'chillwave continuum'?

[version]

I love Jam City, I know it's very easy to hate on Night Slugs but I think he's got something special about his music

You heard the album yet?

 

[boxedjoy]

Been postponing it until I've got a day off to properly listen to it. Have you?

 

[...]

Basically bourgeois concrete.

 

[version]

Been postponing it until I've got a day off to properly listen to it. Have you?

Yeah, it's really good. Listened last night and got it on again now. It's recognisably him, but also sounds a bit like a poppier Sophie and OPN. The songs are all quite short, lots of hooks and processed vocals.

 

[version]

Basically bourgeois concrete.

Wouldn't be surprised if someone used that as an ironic title or Twitter bio.

 

[boxedjoy]

brb making updates

 

[version]

Some of it's verging on a more tasteful 100 Gecs.

 

[boxedjoy]

"Tasteful 100 Gecs" seems like a contradiction in terms

 

[boxedjoy]

finally listening now - the melodies are really strong, which I thought was the biggest weakness with the otherwise excellent last album. I love how confrontational this feels - so many abrasive and brash sounds, brazen and shameless choices made at every turn. I don't think Sophie could ever make a song as sweet-toothed and instant as They Eat The Young.

 

[boxedjoy]

Climb Back Down is a like a shoegaze cover of Lumidee, amazing how this album is so diffuse and primary-coloued yet feels cohesive and singular.

 

[rubberdingyrapids]

cant believe this is actually 13 years old.

 

[Leo]

The Vaporwave Right

On Right-Wing Aesthetics and the Adoption of Vaporwave

im1776.com

Despite the long history of right-wing successful adoptions of aesthetics, the current conservative-right doesn’t really know what to do with them. It’s for this reason that analogous movements, elsewhere, have created fashions for themselves. Among such, the controversial adoption of vaporwave as part of their identity stands out. At first sight, vaporwave would have nothing to do with conservatism, neo-reaction nor traditionalism. But the continued use of ’80s style neon aesthetics, with classical art and synth music by groups who shared a mutual dislike of materialism, consumerism, and meaninglessness, made the transition from a post-modern critique of itself to a decentralized uniform and distinguishable standard of beauty for the disperse Right to easily adopt and replicate.

...its capacity to resonate with people rests on the fact that vaporwave evokes, and in a sense represents, a lot of what modern traditional conservatives are fighting for: the return to a simpler, nicer, and more prosperous era; the inspiration and admiration by classical political and cultural artifacts — not to mention a good critique of post-modernity, along with desacralization it carries along.

 

[version]

I've just stumbled across 'NATOwave'.




Wonder if they're being paid for this stuff. It's great PR. There are loads of people absolutely loving it in the comments.

Dario Montieri 7 months ago (edited)
I’ve always loved how aircraft represent modern nation’s pride. I absolutely love them. Humanity created their own metal dragons.

CrucialBeatle 7 months ago
love this, NATO is usually just depicted as an extension of the US army, but this makes it feel like the combined strength of 30+ countries

Jonas L 5 months ago (edited)
12% of the world's population
52% of the world's GDP
70% of the world's military spending
99% of the worlds freedom

 

[version]

A YouTube comment gold mine.

Peter Sonstwer 4 months ago
I love how this song capture the essence of Western militaries. On the one hand a deep love for its soldiers and its people, on the other hand cold and calculating from the tactical to the strategic level. Little Vladi would immediately push the red button panicstricken, if our professionals would ever come for his corrupt barbaric hordes.

@Corpsey @luka

 

[woops]

I've just stumbled across 'NATOwave'.




Wonder if they're being paid for this stuff. It's great PR. There are loads of people absolutely loving it in the comments.

Dario Montieri 7 months ago (edited)
I’ve always loved how aircraft represent modern nation’s pride. I absolutely love them. Humanity created their own metal dragons.

CrucialBeatle 7 months ago
love this, NATO is usually just depicted as an extension of the US army, but this makes it feel like the combined strength of 30+ countries

Jonas L 5 months ago (edited)
12% of the world's population
52% of the world's GDP
70% of the world's military spending
99% of the worlds freedom

i've just reconsidered. Drive sucks

 

[william_kent]

i've just reconsidered. Drive sucks

how come?

planes are the star, not the car?

 

[woops]

there's a new 🌟

 

[version]

Stumbled across another one.

 

[version]

Something particularly horrifying about this one.

 

[version]

I think there's something fairly important going on with the way this stuff has been repackaged as naked propaganda. There are vids on YouTube with hundreds of thousands, sometimes even millions, of views which are made up of clips of Hitler, Rambo, soldiers lamenting the loss of the old world, Andrew Tate talking about being a man, etc. all packaged in this vaporwave aesthetic with tons of comments underneath fawning over various mythical pasts, strong men and the rest.

There's some stuff that's essentially propagandising collaged video essays littered with memes and music and there's some that's just combat footage and historical figures reduced to little more than an aesthetic.

You can go from a synthwave thing to a slow + reverbed tune from John Wick or The Punisher or Peaky Blinders and end up being fed all these "sigma male" and "motivation" playlists and edits which in turn take you to stuff like a video I found simply titled 'Legend' with a thumbnail of Hitler.