Never once has a DJ stopped a show for a political message in my city. Everyone cheered too.
I’m really loving how, unlike with Ukraine, there’s plenty of people seeing through the propaganda blitz. Zionists must be shitting themselves right now.
The optics of the conflict are much more conducive to it.
that’s so dope
the closest political clubbing experience I had was a person in a maid costume + furry head holding up that photo of John Cena with Mao’s hair on stage in a vaporwave party
I feel like vaporwave draws a lot of reactionaries because the use of 80s/90s kitsch aesthetics combined with greco-roman imagery is like, a RETVRN thing for them. Which is funny because the original vaporwave artists were suggesting something very different by juxtaposing elements of our vapid consumer culture with those of a fallen western civilization, but of course chuds always miss the point.
The three figures I could point to as creating vaporwave as a style of music are a black man, a trans woman, and a Jewish man. (DJ Screw, Vektroid, and Daniel Lopatin respectively). And every time I go in a vaporwave production discord half the profiles have trans flags.
Not to say reactionaries don’t love to adopt culture from people they deem lesser though. They love rock music. But this one always felt really weird for fascists to try and usurp.
I think you could throw James Ferraro in there as well, another black guy
but that early era of vaporwave came and went over a decade ago. a lot of those original artists moved on to other things and the vaporwave scene became flooded with a lot of white cishet male weebs lazily copying their style without understanding the artistic intent beyond a surface level
I miss that era of vaporwave. It has led to some interesting spinoff subgenres that have leftist aesthetics like sovietwave.
James Ferraro is the best musician alive at making music that sounds like it was spit right out of a corporate board room meeting on how to make the most inoffensive, blandest thing possible. And yet he’s amazing, he’s extremely talented. It’s like the musical equivalent of those street performers who pretend they’re statues. It’s like if Goku started playing golf.
Intentionally making robotic, soulless music. I love him and can’t believe I forgot him.
The audience was definitely way left of the average American
It was filled with Asian Zoomers in San Francisco
well I definitely don’t think most vaporwave enjoyers are chuds per se, but there’s a definite contingent there
That sounds rad as fuck.
EDIT: Apparently not so rad.
It’s not, it’s Sinophobic because the context of that meme is John Cena apologizing for recognizing Taiwan as a country while speaking Mandarin and also mispronouncing “ice cream” so Western Zoomers made the Cena Mao meme to make fun of him for being a “CCP shill”
Ah, I had no idea that was the context. Disappointing. Thanks for explaining.
and also mispronouncing “ice cream”
Beg your pardon?
In Mandarin. It’s actually really sad. Cena was just sharing a video of him enjoying ice cream and showing off his Chinese progress/skills and all of a sudden millions of kids are making fun of him for his bad pronunciation because China bad
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/john-cena-speaking-chinese-and-eating-ice-cream-bing-chilling
Thanks, this had slipped my mind. I first found out about this duringthe chess world championship, the streams were full of “DING CHILLING” referring to Ding Liren.
Westerners are just not that imaginative, even the kids.
shout out to his family
I saw Machine Girl earlier this year. They had some kind of technical mishap with a bass amplifier, so the show got paused like a minute. So the band led the crowd in a chant of “Fuck Greg Abbott.” It’s what made me finally think the kids will be alright.
Love Machine Girl! Got to see them this year too and loved the show.
good shit, happy to see a lot of people understand the genocide that’s going on right now by the IDF
