(Scroll me!) Since the Belle and Sebastian gig last week I've gotten really into twee again like I'm 13 years old. I was walking around my town listening to Felt the other day which is quite big for me actually because I never really leave the house. And I was walking around listening to them and it was so sunny and its like damn God is actually real and life is so good. Having spent the majority of my teenage years in pure misery its so good learning to live again. Anyway I wanted to talk about twee and my love for it.

You see a lot of Americans on the Internet talk about twee as if it started in the 2000s. It did not and it whips me into a blind rage when I see them say this because it is my specific niche of autism. I remember a couple years back people were talking about a 'twee revival' but the pictures they were showing were just tumblr. I really hate this modern association of twee with tumblr because the thing that really defines the genre is its just punks making pop music. The start of twee as a defined genre is accredited to C86, an NME casette tape of jangle pop. The thing that united a lot of these bands were the fact that they were mostly working class kids who were outcasted in some way and found a home in 70s punk records. And it does hurt me a lot when people erase this history because this is what made it appeal to me when I was a working class teen in love with Patti Smith.

After Belle and Sebastian formed in the late 90s, twee was pushed to the mainstream-alternative and found its way across the pond in the early 2000s, which is probably where this misassociation lies because America thinks its the centre of the world. I don't know why I'm writing all this I just hope that one person will read this and go and listen to Felt. They're like if Television caught onto The Smiths its great. The guitarist, Maurice Deebank, once said he was autistic in an interview and how his aims for self-actualisation and all that jazz affected his music and sometimes I wonder if this might be why I love the genre so much.

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