Twitter Takes A Moment To Remember The Scourge Of 'Stomp Clap Hey'

Picture it: 2011. Barack Obama is president. Rage comics are the height of memeing, and there are 400 pop bands on the radio dressed like traveling balladeers from the 1920s plucking banjos and going "hey!"

There are many going names for this genre of music, which included such acts as The Lumineers, Mumford and Sons and Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeroes: "Indie Folk," "Stomp and Holler," "Hey Ho" folk music, etc. Earlier this week, a Twitter user revealed their name for the genre, "Stomp Clap Hey," and all at once it seemed people remembered how much they did not like it.

it's focus group music and you can tell because it became like kia sorento commercial music at warp speed

— brain man (@lemonade_grrrl) August 26, 2021

If The Lumineer's "Hey Ho!" or Edward Sharpe's "Home" was your jam, you may want to look away, as what followed @lemonade_grrrl's post was some brutal descriptions of the scourge of early 2010s radio.

Fuckin banjos goin a thousand miles an hour https://t.co/z5HjqHu14x

— Hazel (@hazelgrovvve) August 26, 2021

convinced that if i never transitioned i would’ve tried to have been a fat version of this https://t.co/B163mtgPmK

— ave (female era)🦪 (@girljoys_) August 26, 2021

and to this very day we have IPA’s https://t.co/RqoiGxtRR9

— Karl Havoc (@roochool) August 26, 2021

this type of music overwhelmed rock and "alternative" radio stations in america very shortly after bain capital took control of iheartmedia (fka clear channel) which is the company that owns like half of all US radio stations https://t.co/zVBnr0Mvja

— jaime brooks ☭ (@elite_gz) August 26, 2021

this shit was curated for the sole purpose of being awkwardly plastered into every single retail store's soundtrack as some sort of sick and twisted conspiracy to keep the humble retail worker in a constant state of agony https://t.co/RMgtxJfRRj

— guy ☢️ (@rotarydials) August 27, 2021

It was domestic terrorism https://t.co/OpwAMkNQER

— Zito (@_Zeets) August 26, 2021

There were of course some Stomp Clap Hey apologists, but their voices were quickly drowned out by the naysayers.

i kinda…liked it 😭 fun., of monsters and men, two door cinema club. they did a lil sumthing https://t.co/dKCAEazCZc

— my fault og (@ashunlocked) August 26, 2021

i still like the lumineers and mumford and sons i don’t care i like their little stomp clap heys ☹️ https://t.co/37f4bfTgqc

— em 🚮 (@doobiejunior) August 27, 2021

Remember when you look back on the past with rose-tinted glasses that while the early 2010s had some good qualities, it undoubtedly had a weird, toothless folk-rock period of pop music that has, thankfully, been lost to time. Hey, ho.