Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.
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When people are very original, sometimes they are original as a way to resist the mainstream.
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music world and have been able to play exactly what I have wanted the way I have wanted.
What I've become good at is bringing things that aren't necessarily mainstream to the mainstream.
Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.
I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.
Mainstream to me equals boring, so I don't want to be doing that.
Because I have success, it doesn't mean I'm part of the mainstream. I'm still an outsider.
I think the best songs are being written by the very under-stated, under-appreciated indie artists. The thing that separates them from mainstream success is they either consciously or unknowingly refuse to deliver on a big chorus.
I have always been mainstream. It's so weird, because I don't see it as something negative at all. So many people see it as something negative.
I don't know why so many artists talk about the mainstream's problems from the fringe. I think, unfortunately, it's almost like our education makes us too safe and terrified to step into the world.
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