{"id":1679,"date":"2008-09-09T07:09:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T11:09:45","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-09-09T07:09:45","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T07:09:45","slug":"artists-who-started-out-hip-who-suddenly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/artists-who-started-out-hip-who-suddenly\/","title":{"rendered":"Artists Who Started Out &#8220;Hip&#8221; Who Suddenly Became &#8220;Uncool, Man&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9ypkQhbaFcU?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nI&#8217;m not sure I have an adequate example yet&#8211;<strong>U2<\/strong> was the first band that came to mind for me, although they&#8217;d gradually went from &#8220;pretty cool&#8221; to &#8220;completely annoying&#8221; by the time of that <em>Rattle and Hum<\/em> movie. I also recall a lot of people thinking <strong>Duran Duran<\/strong> were hip when they came out, but after a brief spell of them getting an appropriate <strong>critical wedgie<\/strong>, they seem to have regained their slightly hip standing. Go figure.<\/p>\n<p>What I&#8217;m looking for are artists who came out of the gate hipper than hip who then had a steep, sudden dropoff in hipster quotient. Painfully slow declines, such as the decades-long dropoff in hipness experienced by the <strong>Jefferson Airplane<\/strong> to <strong>Starship<\/strong>, are NOT what I&#8217;m looking about. (I know, Dylan&#8217;s line, &#8220;You ain&#8217;t got nothing when you&#8217;ve got nothing to lose&#8221; may spring to mind among Airplane hatas.) And this isn&#8217;t about &#8220;quality&#8221; or the jumping of sharks, necessarily. I might argue, for instance, that <strong>The Boss<\/strong>&#8216; quality shot up for a stretch while he went from hipster underground artists to mainstream rock icon.<\/p>\n<p>Oh man, I just thought of a perfect example: that band from upstate New York that featured <strong>Natalie Merchant<\/strong>! Thankfully I&#8217;ve blanked out their name, but how many of you thought they were hip when they were opening for <strong>REM<\/strong>, and how quickly did they fall from hipster grace?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not sure I have an adequate example yet&#8211;U2 was the first band that came to mind for me, although they&#8217;d gradually went from &#8220;pretty cool&#8221; to &#8220;completely annoying&#8221; by the time of that Rattle and Hum movie. I also recall a lot of people thinking Duran Duran were hip when they came out, but <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/artists-who-started-out-hip-who-suddenly\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}