Schmaltzcore

[thirdform]

schmaltz nuum connection made apparent

 

[thirdform]

middle cass snowflake pop is about right. schmaltz is a proletarian weapon. I won't have these cunts appropriate it.

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

this fits in with the popularity of ambient and "lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to"

it's the self-aware meta-iteration of that trend, simultaneously earnest and not

to me it sounds like the worse thing ever, but if the kids like it then great

interesting point in that article millenials' relative apparent lack of interest in drugs compared to the generation or two before

Gen X still using them to cope with the remnants of repressed identity, emotions, etc

whereas now many of those things are in the open and young people just want to deal with them directly

idk as with any sweeping general point like that it probably misses a lot of details but it has a ring of truth to it to me

 

[bassbeyondreason]

This is basically that Combustible Edison 90s loungecore thing but swapping out Gen X irony for Gen Z quasi-sincerity. Also none of those fuckers can actually sing.
I definitely somewhat buy into the David Toop argument of easy listening as proto-ambient, and Mantovani LPs are definitely the best records you can still get for 50p in charity shops.

 

[bassbeyondreason]

Also these people aren't Millenials.

 

[thirdform]

but loungecore is different to schmaltzcore!

loungecore is sophisticore. it tries to be elevated and hi falutin.

schmaltzcore is ultra melodramatic love songs.

 

[bassbeyondreason]

Mark Eitzel maybe one of the few post-punk musicians who really understands schmaltz:

 

[version]

Is schmaltzcore the evolution of loungecore or on a different trajectory? What comes after schmaltz?

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

Also these people aren't Millenials.

whatever the youth of today is called

 

[thirdform]

schmaltzcore is the Bordigism of revolutionary music criticism. it's brutally transcendent.

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

schmaltz is a proletarian weapon

that is true, it's hard to imagine something more middle class than appropriation of proletarian bad taste

 

[thirdform]

Is schmaltzcore the evolution of loungecore or on a different trajectory? What comes after schmaltz?

harsh noise and speedcore. same sort of emotional intensity.

 

[version]

The youngest millennials are 24/25, I think.

 

[padraig (u.s.)]

alright guys Gen Z, whatever

 

[thirdform]

that is true, it's hard to imagine something more middle class than appropriation of proletarian bad taste

which is why most of the pc music possee were shit.

 

[bassbeyondreason]

but loungecore is different to schmaltzcore!

loungecore is sophisticore. it tries to be elevated and hi falutin.

schmaltzcore is ultra melodramatic love songs.

Nah, sophisticore would be your high-gloss stuff (Blue Nile being a very good example, and very good), loungecore is like lo-fi smirking recreations of dollar bin records. But I was talking about the stuff in the article, not the PROPER schmaltzcore.

 

[bassbeyondreason]

Always thought of Pram as "housewife psychedelia", sounds of the household and 70s Radio 2 mutated through valium haze and hallucinogenic boredom. Def a subdued vein of schmaltz in this:

 

[thirdform]

Always thought of Pram as "housewife psychedelia", sounds of the household and 70s Radio 2 mutated through valium haze and hallucinogenic boredom. Def a subdued vein of schmaltz in this:

very underrated and misunderstood band.

 

[bassbeyondreason]

“Strange how potent cheap music is.” ― Noel Coward

 

[thirdform]

Nah, sophisticore would be your high-gloss stuff (Blue Nile being a very good example, and very good), loungecore is like lo-fi smirking recreations of dollar bin records. But I was talking about the stuff in the article, not the PROPER schmaltzcore.

ah yeah that makes much more sense now.