Difference between Indie and Independent

What is the difference between Indie and Independent?

Indie as a noun is any form of popular culture (such as pop music from a group not signed to a major label) from outside the mainstream while Independent as a noun is a candidate or voter not affiliated with any political party, a free thinker, free of a party platform.

Indie

Part of speech: noun

Definition: any form of popular culture (such as pop music from a group not signed to a major label) from outside the mainstream a type of rock music, generally soft-style without screaming or aggression, mixed with synthesized music and electronic.

Example sentence: I had seen other comic friends of mine go to indie labels. Like David Cross and Pat Oswald went to Subpop, and Subpop didn't make total sense for me, but the metal version of that did. So I made a small list with Metal Blade, Prosthetic and couple of other labels, and Relapse was one of them.

Independent

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: not dependent; not contingent or depending on something else; freenot affiliated with any political party

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A candidate or voter not affiliated with any political party, a free thinker, free of a party platform.A neutral or uncommitted person.

Example sentence: I believe that an independent judiciary is the crown jewel of our constitutional republic.

We hope you now know whether to use Indie or Independent in your sentence.

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