Do people still like Vaporwave?

[AbyssStarer]

Japanese shit on t-shirts isn't new. It's a cool looking language. If you go to Japan you'll see a lot of kids with shirts that have nonsense English phrases on them also, because nobody really cares what it says.

I'll go out on a limb and say Japanese on clothing was nowhere in middle America on non-Asians until like 2-3 years ago.

 

[tranny2000]

This crossed my mind today:
Is there an overlap with vaporwave fans and weebs?

I think there's probably a bigger overlap between vaporwave fans and born-in-the-wrong-generation people

 

[Disheveled Human]

How can you like something you never liked? This is on par with mumble rap and dubstep imo, a fad that should never have lasted as long as it has.

 

[nunya]

It's enjoyable as background music at certain times, but I don't understand or have anything to do with the community.

 

[Eddie Kessler]

I like haircuts for men.

 

[heh]

I like the same vaporwave albums I liked before, it's just electronic music. The gimmicky chopped and screwed 80s pop song youtube recommended stuff was always background music anyway

 

[A Gay Retard]

Future funk is still going strong and was birthed by French house as much as vapor. Its strongest connection to vapor is how heavily sampling is used, and an abundance of silly aesthetics (sailor moon sailor moon sailor moon). It’s just as much a child of French house and disco as it is vaporwave. It doesn’t even raid the same samples or aesthetics, largely.

VW itself died quicker than just about anything in a long time in music. The remnants of it don’t persist in other media because vw was particularly innovative or good; it’s more like vw brought attention to sounds and aesthetics people would have enjoyed anyway, and those people continued to appreciate those things long after they’d discarded the boring slowed-down loops of vw. I’m eager for the inevitable death of lo-fi hip hop next.

 

[P.0.0.P]

Vaporwave, hard vapour, future funk, slushwave, ocean grunge, etc. These are the main branches and most influential currents of vaporwave. Although it started as a prank and experimental games on various social networks, it has already become a solidified genre, but you have to learn to find and navigate in search of GOOD vaporwave composers. Some just do cheap shit and a lot of people already regard it as masterpieces just to be pretentious.

The prejudice that is based on taking samples from other audios and distorting them is taken, but vaporwave goes beyond that. Other times it can even be 100% original music. I can suggest you some good vaporwave musicians and their variants you might like.

Vaporwave -> DEATHS DYNAMIC SHROUD (Recommended album: Classroom Sexxtape)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr2dm1yQuD0

Future Funk/City pop -> DESIRED (Recommended album: Lovestory)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1d1CddEUGg

Ocean Grunge -> SEA OF DOGS (Recommended album: Through the fog and driftwood)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxJyrt1fNb0

Slushwave -> BLISS3THREE (Recommended album: C3L3STIAL天の)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riYjZ6DByIE

Hexd/Surge -> TEAM MEKANO (Recommended album: 𝙲𝚕𝚊𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚌_𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚓𝚎𝚌𝚝_𝟸000.𝟹𝚐𝚙 [Deluxe Edition])
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgi9IHI42cc

Atmospheric vaporwave: DREAMWEAVER -> (Recommended album: Cloud9)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFlshVR0LyY

Thats all I can offer for now. Have a good one and keep exploring on new music. Vaporwave will not die soon enough. Its pretty solid, estable and powerful with a very loyal and amplified community

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

Honestly Vaporwave is for watching to old 90s clips of commercials, mall clips, and other 90s nostalgia stuff and just letting yourself be transported back to a time before our hearts weren't torn up from ruined relationships, we didn't have to spend most of our awaking existence working, and before the Internet completely ruined everything. Where life may not have been great, but at least we still had hope.

 

[Syaoran Li]

I still stand by my love of Future Funk.

Granted, I'm a huge fan of both 70's/early 80's disco music and old school 80's and 90's anime.

The other vaporwave-derived music genres are kinda hit or miss for me but I'm more for the visual aesthetics than anything else.

I think that's why vaporwave is still around, it's now more of a specific aesthetic than anything else. The actual musical genre of straight-up vaporwave is pretty much dead but it inspired a lot of other genres.

 

[Harbinger of Kali Yuga]

I still stand by my love of Future Funk.

Granted, I'm a huge fan of both 70's/early 80's disco music and old school 80's and 90's anime.

The other vaporwave-derived music genres are kinda hit or miss for me but I'm more for the visual aesthetics than anything else.

I think that's why vaporwave is still around, it's now more of a specific aesthetic than anything else. The actual musical genre of straight-up vaporwave is pretty much dead but it inspired a lot of other genres.

Funk has always been a good genre. You like Italo-Disco at all?

 

[Syaoran Li]

Funk has always been a good genre. You like Italo-Disco at all?

I love Italo-Disco, as well as the OG Disco from the 70's.

 

[Ratboy Genius]

Reviving this thread to say yes
Vaporwave never dies

 

[Hepativore]

This is why I have always liked the color magenta/fuschia as a male, it makes me nostalgic for the 80's and related aesthetics. It is also fitting that the color of said aesthetics does not actually exist on the visible light spectrum, but is "invented" by our brains when it gets confused over the input it gets from the eyes.