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139-500: (Redirected from Hipsters ) [REDACTED] Look up hipster in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Hipster or Hipsters may refer to: Hipster (contemporary subculture) , composed of affluent or middle class youth Hipster (1940s subculture) , referring to aficionados of jazz, in particular bebop, which became popular in the early 1940s "Hipster" ( Space Ghost Coast to Coast ) ,

278-450: A Huffington Post article entitled "Who's a Hipster?," Julia Plevin argues that the "definition of 'hipster' remains opaque to anyone outside this self-proclaiming, highly-selective circle." She claims that the "whole point of hipsters is that they avoid labels and being labeled. However, they all dress the same and act the same and conform in their non-conformity" to an "iconic carefully created sloppy vintage look." Rob Horning developed

417-562: A biography of Che Guevara sticking out of their bags." Lanham further describes hipsters: "You graduated from a liberal arts school whose football team hasn't won a game since the Reagan administration [,]" and "you have one Republican friend who you always describe as being your 'one Republican friend. ' " Mark Greif dates the initial phase of the revival of the term hipster to refer to this subculture from 1999 to 2003. While hipsters usually come from affluent white families, they can come from

556-466: A "mixture of hipsters and skinheads." The National , a Scottish newspaper, described the group as consisting of mostly middle-class hipster neo-fascists . Hipster sexism , also known as everyday sexism, or ironic sexism, is defined by Alissa Quart in New York magazine's fashion blog The Cut as "the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox." It

695-521: A campaign for the Beatles to be awarded MBEs , a move that Wilson supported and set in motion. When the band received their MBEs from Queen Elizabeth II in October, it was unprecedented recognition for pop musicians, anticipating the honours (including knighthoods ) that were regularly bestowed on the country's entertainers in subsequent decades. The award was in acknowledgement of the Beatles' contribution to

834-584: A cigarette in our hands ... [The Beatles] were more aggressive, they were funny and they were articulate. The minute they came to America, they literally put a halt to everything that was previously happening." The Beatles' emergence coincided with a new consideration for the concept of male beauty and its elevation in importance beside feminine attractiveness. According to Marwick, the group's appearance and Kennedy's provided "the two great points of reference in this respect". The Beatles were dubbed "moptops" by some British tabloids in reference to their haircut,

973-577: A combined run of 51 consecutive weeks. Beginning with " From Me to You " in 1963, the Beatles had a four-year run of eleven consecutive chart-topping singles in Record Retailer , ending when the double A-side single " Strawberry Fields Forever " / " Penny Lane " peaked at number two. On 4 April 1964, the Beatles occupied the top five US chart positions – with " Can't Buy Me Love ", " Twist and Shout ", "She Loves You", " I Want to Hold Your Hand " and " Please Please Me " – as well as 11 other positions on

1112-595: A critique of hipsterism in his April 2009 article "The Death of the Hipster" in PopMatters , exploring several possible definitions for the hipster. He muses that the hipster might be the "embodiment of postmodernism as a spent force, revealing what happens when pastiche and irony exhaust themselves as aesthetics," or might be "a kind of permanent cultural middleman in hypermediated late capitalism, selling out alternative sources of social power developed by outsider groups, just as

1251-675: A distancing gesture, a belief that simply by applying quotations, uncool, questionable, and even offensive material about women can be alchemically transformed." She notes this form of sexism as having a particular public admissibility, saying that it perpetuates sexism in general due to a public tolerance based upon reasoning that instances of hipster sexism are humorous. Distinguishing socially critiquing comedy from hipster sexism, feminist discourse discusses hipster sexism as humor which, rather than offering critique, employs an evasive methodology which maintains stereotypes and prejudice. Psychology professor Octavia Calder-Dawe suggests that due to this,

1390-402: A favorite residence of LGBT people, and has sprouted an impressive host of microbreweries. The city also has many vegan stores and hiking trails. Denver is another often-cited example of a famous pilgrimage destination for Millennials. Denver has a burgeoning reputation for its microbreweries. The city is also well known as a hiking and skiing destination. The city reportedly has one of

1529-403: A formal event, Lennon told Epstein that he planned to sabotage the occasion. He instead charmed the theatre audience with his final comment: "For our last number ['Twist and Shout'], I'd like to ask your help. The people in the cheaper seats, clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'd just rattle your jewellery." The Beatles' international success created an export market for British pop for

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1668-463: A group in which each of the individual personalities was seen as indispensable to the whole, and each member attracted fanatical devotion. According to cultural commentator Steven D. Stark , their lack of a designated leader aligned with a more typically feminine approach to collaboration, an aspect that increased their resonance among the female audience and subsequently influenced men's self-perception and cultural views on masculinity. The intensity of

1807-413: A hipster, while looking, acting, and consuming like one, Arsel and Thompson suggest that these individuals demythologize their existing consumption practices by engaging in rhetorics and practices that symbolically differentiate their actions from the hipster stigma . Mark Greif , a founder of n+1 and an assistant professor at The New School , in a New York Times editorial, states that "hipster"

1946-474: A liberal enclave in a conservative state is Salt Lake City , Utah. In the 2016 Presidential Election , a majority of voters chose Democrat Hillary Clinton in only two Utah counties, both located right around Salt Lake City. On the aforementioned MoveHub list of the 20 most hipster cities in America, Salt Lake City placed No. 2 in the whole nation. In a state known for its Mormon faith, Salt Lake City has become

2085-466: A loathing unique in its intensity. Critics have described the loosely defined group as smug, full of contradictions and, ultimately, the dead end of Western civilization." Elise Thompson, an editor for the LA blog LAist , argues that "people who came of age in the 70s and 80s punk rock movement seem to universally hate 'hipsters'," which she defines as people wearing "expensive 'alternative' fashion[s]," going to

2224-578: A mid-length hairstyle that was widely mocked by adults. It was unusually long for the era and became an emblem of rebellion to the burgeoning youth culture. In their 1986 book Re-making Love: The Feminization of Sex , authors Barbara Ehrenreich , Elizabeth Hess and Gloria Jacobs said that the Beatles' haircuts signalled androgyny and thus presented a less threatening version of male sexuality to teenage girls, while their presentable suits meant they seemed less "sleazy" than Presley to middle-class whites. Russian historian Mikhail Safonov wrote in 2003 that in

2363-509: A multitude of backgrounds. A running theme of hipsters is having parents who are supporters of former President Ronald Reagan . A similar phenomenon occurred in the United Kingdom, with young, comparatively affluent workers in the media and digital industries moving into traditionally working class areas of London such as Hoxton , Spitalfields , and, particularly, Shoreditch with the subsequent gentrification of these areas. The subculture

