Have you at any point watched this clip from
a “rip vine” compilation?
"Uh.. my buddy Brandon."
"Hi bud."
"Alright, nice."
*リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー plays*
Ever accidentally found these types of edited
pictures and other things with the same kind
of look on the internet?
This is called vaporwave.
It’s a music genre that was originally created
as a joke at first to then it becoming globally
produced and listened to, also including a
specific aesthetic that people mostly know it from.
Vaporwave is first handedly seen as “weird”,
and I’m guessing that everyone in this classroom
is indeed thinking that I’m crazy showing
this junk,
but as we take a ride in this  video there might be a possibility that you too,
will see the beauty of vaporwave that had made me do this topic.
The music of vaporwave includes of sampled
retro 80’s and 90’s jazz and elevator
music that are cutted up, slowed down, sped
up and edited.
Electronic musician Daniel Lopatin was considered
to be the first to create the genre of Vaporwave,
posting a mixtape on the internet named “Eccojams
Vol. 1” on August 8, 2010 by the name “Chuck Person".
It was supposed to be a joke, as the mixtape
had many hit songs from the 80’s to the
early 2000’s though slowed and chopped up
with the chorus repeating for about the whole
song, but it then became quite popular as
it made a very big impact on Vaporwave.
*A1 from Eccojams Vol. 1 plays*
sorry not sorry
On 2011, another musician named James Ferraro
also made an impact on the music genre creating
the album “Far Side Virtual”, inspired
by themes of globalization and internet culture.
*Linden Dollars from Far Side Virtual plays*
:D
The two then influenced Macintosh Plus, also
known as Ramona Andra Xavier or Vektroid,
to create the album “Floral Shoppe”, including
the iconic track
“リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー”
meaning “The Computing of Lisa Frank 420 / Contemporary.”
The track’s sample was the song “It’s
Your Move” by Diana Ross repeating the misheard
lyric “It’s all in your head”, and with
the album “Floral Shoppe”, Vaporwave started
to get recognition as a genre.
*リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー plays*
The name “Vaporwave” also has a history
to it, even though it sounds like it was named
that way because it seemed cool and original
for the music genre.
It’s based on the terms “vaporware”,
which is used to describe an announcement
on a product to the public with it actually
never releasing and to describe society’s
change in response to being subjected to capitalism
(Marxist term).
So basically, vaporwave was created to critique
modern day capitalism and was an attempt to
reveal their false promises.
But why people really listen and create this
type of music is for, of course,
ｔｈｅ░æｓｔｈｅｔｉｃ░ｏｆ░ｔｈｅ░ｇｅｎｒｅ　（まス安委ピ）
It revolves around a retro style from the
80’s and 90’s, with Japanese culture and
lettering, old fashioned computers, gaming
elements, Roman statues, graphic design, FIJI
Water, Arizona Green Tea with Ginseng and
Honey, and other retro characteristics with
neon and pastel colors, pixelated and in low
quality.
It became very popular on Tumblr, and the
music and art merged to create the subculture
everyone knows about.
There are now many subgenres of Vaporwave,
such as vaportrap, VHS pop, vapornoise/broken
transmission, vapormeme/parody vaporwave (?), and
my personal favorite, future funk, that’s
considered to be the most popular out of all
subgenres, though there are plenty of other
music that branched off of vaporwave.
Though, people on Reddit have discussed about
vaporwave being dead or not.
The genre is still being talked about till
this day as more people discover it, but the
statement “Vaporwave is dead” is also
being said by many, dying in late 2012 to
mid 2013, where vaporwave went through a phase
of just using old commercial music as samples
embracing capitalism instead of going against
it, causing people to stop listening and the
genre dying out.
To put it bluntly, vaporwave was already dead.
There wasn’t any sort of “marketing”
with it, and with Tumblr and MTV rebranding
themselves in 2015 with somewhat a “vaporwave
look”, that had definitely killed it.
As the subculture’s style adapts throughout
the years, there’s a possibility that it
has influenced many music trends and other
media.
With the ongoing memes and new produced music,
long live vaporwave.
