In the thick of prime Best of 2010 season, people are getting pretty vocal about their favorite music of the year — not to mention what they think about other people’s favorites. Things tend to get heated, name-calling sometimes ensues, and Twitter becomes a veritable battleground. Here at Flavorpill, we’re also serious about the music we love, but we’re also kind of sick of the yearly death match over whose #1 is truly #1. So, to keep things lighthearted, we’re stereotyping you by your favorite album of 2010. Don’t worry — ours is on there, too, and the stereotype totally fits.
MGMT, Congratulations
People who get the joke five minutes later, once you’ve moved on to a new topic.
The Arcade Fire, The Suburbs
That friend who suddenly started liking Bruce Springsteen after years of indie snobbery.
Kid Cudi, Man On The Moon II: The Legend Of Mr. Rager
Hip-hop heads who are hiding a nerdy past.
Big Boi, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty
Guys whose moms used to wash their mouths out with soap for cursing.
M.I.A., Maya
People who won’t stop telling you shit you already know about WikiLeaks.
Titus Andronicus, The Monitor
That dude who keeps arguing even after you’re like, “Hey! Fine! You win, okay? I give up!”
Drake, Thank Me Later
Macho guys who refer to their clothing as “attire.”
Robyn, Body Talk Pt. 1
Fourth-wave feminists and the men who love them.
Deerhunter, Halcyon Digest
Record store clerks who try to give you unwanted recommendations.
The Roots, How I Got Over
People with extensive herbal tea collections.
Superchunk, Majesty Shredding
Dudes who still have a drawerful of concert T-shirts from the early ’90s.
Yeasayer, Odd Blood
Folks who wish they went to Woodstock, figure doing acid is the next best thing.
Kings of Leon, Come Around Sundown
Guys who have always wanted to wear a leather jacket but somehow can’t summon the chutzpah to buy one.
Eminem, Recovery
People who secretly watch — and cry over — Behind the Music
The Black Keys, Brothers
Whiskey drinkers.
Marnie Stern, Marnie Stern
Ladies who wear their mood swings as a badge of honor.
of Montreal, False Priest
Drama club members, past and present.
Beach House, Teen Dream
Girls who like to layer lace over lace.
Vampire Weekend, Contra
That one frat dude who’s always trying to get his brothers to come out to a show with him.
Nicki Minaj, Pink Friday
People who still haven’t heard that one Annie Lennox song, or that one verse from the Kanye album.
Best Coast, Crazy for You
Girls who are always reminiscing about high school, even though it kind of sucked.
Wavves, King of the Beach
Guys who dig adult women who act like teenage girls.
LCD Soundsystem, This Is Happening
Dads who used to do a lot of drugs.
The National, High Violet
Dads who used to drink a lot (or still do).
Kanye West, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
People who, when you ask them whether they liked a movie or not, say, “Well, um, what did you think of it?”
Comments (51)
Summary: Your favorite band sucks.
Wow one of the first comments and by someone whose favourite album isn’t on the list. Probably because I don’t have a favourite album of 2010. I must either have a toddler (which means I hear Bobs & Lolo 100 times a day) or I am too old to change the radio channel off Golden Oldies.
Genuine LOLs!
Sleigh Bells, man c’mon! I’d like to be stereotyped.
Also, I think you wrongly characterized the Wavves fans. Should have read: “The reason why people use ‘hipster’ so disparagingly ” or “Recently moved into Williamsburg and deleted Blink-182 from iPod.”
I’m so negative all the time. I enjoyed the list and love it when you guys do features like this. But seriously, seeing the word “Wavves” makes me cringe. If wanted the A-side of that album, I’d play radio fuzz over bad pop-punk. If I wanted the B-side, I’d listen to bad Garageband creations of Animal Collective fans. Maybe Nathan’s general attitude has tainted my ability to listen to it. “Disney, man, they’re like totally evil or like whatever, you know? Like fuck ‘em or like whatever. Yeah, fuck ‘em.”
Gosh, while I recognize a dozen of the artists listed, I couldn’t hum a song by any of ‘em (speaking of ‘em, I can almost hum some old Eminem). Hmmm…chalk that up to the suckocity of radio and growing older! (And, FFS, I was a college DJ for years!) I guess my stereotype is with Tracey above (yeah, where’s TMBG’s Grammy-nominated Here Comes Science?!).
Funny Kyle, insulting Wavves while listening to Sleigh Bells. They are both equally try hard wanna be, gimmicky, hipster bands.
The Maya one is fantastic.
Wait, was that supposed to be clever?
@maximus, I think it’s “You suck, no matter what your favorite band is”
Where’s Soof?
Yeah. We need some Adz in here….
its not about favourite bands, its about favourite 2010 albums
what on earth is a fourth wave feminist?
@ Poop balls – I just cried for 90 minutes.
WHERES ARCHANDROID
“Christ, What An Asshole”
Janelle Monae, The ArchAndroid
That friend who you know would throw you an amazing birthday party.
I don’t really like Whiskey :(
But I don’t like whiskey.
I DO love Whiskey AND have a decent herbal tea selection!
Laura Marling, I Speak Because I Can: Creative writing majors who like cats, knitting, and Joni Mitchell
yeasayer made me lol
i like my whiskey ;)
what about the new jakob dylan or jonathan tyler & the northern lights?
More James Blake please.
Where is Sufjan!
Caribou – Swim: People who went through a pretty serious Justice phase.
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This is funny but mostly way the hell off. Im offended
Oh my gosh.
The Vampire Weekend stereotype is entirely true.
Just replace “frat boy” with “college girl” and that’s me.
betches left off Age of Adz.
Yeah where the hell is Sleigh Bells – bar far best album of the year
What if they are all my favorite album?? I am a shitty person
Not 100% accurate, but at least I’m consistent (when given the options here)…
Black Keys and The National
Dad…check, drinks whiskey….check, drinks/drank a lot…not really
What about those whose favorites were Warpaint or Interpol?
I doubt these writers really care what you all think they left off or if some of you think they’re wrong. Really funny post, the Kanye bit actually garnered my applause. big ‘ol fan, here.
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the MGMT one could have been better.
Not very funny
Who is THE Arcade Fire, anyway? I know of a group called “Arcade Fire” …
the walkmen – lisbon: thirty somethings who used to go to punk shows before they got jobs
band of horses – infinite arms: suburban indie kids who think starbucks is their local coffee shop
OK Go – Of The Blue Colour of the Sky: people who are kind of freaked out by “Embryonic” and want a more accessible Flaming Lips experience.
not nearly as good as last year’s edition
Belle & Sebastian, Write About Love. Probably not so easy to stereotype as the sold out concert was filled with oldsters (like myself)weaned on Tigermilk to high school kids who recently discovered them on the Juno soundtrack.
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Lol I don’t understand the Kanye one…
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