2502-570: A new frontier, making an unexpected crossover into the realm of hipsterdom." He argues that the "current revival seems to be a natural mutation from the hipster fascination with post-punk, noise, and no wave," which allowed even the "nerdiest indie kids to dip their toes into jagged, autistic sounds." He argues that a "byproduct" of this development was an "investigation of a musical culture that many had previously feared or fetishized from afar." In his 2011 book HipsterMattic , author Matt Granfield described hipster culture: While mainstream society of

2641-509: A parallel movement within the American Muslim community with members termed " mipsters ." The Soviet equivalent of the hipster or beatnik , known as stilyagi , first appeared during the mid 1950s and identified with the modern jazz scene. Their outfits were exaggerated caricatures of the costumes worn by western actors and musicians and typically incorporated bright colors, slim-fit pants , thick-soled shoes , vintage clothing from

2780-404: A particular ethic of consumption that seeks to commodify the idea of rebellion or counterculture . The term hipster in its present usage first appeared in the 1990s and became widely used in the late 2000s and early 2010s, being derived from the earlier hipster movements of the 1940s . Hipster culture had become a "global phenomenon" during the early-mid 2010s, before declining from

2919-444: A revolution or spark a revolution, they joined one. The trend is already emerging and they rode that wave, which accounts for their incredible success." Beatles historian Mark Lewisohn said in response: "anyone who was a young person in the US when the Beatles arrived ... will tell you that the Beatles revolutionised everything." McCormick dismissed the study as "sensationalist". In

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3058-666: A ruling monarch been so thoroughly upstaged by a group of her subjects as was Elizabeth II on [26 October 1965]." The Beatles became bored with all aspects of touring – including fans offering themselves sexually to the band, and the high-pitched screaming that rendered their performances inaudible. Beatlemania continued on a reduced scale after the band retired from touring, and after the members became solo artists. In their book Encyclopedia of Classic Rock , David Luhrssen and Michael Larson write that while boy bands such as One Direction have continued to attract audiences of screaming girls, no act has "moved pop culture forward or achieved

3197-463: A slew of angry retorts to the rise of hipster rap," which he says can be summed up as "white kids want the funky otherness of hip-hop...without all the scary black people." A 2009 Time magazine article described hipsters as follows: "take your grandmother's sweater and Bob Dylan 's Wayfarers , add jean shorts, Converse All-Stars and a can of Pabst and bam — hipster." Hipsters are the friends who sneer when you cop to liking Coldplay . They're

3336-430: A social revolution" in 1963 and "the boys whom everybody could identify with", the Beatles had become austere and exclusive. The producers of the 1967 Disney animated film The Jungle Book hoped to include the Beatles in a scene featuring four vultures with mop-top hairstyles singing " That's What Friends Are For ". After the band declined to take part, the scene was voiced by actors adopting Liverpudlian accents and

3475-480: A television episode Hipster PDA , a paper-based personal organizer Hipsters (TV series) , Australian TV documentary series Low-rise (fashion) , a style of clothing designed to sit low on, or below, the hips Stilyagi (film) , a 2008 Russian film known as Hipsters in the English release See also [ edit ] Bondi Hipsters , Australian mockumentary series on YouTube Topics referred to by

3614-411: A television star: it was to look like as though you'd never seen television. Stereotypical fashion elements include vintage clothes , alternative fashion , or a mixture of different fashions, often including skinny jeans , checked shirts, knit beanies , a full beard or deliberately attention-grabbing moustache , and thick-rimmed or lensless glasses . Fixed-gear bicycles are associated with

3753-423: A true hipster is about 'being real', and not 'trying too hard'. 'Being real', however, demands identity work, and being a hipster comes with very strong and reoccurring identity discourses that all focus on authenticity, yet paradoxically form the basis of a very collective style. Christian Lorentzen of Time Out New York argues that "hipsterism fetishizes the authentic" elements of all of the "fringe movements of

3892-497: A way that spoke to a great part of humanity, and they did all of this really, really well." Ian MacDonald states that the band were keen observers who discovered trends in their infancy and were adept at mirroring the era's "social and psychological changes". He said that their connection with the times was such that the Beatles "did far more mind-liberating" than Bob Dylan , through their greater record sales and "because they worked in simpler, less essentially sceptical ways". Over

4031-522: A whole is often known for their liberal philosophy and openness towards alternative living, some of the listed hipster cities in Canada are in the Canadian province of British Columbia , which is just north of Washington state, and this included three of the five top-ranking cities—Victoria, Kelowna, and Vancouver. Young adults ( Millennials ) are increasingly influencing culture in a number of cities throughout

4170-513: Is a form of self-aware sexism that is deemed acceptable given that its perpetrators are conscious of the inherent sexism and objectification of women in whatever action or statement is being carried out by them. It is rooted in the idea that sexism is an outdated and archaic institution which people do not engage in anymore, thereby making the demonstration of sexism seem satirical and ironic. Hipster sexism may be presented with derision and expressed as harmless. Quart posits that hipster sexism "is

4309-512: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Hipster (contemporary subculture) The subculture is often associated with indie and alternative music. In the United States and Canada, it is mostly associated with perceived upper-middle-class white young adults who gentrify urban areas. The subculture has been critiqued as lacking authenticity, promoting conformity and embodying

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4448-585: Is notable for containing satirical elements targeting the New York hipster subculture: its chorus highlights "a stable of cliches about hipsters, Brooklyn, millennials and other things Del Rey herself is known to idolize." These elements include: having a boyfriend in a band, drug use (of amphetamines and hydroponic marijuana ), obsession with Lou Reed and Beat Generation poetry , wearing feathers in hair, collecting jazz records, playing different musical instruments, and self-proclaiming coolness. There has been

4587-448: Is often used by youth from disparate economic backgrounds to jockey for social position . He questions the contradictory nature of the label, and the way that no one thinks of themselves as a hipster: "Paradoxically, those who used the insult were themselves often said to resemble hipsters—they wore the skinny jeans and big eyeglasses, gathered in tiny enclaves in big cities, and looked down on mainstream fashions and 'tourists'." He believes

4726-484: Is the hipster appropriation of gay culture , as a trait carried over from their "Emo" phase. He writes that "these aesthetics are assimilated—cannibalized—into a repertoire of meaninglessness, from which the hipster can construct an identity in the manner of a collage, or a shuffled playlist on an iPod ." He also criticizes how the subculture's original menace has long been abandoned and has been replaced with "the form of not-quite-passive aggression called snark ." In

