By Pilar Melendez, NBC News | The summer of millennial nostalgia is still going strong as pop culture and younger generations seem to be celebrating all things early 2000s. But there is one Obama-era music moment that the internet is desperate to leave in the past: the “stomp clap hey” genre. It’s a distaste that has been percolating online for years, only to burst across social media in recent days.
“This whole generation of stomp clap Ho hey indie folk was terrible,” one X user wrote this week. “It is responsible for some of mankind’s worst mistakes such as pumpkin lattes, Brooklyn’s gentrification and Taylor Swift.”
The rustic pop-indie folk subgenre that dominated the early to mid-2010s has always been a controversial moment in music history, best defined by its anthemic, often percussion-heavy sound made famous by The Lumineers, Mumford & Sons, and Of Monsters and Men. It’s the kind of quirky music tailor-made for Coachella and Bonnaroo, group sing-alongs, hand claps, and, yes, literally stomping and shouting “Hey!” that reigned supreme in the millennial-hipster zeitgeist.
Over the last week, a clip of one of the defining moments of the subgenre has been making the rounds online: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros performing “Home” in their 2009 NPR “Tiny Desk” concert. In the clip, the two lead singers of the 10-person troupe are dancing and singing in faux-Appalachian accents to their hit song that serves as the unofficial anthem of the era’s hipster Americana aesthetic.
And the internet is riled up about the reminder of the “worst song ever made” in the “worst genre ever.”
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