MONTREAL – In a move designed to break down the wall between performers and their audience, the hipster clichés in Arcade Fire have announced that their fans will have to dress up as hipster clichés if they want to attend their concerts.
“We’re trying to create a transcendental experience,” said the band’s tambourine-player, while wearing a gold lamé tuxedo. “We don’t want our fans to hear our music; we want them to be it.”
News of the “no monocle, no entry” policy has divided the band’s fanbase.
“This sort of imposition reminds me of the reason I fell in love with the Arcade Fire,” said Sandrine Lefebvre, between sips of her kombucha. “They put their artistic vision – whatever that might be – ahead my happiness. They remind me of my ex-boyfriend.”
Adam Gomez, who is in the seventh year of his philosophy degree, disagreed with Lefebvre.
“I don’t get why they are mandating this kind of conformity,” he complained. “The Arcade Fire has always embraced the diversity of bourgeois white people.”
Win Butler, who possess impressive sideburns and is the Arcade Fire’s frontman took umbrage at these critiques.
“If you can pay all the money we charge for our concerts,” he announced, “You can surely pay even more to dress up.”
