the mainstream's
A
machination of the corporate world. Designed to target a creative outlet and turn it into a
business model, target market, key demographic,
etcetera.
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.
Mainstream
by Shippoking on Jul 15, 2006 12:29:10
Those who are normally hooked to whatever society says is popular, or cool.
If you think about it really, there is a
mainstream of
non-mainstream kids. What the non-mainstream kids say you have to be in order to be non-mainstream.
mainstreamers
by Maryanne Goff on Apr 06, 2007 14:43:55
Somebody that only likes music that is mainstream and will probably just get worn-out soon. A person that usually just follows
trends.
Mainstreamers don't always have a lot
creativity to listen to underground material.