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[49] [50] Vaporwave coincided with a broader trend involving young artists whose works drew from their childhoods in the 1980s. [51] [nb 2] "Chillwave" and "hypnagogic pop" were coined at virtually the same time, in mid-2009, and were considered interchangeable terms. Like vaporwave, they engaged with notions of nostalgia and cultural memory. [52]
Album cover of Palm Mall by Cat System Corp. Illustrations such as these are often used as artwork for mallsoft music.. Often based on corporate lounge music, mallsoft is meant to conjure images of shopping malls, grocery stores, lobbies, and other places of public commerce. [2]
Mahood expressed that the pre-9/11 era can only be experienced through media, stating, "News at 11 typifies the entire aesthetic of vaporwave". [9] Pad Chennington, a prominent vaporwave musician and reviewer whose uncle died in the attacks, characterised the album as letting the listener peacefully "travel through that day", and praised the ...
Anime enthusiasts have produced fan fiction and fan art, including computer wallpapers, and anime music videos (AMVs). [214] Many fans visit sites depicted in anime, games, manga and other forms of otaku culture. This behavior is known as "Anime pilgrimage". [215]
The post-apocalyptic variant is the one usually associated with retrofuturism, where characters will rely upon a mixture of old and new technologies. Furthermore, synthwave and vaporwave are nostalgic, humorous and often retrofuturistic revivals of early cyberpunk aesthetic. [citation needed]
Common features include a faded or dreamy retro pop sound, escapist lyrics (frequent topics include the beach or summer), psychedelic or lo-fi aesthetics, mellow vocals, slow-to-moderate tempos, effects processing (especially reverb), and vintage synthesizers. Chillwave was one of the first music genres to develop primarily through the Internet.
"Outrun" is a subgenre of synthwave that was later used to refer more generally to retro 1980s aesthetics such as VHS tracking artefacts, magenta neon, and gridlines. [16] The term comes from the 1986 arcade racing game Out Run , which is known for its soundtrack that could be selected in-game and its 1980s aesthetic.
Sovietwave (also styled Soviet wave [1] or Soviet-wave [2]) is a subgenre of synthwave music and accompanying Internet aesthetic which originates from the former Soviet Union, primarily Russia.