Why Do So Many Love Vaporwave Music?
Vaporwave is Dead, Long Live Vaporwave
Vaporwave is strange. It’s likely what a postmodernist would envision music to become. I say that because in many ways vaporwave has surpassed what we know as a traditional genre of music. It evades proper meaning and is sometimes too abstract for its own good. However, it is in this polarizing niche that vaporwave thrives.
Let’s start with the former: vaporwave is an offshoot of chillwave and internet electronic music. At its heart — and perhaps most criticized aspect — vaporwave is 80’s music chopped, remixed, and overdubbed with a ton of reverb.
As I said, it’s strange. And we haven’t even gotten to Ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃｓ.
More on that later.
“Vaporwave is a trap, a siren’s call, a house of mirrors. A house of warped post modern advertisements. An air of false nostalgia. — Reddit user ‘sewkzz’
Vapowave wears it’s influences on it’s sleeve — namely 80’s pop, New Age, electronic, retro video games and unironicaly, elevator music. This isn’t to discount vaporware entirely, or to incorrectly label it as music that belongs in that YouTube playlist with the anime Japanese girl studying. Vaporwave is better…
