indie kids

Mainly teenagers who all share a common love for the arts and music. They listen to many bands most people haven't heard of and tend to dress however they want, usually ruling out the rules of fashion. One may see these "indie kids" in a local coffee shop, art gallery, or thrift store. These people aren't "emo". They also tend to wear warm neutral tones as opposed to black. They are fairly reserved and tend to be open minded as well as opinionated.

here are some examples of what indie kids look like and listen to:

www.myspace.com/deathcabforcutie

www.myspace.com/vampireweekend

by Elisa Execution March 27, 2009

indie

easily the best type of music ever, with stong and meaningful lyrics and a tune that doesn't make you want to cry, like Emo,

the libertines are indie

by Richard George Robert Scott July 1, 2005

Wannabe indie

Someone who strives to be a indie/hipster but in reality they don't know anything about the genre or way of life. They claim to know indie music when in reality their main source of indie are websites that feed them what they claim to be the "best indie around". They are constantly harassing their real indie/hipster friends for music seeing as their findings are inadequate. They also claim to dressing indie and try talking about indie to others when they have no actual knowledge about the genre except what they've stolen from a real indie/hipster.

1. wannabe indie/hipster: hey what band is that?

hipster: Thats _______.

(2 days later)

wannabe indie/hipster: Hey! I downloaded all of their albums!

Hipster: Wow, You're such a wannabe.

2.

Wannabe indie/hipster: check out this website where I get my music from. Its really cool.

Hipster: Don't be a wannabe.

by firemaster234 June 12, 2010

Indie Butt

a contradiction of the butt, it is simultaneously large and nonexistent; while the butt is large (and often in charge) it is seemingly also flat, and is rarely, if ever, described as "bootylicious" although this may be an illusion of the silm leg jeans indie girls tend to wear.

A girl need not be fat to have an indie butt, in fact it is often the only aspect of the girl with any meat to it.

All the girls at the Decemberists concert had total indie butt

by Ryan Sprinkle September 26, 2007

indie

short for independent

associated with music and movies and other things

you're not an indie kid because you listen to earlimart or death cab for cutie. you're an indie kid because you're independent.

you are an indie kid because you are unique

YES:

I AM UNIQUE IN MY OWN WAY, I AM AN INDIE KID.

NO:

I am so cool because i love elliott smith and the killers. i also wear big flashy sunglasses at night and smoke cigarettes.

by rainbow brite June 9, 2005

indigenous

Anger or annoyance provoked by what is perceived as unfair treatment.

The grammar professor was known to become indigenous and angry whenever he heard people confusing one word, for another word that doesn't nearly mean the same thing.

Everyone feels he should stop being so indigenous and get along.

by Merc2022 April 2, 2022

Indie

A misnomer for a particular style of music. It formerly was used to correctly classify music that was "underground" and not supported by major music labels. Popular thought in recent years has been that it is itself a style of music, usually 80's throwback, alternitive-style music.

Any band in any style of music can be indie by virtue of not being signed.The style is not important; it is independence from major labels that makes a band independent, or "indie". This idea has been lost due to the popularity of the term indie as it is used today.

The reason it became so popular is because to like indie music, in its correct sense, was respectable because you're bypassing the corporate music machine and finding music that you like on your own. As more and more hipster-type kids wanted to appear as deep as possible, they would answer the question "What kind of music do you like?" with "Indie." As time went on, this answer became so popular that the music that many of them listened to started to be referred to as indie. After a while of this, bands that are on major labels started to be absorbed into this pseudo-genre, rendering it an oxymoron.

Since the loosely associated music that is referred to as indie cannot properly be grouped and classified, a more appropriate label for what is erroneously referred to as indie would be "scene." The scene kids are often more concerned with being opinionated and elitist about their music choice than they are about the music itself. Scene fashion trends include tight pants, square-rimmed glasses, tight vintage-looking t-shirts, newsboy caps, military-style caps, and tattoos of stars, guns or bullets, and especially birds. Making the "scene" (i.e. a concert),being popular, and being narcissistic are the main motivations of scene kids. They often do their best to display that they possess these qualities on social networking sites like MySpace.

Jim: You should check out this band.
Frank: Oh yeah? What kind of music are they?
Jim: Indie.
Frank: OK, so they're not signed... I mean what genre are they?
Jim: Dude, I told you. Indie.
Frank: You're such a tool.

Billy: Oasis is like, the coolest indie band ever.
Mark: Man, you are totally clueless.
Billy: Please. Music is my life. I would die without music. My taste is superb. How dare you criticize me?
Mark: Wow. You're hopeless. I'm leaving.
Billy: Good. I have to blog about how awesome the concert I went to last night was and post the 30 pictures I took of myself there on MySpace.

by SmashCrab March 12, 2008