If music is good, it's good. I don't care if it takes zero effort. I don't listen to songs because they were handcrafted in a cave for six months, I listen because they are pleasing to my ear.
I think the fundamental tenet of all criticism is that you can improve your opinion by knowing more about it (although of course it isn't mathematics, it's still subjective), and also that good art will only get better by having that knowledge or context. If you don't agree and you like what you like, I really have no problem with that
@@Youkai_graphics funny how floral shoppe really pioneered an entire genre of music born out of internet culture and the collective misery of the generations raised on it, really grateful to be able to watch the genres grow and adapt to the times
people like saint Pepsi, James Ferraro, and luxury Elite have an weird vibe to it. James Ferraro has the elevator music. Elite has an chil vibe. And Pepsi has a party, hyper jazz feel
the diana ross song, it doesnt leave my head. i wont go away. i have been listening to it in my head for days. i wake up to it, i sleep to it. it wont leave
The fact that it uncreatively edits pieces is only an incidental side-product of the process. The whole album's intention was to create a feeling that many people share: an affection for and contentment with American mediocrity like 80s-90s malls, tacky sexy neosoul, smooth jazz, 90s suburban simplicity, idleness, gas stations at night with muffled music playing in background. If its main intention was to innovatively change the samples, then it would lose the more important purpose of creating that ambiance. It embraces the lackluster side of America and corporatism, which is the ultimate source of happiness because you can never be disappointed with such low expectations. If vaporwave by chance is very new and inspired, fine; but it never was its main reason. It wants to distill the essence of its songs, at least the perceived essence by many who like ordinariness.
Jim Hepburn Perceived essence, that's the key word here. I bet most people listening to this are too young to remember what living in the 80s really was about. Seems like some younger people seem to have a strange perception of that decade.
+The Great Agitator I'm 32 and I grew up with soft 80's adult contemporary hits squawking thru the intercom speakers of malls, cafeterias, and waiting rooms. staring at a wall covered in 8.5x11 clipart advertisements, nothing to do but endure the boredom of this eternal 40-minute existence - only made worse by the soothing and somewhat depressing smooth jazzy sax over a sterile beat. And then I found Nirvana... and now I think I found something special to me in the asesthetic and idea of vaporwave
I didn't know who made those songs, and I don't know who made these songs... hey, I don't actually know who stole them either. but none of that matters. why should it matter?
It all depends on the imagery and feelings you get from the music really. For me I get a nostalgic vibe that puts me in the back of my parent's car in the 90s driving through a city at night; that safe and relaxing feeling you get. But at the same time there's a futuristic sound to it, almost like something Spike Spiegel would listen to while cruising through space in Cowboy Bebop. But then the Cowboy Bebop imagery is also nostalgic, making the overall sensation from the music seem harmonious.
"The people who are most likely to be impressed by this album are those who have not heard the original songs" 100% correct and probably why i like the album so much, lol
Although I agree that Macintosh Plus isn't really creating anything brand new, I also think that was one of the main points of the Floral Shoppe. In my opinion it is kind of emphasizing the emotional emptiness of digital space in a stylized manner which is why it's both eerie and unenjoyable at times. I think the lack of new content created in this album is a way of emphasizing the (arguable) idea that nothing is truly original anymore. It does this by appropriating music that came before Floral Shoppe. Perhaps it is intentionally "soulless" but then again, I could be reading way to far into this. I enjoy parts of this album though. Its unlike other music I have ever heard before which really interests me, even if I find it distasteful once in a while.
+Graham Jefferson I totally agree, honestly. Vaporwave is meant to be enjoyed then forgotten, like background music to your life. There's other vaporwave I like way more than Macintosh Plus though, like Android Apartment, Luxury Elite, and Dante Mars Ajeto!. I know that Flower Shoppe is the 'iconic' vaporwave album, but there's a lot better stuff out there.
I think that a lot of the focus on the technical aspects of the album missed the point. It might be because I'm coming from a place of having lived through the era of a lot of that music, but there's a feeling of melancholic nostalgia laid on top of it for me. That the tracks aren't as manipulated and twisted into something new doesn't feel like that's even the point - to me, this feels like a really fine-tuned piece of work. If you find the sweet spot, why push it further just to push it? The essence of "vaporwave" comes through more in this, for me, than anything else. This album embodies it for me. That's just my feeling on the matter. We all have our own interpretations.
