"I'm Hip"

The song played in class entitled "I'm Hip" by Instant Party and several other artists are doing a little research, actually made me laugh. I thought it was a really cute song, with a catchy beat and I liked how it made fun of those people who are constantly trying to be the "hippest" most "cool" person around. When in actuality those people are almost too hip which just make them "posers". For some reason I really liked this one stanza of the song,

"I'm hip, but not weird.
Like, you notice, I don't wear a beard.
Beards were in but now they're out.
They had they're day. Now they're passe.
Just ask me if you're in doubt,
'cuz I'm hip."

I am not exactly sure why I like this part of the song so much, but it might be because I find it to be most funny. Although we haven't gone to deeply into this style of music yet in class I have to say that I am excited to start it because I think that this type music is easier to connect with today's music that I find more enjoyable. Also, I believe that during this type music people are beginning to talk about more "taboo" subjects that they may not have talked about in earlier decades. Just as Allen Ginsberg opened up the doorway through the creation of "Howl". I have to wonder if music artists that were popular during the same time Ginsberg wrote "Howl" were influenced or even read his poem. Did any of them take bigger risks in their songwriting because they had seen that Ginsberg had in his poetry? Or were music artists then like the ones of today, who (I believe) are less concerned with the creation of modern poetry? This is definitely a topic/idea that I would like to further investigate.