The Ideal Indie Rock Woman: Still Pale, Still Malnourished, Now With Slightly Better Bangs
Maybe I’d be less offended by the whole thing if the online presentation wasn’t just flat pictures accompanied by T. Cole Rachel’s even flatter text; you’d think the multimedia presentation of an article that’s nominally about musicians would attempt to provide some musical context for why these bands were featured, or at least try somewhat half-heartedly to convince the readership out there that these five acts weren’t just picked for the spread on the basis of how they fit into the Marc Jacobs samples lying around the Times offices. (It’s not like a link to, say, an Electrelane video is all that hard to find on the Web.) But given that, after I showed this spread to a friend, he asked me “So, was this week’s issue of the New York Times Magazine secretly the ‘cool hipster girls‘ issue?” I’d say that this spread is probably the sign of what’s to come at the Times, because a good Web editor knows that even if their readership is alienated or turned off by its unrelenting coverage of certain fake trends, at least there’ll be someone out there to irritably blog about it.
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