4865-646: The Billboard Hot 100 . For nine consecutive weeks, they held the top two places on the Billboard Top LPs chart (subsequently the Billboard 200 ) with reconfigured versions of their first two albums. Until 2018, they were the only act to have filled the top five of the Billboard Hot 100. They also broke 11 other chart records on Billboard ' s singles and albums charts at that time. Their chart domination

5004-459: The European Journal of Cultural Studies summarised the hipster culture "as a translocal and layered phenomenon with contextually specific claims to authenticity". While noting that the identity markers realised by hipsters are often localised, it states that What is absolutely crucial – and global – in defining a hipster is the claim to authenticity, uniqueness and individuality. Being

5143-462: The Billboard Hot 100 from January 1965 to January 1966 – with the songs " I Feel Fine ", " Eight Days a Week ", " Ticket to Ride ", " Help! ", " Yesterday " and " We Can Work It Out " – remained unbeaten until Whitney Houston achieved a seventh in 1988. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) was the top-selling album of the 1960s in the UK, and on four occasions they had the best-selling album of

5282-471: The Brezhnev -era Soviet Union , mimicking the Beatles' hairstyle was seen as highly rebellious. Young people were called "hairies" by their elders, and were arrested and forced to have their hair cut in police stations. As a result of the Beatles, the traditional American male look of crewcuts or combed-back hair was replaced by a preference for long hair. Clothing styles were similarly influenced, firstly by

5421-450: The indie consumption field and eventually turns into a form of stigma . Arsel and Thompson also interview participants of the indie culture (DJs, designers, writers) to better understand how they feel about being labeled as one. Their findings demonstrate three strategies for dissociation from the hipster stereotype : aesthetic discrimination, symbolic demarcation, and proclaiming sovereignty. These strategies, empowered by one's status in

5560-445: The "latest, coolest, hippest bar...[and] listen[ing] to the latest, coolest, hippest band." Thompson argues that hipsters "don't seem to subscribe to any particular philosophy ... [or] ... particular genre of music." Instead, she argues that they are " soldiers of fortune of style" who take up whatever is popular and in style, "appropriat[ing] the style[s]" of past countercultural movements such as punk, while "discard[ing] everything that

5699-520: The 1920s and earlier, brightly colored socks, and plaid sportcoats . Following the release of a cult film in 2008, modern hipsters in Moscow and Saint Petersburg revived some aspects of this subculture. Hipster racism is engaging in behaviors typically regarded as racist and defending them as being performed ironically or satirically . Rachel Dubrofsky and Megan W. Wood have described it as being supposedly "too hip and self-aware to actually mean

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5838-534: The 1950s" and "ripe for blindsiding". The Chinese name for the Beatles is 披头士 (Simplified) or 披頭士 (Traditional), Pītóushì in Modern Standard Mandarin . Shanghai Daily stated that the characters chosen for the Chinese name reflect the musicians' hairdos, with the first two characters referring to unruly hair; the first character alone refers to putting something on shoulders, something done with hair. As

5977-565: The 1960s as a whole, the Beatles were the dominant youth-centred pop act on the sales charts. " She Loves You ", the band's second number-one single on the Record Retailer chart (subsequently adopted as the UK Singles Chart ), became the best-selling single in UK chart history, a position it retained until 1978. The band's first two albums, Please Please Me and With the Beatles , each topped Record Retailer ' s LPs chart, for

6116-475: The 2000s (decade) had been busying itself with reality television, dance music, and locating the whereabouts of Britney Spears's underpants, an uprising was quietly and conscientiously taking place behind the scenes. Long-forgotten styles of clothing, beer, cigarettes and music were becoming popular again. Retro was cool, the environment was precious, and old was the new 'new'. Kids wanted to wear Sylvia Plath 's cardigans and Buddy Holly 's glasses—they revelled in

6255-566: The 2010s. Other hipster trends in the 2010s have included knitting , photography , horticulture , urban beekeeping , specialty coffee , craft beer , taxidermy , fedoras , and printing and bookbinding classes. In 2017, the British logistics and marketing firm MoveHub published a "Hipster Index" for the United States. This first study drew from five data points: microbreweries , thrift stores , vegan restaurants and tattoo parlors , and they compounded this data with cities' rent inflation in

6394-552: The Beatles formed their sound from skiffle and a combination of American influences, especially rhythm and blues and girl groups , and honed their live act through seasons performing in the red-light district of Hamburg in West Germany. The music was performed with an emphasis on beat and guitars, at the expense of saxophones or other instruments commonly heard on the American records. Under pressure from Liverpool venues such as

6533-417: The Beatles had supplied British youth culture with a unifying and liberating influence that departed from the usual American-inspired model and, together with other groups from outside London, had fostered a sense of celebration of provincial England. The authors commented that resistance to the Beatles' progressive social influence from establishment figures was because the band were "knocking the stuffing – and

6672-549: The Beatles having moved to London in 1963, in Simonelli's description, they served as the "maypole" at the centre of the city's cultural influence throughout the 1960s. Marwick says they represented the popular image of a phenomenon in which "hitherto invisible swathes of British society became visible and assertive" and their 1966 single " Paperback Writer " was the song that best conveyed "the new class-defying tide of individualistic enterprise". Liverpool poet Roger McGough credited

6811-438: The Beatles sounded like a gang: forceful, persuasive and sexually potent." Starting in 1963, according to music historian David Simonelli, the Beatles initiated the "original golden age" of British rock 'n' roll and reversed a tradition whereby domestic acts were a "pale imitation" of the original American purveyors of the style. During the first half of that year, the band usurped American acts including Roy Orbison to become

6950-401: The Beatles starred in the film A Hard Day's Night as fictionalised versions of themselves, which created a lasting impression of their individual personas. Lennon became known as "the smart one", McCartney "the cute one", Harrison "the quiet one", and Starr "the lucky one". Starr's personality as the band's affable, self-deprecating drummer proved especially popular with fans and the press in

7089-566: The Beatles whenever possible in their speeches", while a cartoon in the Daily Express showed the Conservative prime minister, Alec Douglas-Home , and Labour 's leader of the opposition, Harold Wilson , consulting the Beatles over the Profumo affair . During the election campaign, both parties accused the other of trying to use the band's popularity for political gain. In March 1964, Wilson, who

