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Chillwave (originally considered synonymous with glo-fi and hypnagogic pop) is a music microgenre that emerged in the late 2000s. It is characterized by evoking the popular music of the late 1970s and early 1980s while engaging with notions of memory and nostalgia.
"Chillwave", a tag used to describe a similar trend, [43] was coined one month before Keenan's 2009 article [44] and was adopted synonymously with "hypnagogic pop". [45] While the two styles are similar in that they both evoke 1980s–90s imagery, chillwave has a more commercial sound with an emphasis on "cheesy" hooks and reverb effects. [46]
Users on various music forums, as quoted by Vice, variously characterized the genre as "chillwave for Marxists", "post-elevator music", and "corporate smooth jazz Windows 95 pop". [12] Its circulation was more akin to an Internet meme than typical music genres of the past, as authors Georgina Born and Christopher Haworth wrote in 2017,
This is a list of electronic music genres, consisting of genres of electronic music, primarily created with electronic musical instruments or electronic music technology.A distinction has been made between sound produced using electromechanical means and that produced using electronic technology. [1]
[6] [5] It is further regarded as "the first chillwave song". [7] American Songwriter ' s Catherine Wathall supported that the song contained a "chillwave essence", [3] while the publication Future Music listed the song as part of a "beginner's guide" to chillwave. [4]
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Grantland ' s Dave Schilling describes the "chillwave" designation as a pivotal moment that "revealed how arbitrary and meaningless labels like that really are. It wasn't a scene. It wasn't a scene. It was a parody of a scene, both a defining moment for the music blogosphere and the last gasp."
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