The LA Weekly didn’t exactly shy away from blasting the acts who made their The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: The Complete List.

Ben Westhoff on Arcade Fire, #3

If the essence of hipsterdom is fetishizing the authentic, then Arcade Fire deserve a Canadian Nobel Prize for sucking the life out of the pop music canon. Sure, all artists build on their influences, but Arcade Fire sap the passion, intensity, and sincerity from greater acts who came before them, wringing their sounds out through a sponge and lustily devouring the drops. In a way, they’re like the over-processed food our generation consumed as children; with color and nutrients added after the fact, they almost smell and look like something that’s good for us. But they’re not. Arcade Fire is not good for us.

Probably not!

Moving right along, Dan Weiss on MGMT, #16 on the list:

Exploiting LOLcat culture and synthy, psychedoodling indie-dance for pop crossover was such a good idea, apparently, that MGMT made it all their own. They tried to be meta about it on their big 2008 breakthrough single “Time to Pretend,” which is about rocking ‘til you die with “models for wives.” And a follow-up hit was not to come; the hookless prog meanderings of their difficult second album (2010’s Congratulations) made it clear they weren’t in on the joke after all.

(I will admit to playing the shit out of the first MGMT album and loving the second album when it came out. A few weeks later, however, I decided that I absolutely hated it and have never listened to them since. That might be the only time this has ever happened to me with an album. I can’t think of a second time.)

The 20 Worst Hipster Bands: The Complete List (LA Weekly)