Music referencing to the "struggle" of lower class society in urban areas, oftentimes combined with supression by corrupt governments. Popular artists such as T.I., The Game, 50 cent, Rick Ross, and Chamillionaire are known for writing struggle music, using their music to inform about their struggle to overcome poverty and oppression.
by Tristan M. July 19, 2006
Dude 1: Have you heard the new Radiohead?
Dude 2: Yeah, and I had a huge musical boner. It's awesome!
Dude 2: Yeah, and I had a huge musical boner. It's awesome!
by princesscrunchy January 09, 2009
Derived from the phrase carpet muncher, is used to describe singer-songwriters popular with indie women. Usually downbeat, vocal heavy and ladles of emotion.
A genre of music that will almost always result in any males in the vicinity changing the radio station, leaving the room, getting out of the car, asking "is everything alright".
IS: jewel, beth orton, ani difranco, new buffalo, fiest, cat power, missy higgins, aimee mann, fiona apple, dido,
IS NOT: mariah, britney, rihanna, fergie, the pussycat dolls
A genre of music that will almost always result in any males in the vicinity changing the radio station, leaving the room, getting out of the car, asking "is everything alright".
IS: jewel, beth orton, ani difranco, new buffalo, fiest, cat power, missy higgins, aimee mann, fiona apple, dido,
IS NOT: mariah, britney, rihanna, fergie, the pussycat dolls
by Chocolate Mudcake June 20, 2008
by StanBalkans November 10, 2018
Indie music is god-awful music. the bands seem to think that being popular is bad. boring riffs, boring, drums, no bass, and really bad singers. this music is straight bad. the bands always have to have obnoxious names that start with "the" and then 3 unrelated words. oh and concerts are "shows".
Indie fan-"hey i heard The unborn trash machine" is going to have a show, but i prefer "the kingdom of toxcity" and "the hairy gumperts" are good too. they are the epitome of indie music.
Indie fan 2-"aww man "the plural nouns" are really good compared to "the running away" but "the many horses" are fantastic. "the of montreal" is great.
Metalhead- "FUCK YOUR SHIT, FUCKING CRYPTOPSY, INDIE MUSIC SUCKS BALL SACKS"
Indie fan 2-"aww man "the plural nouns" are really good compared to "the running away" but "the many horses" are fantastic. "the of montreal" is great.
Metalhead- "FUCK YOUR SHIT, FUCKING CRYPTOPSY, INDIE MUSIC SUCKS BALL SACKS"
by bmikng August 01, 2009
The term 'black music' is used when someone is referring to 'urban' or 'street' music. To substitute the word 'street' for the word 'black' is degrading and suggests that the street is a black persons place.
Some people say the term means music that originated from African Americans but the definition doesn't fit because it doesn't encompass UK Garage, Grime, Dubstep etc. which are all thought of as Black Music styles. Similarly, Rock'n'Roll is not thought of as a Black Music style dispite its origins.
Some people say the term means music that originated from African Americans but the definition doesn't fit because it doesn't encompass UK Garage, Grime, Dubstep etc. which are all thought of as Black Music styles. Similarly, Rock'n'Roll is not thought of as a Black Music style dispite its origins.
The MOBO (Music of Black Origin) Awards has now removed Jazz as a category because it is no longer seen as a Black Music style. This fact strengthens the argument that the term is not used to indicate the colour of the skin of the original musicians, but rather the class of the people involved in the scene.
Anyone who believes in racial equality should find the term Black Music offensive.
Anyone who believes in racial equality should find the term Black Music offensive.
by Alex Stacey March 27, 2007
a.) Real music that you can actually understand, performed by artists who can actually sing and play instruments (not just shout obscenities and sometimes-rhyming slang backed by a drum machine or fragments of somebody else's record played off turntables). Music that condones patriotism and traditional American/family values instead of drive-by shootings, murders, drug usage, racism (i.e. hatred of white people) and general lawlessness.
This type of music is usually enjoyed by proud, honest, hard-working people who have chosen not to be a drain on society by living on welfare and/or spending most of their adult life in prison. You'll never see it on MTV because it's not trendy, thuggish or amoral (like everything else on MTV). Generally not enjoyed by baggy-clothed, backwards ballcap wearing, bling wearing fashion slave "sheeple" posers who feel an irrepressible need to try to impress everybody by acting and talking like something they're not.
b.) The kind of music you'd like your kids to listen to, as opposed to "Yo, yo, I got crunked up on chronic and a fo'ty and did a drive-by 187 on the PO-lice, then c-walked back to the criznizzle and slapped mah beee-yatch."
This type of music is usually enjoyed by proud, honest, hard-working people who have chosen not to be a drain on society by living on welfare and/or spending most of their adult life in prison. You'll never see it on MTV because it's not trendy, thuggish or amoral (like everything else on MTV). Generally not enjoyed by baggy-clothed, backwards ballcap wearing, bling wearing fashion slave "sheeple" posers who feel an irrepressible need to try to impress everybody by acting and talking like something they're not.
b.) The kind of music you'd like your kids to listen to, as opposed to "Yo, yo, I got crunked up on chronic and a fo'ty and did a drive-by 187 on the PO-lice, then c-walked back to the criznizzle and slapped mah beee-yatch."
Typical country music:
"My daddy served in the Army, he lost his right eye - but he flew a flag out in our yard until the day that he died. He wanted my brother, my mother, my sister and me to grow up and live happy in the land of the free."
"And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free....and I won't forget the men who died to save that right for me. And I'd gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today - for there ain't no doubt I love this land.....God Bless the U.S.A."
"My daddy served in the Army, he lost his right eye - but he flew a flag out in our yard until the day that he died. He wanted my brother, my mother, my sister and me to grow up and live happy in the land of the free."
"And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free....and I won't forget the men who died to save that right for me. And I'd gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today - for there ain't no doubt I love this land.....God Bless the U.S.A."
by Redneck & Proud June 15, 2006