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7228-418: The Beatles with establishing the "mythology of Liverpool" through their 1967 songs " Strawberry Fields Forever " and " Penny Lane ", in the manner that American rock 'n' roll songs had traditionally done for US cities and roads. In late 1963, the British press coined the term " Beatlemania " to describe the phenomenal and increasingly hysterical interest in the Beatles. The word was first widely used following

7367-532: The Beatles' US impact was also reflected in a wave of easy listening adaptations of their songs, aimed at the adult market. This trend was led by the Boston Pops Orchestra recording "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and the Hollyridge Strings covering " All My Loving ", after which the latter orchestra released the 1964 album The Beatles Song Book . The extent of the Beatles' impact on American music

7506-400: The Beatles' appeal as live performers was such that they were often presented with people who were physically impaired, in the assumption that the band had healing powers. When the band assumed a mystical image in the late 1960s, fans increasingly identified them as the four elements , in which each member presented a complementary and essential contribution to the alchemical whole. In 1964,

7645-402: The Beatles' influence, according to Simonelli, the band "virtually redefined what it meant to be British", and British culture became "the most exciting culture on earth" for the first time since the start of the industrial age. The surge in exports revenue extended to film and other commercial artistic pursuits, and recognition of London as the " Swinging City " of international culture. With

7784-479: The Beatles' sudden popularity, Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys felt that the Beatles had "eclipsed ... the whole music world". Bob Dylan recalled that, by April 1964, "a definite line was being drawn. This was something that had never happened before ... I knew they were pointing the direction of where music had to go." The Beatles' success in the US established the popularity of British groups and affected

7923-480: The Beatles' visit reignited the sense of excitement and possibility that had been taken by Kennedy's assassination. A teenage New Yorker in early 1964, author Nicholas Schaffner later wrote that the Kennedy link was "an exaggeration, perhaps", but the Beatles "more than filled the energy gap" left by the demise of 1950s rock 'n' roll for an audience accustomed to the "vacuous" music that had replaced it. For decades,

8062-668: The British Parliament in the 2010 , 2015 and 2017 general elections . In the above global index put out by MoveHub, three of the ten most hipster-centric cities around the world were listed as being in either Oregon or Washington state: Portland , Seattle , and Spokane . Of the top 20 hipster cities in the U.S., six of them were in the Pacific Northwest. This includes, in order: Vancouver , Washington; Boise , Idaho; Tacoma , Washington; Spokane , Washington; Portland , Oregon; and Seattle , Washington. While Canada as

8201-580: The Cavern , their manager, Brian Epstein , persuaded the Beatles to swap their favoured look of black leather jackets and pants for more presentable stage suits. The group's emergence as leaders of the Liverpool beat scene represented a departure from the London-focused tradition of the UK music industry. Released in October 1962, " Love Me Do ", the band's debut single as EMI recording artists, contrasted with

8340-464: The Monkees were assembled by a pair of Hollywood-based television executives as a four-piece band in the Beatles' mould. An immediate commercial success, the Monkees' self-titled television show evoked the Beatles' personalities from Dick Lester 's feature films A Hard Day's Night and Help! , with the characters of the individual Monkees developed to reflect those of the Beatles. In Marwick's view,

8479-410: The Monkees' creation represented "the most remarkable sign of direct British influence" on American pop culture during the 1960s. At this time, the Beatles grew moustaches, a look that defied pop convention by implying maturation and artistry over youthfulness. Their appearance was the source of confusion for some of their young fans. A Daily Mail writer complained that after emerging as "heroes of

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8618-505: The Southwest and Rocky Mountain region. These cities are gaining a distinctive artsy, alternative atmosphere which is strongly associated with the term "hipster", forming havens for alternative, liberal lifestyles and politics in the midst of regions which normally have a strong association with the GOP and very traditional, conservative values. One of these cities is Austin , Texas, well known as

8757-486: The Southwest region which made MoveHub's list of the 20 Most Hipster Cities include Tucson , Arizona; Santa Rosa , California; Reno , Nevada; and Albuquerque , New Mexico. As hipsters—"young creatives" priced out of Bohemian urban neighborhoods in Brooklyn such as Williamsburg , Park Slope , and Greenpoint —moved into suburbs near New York City, The New York Times coined the neologism "Hipsturbia" to describe

8896-435: The U.S. study in 2017 were not eligible for the 2018 study. iHeartRadio , a media and entertainment company, then took MoveHub 's 2018 study, and narrowed it down to the Canadian cities. All three of these tables are referenced in the following sections about regions which have large hipster cultures. Top of the world list is the city of Brighton in the UK, whose MP Caroline Lucas was the sole Green Party MP voted into

9035-402: The UK, the Beatles are beaten only by Presley for their amount of number-one singles and combined weeks at number one. As of December 2018, the Beatles held the record for the most Christmas number-one hits there, with four, of which three were achieved in successive years between 1963 and 1965. In the list of the UK's top sellers for the decade, the band's albums filled the top ten, apart from

9174-525: The US had dominated popular entertainment culture throughout much of the world, via Hollywood films, jazz , and the music of Broadway and Tin Pan Alley . In early 1964, Life magazine declared: "In [1776] England lost her American colonies. Last week the Beatles took them back." The Beatles subsequently sparked the British Invasion of the US and became a globally influential phenomenon. Recalling

9313-441: The US population. The Nielsen rating service reported that it was the largest audience number ever recorded for an American television program . Music journalist Neil McCormick , writing in 2015, described the Beatles' debut on the show as pop music's " big bang moment", while Stanley calls it "arguably the most significant postwar cultural event in America", adding that "Their rise, the scale of it and their impact on society,

9452-502: The US. In 1964, as coverage of the Beatles matched that of the Johnson–Goldwater presidential race , Starr was the subject of bumper stickers proclaiming "Ringo for President", as well as several tribute songs. Their Hard Day's Night characterisations were adopted again for the children's cartoon series The Beatles , which was made by King Features and broadcast weekly on ABC in the US from September 1965 to April 1969. It

9591-460: The US], you were all walking around in fuckin' Bermuda shorts with Boston crew cuts and stuff on your teeth ... The chicks looked like 1940s horses. There was no conception of dress or any of that jazz." Writing in 2002, music journalist David Fricke said Lennon was "right" in his withering assessment of American youth, adding that Americans were "psychologically stuck in the surface white-bread calm of

