Vaporwave is well alive in 2022 and is actually gaining and transfusing its aesthetic essence in today’s Pop and EDM
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Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
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Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#52Add this to the list of things I'll just never understand. Subreddits with n*100k subs. For what? Something that sounds like tracker music from the 90s?
Personally, I love 'tracker music from the 90s', and it's great to see things resembling it pop up in my streaming app's recommendation list every so often.
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#53Who else accidentally read this title as "vaporware" instead of vaporwave. Kinda unnerving how that happens when scanning headlines.
Nothing made any sense until I got to your comment.
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#54I feel like vaporwave was dead as soon as people started taking it seriously. Seeing the genre at its inception - a critique on how corporations will use substanceless nostalgia to bolster sales - turned into that very thing with this faux-80s-revival music, that for one reason or another sounds nothing like what was actually popular in the 80s, has left quite the sour taste in my mouth. Like, the very idea was to ta…
As someone who enjoyed vaporwave as it was being produced, “the idea” behind vaporwave was that it sounded good.
It may have sounded good because it touched on nostalgic sounds for millennials, but there wasn’t a wide spread movement “… to provoke those feelings in you while also detaching from what might actually make one nostalgic”
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#55For anyone interested in exploring vaporwave:
* https://vaporwaveultra.tumblr.com/
* http://lucidarchive.com/#/g/1 (interactive guide of the above)
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#56It’s true. Vaporwave died with Saint Pepsi’s first release.
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#57For anyone interested in exploring vaporwave: * https://vaporwaveultra.tumblr.com/ * http://lucidarchive.com/#/g/1 (interactive guide of the above)
Good lists. Vaporwave died with Saint Pepsi’s first release.
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#58Vaporwave is dead. It's integral to the genre. They were saying at the beginning and five years ago also. Vaporwave cannot exist alive. The thing to understand is that to exist or live in the music industry is incompatible with vapowave, mostly. It's actually genius. To stay alive underground you have to kill it off before it can be adopted by the mainstream. A software analogy could be a license which prohibits use…
This is probably as good of explanation as any, but still the real killer was Saint Pepsi.
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not true at all. There are plenty of cheery vaporwave songs mentioned in the article itself: saint pepsi [1], macross 82-99 [2] etc. all early vaporwave entries based on city-pop which is as cheery as you can get! In fact that's probably the most popular remaining evolutions of the genre, both of the mentioned artists are still huge! (multi-million listens on spotify) 1 - https://saintpepsi.bandcamp.com/album/…
Saint Pepsi and Macross are generally classified as Future Funk artists rather than "pure" vaporwave in the vein of Macintosh Plus. For anyone who is interested in Future Funk (i.e. "cheery" vaporwave) a now-archived and inactive youtube channel by the name of Artzie Music [1] collected classics of the FF genre and is, for now, still available to peruse. The best ones in my opinion were uploaded between 2017 and 2018…
Yes. Saint Pepsi killed vaporwave.
Re: Vaporwave was created then destroyed by the internet (2016)
#60Vaporwave is anything but dead - it's been completely absorbed into mainstream aesthetics instead.