I personally loved Floral Shoppe to death, but I'm completely new to the sample genre and was enchanted by its wiles. Thank you for mentioning other albums as better alternatives, because I want to dive into the rest of this genre with the best foot forward! If any of you have other recommendations, please, let me know.
I've been listening to Vaporwave for more than a year by now and I still love Floral Shoppe. Vek managed to turn the songs into distorted eerie pieces that are still interesting to listen to, and also without turning them into unlistenable garbage (thing that lots of Vaporwave artists never quite achieve)
When I first heard of Vaporwave I thought it was going to be typical hipster shit, but I kind of like it. Makes me want to play GTA vice city or Hotline Miami.
@@HMz83 I didn't knew Slowed + Reverb was a thing, and now i want to forget. Disgusting that it's even a thing, it's literally the opposite of nightcore
Excellent review, and I agree completely! but what is some of Vaporwave's best? This music can be truly stunning - puts me in a different place and time; working over my entire life's memories and emotions. Talk about creating an aesthetic!
i agree it puts me back in the 90's back when i was a kid, hanging with friends that are no longer here, back when i had no worries, it really does work up my emotions hanging out at the park with my mom when i was a kid..shit we need to have a 90's party
Unfortunatelly, Floral Shoppe the most celebrated but not at all one of the best. Who doesn't know and want to, bl00dwave, CVLTVRΣ, ID Cℎίℯƒ, YUNG BAE and most importantly マクロスMACROSS 82-99 is who you are looking for.
@@sxmbxdy TH-cam used to have a thing where your replies didnt go under "replies" but instead became new entire comments with a ping to the person they're talking and that seems to be a relic of that time, with the ping being removed by youtube too.
There's a guy on youtube who takes Limp Bizkit isolated vocal tracks and puts them over every possible song. He sometimes chops and mixes up the vocal parts and he sometimes slows or speeds them up, adds effects, etc. If Vaporwave is a genre, this guy has done enough videos to also be a genre. I'll call it Limpwave. Only the truly cool music snobs listen to Limpwave.
It's funny how everyone criticizing Anthony fails to address his main complaint; that is, Macintosh Plus does not edit the source/sample material enough to be given props for his admittedly great sound
I know right? The arguments that I've seen so far are either, "you don't get my special brand of music!" or "what right do reviewers have to review music!"
xxxViceroyxxx you only watched 25 seconds of the video and are completely fixated on the score rather than the content of the review so I'm not really sure what I can say to someone who can't be arsed to hear a dissenting opinion ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I never liked this album that much, until I copied the whole thing onto a cassette and listened to it in my car. This is now one of my favourite albums.
+Carrotttt U gaTTa do it with irony brehh. U kno hatefully pretend u like to be the top keks. Sincerethony Honestano here talked about post-irony. Something I didn't even consider to be humanely plausible
Backhand Things no memes and culture go hand in hand people who are looking for (vaporwave for example) are looking for something specific, people who are looking for memes look for anything of even slight relevance
If you haven't heard them, check out 'Haircuts for Men' and 'Windows 96 '. Whether they're vaporwave or something else altogether, who knows, but they're in the same ... well, the same odd corner of the universe as Macintosh/Vektroid.
I'd adjust it to 7 myself. while I agree that her editing prowess really didn't always come into it's own, that isn't a reason to pull so many points, we are talking objective quality here, not the amount of effort put in, and while track 2 was carried by the quality of the source material, that doesn't necessarily mean it is bad.
