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What Is The Most Meaningless Musical Label? [Somethin 4 The Weekend]

What Is The Most Meaningless Musical Label? [Somethin 4 The Weekend] In this week's AV Club , multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird drops the controversial soundbite "When you think indie rock, you think more about haircuts and fashion than about music." Somehow, this has yet to be picked up by outraged bloggers (maybe because they think he's right? oooh snap), but it made me I wonder just what other tags and adjectives and bits of shorthand have been rendered free of any sort of music-related meaning by misuse, overuse, or just your normal wear and tear. Bird's full quote after the jump, so you can think it over! [...]
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