Broken Reality
You ever hear about this thing the young adults of the internet are into called “vaporwave?” It’s this genre of music obsessed with 80s and 90s computer culture, celebrating the technology of old and expressing a sense of inevitable change and dread born from living in a dehumanizing Capitalist wasteland on the verge of annihilation. Samples are distorted into pleasing drones and unnerving moaning, sounds both joyous and anxiety inducing. Also, this subculture loves anime and memes and makes jokes about the weed number and spells things in Japanese katakana for no reason other than it looks cool. It’s the most irony poisoned art movement in existence, born from actual musical artists and quickly appropriated by chan-goers, a mash of contradicting statements and ideas that all sum up to one shared message: everything is doomed, so we might as well get some messed up laughs from it. It’s the soundtrack of a generation born into incredibly technology and increasing poverty, the ode to the dying mall, and it is one of the most interesting things the internet has ever produced.
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