HIPSTER ALERT : THE R KELLY SINGALONG

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Hipster Alert: The R. Kelly Singalong

In what is, as far as I know, one of the first documented cases of the insidious "hipster" movement spreading outside of the New York area, where it began, it was announced recently that a massive "hipster party" is being planned in a movie theater in Austin, Texas.

You'll recall from my post last week on hipsters that hipster parties tend to have themes. For example, at the infamous "Kill Whitey" parties in Williamsburg, New York (pictured above), hipsters pretend to be black people, allegedly in an effort to "kill the whiteness inside."

The theme of said upcoming hipster party? R. Kelly's sad and bizarre "Trapped in the Closet."

The Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas website sayeth:

To those in the know: You've seen the videos online. Maybe you've even seen them on DVD in a room with friends. But you haven't fully experienced them until you've rapped along with R. Kelly in a theater full of 200 friends with a LIVE CAST from Austin Lyric Opera acting out the onscreen action in front of the and a bevy of props hidden around the room so that Sylvester isn't the only one who'll scream out, "Oh my god, a rubber!"

One can presume that the 200 individuals who will be attending this party aren't actually fans of R. Kelly's music. Or black music in general, for that matter.

http://www.byroncrawford.com/2006/01/hipster_alert_t.html

― andy chow, Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:00 (twenty years ago)

One can presume that the 200 individuals who will be attending this party aren't actually fans of R. Kelly's music. Or black music in general, for that matter.

this crawford guy rules!

― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:04 (twenty years ago)

Swing harder, Byron!

― David R. (popshots75`), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:04 (twenty years ago)

One can presume that the 200 individuals who will be attending this party aren't actually fans of R. Kelly's music. Or black music in general, for that matter.

As if everyone isn't a fan of "black music" by now. Does this guy think hipsters grew up in caves? Does he think the caves only played Barry Manilow and English ballads?

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:06 (twenty years ago)

sad and bizarre

??? Does anyone on the planet, of any race, not find Trapped in the Closet hilarious, life-affirming and WTF-alicious?

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:08 (twenty years ago)

This guy is not original, funny, or innovative.

― Stephen C (ihope), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:09 (twenty years ago)

I was totally going to do something similar to this except have different bands do different parts.

But I decided it was stupid...

― Tape Store (Tape Store), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:12 (twenty years ago)

roffle at the idea that people at an R. Kelly party, who presumably have memorized all 12 parts of Trapped in the Closet, are not "actually fans of R. Kelly's music."

― Renard (Renard), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:12 (twenty years ago)

They should have a party where 200 white hipsters chant along to Byron Crawford blog posts.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:13 (twenty years ago)

hipáster P Pronunciation Key (hpstr)
n. Slang
One who is exceptionally aware of or interested in the latest trends and tastes, especially a devotee of modern jazz.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:29 (twenty years ago)

It's funny, because when my friends and I invented the hipster movement, we never imagined it would spread all the way to Texas.

R Kelly Horror Picture Show! Kill the blackness inside!

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:30 (twenty years ago)

TitC isn't rapped...there are some high-ass notes in there!

(I wish hipsters listened to modern jass)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:31 (twenty years ago)

yeah, wtf w/not more young, experimental jazz bands?

also, robble @ dom

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:34 (twenty years ago)

since when was doing the Rocky Horror Picture Show experience thing hip?

― titty sanskrit (sanskrit), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:50 (twenty years ago)

You'll recall from my post last week on hipsters that hipster parties tend to have themes.

this is hard-hitting stuff from THE INSIDE, yo

― yvette yreka (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 12 January 2006 22:58 (twenty years ago)

whoo can save them?

ONLY N1CK SYLV3ST3R

― titty sanskrit (sanskrit), Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:03 (twenty years ago)

Hipsters in not wanting to admit they're hipsters because they don't call themselves "hipsters" shockah.

― Shock Me, Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:22 (twenty years ago)

Titty Sanskrit for the win!

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:26 (twenty years ago)

Wait theres a hipster party somewhere in Austin? Thats about newsworthy as stories come these days.

― Stephen C (ihope), Thursday, 12 January 2006 23:58 (twenty years ago)

is this event advertised on hip-hop and R&B stations in Austin?

I thinks not.

― kevin says relax (daddy warbuxx), Friday, 13 January 2006 00:43 (twenty years ago)

TitC isn't rapped...there are some high-ass notes in there!

For reals. I was at a party where someone played the TitC DVD, and about halfway through I felt compelled to remark: "You guys, I know we're watching this ironically, but the fact is that he's an absolutely incredible singer."

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 13 January 2006 22:52 (twenty years ago)

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