sadmanbarty
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i'm such a teacher's pet it's disgusting
it's talking not to the physiology of dematerialisation, but rather its effects on our cognitive processes. music that has to compete with all the stimuli human history has to offer at your fingertibs. music that's just one of 17 tabs competing to grasp your attention against the incest porn on the next tab, the behaeding video a few tabs over, ian dunt live tweeting parliament in the next tab, etc.
it's music attuned to the garishness of vine humour. of youtube vloger''s constant jump cuts, etc.
adhd music for an adhd society
Mechanical spider limbs.
By denying you what you 'need' it foregrounds the lack. Like when you take drugs and the magic doesn't happen. The hollowness of that. No sparkles.
what do you 'need' that it denies? I don't quite get it
the 2010's has also offered a whole counterpoint to the chill aesthetic too; music that's garishly attention seeking. music that's all foreground, rather than all background.
dancehall's piercing, shenai-like squealing auto-tuned vocals. traps hissing 808 hi hat pyrotechnics. lex lugar midi-brass. music that's all treble rather than the mushy, swampy midrange of this chillwave lineage.
you also have the adhd little-kid-pulling-different-faces-for-attention of a lot of music. your young thug's and tommy lee sparta's constant persona shifts, ad lib raps constant yelps and skrrras and all that. before that there was the skrillex thing where the instrumental was constantly chopping and changing. loads of different bass sounds intersecting one another. all that in stark contrast to the intently wallpaperish nature of chillwave
lol this makes it sound like a personal tragedy. I thought vaporwave was stupid at the time. never got into it as much as other_life apparently didand I'm only now coming to terms with it
this was the side that won, and I'm only now coming to terms with it. you're a convincing proponent of it though.
i heard about this severely autistic bloke who needed white noise constantly playing and it's like that.
Otherlife, mvuent just called you stupid!
A lot of people seem to be like that with TV. They have it on in the background because they can't bear the silence. It's in waiting rooms, lobbies, toilets. Everywhere. TV or muzak.
The cover for that Jam City album is brilliant, imo. It communicates so many things. The corporate lobby, the glass, the plants contained by the marble, the crashed but immaculate motorcycle with no rider in sight. It might have appeared in 2012, but it feels very 'now'.
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