not cool to be too cool

I spend a fair amount of time on the internet. A substantial chunk of that time is spent on twitter- a website where you can share all your thoughts and opinions faster than you can fall down the stairs, even if your thoughts and opinions are a bit naff and you shoulda probably just stayed at the top of the stairs. 

One thing is circulating which really grinds my gears: apparently, fans of pop artists like One Direction are 'not allowed' to be fans of (what the Cool Indie Internet community thinks are) more musically credible bands. So what do you have? A bunch of people who think they are far far superior to the likes of one direction fans (pause to let cool kid readers shed a tear at the very thought of what makes you beautiful), but also begrudge these fans liking the sort of music they like. God FORBID anyone with a Justin Bieber song on their iPod gets whiff of a musical deity like Alex Turner. Hilarious when people like to constantly remind you how diverse their own taste is, but see no problems with saying the equivalent of "Hasn't anyone told these directioners you can only listen to one genre??!!"

...Either I'm losing it or that doesn't make a single ounce of sense.*

Now, I don't wanna be too harsh on twitter because after all, it did have to experience that veritably blasphemous moment when Miley Cyrus tweeted about... the smiths. Cue gasps from the audience. I know, I know- when Louis Tomlinson stepped out in a Stone Roses t shirt, I didn't think it could get any worse either. But here we are. We're all in this together.

Is it really so heart wrenchingly painful that someone who likes Little Mix just posted a link to Love Will Tear Us Apart on Facebook? Don't say yes or you'd have completely ruined my hard hitting closing line and that'd be rude.


*to be fair, I did dream i'd posted this two weeks ago then believe it was real and not post it till now, so it is quite likely I'm losing it. 


(hello im eve! this is my first post, apologies it took so long)