A fork of Rural Dictionary
An 'Alternative' is a person or group of people (usually in their teens) who don't fit into any particular labelled group (goths, grungers, chavs, skaters, etc). They listen to what they want and wear what they want but are rarely associated with people like chavs and townies. They are similar to rockers in some ways but are usually more individual.
Chav 1: Oh My GoD yOu LiStEn To MeTaLlIcA yOu GrUnGeR!!111ONE Chav 2: YoU lIsTeN tO dAsHbOaRd CoNfEsSiOnAl YoU'rE sO eMo!!111OnE Chav 3: If YoU lIsTeN tO rOcK tHeN yOu'Re A rOcKeR!!111one Alternative: Actually I'm alternative. I prefer not to conform to your stupid labels.
Someone who genuinely doesn't give two fucks what others think of them (they like to be different from the crowd)
DickHead-Bruh why are you listening to My chemical romance EMO!!! Alternative- Nah I'm listening to them cause I want to DickHead-oh ok
Alternative is a genre of music that emerged in the late 70s/early 80s and became popular in the 90s. The term "alternative" was coined in the 80s to discribe punk influenced, but hard to label college and or indie rock bands such as Violent Femmes, or The Pixies. Alternative became popular in the early 90s when bands such as Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Smashing Pumpkins, and Red Hot Chili Pepperswhere discovered by the mainstream music industry and MTV (witch played music at the time.) Alternative is NOT: pop rock bands such as fall Out Boy simple Plan, Metro Station, Panic At the Disco or Paramore. Those bands lack the origanal content and creativeity that real alternative bands have.
11 year old girl: so what kind of music do you like? Me: mostly alternative 11 year old girl: OMG ME TOOO!!!!11 I LEIK FALL OUT BOY AND SIMPLE PLAN AND METRO STATION!!11 Me:umm, i whouldn't call that alternative. 11 year old girl: well what alternative music do you like then? me: Radiohead, Nirvana, R.E.M, The Pixies, Violent Femmes,Pearl Jam, etc. 11 year old: EWW WHATS NIRVANA WHO R THEY I LIKE FALL OUT BOY BETTER THEY ARE CUTER NIRVANA R POUSURS!!11
A choice between two or more things.
An Alternative: If the pussy is wack go for the crack. See anal.
An alternate learning program for students at Dedham High school. All Alternative classes are stuck in the E wing, which has no windows, except for mr. Hughes's room. Kids are in Alternative for many different reasons. Either you have missed alot of school and are far behind, your are just horrible at school, you have trouble learning in regular schooling enviorment, so basically if your arnt "perfect" at school. Alternative is nicknamed ALT, and use to be a pretty chill place. Now it sucks because there is a new director that no one seems to care for. Alot of mainstream students want to be in ALT because they think its the easy way out of school, when really its hell on earth
"What do you expect? I'm in Alternative"
Reference from the Mandela Catalogue Someone who looks off / almost doesn't look like a human.
Bro looks like an alternate 💀
Alternative is not a label which you can give to one 'group' of people. alternatives are non conformists who have no social group. you cant recognise an alternative person by what they wear or look like, so dont try to. they dont all wear the same clothes (like moshers, chavs, goths, indies or any other group of people who try to be individual but all seem to like the same stuff, wear the same clothes and only listen to music which their friends like). alternative people enjoy listening to whatever the hell they like, because they dont just like one type of music, they may just enjoy music on a whole, or it may just depend what kind of a mood they are in to what kind of music they listen too at that time. although this term is based around mysic it also applys to clothes as i said above many groups try to all wear the same stuff in order to fit in, alternatives wear whatever they like, if its designer, and they like it, they will wear it. if its got the name of a band on, and they like it, they will wear it. if there is a song which is by slipnot, and they like it, they will listen to it. if there is a song, which is by eminem, they will listen too it.
stupid conformist kid 1: hey your wearing lacoste! your such a chav! alternative kid: im wearing a lacoste shirt because i like the shirt, not the lable. stupid conformist kid 2: ewwww your listening to nirvana! your such a mosher! alternative kid: im listening to nirvana because i like this song, not because i want to fit in with your stupid groups.