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Following the announcement this week that "selfie" is Oxford's Word of the Year, Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig is defending the self-portrait, although the word is so last year.

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"When I see that it's the Word of the Year in 2013, I feel like, 'Tell me about some new words,'" he told Rolling Stone on Friday. "I think that anybody who's anti-selfie is really just a hater. Because, truthfully, why shouldn't people take pictures of themselves? When I'm on Instagram and I see that somebody took a picture of themselves, I'm like, 'Thank you.' I don't need to see a picture of the sky, the trees, plants. There's only one you."

He continued by slamming critiques that today's youth are narcissistic. "There's all this bullshit about 'the younger kids today are more self-absorbed.' It's like, give me a fucking break! I've been in nursing homes, where my grandma is. I've seen some of the most selfish people on the planet in there ... And the world that these kids are born into literally could not get more selfish. The world is so fucked up and unequal and full of assholes. You can't blame it on the younger generation."

In response to the meme-collecting Selfies at Funerals Tumblr, he declared: "When I die, everybody is invited to come take a selfie at my funeral."