In retrospect, the contributions of disco are vastly more interesting than those of Jello Biafra.

Most "intellectual" disco-bashing revolved around the notion that since disco was mostly created by producers working in the studio with session musicians or even just tapes, it wasn't "real music", played all together, like a band. Specifically, a punk band. This ignored the fact that (a) most "real bands" recorded in parts when they got to the studio too, and (b) if the record sounds good, who gives a shit? And yes, there was a massive amount of homophobia and racism involved. I know, I was there.

"Hipster" doesn't connote a type of music. Sure, there are some kinds of music that are thick with hipsters, but far from exclusively. Being a "fucking hipster" has very little to do with music at all, really.

Hipsters are completely ridiculous, of course, but it is the perogative, indeed the NECESSITY, of succeeding generations of young people to struggle to annoy the crap out of clueless old people, and that struggle almost always takes you through many zones of ridiculousness.

The real menace to the well-being of youth culture isn't hipsterism, but seriousness. If you're having a good time, you're doing it right, no matter how silly Mr. Eddie Bauer Pants thinks you look.