If we’ve learned anything here, it’s that when people don’t like something, they will object to and complain about every choice made within that thing. On a perverse level, I kind of enjoy how the “Juno” soundtrack punishes the hipster viewer/listener for knowing so much obscure music. Whereas the rest of the world is oblivious to the songs’ sources and can just take them at face value, the hipster will go crazy with every needle drop and become filled with the indignant rage of a villager whose homeland has been invaded and his family raped. I have no doubt that, to the learned music fan, the “Juno” soundtrack is a cloying, ham-handed appropriation of indie music that tries too hard and exposes the filmmakers as hopeless poseurs… but then again, there were probably die-hard folkies who felt the same way about “The Graduate.”
Matt Belknap of Never Not Funny and aspecialthing.com sums up the discourse on Juno quite ably.