***** Not only is it not very engaging, but it's just straight up lazy sounding. I don't care how 'tragically nostalgic' a vaporwave song may sound to you, at its core each song could have very well been made in under a day. There's nothing to it, it feels like it lacks substance and heart. I'm having a really hard time telling apart the trolls from genuine opinions on the subject of vaporwave. When someone takes a sample and manipulates it (time stretched, pitched, filtered, reversed, chopped up, ect.) and then layers on their own melodies and whatnot to the point where it becomes something entirely new, THAT's interesting. That is engaging and not JUST simply because its complex, but because the amount of work put into creating it more often than not means that the artist was more invested in it. It feels like genuine expression and more unique. It's a part of the ARTIST because we can tell he was creating the song to tell a story and convey a feeling. Not that vaporwave doesn't do that of course, but everything about vaporwave seems to be about how 'nostalgic' shit was. That's it. That's basically the extent of every vaporwave's emotional value, whereis any other genre can express a multitude of emotions and story's while also being musically interesting. I'm all for sample-based music, I play around with it a lot myself, but this kind of stuff seems to me like more of just some experimental idea that got way too popular for its own good. It's just saying "Hey remember the 90's and old Windows PC's? That was nice" over and over again with NOTHING unique added by the artist itself. It's entirely about the listener, and part of me does respect that in terms of an artistic statement or whatever, but cultivating and entire genre from it is a little ridiculous and don't try and sit there and tell me that it's a "fined tuned piece of work" like the other guy in the comments was saying, at that point you're basically just lying.
Cal loves AOR, so I think he loves this album. Also, post-irony isn't really a term. It's just something I said to explain that people used to love some of this music ironically. It was listened to BECAUSE it was cheezy; however, some artists who are now embracing these formerly "cheesy" aesthetics are now being taken very seriously.
It is 2024 and vaporwave still has s beating heart in haunted malls. Sad it got such a low score but amazed that this is from 2012 - Fantano really has had his pulse on the culture.
Anthony, I think the opening track was the best track on the album! It's got this type of slowly building up, hypnotic, consuming feel that I've never felt from anything else before. The croons make that song, and it's done spectacularly. Anthony you need to give the first track a second, or fifth chance because it took awhile for me to understand what was going on. I fucking love the first track and a few other tracks. The rest of the album is okay.
This artist is honestly really good. I love the way it sounds. It makes me feel relaxed and just away from life. This kind of music really helps with stress.
in 2021, vaporwave is still around. artists are still releasing cassettes and vinyls on bandcamp. i still listen to it almost daily. at this point in the genre's life, It's something i can see evolving and growing over a long span. for us, vaporwave came from the fading of the 80's and 90's and it's starting to evolve into 00's style. for future generations, they'll look at the '10's and 20's as source material.
Wait so Floral shoppe wasn't made by some japanese guy in like 1998 and some guy just so happened to have a cd he made and put it on youtube? How was I supposed to guess that this was recently made?
If music is good, it's good. I don't care if it takes zero effort. I don't listen to songs because they were handcrafted in a cave for six months, I listen because they are pleasing to my ear.
I think the fundamental tenet of all criticism is that you can improve your opinion by knowing more about it (although of course it isn't mathematics, it's still subjective), and also that good art will only get better by having that knowledge or context. If you don't agree and you like what you like, I really have no problem with that
imagination
/music plays
I think his point is that it could have been better
/music plays
Can confirm, it's 2016 and vapor wave is a thing still
It's been 2 days since this comment. Can confirm, Vaporwave is still a thing.
its been 2 days since this comment. Can confirm, v a p o r w a v e is still dank
It's been 24 hours since the comment and I just discovered vapor wave ama keep it alive
+IN Tv it's 2 days since 9/11 2016 and vaporwave is still alive
vaporwave is dead since 2014
Can confirm, in 2023, vaporwave is still around with all the subgenres included
Example? It's 2024 and looks like it disappeared 😢 plus I can't believe he gave it a 4
Vapethony Wavetano.
we out here Anthony vape
Can confirm: It's 2022 and it's still a thing.
In the futute.
I FKIN LOVE VAPORWAVE
vaporwave, citypop, synthwave, all are my shit
@@Youkai_graphics funny how floral shoppe really pioneered an entire genre of music born out of internet culture and the collective misery of the generations raised on it, really grateful to be able to watch the genres grow and adapt to the times
Its declined tho sadly
it has fell off its pupularity by alot though and it switched into lofi-hip hop
I un-ironically like vaporwave.
Rotcrawler me too
Me three
people like saint Pepsi, James Ferraro, and luxury Elite have an weird vibe to it. James Ferraro has the elevator music. Elite has an chil vibe. And Pepsi has a party, hyper jazz feel
ofc my friend
@@flaxringe and blank Banshee has electronic, HOME has various types of styles, and ALISON chill...
