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The term "indie sleaze" was coined in 2021, the same year that the style became popular again through TikTok, by an Instagram account dedicated to the aesthetic, @indiesleaze, launched by a woman named Olivia V. [8] The term was inspired by indie music, the 2000s magazine Sleaze, and the Uffie lyric "I'll make your sleazy dreams come true."
By the 2000s, indie sleaze fashion had become popular, which including traits of 1970s and 1980s fashion in addition to grunge and the contemporary hipster fashion. Soft grunge evolved directly from this trend, once Tumblr users began to merge it with darker fashion elements like fishnets, chokers and combat boots.
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All this is partly why, of all the Noughties indie sleaze reunions underway, CSS’s is the most cautious. For a few years in the late-Aughts, they were the electropoppers du jour, hitting ...
Indie sleaze is just an umbrella term botch-cloned from the hipster umbrella. It has no consistency to it. You have already stated that you believe it is a term all of its own not to be conflated with hipster or soft grunge, so I don't expect any agreement on the issue.
It’s hard to tell if early ’00s indie rock style is truly back, but Hedi Slimane’s latest Celine collection shows us why it’s so appealing.
[3] Exclaim!'s Allie Gregory writes: "Bewildering and disparate influences merge to form an agitation of genre, from the twinkles of Halifaxa-era witch house and Strokes-indebted bass notes on the glistening "Lovely Sewer," to the P.O.D.- and Incubus-inspired aughts rock of "Meteora Blues" [...] and the outright indie sleaze of "Operator."" [20]