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Many people feel sad on Valentine’s Day for a great number of reasons. Is it legitimate sadness or is it normalized, commercial sadness? We’re all witnessing the slow rise of Vaporwave and ...
A couple of years ago, Simpsonswave popped up as a sub-genre of the Vaporwave meme, pairing arch chillwave beats that you might overhear in a shopping centre with edited clips from classic ...
Vaporwave’s circulation as an internet meme adds an entirely new facet to the discussion, as the cultural clout of memes in the context of the arts has yet to be formally established. While it may be ...
Right at the end of 2013, Thump published an essay titled “Is Vaporwave The Next Seapunk?” Michelle Lhooq writes in the article that “Seapunk started as a joke and ended that way,” adding ...
Toto, “Africa” (vaporwave mix) “All those little musical catchphrases that were in the hit are all there, but it’s taking place in a soundscape that’s the size of the Serengeti.
But Vaporwave references those earlier eras, the times when we could have still made a change. ... “This is a living meme that’s also a Mardi Gras organization,” said Max, ...
Hours-long videos of ’80s and ’90s Weather Channel broadcasts set to vaporwave tunes are all over YouTube. They’re perfect for those moments you want to remember a time when weather was a ...
Strudelsoft is the label that Sterling Campbell bills as first vaporwave imprint dedicated exclusively to releasing music on 3.5" floppy disk. Inside Vaporwave's Mini-Boom of Floppy Disk Releases ...
We’re all witnessing the slow rise of Vaporwave and “sad boy” memes. Does this mean that we’re aestheticizing sadness and trying to normalize it or is this all another big joke?