The Hipster Movement

Hipster is a term that used to define a person that advocates modern jazz music, but lately, the word has taken on a new, reformed meaning. The term now relates to an entire micro-culture of human beings that believe in following the latest trends and fashions, in almost every category. Hipsters dress, act, eat, listen to music, and even live with different social norms than the average human being. From their fashion sense, to the music they listen to, and their style of dancing, hipsters dare to break the social norm in order to be tuned in to doing the latest thing as early as possible, and “Cults” is the perfect band to these people.

As a fan of the band “Cults,” I was excited to attend their concert at The Granada in Lawrence, Kansas. As Lawrence is a very liberal city with a college campus that seems to support the same ideas, it is no surprise that many hipsters inhabit this city. I felt like my knowledge of hipsters and their practices was vast before the concert, but I had much to learn. Hipsters, by (new) definition, follow the latest of everything, so they change every day with each new bit of information that they learn about trends and fashions. Hipsters stick with specific trends for a certain while until they feel like it is out of style, in which they adapt to a new custom. Although the band “Cults” began to observe moderate fame with the success of their self-titled album, it is still underground enough to blend with the hipster clique as well as normal indie rock advocates. “Cults” themselves seem to display many hipster philosophies such as their style and lyrics suggest, but also contain their own individualism and upper class beliefs that come with their recent fame and fortune.

As the anticipation for the concert grew, I began closely observing the different groups of hipsters in their own natural forming cliques from a distance. Many of the traits that I knew were still held in tact. Most men maintained long,