/ent/ - Entertainment

I agree. The 80s was the heyday of neoliberalism.
Any nostalgia for the 80s is propagated by zoomers who never experienced it firsthand.

>>1256
Creating nostalgia to a time we cant go back to anyway isnt helpful

Maybe?

>>1256
Does this not miss the alternative: That its very desirability is the attack? That the problem with the system is not the idealized bliss of consuming America Online using your NTT DoCoMo Pocket PostPet that you bought in The Mall, but the fact that this reality was never delivered. Faintly proposed, occasionally, accidentally, but always actually absent. Even Japan didn't get to experience it. Vaporwave is a technological and cultural equivalent of David Steel ("From rising hope to elder statesman without any intervening period whatsoever."), something literally nobody has ever lived but a great number are familiar with.

So then you think: Insofar as I desire this, even if the desire is consumerist (and we may say "objectively wrong") and so on, this desire could not ever be met, would not ever be met, and will not ever be met. The system which promises an infinite multitude of market choice cannot and will not give me a specific car-crash of early CGI, the good 1% of the californian ideology, Japanese proto-Y2K advertisements, Korean Pokemon translations, and Mac OS9 memories from school which is partially unique to myself while having enough commonality with similar confabulations in the minds of others to birth a label.

For actual 80s nostalgia one would be better looking at Synthwave. Although it only appropriates one 80s style among many, it's something with some precedent in an actual period of history and so winds up taking a more reactionary bent to Vaporwave's vague progressiveness.

For hypercontextualized technocratic Britain circa 1960-70 where witches lurk behind every set of tower flats and where benevolent (yet haunting) social(ist?) planners watch from afar, try hauntology as a genre. (But here I would say the aim is again not quite nostalgia: The whole thing is, of course, the haunting of the present by the ghost of a future which everyone knew was coming but which never actually came.)

By your logic, liking clasical music would be a celebration of monarchy. I guess Marx and Engels aren't real socialists considering they were big fans of classical music and many composers from their period and before.

Vaporwave may certainly be celebrating capitalism, But Sovietwave sure as hell does not

This is now a vaporwave thread

WHAT THE FUCK IS VAPOR WAVE YOU FUCKING KDIS

>>1263
>I guess Marx and Engels aren't real socialists considering they were big fans of classical music and many composers from their period and before.

link to their spotify liked pages?
seriously tho what artists did they like

I don't know. It gets more obvious with subgenres like mallsoft which seems to intentionally give feeling of emptiness that consumerism doesn't fill, anxiety caused by pressure it induces and gently reminds the listener of decaying capitalist infrastructure and that capitalism itself too could fall. Though that's just me pretentiously saying it sounds like haunted malls.

>>1256
yes, for it to be a satire it would have to be intentionally bad but that would defeat the purpose of creating music in the first place, but vaporwave obfuscates itself in irony which can incidentally be appreciated unironically by the uninitiated which opens itself to corruption and infiltration.

>>1256
perhaps one could see in it a critique of superficiality and soullessness, just because a person is attractive doesnt make them a good person, if you know what i mean, perhaps that makes vaporwave reactionary since that would be kind of idealistic analysis

>>2034
green and pink colour with 80s styles

>>1256
idk if it's all that political. it's just nostalgic background sounds (not really even music)

>>2739
like lobby music for instance is what it makes me think of, other people might say elevator music but I've never been in an elevator with music, even in the 90s.