Corpsey

bandz ahoy
The sense that the 80s is being recreated, but it's even more false this time... Even more postured because it's aping the postures they did the first time around. And the glitchiness of the production feeds into that impression. The sadness is genuine, though. It's Internet music – false, flashy, undergirded by pure melancholy.

I'M WRITING A BOOK
 

sus

Moderator
The sense that the 80s is being recreated, but it's even more false this time... Even more postured because it's aping the postures they did the first time around. And the glitchiness of the production feeds into that impression. The sadness is genuine, though. It's Internet music – false, flashy, undergirded by pure melancholy.

I'M WRITING A BOOK
Link a track that sounds like New Shapes or Gone for comparison?
 

sufi

lala
This is the most telling post on the entire site. 18-22 y/o alt-pretty-in-a-homely 60s way San Francisco girls walking around Californian wilderness in Zara button-ups, jean shorts, those fucking felt fedoras like Marnie in Girls. And Luka's daydreaming about running into them at a City Lights party, snuggling his nose into their armpit hair next to a yucca plant, or under a mandala print; fantasies in the backseat of their rented convertible, driving down the PCH, stoned, waving his hand like a plane through the rippling wind. And he says I simp for hipster chicks.
I have a masive nostalgia for the PCH, we all do, we were brought up on it despite living the wrong end of the planet and never having a snowball chance of cruising down it in raybans and a red convertible
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I'm not really aware of Charli XCX as a vocalist. I like the songs/her voice but it's more the production that I'm interested in.
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
The sense that the 80s is being recreated, but it's even more false this time... Even more postured because it's aping the postures they did the first time around. And the glitchiness of the production feeds into that impression. The sadness is genuine, though. It's Internet music – false, flashy, undergirded by pure melancholy.
This is probably missing the point (surprise surprise) in that the 80s must represent something for people to do with gender blurring (all the men in makeup, e.g.). All the stuff that we (my generation) used to laugh at the 80s for – the camp, false, "tasteless" elements.

Although supposedly now is more the 90s nostalgia era?
 

sus

Moderator
I hear lots of claims as to how contemporary music is "just" a rehash of the 80s. Sometimes I have a reference to ground those claims against, sometimes I don't.
 

sus

Moderator
I just wanna hear 80s tracks where I'm like "oh, yeah, that sounds like a late 2010s pop song"
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I hear lots of claims as to how contemporary music is "just" a rehash of the 80s. Sometimes I have a reference to ground those claims against, sometimes I don't.
There's definitely a strong 80s influence in this stuff but you can't imagine it actually coming out in the 80s IMO
 

sufi

lala

You might like this one
i do like this video,
but then i spent yesterday evening watching youtubes titled e.g.

Things that will not leave you indifferent

and
THE KARENS OF TIKTOK! #46
&

I'm a Fat A-Hole

yuknow you must immerse
I dislike that being a modern intellectual means believing fully in Lana Del Ray and having fully formed, in depth opinions on her. Big part of the reason why so many of these threads are never on topic. revulsion at modernity
 

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Possibly also relevant?


I suppose it is a bit powdered wigs and stockings, too

But it's diseased with doubt

Haunted by mandatory moodiness
 
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