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G E N E R I C F L E S H : D E E P D R E A M I N G
Hope you’re all having a lovely weekend bird catching and enjoying the brostep pulsating from every local frat house. Remember to drink water, it’s unseasonably hot today.
Generic Flesh will be a recurring subsegment during which we dive a bit deeper into what characterizes or is alleged to characterize one of our mandate genres and/or their subgenera. I’d like this to lead naturally into a discussion of didactics in art, a didactic in art being a description of what the art is supposed to mean, the most relatable example being the little information cards often found next to paintings in museums and art galleries. Assigning a genre to a piece of work implicitly assigns a didactic to it and often changes how it is perceived. I’m not necessarily saying this is a positive thing, nor am I necessarily suggesting it’s a critical flaw either; the goal of these segments will be to introduce how some genera are commonly viewed in order to give us more tools to discuss them in future.
Today and for the next few days we’ll be listening to three Vaporwave sub-genres referred to as Utopian Virtual, Future Visions and Hypnagogic Drift. Thematically, the commonality between these genres is their attempt to paint a neon light-painted still life of a cyberized future. Emotionally, these genres are meant to evoke a state of meditative calm. We have seen many examples of these ideas already: the cyberpunk ambiance of Birth of a New Day, the sci-fi operatics of We Are Destroyers, as well as the calming zen-funk of New Amerykah.
Today I present to you an album considered to be a canonical example of the Future Visions subgenre. Please enjoy the epic-poem-in-vaporwave-form that is A Heart Full of Love by DARKPYRAMID.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc6ldi6APWM&frags=pl%2Cwn
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