Least convincing / most lol-worthy aspect of The Weeknd's quick rise to Internet fame

i know they are

re: pbr

4) as an added bonus it's a brand with a strong tradition that can be "reclaimed"

This is definitely a big part of it in my opinion, its not any good but it has a tradition - feel like there's more regional ones also - Iron City?

Rainier fits that niche around here, but Rainier is ghastly.

and yuengling, as mentioned upthread

rheingold tried to make a hipster comeback along these lines (somebody bought the brand, which had become defunct) but i don't think it really took

Yes but Yuengling is way more drinkable than pbr or iron city!

Sorry to derail, but I'm increasingly under the impression more people would give this act the time of day if it wasn't called The Weeknd.

My half-hearted reservations stem from two things:

1. There are already three bands called Weekend or The Weekend in my record collection
2. The swearing

PBR is not available to hipsters in Toronto. Traditionally, they drink Labatt 50, though IPAs are coming back into style.

Yes but Yuengling is way more drinkable than pbr or iron city!

agreed

http://parallax-view.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/weekend.jpg

It breaks my heart that there are a load of people with valuable perspectives on alcohol that are avoiding this thread because they think it's just a load of critics shouting at one another.

so what I've learned from this thread is that ppl like drinking more than the weeknd

drinking is the weekend

The red wine-drinking hipster is totally a thing by the way.

a hipster's just a drunk friend you haven't met

if you want to use the word "hipster" as basically a synonym for "snob", I think u will quickly discover that there is a nearly infinite variety of hipsters

mustard hipster

I just wanted to point out that the intersection between "hipster" and "classical musician" is packed full of wine drinkers, especially amongst the women. Also mad gin and whiskey drinks.

well you'd need to be a bit mad to make a drink with gin and whiskey..

haha

think the lack of wine is cos like.....does anyone get loaded up on wine when going out doing drugs or whatev?

yes

― lex pretend, Tuesday, April 5, 2011 2:11 AM (6 hours ago)

waht

Mixin' up a little Bombay Sapphire and Johnny Walker Black.

I have no idea who Weeknd are, but I love this thread. I noticed in Oklahoma all hipsters drink PBR or craft beers. And recently in Austin I was surprised at how many people were drinking PBR. I mostly drink wine or whiskey or Scotch.

i still suspect that craft beers are a bigger thing amongst ppl who also happen to drain PBR cans in the states & maybe its a midwest thing

what does gbx's gf drink??

i have all the time in the world for craft beers

wtf is a craft beer

I have no idea but I'd definitely be into one

i went to trader joe's yesterday and got a sixer of name tag (pretty sure this is worse than PBR) and some cheap white wine that looked decent

am i a hipster / should i listen to the weeknd while i drink this shit

right now i'm massively into asahi. love how dry it is + they have in on tap in loads of places in london now

best derailed thread ever!

my dad got me a brewing kit for xmas. i haven't broken it out but i should during this snow week, cause it's as good a time as any.

was just thinking, what a top quality derail, so glad the end of the thread isn't about artist y is shit cos fan x etc.

could bump the other thread but I feel like this is a better place for this HIGH PRAISE from a press release:

"2015 has been a breakout year for THE WEEKND, he is just the third artist to have two songs in the Top 10 of the Hot 100 simultaneously in 2015, and the first male. Only Taylor Swift and Meghan Trainor have previously held that honor this year."

also, I'm not sure about the exact dates so the stat may well be right, but wouldn't the first male be fetty wap

it's refreshing to see someone described as the "first male artist to" do anything.

i will always rep for "the morning"

What baffles me about hipsterdom is how thoughtless it can be. Up here in Canada you never used to be able to get PBR (thank god). The kind of people who would've started the PBR thing in the US drank shitty regional beers - the stuff your drunken uncle would drink - in order to signify "I don't give a shit about your elitist tastes" or whatever. In the west it was Pilsner, or back when you could get it, O'Keefe's Extra Old Stock. In Ontario, Labatt 50. But what are the kids drinking now, coast to coast? Somebody else's drunken uncle's beer. Weird.

uh why isn't "hair" an option

can't believe "free mixtape" didn't get any votes, that's always the reason I hear anything

iirc he didn't have weird hair back then?

(btw, lol at this thread's long detour into beer talk)

Some foreigner's drunken uncle's beer.

That's specially imported to give an air of being nothing special.

haha, i missed this stealth beer thread. now i want to get to the bottom of what UK people think "craft beer" is.

for a musician/artist is the weeknd's hair really that weird?

i think cad had this down pretty good

pbr thing isn't really complicated:

1) hipsters need a cheap beer
2) mainstream/fratty brands, lite beers, and brands that cost a dollar or two more are out
3) pbr is is a little better than schlitz, old mil, etc.
4) as an added bonus it's a brand with a strong tradition that can be "reclaimed"

ime miller high life was equivalent in terms of test, value, and cache, esp after they redesigned the bottle. the brand that hipsters really missed on is regular coors, which costs about the same and tests much much better.

― call all destroyer, Monday, April 4, 2011 1:09 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

high life has this chimerical quality of going from great to nauseating with the drop of a few degrees

in what universe is pbr better than schlitz??

also here is as good a place as any to say fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck the term "pbr&b" ban music journalists forever

^^^^^^^^^^^

high life has this chimerical quality of going from great to nauseating with the drop of a few degrees

― goole, Wednesday, August 5, 2015 12:03 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the fuck am i saying, the *rise* of a few degrees.

i had a chart in my head i was trying to describe. wrong axis.