mainstreamer
One who follows current trends. This term is most often applied to one who listens to popular music (played on the radio and MTV), usually with negative connotations. Many people who refer to themselves as members of the so-called underground believe that
mainstreamers are tasteless and brainwashed by popular mass media; if something is well known or popular, it is automatically "
lobotomized corporate
claptrap". Though this can be true, there are many exceptions. Mainstream music fans, on the other hand, believe that little to no media exposure for a band means that the band sucks. Other people, who like what they like whether it's popular or not, consider both groups to be douchebags for denying themselves potential enjoyment for a goofy image complex that they won't give a crap about when they have to get a job and move out of mom's basement.
mainstreamer
by Anonymous on Jun 19, 2006 03:06:09
A term created by people who have a need to feel different from everybody else, yet cannot without finding a derogatory term for people who listen to the radio. There is a reason
the bands that "
mainstreamers" listen to are on the radio, because they appeal to a larger audience. At one time, the bands on the radio were less well known. They weren't just
born famous, they worked their way up to being on the radio and successful. What happens when the underground bands that others listen to finally get on the radio? Do they become "mainstreamers" too? Or do they immediately hate the band and move on.
Example:
Hey, look at that guy listening to
System of a Down, what a mainstreamer.
I know, we are totally different from him.
Let's go cut ourselves.
mainstreamer
by nasera on Jan 02, 2006 12:49:14
a usually
preteen punk poser who worships the music played on the radio.(green day,
coheed and cambria,
311, my chemical romance)They have no need for underground bands and watch MTV for hours hoping to see their favorite band onTRL.
mainstreamer
by level -20 mainstreamer on Aug 20, 2006 17:48:49
A member of a popular
croud with no soul, usually found at a middle school or highschool. They have zero taste in music or movies, they use these things as a way to get more popularity. They make tee-shirts that say "(insert event here) is life" or "
I Heart (insert event here)" usually the event would be viewed as uncool so they get a large group of people to pretend it's cool so that they can all feel cooler.
anyone with a soul hates
mainstreamers except for the head mainstreamer because they have control of the entire mainstream body
Example:
Dang those dumb
mainstreamers made stupid
bowling t-shirts and bragged about it for ever.
GOD DAMN, he
sold out to the mainstream.!!!
The Mainstream
by GoAskAlex1991 on Aug 02, 2011 02:35:29
Example:
How
the mainstream operates:
1.
The mainstream is established...
2. An alternative is established to the mainstream...
3. The mainstream targets the alternative...
4. The alternative becomes the mainstream...
And therefore the alternative loses its identity, having become
absorbed by the very system it was established to rally against. Mainstream for the masses...
Mainstream
by Emily Pormann on Jul 16, 2003 02:40:33
Mainstream is what's the new trend. when one "style" gets old,
a new one is
reborn, a
mainstream person is someone who jumps from trend to trend so that they fit in with the rest of the crowd. Mainstream is being what society thinks you should be, and look like.
Example:
Avril lavigne took the casual wearage of the tie,something "underground" and unique, and
turned it into something everyone wears, she turned it into something "normal", a trend.
mainstream.
mainstream
by The Minorate Majority on Jan 01, 2008 07:33:41
A person (or more commonly persons) which follow the common/accepted/most seemingly popular trend. The
trends are normally labeled, causing a
divide of those who
conform and do not conform (non-conformists) until the non-conformists become the common trend, creating a cycle.
Example:
Today's common mainstream
trends are
labeled as
'emo' (Many of these titles are misused). The older term for the jumping of trends is 'Fashionista or Fashionister'
mainstream
by Zack on Aug 03, 2004 20:46:47
The
brainwash big businesses put out. They feed young adults with worthless movies and music. The trend. All very fake, they put out whatever is in style. Many are too
filtered out by
the mainstream's brainwash to wake up.
Very few mainstream artists are worth listening to.
Example:
"Reality" Tv shows would be an example. They saw how people watched Survivor, and they fed
off it.
"Swimming in the mainstream- Is such a lame, lame dream." -
Rollins/
Black Flag
Mainstream
by Nedia on Jul 06, 2005 19:52:54
The bane of the elite, mainstream media (mostly musical) receives constant abuse from many listeners of underground/unsigned bands/musicians.
A band is often labled mainstream when it attempts to appeal to a wider audience, such as when Slipknot released 'The Subliminal Versus', or
Cradle of Filth's more recent releases.
Of course the most topical band on this subject at the moment is Green Day. After releasing 'American Idiot', the elitist hoards (as opposed to the pop-culture masses) cried out curses of 'Selling Out'.
Unfortunatly this will never end, because there must always be an underdog, and elitism is blessed
cross to bear.
Although one must ask the question, out of the mainstream and the underground, which is
the oppressor, and which is the oppressed...
Example:
Brian was a big Green Day fan, and would wash his
corn flakes down with
Longview every morning.
One day he turned on the radio and a song came on called American Idiot, and he quite liked it. He was humming it as he walked to school before realising that eveyone else was as well.
My God, his favourite band had become popular! It was no longer his alone, it belonged to the unwashed hoards now!
Falling to his knees, tearing his Basket Case t-shirt and looking up into the downpour of rain, he declaired unto the Heavens, "I HAVE NO SON!" before realising that he really did have no son and was actually pissed about his band's success.
People say that if you hang around in the bushes outside of Brian's house at night, you can still hear the faint tones of
When I Come Around over his weeping.
Mainstream
by BOFH on Nov 30, 2004 11:06:05
A gigantic brainwashing cover that the media and the government uses to blindly
mislead people into all going the same way. Mainstream should die.
I hate people nowadays because they are all the same: Same trend, same bland as
pigshit personalities, and same predjudice. Rap is known for influencing mainstream. So is Hip-Hop.
Example:
Mainstream should
die.