9730-671: The albums Rubber Soul (1965), Revolver (1966) and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967). Many of their advances in production, writing, and artistic presentation were soon widespread. Other cultural changes initiated by the group include the elevation of the album to the dominant form of record consumption over singles , a wider interest in psychedelic drugs and Eastern spirituality, and several fashion trends. They also pioneered with their record sleeves and music videos , as well as informed music styles such as jangle , folk rock , power pop , psychedelia , art pop , progressive rock , heavy metal and electronic music . By

9869-453: The anti-conformists will become more homogeneous with respect to their own subculture, making their behavior the opposite to any claims of counterculture . This synchronization occurs even if more than two choices are available, such as multiple styles of beard rather than whether or not to have a beard. Mathematician Jonathan Touboul of Brandeis University who studies how information propagation through society affects human behavior calls this

10008-432: The assertion that said ordinarily offensive thing is ironic or satirical." As Leslie A. Hahner and Scott J. Varda described it, "those participating in acts of hipster racism understand those acts as racist when practiced by others, but rationalize their own racist performances through a presumed exceptionalism." Nipsters are a right-wing neo-Nazi hipster movement that emerged in 2014. Nipsters have found ways to bypass

10147-451: The band played. When the group toured Australia in June 1964, the population afforded the visit the status of a national event. A crowd of 300,000 – the largest recorded gathering of Australians in one place – welcomed the Beatles to Adelaide. Sid Bernstein , the US promoter who arranged the band's Shea Stadium concerts, said that only Adolf Hitler had had such power over the masses. Bernstein

10286-633: The band's Pierre Cardin suits and Cuban-heeled Beatle boots , and later by the Carnaby Street mod fashions they wore. Along with the Rolling Stones, Dylan and the Who , the Beatles inspired thousands of young men to wear pop art -themed designs. In the late 1960s, the band's adoption of Nehru jackets and other Indian-style clothing was highly influential on Western fashion. In his 1970 " Lennon Remembers " interview, Lennon complained: "When we got here [to

10425-783: The band's 13 October appearance on Sunday Night at the London Palladium ; amid reports of wild crowd scenes outside the venue, and after 15 million viewers watched the broadcast, Britain was said to be "in the grip of Beatlemania". The "yeah, yeah, yeah!" refrain of "She Loves You" was a signature hook for their European audiences. Its falsetto "ooh!"s elicited further fan delirium when accompanied by McCartney and Harrison's exaggerated shaking of their moptop hair. Once it became an international phenomenon in 1964, Beatlemania surpassed in its intensity and reach any previous examples of fan worship, including those afforded to Presley and Frank Sinatra . Displays of mania were repeated wherever

10564-582: The basis that such use is intended as ironic. Jessica Wakeman, a contributor to The Frisky , suggests that the label hipster sexism enables casual sexism as a means of being ironic, and thus being seen as an acceptable form of sexism. Quart coined the term "hipster sexism" in 2012, partly as a comment on " hipster racism ," a term coined by Carmen Van Kerckhove circa 2007 which had been popularized earlier in 2012. She differentiated it from "classic sexism," which she describes as being "un-ironic, explicit, violent [and] banal." A 2016 literature review in

10703-401: The breadth and depth of the Beatles' fandom". Most Americans were introduced to the Beatles' music with the single "I Want to Hold Your Hand" backed with " I Saw Her Standing There ", rising to the top of US charts on 1 February 1964. Both songs featured a harder-edged guitar sound that stood out as a revival of the "rebellious" spirit absent from newer rock and roll acts and as a rejection of

10842-431: The charts in 1963 at the expense of American artists. The Beatles' much-copied mid-air leap on their Twist and Shout EP sleeve was the epitome of antidotal Mersey Beat ... Scouse was now the most romantic dialect in the country, and the bigger chain stores were stocking Beatle wallpaper, 22-carat Beatle bracelets and Fab Four powder compacts. – Author Alan Clayson The Beatles' emergence overlapped with

10981-426: The clothes they wore, the way they spoke, the songs they created with an effortlessness that seemed almost alchemical – suggested new ways of being. More than any of their contemporaries, they challenged the tired conventions that defined class-bound, insular, early-60s Britain." According to author Jonathan Gould, in conveying "Youthfulness, stylishness, unpretentiousness, and nonchalance", their early image defied

11120-454: The cultural lexicon several key Sixties motifs in one go: "mass"-ness, "working class" informality, cheery street scepticism, and – most challenging to the status quo – a simultaneity which subverted conventions of precedence in every way. Lou Christie recalled that the Beatles' emergence underlined the staidness of the US music scene, saying: "We were, in many respects, just these goofy white boys. We weren't allowed to be seen with

11259-592: The decline in British conservatism. In the description of author and musician Bob Stanley , their domestic breakthrough represented "a final liberation for Britain's teenagers" and, by coinciding with the end of National Service , the group "effectively signaled the end of World War II in Britain". For sociologists, the band typified new developments in postwar Britain such as social mobility , teenagers' commercial influence, and informality in society. In their 1965 book Generation X , Charles Hamblett and Jane Deverson said

11398-420: The description of Rolling Stone ' s editors, the Beatles "defined and incarnated Sixties style: smart, idealistic, playful, irreverent, eclectic". They helped popularise Northern English accents on British radio and television, reversing the preference for BBC English , and their humour and irreverence combined to mock social conventions. Writer Sean O'Hagan recalled in 2016: "Everything about them –

11537-456: The end of the decade, the Beatles were seen as an embodiment of the era's sociocultural movements, exemplified by the sentiment of their 1967 song " All You Need Is Love ". Over the 1960s, the Beatles were the dominant youth-centred pop act on the sales charts. They broke numerous sales and attendance records, many of which they have or had maintained for decades, and hold a canonised status unprecedented for popular musicians. Their songs are among

11676-478: The first time and provided a boon to the UK government's balance of payments deficit. This unexpected development led to approval from politicians and an eagerness on their part to be associated with the band. In the run-up to the 1964 general election , the Beatles became a political football for the two major political parties; the New Statesman reported that Conservative candidates were told to "mention

11815-466: The first time in British pop music that a sound and a location were linked together. (The River Mersey flows through Liverpool.) The city had the cultural advantages of being the UK's main transatlantic port and having an ethnically diverse population; local musicians were able to access records by American musicians through the Cunard Yanks working on the shipping routes. Like many Liverpool bands,

11954-431: The first to achieve. Music historian Bill Martin cites such notions as part of modern culture's inability to fully "understand them as a force", and says that although rock music has been defined by "synthesis and transmutation" since it began, "what was original about the Beatles is that they synthesized and transmuted more or less everything , they did this in a way that reflected their time, they reflected their time in

