Subcultures : The kids of the 80's or meet The Fringes

We are a mix and match generation.

i think we can name the semi-invisible current subculture, the mega-subculture that no one's really aware of- "the fringes". it's raw at the ends, it twists many different styles from the 20th century, but not only, it goes further into the decades. it's an extension of punk and later indie and it's not quite either. i think the anti-folkers were part of it in the early 2000's, and now it's the likes of Patrick wolf and Mikachu and even Florence Welch and the new generation of folk musicians, such as Devendra Banhart. it's the result of the instant information, the accessibility of multiple kinds of information at the same time, the Internet, the recorded history - presented to us, kids of the 1980's, creating a nostalgia
towards times that we had never really lived through, though we know what they looked liked and we certainly know what they sounded like.

The Fringes have a certain "do it yourself" attitude towards art, but they're not afraid of the industry, especially when it adopts them the way they are, without interfering. i bet we'll see examples in literature and television as well, when it gets a bit more mainstream and loses it's charm. it feels apocalyptic, like a last revolution, but perhaps every revolution wants to be the last and becomes suicidal. it certainly has a more politically aware attitude - more queer friendly, more environmental... it's not necessarily Caucasian-dominated, the world's changing, people moving from one place to another, eventually we'll all be a blend of nationalities and origins. nothing will be exotic anymore, unless WE make it such.

the fringes resent the mainstream, television and most of the music on the radio. it thrives in large cities all over the world, but it's completely under the radar as a movement, an ideology. people fail to recognise the spirit, which unites all "hipsters"... - we give them a general name, while there's something more that makes them part of THIS time and not the 1980's or the 90's or any other decade.