Similar artists to TRASH - Spector - Case Study

I have decided to do some research not only into the genre of indie-rock but into their style as a whole (music video and social media tendencies).


One band that is similar to TRASH is Spector, especially through their stylistic music video in All The Sad Young Men directed by Laura Baker. It follows a similar style  to TRASH's Hot Coffee through its low-quality montage of friends. Verification of the band's genuine friendship and suaveness. Similar to each other in their satirical nature as in All The Sad Young Men they are playing on a '1D' Merchandise Booth as they probably don't listen to '1D' but are sarcastically mocking the band. However, differences occur with motifs and professionalism of footage, throughout All The Sad Young Men it focusses on a young woman and young man having a good time whilst out at a party but it is juxtaposed by the anti-love song, the depressive lyrics of:


"do you like my clothes?
my hair?
my conversation?
did you hear me when i said you were the inspiration?
it's all meaningless now
as it was meaningless then
all the miserable girls
all the sad young men"


These lyrics hint at the author's paramour unappreciating them parallel with a man and a woman dancing that emphasises the sexualisation of the woman dancing around a pole. The rather melancholy lyrics about inattentive relationships parallel with the drunken madness of a night out with the couple hints at a greater sadness as happiness and depression is compared so closely.
At further investigation due to the words "did you hear me when I said you were the inspiration?" hints at a autobiographic song as it is implied the lyricist was referencing a love song that they had written. The repetition of 'meaningless' gives the song an uncomfortable take on young relationships and creates a rather misanthropic feel and depressive tone.
TRASH are similar with style of music video but opposite with messages in songs. Brochures is about running away with your lover and All The Sad Young Men displays messages of disappointment and the waste of time that relationships are.



Spector are also similar to TRASH in another of their songs, as they mock the indie-rock genre (similar to TRASH when they mocked the fickleness of music taste when they claimed to be selling Stone Roses tickets. The music video shows somebody googling "indie rock video" which hints that the genre is similar and are all out to copy each other. The lack of individualism and originality in indie rock is a key issue that Spector are addressing here and TRASH do similar things through their Tweets.