12093-486: The group's initial impact: Unlike previous pop stars – programmed to recite their future itineraries and favourite colours – The Beatles replied to the press in facetious ad-libs provoked by whatever was going on in the immediate present ... Before them, pop acts had been neatly presented as soloists or well-drilled units each with its clearly identified leader. With their uncanny clone-like similarity and by all talking chattily at once, The Beatles introduced to

12232-418: The headline performers on their joint UK tours, something no previous British act accomplished while touring with artists from the US. Their initial success opened the way for many other Liverpool groups to achieve national success and encouraged the country's four main, London-based record companies to seek out talent in other areas of northern England. As a result, the Beatles and other British acts dominated

12371-597: The hip lifestyle as lived in suburbia. Hastings-on-Hudson , Dobbs Ferry , Irvington , and Tarrytown , all in nearby Westchester County , were cited. A minor trend of cross acculturation of Chabad Hasidism and Hipster subculture appeared within the New York Jewish community , beginning in the late 2000s. A significant number of members of the Chabad Hasidic community, mostly residing Crown Heights, Brooklyn , appear to now have adopted various cultural affinities as

12510-413: The hipster effect. Beatle haircut The English rock band the Beatles , comprising John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr , are commonly regarded as the foremost and most influential band in popular music history. They sparked the " Beatlemania " phenomenon in 1963, gained international superstardom in 1964, and remained active until their break-up in 1970 . Over

12649-404: The hipster subculture. Slate calls the bikes an "increasingly common hipster accessory." An association of hipsters with an increasing popularity of full beards dates from before 2010. In 2016, historian Alun Withey remarked that "The hipster beard, or lumberjack beard, is going to be the defining facial hair of this generation." The undercut hairstyle also became popular among hipsters in

12788-547: The home of the South by Southwest Music Festival . Texas is well known for its loyalty to the Republican party , but Austin is one of the few locales in Texas that reliably vote Democratic. There are also several organic foods and cosmetics companies based out of the city. The neighborhood of East Austin is an especially popular neighborhood for hipster-types to live in. Another example of

12927-522: The indie field (or their cultural capital ) enable these individuals to defend their field dependent cultural investments and tastes from devaluing hipster mythology. Arsel and Thompson's work seeks to explain why people who are ostensibly fitting the hipster stereotype profusely deny being one: they argue that hipster mythology devalues their tastes and interests and thus they have to socially distinguish themselves from this cultural category and defend their tastes from devaluation. To succeed in denying being

13066-456: The inhibition against right-wing extremist recruitment of adolescents in Germany through their indistinguishable similarity to and affiliation with the hipster subculture. The media uses the term nipster (a portmanteau of Nazi and hipster) for people who combine hipster style with right-wing and neo-Nazi extremism. British neo-Nazi terrorist organisation National Action was said to have been

13205-455: The irony of making something so nerdy so cool. They wanted to live sustainably and eat organic gluten-free grains. Above all, they wanted to be recognised for being different—to diverge from the mainstream and carve a cultural niche all for themselves. For this new generation, style wasn't something you could buy in a department store, it became something you found in a thrift shop, or, ideally, made yourself. The way to be cool wasn't to look like

13344-409: The latter half of the decade, they were often viewed as orchestrators of society's developments. Their recognition concerns their effect on the era's youth and counterculture , British identity , popular music's evolution into an art form , and their unprecedented following. Many cultural movements of the 1960s were assisted or inspired by the Beatles. In Britain, their rise to prominence signalled

13483-424: The limits of commercial and artistic achievement. The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll (2001) defined their "incalculable" influence as encompassing "all of Western culture". The writers state that the group's discography held the precedent for "virtually every rock experiment ... Although many of their sales and attendance records have since been surpassed, no group has so radically transformed

13622-619: The local hipster subculture. These cross-acculturated Hasidim have been dubbed " Chabad hipsters " or "Hasidic hipsters." The Soho Synagogue , established by Chabad emissaries in SoHo, Manhattan , have branded themselves as a "hipster synagogue." The trend of Chabad Hasidic hipsters stands in contrast to the tensions experienced between the Satmar Hasidic community in Williamsburg and local hipsters. The 2014 song " Brooklyn Baby " by Lana Del Rey

13761-683: The mainstream by 2016–2017. In early 2000, both The New York Times and Time Out New York ( TONY ) ran profiles of Williamsburg, Brooklyn , referring to " bohemians " and "arty East Village types," respectively. By 2003, when The Hipster Handbook was published by Williamsburg resident Robert Lanham , the term hipster (originally referring to the 1940s subculture ) had come into widespread use in relation to Williamsburg and similar neighborhoods. The Hipster Handbook described hipsters as young people with " mop-top haircuts , swinging retro pocketbooks , talking on cell phones , smoking European cigarettes ... strutting in platform shoes with

13900-451: The most active and "fit" populations in the U.S. The city is one of the 10 most dog-friendly cities in America, and has the highest number per-capita of dog walkers and pet sitters. In the music industry, one of the most famous venues for concerts, and one which many bands profess as being their favorite to perform at, is Red Rocks Amphitheatre . Bands sometimes have to book popular dates as far as five years in advance. Other locales in

14039-449: The most popular at what they did. Relentlessly imaginative and experimental, the Beatles grabbed hold of the international mass consciousness in 1964 and never let go for the next six years, always staying ahead of the pack in terms of creativity but never losing their ability to communicate their increasingly sophisticated ideas to a mass audience. Many contemporary listeners viewed the Beatles as orchestrators of society's developments over

14178-655: The most recorded in history, with cover versions of " Yesterday " reaching 1,600 by 1986. As of 2009, they were the best-selling band in history, with estimated sales of over 600 million records worldwide. Time included the Beatles in its list of the twentieth century's 100 most important people . The Beatles formed in Liverpool in 1960. Comprising John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr , they gained international stardom in 1964, and remained active until their break-up in 1970 . Throughout their career, they expanded collective notions regarding

14317-418: The much-cited difficulty in analyzing the term stems from the fact that any attempt to do so provokes universal anxiety, since it "calls everyone's bluff." Like Arsel and Thompson, he draws from La Distinction by Pierre Bourdieu to conclude that young, upper-middle-class graduates who move to urban centers are ridiculed as " liberal arts college grads with too much time on their hands"; although "ignored in

