If you had kids and you were collecting from school in a fashionable part of Hackney there would be a clique of them emitting those frequencies. They would give you the cold shoulder. They'd know you were not one of them.

this is why I told you it’s quintessentially English
 

chava

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:mad:

what's interesting to me about the audio animation of newer dance music and hip hop in particular is how there's been this sort of unspoken arms race towards more solid, satisfyingly compressed sounds. stuff made with drum samples in a DAW 10-15 years ago often sounds annoyingly thin compared to stuff from the past few years; the evolution has been very dramatic.

this musical value sort falls between the cracks of normal spoken values: it's not about having more intricate production like IDM, and music that's perfected mastered in a traditional sense (e.g. steely dan) also totally lacks this hyperreal punchiness. it's not even about playing with space like in grm stuff. it perhaps has more to do with those vids of "oddly satisfying" sounds or even asmr than any of that.
Call me a fan of 'thin' music. Anything resembling asmr is vulgar and my puritan mind does not allow that. Honestly the physical reaction I have to these sounds are pretty real, but I don't like them and I don't like myself even reacting to them.
 
There are lots of fetish objects and kink dynamics in pla. talking to daddy voice, latex, infantilisation alongside these strange abstractions and brutalism
 

luka

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In the same way that the music harks back to the dawn of youth culture girl groups, drive-ins and milkshakes, and also all the previous invocations of those origins, particularly in the eighties
 
That's the only PC music track Luka secretly likes it reminds him of having milkshakes at the mall with his buddies and going to the movies with Cindy his crush from 7th grade.
thats what I said he secretly loves it (how could you not?) but he cant allow himself to admit it to the lads cos hes shackled by his masculinity and also has a deep fried chip on his shoulder about art schools etc
 

muser

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thats what I said he secretly loves it (how could you not?) but he cant allow himself to admit it to the lads cos hes shackled by his masculinity and also has a deep fried chip on his shoulder about art schools etc
He'll break eventually
 
Well it's still fake.
I've experienced ASMR since I was a child, my Dad and sister too. I don't get triggered by the videos and hate the industry that's popped up around it. You're all conflating the physical response with the content people create to get people into that state. I think it's mostly a case of you get the head tingles or you don't, that's not to say people won't feel relaxed by watching that stuff.

And in terms of the feeling and what triggers it, it's definitely not connected to sexual arousal at all, but does feel intimate to a degree. I get it very rarely these days, maybe once every few months. The first thing I remember giving me the feeling was the sound of a teacher slowly handing out pages in a quiet classroom. It starts at the back of the head and pulses across the scalp and temples and then down in to the neck. I can keep it going by focusing on the trigger or the feeling itself, but if something else grabs your attention it goes. I'll feel warmth and gratitude and very calm. It's almost like the a physical sensation of trust and safety, a signal.
There was nothing online until around 2011. I'd be googling 'relaxing tingly head feeling' etc and nothing. Then a little community started and it ballooned into the multi-million dollar industry we all love to take the piss out of. i feel like something precious has been stolen from me
 
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