters and now it's the manly thing to wear as seen with the "yes" chad?
How times change.
Victreebong
Beards have been mainstream big for over a decade. I’m looking forward to another round of goatees and sideburns.
Kenetic Kups
pop music is no better today, and has been shit since the 90s
internet was far better in 2011 though
Geigh Science
ah yes, Mumford and Sons with their one song that they released 3,879 different times