14456-669: The musical style of American bands. In doing so, however, the Beatles inadvertently caused a sharp decrease in sales for black artists and the decline of many of the girl groups they admired. By mid 1964, several more UK acts arrived in the US, including the Dave Clark Five , the Rolling Stones , Billy J. Kramer and Gerry & the Pacemakers . Confirming the British Invasion of the US pop market, one-third of all top ten hits there in 1964 were performed by British acts. The depth of

14595-584: The national economy and reflected the value of their popularity to the Labour government. Wilson's Cabinet minister Tony Benn , who opposed the award, thought it was equally indicative of the royal family's wish to appeal to the masses in the new era of egalitarianism and meritocracy. In his book on the 1960s, social historian Arthur Marwick identifies the Beatles' US breakthrough as the "single critical event" that established "the hegemony of youth-inspired British popular culture". With other countries succumbing to

14734-410: The number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100 for a total of 59 weeks and topped Billboard ' s LPs chart for 116 weeks. In other words, they had the top-selling single one out of every six weeks, and the top-selling album one out of every three weeks. As the Beatles rose in popularity in 1963, the terms "Mersey sound" and " Merseybeat " were applied to bands and singers from Liverpool, making it

14873-425: The occasional keffiyeh , and other trappings of the hipster lifestyle." He notes that the "old-school hip-hop website Unkut, and Jersey City rapper Mazzi" have criticized mainstream rappers whom they deem to be posers "for copping the metrosexual appearances of hipster fashion." Prefix Mag writer Ethan Stanislawski argues that there are racial elements to the rise of hipster rap. He claims that there "have been

15012-417: The original 'white negros' evinced by Norman Mailer did to the original, pre-pejorative 'hipsters'—blacks." Horning also proposed that the role of hipsters may be to "appropriat[e] the new cultural capital forms, delivering them to mainstream media in a commercial form and stripping their inventors ... of the power and the glory." Horning argues that the "problem with hipsters" is the "way in which they reduce

15151-805: The particularity of anything you might be curious about or invested in into the same dreary common denominator of how 'cool' it is perceived to be," as "just another signifier of personal identity." Furthermore, he argues that the "hipster is defined by a lack of authenticity, by a sense of lateness to the scene" or the way that they transform the situation into a "self-conscious scene, something others can scrutinize and exploit." Dan Fletcher in Time seems to support this theory, positing that stores like Urban Outfitters have mass-produced hipster chic , merging hipsterdom with parts of mainstream culture, thus overshadowing its originators' still-strong alternative art and music scene. According to Fletcher, "Hipsters manage to attract

15290-428: The people who wear t-shirts silk-screened with quotes from movies you've never heard of and the only ones in America who still think Pabst Blue Ribbon is a good beer. They sport cowboy hats and berets and think Kanye West stole their sunglasses. Everything about them is exactingly constructed to give off the vibe that they just don't care. Slate writer Brandon Stosuy noted that " Heavy metal has recently conquered

15429-504: The polished style of contemporary UK hit songs. According to author Peter Doggett , the January 1963 follow-up, "Please Please Me", represented "the real birth of the new" as, aided by Lennon's impassioned vocal, the song was "more driven than any previous British pop record". As musicians and songwriters, the Beatles established working-class authenticity and informality as key aspects in British rock 'n' roll. Doggett adds that "Most of all,

15568-551: The postwar era—Beat, hippie , punk, even grunge," and draws on the "cultural stores of every unmelted ethnicity" and "gay style," and then "regurgitates it with a winking inauthenticity." He claims that this group of "18-to-34-year-olds," who are mostly white, "have defanged, skinned and consumed" all of these influences. Lorentzen says hipsters, "in their present undead incarnation," are "essentially people who think of themselves as being cooler than America," also referring to them as "the assassins of cool." He argues that metrosexuality

15707-426: The practice of hipster sexism also unconsciously influences the idea that sexism should not be spoken of. Hipster sexism relates to postfeminism in that it downplays sexism at large by casually normalizing it on the basis that sexism has been eradicated and thus is not appropriate for serious consideration or discussion. A tenet of hipster sexism is the casual use of derogatory words such as "bitch" and " slut ," on

15846-467: The previous year. In the following year, MoveHub came out with a similar study, this time measuring the most Hipster cities in the world. The metrics were slightly different for this study: they measured vegan eateries, coffee shops, tattoo studios, vintage boutiques, and record stores. For the global study, they also limited their search to larger cities, with populations above 150,000 residents. For this reason, many American cities which ranked highly on

15985-440: The racist stuff one expresses." This might include wearing blackface and other performances of stereotyped African Americans , use of the word nigger , and appropriating cultural dress . Talia Meer argues that hipster racism is rooted in what she calls "hipster exceptionalism," meaning "the idea that something ordinarily offensive or prejudiced is miraculously transformed into something clever, funny and socially relevant, by

16124-545: The regular assortment of novelty songs , teen idols, folk singers and girl groups that occupied US charts in the weeks and months previous. MacDonald wrote: "every American artist, black or white, asked about 'I Want to Hold Your Hand' has said much the same: it altered everything, ushering in a new era and changing their lives." On 9 February, the Beatles gave their first live US television performance on The Ed Sullivan Show , watched by approximately 73 million viewers in over 23 million households, or 34 per cent of

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16402-414: The second "pop explosion", after Elvis Presley 's emergence in the 1950s, and defined the term as "an irresistible cultural explosion that cuts across lines of class and race, and, most crucially, divides society itself by age". In such a phenomenon, he continued, "The surface of daily life (walk, talk, dress, symbolism, heroes, family affairs) is affected with such force that deep and substantive changes in

16541-410: The second half of the 1960s. Musicologist Allan F. Moore states that there have been occasions when "audiences gravitate towards a centre" of pop music culture, the most prominent of which was in the early to mid 1960s, a period in which it "seems that almost everyone, irrespective of age, class or cultural background, listened to the Beatles". Music critic Greil Marcus described the Beatles' impact as

16680-416: The sound and significance of rock & roll." Writing for AllMusic , critic Richie Unterberger recognises the Beatles as both "the greatest and most influential act of the rock era" and a group that "introduced more innovations into popular music than any other rock band of the 20th century". He adds: they were among the few artists of any discipline that were simultaneously the best at what they did and

16819-414: The soundtracks to The Sound of Music , South Pacific and West Side Story . The Beatles took the next three positions, meaning that all ten of their UK number-one albums were among the thirteen best-selling albums of the 1960s. In the case of US sales for the 1960s, the Beatles were the top artist, ahead of Presley, in both singles and albums. Between February 1964 and July 1970, the band maintained

