"You have to have a very concrete opinion about why you like or dislike Radiohead, and maybe a lot of people are afraid to say they dislike them because they're afraid that their only answer is going to be 'it seems too smart for me.' "
"Hating Radiohead is the hipster's dirty little secret," says Franzman, the entertainment guide editor.
"There's definitely now a symbolic value to saying you hate Radiohead - even Kid Rock makes a big deal about hating Radiohead. He even has a video where he's literally using toilet paper with the word 'Radiohead' embossed on it."
Hang on; if Kid Rock is leading the I-hate-Radiohead bandwagon, could it be that the hip thing is ironically hating Radiohead, in much the same sense as wearing a mesh trucker cap?
After Jackie Brown, that's hardly unexpected.
If it is ironic in the modern sense, does that mean they continue to waste time listening to music they don't like?
Nonono, that would be ironically /appreciating/ Radiohead. Ironic appreciation is only done with things like bad 80s pop and teen-slasher movies.
Ironically hating Radiohead would be wearing a stance of hating Radiohead based on tenets (anti-intellectualism or atavism) which you don't sincerely agree with.
OTOH, it may have to wait a few decades until the hipsters of that day start ironically dressing like Fred Durst (witness all the 70s/80s metal iconography appropriated by today's hipsterati).
i hear they're hating quentin tarantino now too :D beware the hipster backlash/inquisition!