16958-502: The stuffiness – out of the neo-Victorians ". The band's appeal registered with members of the royal family when the Beatles played a toned-down selection of songs at the Royal Variety Performance on 4 November 1963. The show was watched by a television audience of 26 million, around half the population of the UK, and helped establish the group as one of the first "spectacles" of the 1960s. Reluctant to play at such

17097-429: The style stood for." Drawing from Pierre Bourdieu 's work and Thomas Frank 's theories of co-optation , Zeynep Arsel and Craig Thompson argue that in order to segment and co-opt the indie marketplace, mass media and marketers have engaged in commercial "mythmaking" and contributed to the formation of the contemporary discourse about hipsters. They substantiate this argument using a historical discourse analysis of

17236-429: The term "hipster" into a socioeconomic framework rooted in the petit bourgeois tendencies of a youth generation unsure of their future social status. The cultural trend is indicative of a social structure with heightened economic anxiety and lessened class mobility . In 21st-century society, there are inevitably people who refuse to conform to the dominant culture and seek to do the exact opposite; given enough time,

17375-418: The term and its use in the popular culture, based on Arsel's dissertation that was published in 2007. Their claim is that the contemporary depiction of hipster is generated through mass media narratives with different commercial and ideological interests. In other words, hipster is less of an objective category, and more of a culturally- and ideologically-shaped and mass-mediated modern mythology that appropriates

17514-409: The top-selling US album one out of every three weeks. In 1965, they were awarded MBEs , the first time such an honour was bestowed on a British pop act. A year later, Lennon controversially remarked that the band were " more popular than Jesus now". The Beatles often incorporated classical elements, traditional pop forms and unconventional recording techniques in innovative ways, especially with

17653-434: The urban hierarchy," they have cultural capital . Members of the upper class – ridiculed in turn as "trust fund hipsters" – "convert real capital into 'cultural capital'." At the bottom are the lower-middle-class young, who "seem most authentic but are also often the most socially precarious." Without the capital of the other groups, they depend on their fashion sense to maintain a sense of superiority. Greif's efforts puts

17792-407: The way large numbers of people think and act take place." According to author and film-maker Hanif Kureishi , the Beatles are "the only mere pop group you could remove from history and suggest that culturally, without them, things would have been significantly different". Detractors of the Beatles' legacy argue that the band are overrated and are often credited for innovations that other acts were

17931-505: The widely held stereotype of Britishness , and through their presentation as Liverpudlians, "the Beatles personified an iconoclastic version of their national character that proved to be as compelling to the youth of North America, Europe, Australia and parts of Asia as it was to their British fans." In his book Revolution in the Head , MacDonald describes the band members as "perfect McLuhanites " who " felt their way through life". He says of

18070-435: The year there. As of 2019, with certified sales of 5.1 million copies in the UK, Sgt. Pepper is the all-time third best-selling album there and the best-selling studio album. The 1968 double LP The Beatles (also known as the "White Album") became the fastest-selling album in history; Capitol Records reported advance orders of 2 million in the US, with many stores selling their entire stock in one day. In

18209-418: The youth-driven changes in postwar society, with respect to social mobility , teenagers' commercial influence, and informality. They spearheaded the shift from American artists' global dominance of rock and roll to British acts (known in the US as the British Invasion ) and inspired young people to pursue music careers. From 1964 to 1970, the Beatles had the top-selling US single one out of every six weeks and

18348-643: Was commonplace in countries around the world during 1964. In Australia, in late March, the band's songs filled the top six chart positions; during one week, they held nine positions in Canada's top ten. On 15 August 1965, the Beatles became the first entertainment act to stage a concert in a sports stadium when they performed at Shea Stadium in New York City before an audience of 55,600. The event set records for attendance and revenue generation, with takings of $ 304,000 (equivalent to $ 2.94 million in 2023). The band's record run of six consecutive number-ones on

18487-445: Was completely unprecedented." Their second appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show , on 16 February, was watched by around 70 million viewers. Eleven weeks before the Beatles' arrival in the US, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, a source of profound national mourning that American commentators at the time linked to young people's embrace of the Beatles and their music. For many Americans, particularly young baby boomers ,

18626-512: Was contesting the outer Liverpool seat of Huyton , engineered a photo opportunity with the group as they received their Variety Club "Show Business Personality of the Year" awards. The association endured in the public's mind, securing Wilson the youth vote and aiding in his election win. The Beatles' international success also benefited the country's tourism and fashion industries, and entertainment generally. In early 1965, Melody Maker initiated

18765-500: Was disputed in a 2015 study conducted by the Queen Mary University of London and Imperial College London. By analysing shifts in chord progressions , beats, lyrics and vocals, the study indicated that American music was moving away from mellow sounds like doo-wop and into more energetic rock styles since the beginning of the 1960s. Professor Armand Leroi , who led the study on behalf of Imperial College, said: "They didn't make

18904-573: Was parodied in the magazine Shoreditch Twat (1999) and the television sitcom Nathan Barley (2005). The series, about a self-described "self-facilitating media node," led to the term Nathan Barleys being used pejoratively in London for the subculture it parodied. In 2008, Utne Reader magazine writer Jake Mohan described " hipster rap " as "consisting of the most recent crop of MCs and DJs who flout conventional hip-hop fashions, eschewing baggy clothes and gold chains for tight jeans, big sunglasses,

19043-535: Was so often pointed out in the mid-Sixties, the sum of the Beatles was greater than the parts, but the parts were so distinctive and attractive that the group itself could be all things to all people, more or less; you did not have to love them all to love the group, but you could not love one without loving the group, and this was why the Beatles became bigger than Elvis; this was what had never happened before.  – Music critic Greil Marcus The Beatles differed from previous musical acts in their presentation as

19182-483: Was sure that the group "could sway a presidential election if they wanted to". Around 4,000 fans gathered outside Buckingham Palace in central London when the Beatles received their MBEs from the Queen. As the crowd chanted "God save the Beatles" and "Yeah, yeah, yeah!", some fans jostled with police officers and scaled the palace gates. Referring to this spectacle, journalist Robert Sandall later commented that "Never had

19321-458: Was the first animated TV series to depict living people and featured the Beatles (voiced by actors) having adventures while touring the world. The series was highly successful, although its focus on the pre-1967 era ensured that audiences were presented with an increasingly outdated image of the band. Towards the end of 1966, by which point the Beatles' artistic maturity had left many younger listeners yearning for their innocent, "mop-top" image,

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