I can't believe you reviewed this 3 years ago, before it became a mainstream meme, let alone said 420 was your favorite track.
it was still popular at the time
+Thndrstrike Lol it was mainstream meme 3 years ago.
lmao i actually unironically like it
+MyAccount217 Vaporwave stills alive
A L S O
4 years later and the malls are still haunted.
+chazatlas It's only been 3 and a half years punk
alrighty...
calm down time
/music plays
Make that 4 and a half
the diana ross song, it doesnt leave my head. i wont go away. i have been listening to it in my head for days. i wake up to it, i sleep to it. it wont leave
Ikr, it's so good
Don't worry, it's all in your head....
S A M E
ikr
it's 2020, is it still stuck in your mind?
Fandago giving low score to meme music
Is this even real life
Lucas Mota i guess he just dont get no love
Lucas Mota MY SMOKE MY BUTANE
Sam Robertson *she
Sigh sigh sigh sigh
Fagdano
A S S T H I C
ＡＵＴＩＳＴＩＣＳ
A S S D I C K
E T H I C S D S E A
i find this offensive
+sgtzero1337 lol
Your editing is like Macintosh's songs.
This guy gets it.
@@hotboylayne8969 no u
@@angelinebejaran2906 no u
If you are in 2023 plz comment "no u"
no
Got em.
do you even understand what vaporwave isそういうわけで、私は彼を死ぬほど憎んでいる. 頭がおかしい. リサフランク420 / 現代のコンピュー.
shiroikiba V H S
A E S T H E T I C AL 😞😞
ラダはさたらまら 8868
Allah Akbar
Dreaded Naught funny
translated that for you: "That is why, I have. Horses funny hate to death him. Lisa Frank 420 / Modern Computing"
The fact that it uncreatively edits pieces is only an incidental side-product of the process. The whole album's intention was to create a feeling that many people share: an affection for and contentment with American mediocrity like 80s-90s malls, tacky sexy neosoul, smooth jazz, 90s suburban simplicity, idleness, gas stations at night with muffled music playing in background. If its main intention was to innovatively change the samples, then it would lose the more important purpose of creating that ambiance. It embraces the lackluster side of America and corporatism, which is the ultimate source of happiness because you can never be disappointed with such low expectations. If vaporwave by chance is very new and inspired, fine; but it never was its main reason. It wants to distill the essence of its songs, at least the perceived essence by many who like ordinariness.
Jim Hepburn
Perceived essence, that's the key word here. I bet most people listening to this are too young to remember what living in the 80s really was about.
Seems like some younger people seem to have a strange perception of that decade.
There's just so many layers
+The Great Agitator I'm 32 and I grew up with soft 80's adult contemporary hits squawking thru the intercom speakers of malls, cafeterias, and waiting rooms. staring at a wall covered in 8.5x11 clipart advertisements, nothing to do but endure the boredom of this eternal 40-minute existence - only made worse by the soothing and somewhat depressing smooth jazzy sax over a sterile beat. And then I found Nirvana... and now I think I found something special to me in the asesthetic and idea of vaporwave
I didn't know who made those songs, and I don't know who made these songs... hey, I don't actually know who stole them either. but none of that matters. why should it matter?
+Jim Hepburn yep you are completely spot on
Can confirm, It's 2023 and vaporwave is a thing still
Is it, though? Even, nearly a year ago, was it?
@@nilespeshay1734 yeah, it's not mainstream anymore but it has a pretty big community for how niche it is
@@nilespeshay1734yes, it still is
Vaporwave it's the grandfather of all the "aesthetics" on the internet
@@only0.999 and its still going strong today, especially because of webcore and weirdcore (also liminal spaces)
4/10 more like 4/20 hahahha right guys
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
actually lost my shit at this, don't even know how.
Wow..Attacking someone over the internet for no reason. How brave and original!
MrProksy
You are mad fam
+napukapu Kek
It all depends on the imagery and feelings you get from the music really. For me I get a nostalgic vibe that puts me in the back of my parent's car in the 90s driving through a city at night; that safe and relaxing feeling you get. But at the same time there's a futuristic sound to it, almost like something Spike Spiegel would listen to while cruising through space in Cowboy Bebop. But then the Cowboy Bebop imagery is also nostalgic, making the overall sensation from the music seem harmonious.
Let’s Read
7 years later. vaporwave has held strong.
Vaporwave will live throughout the ages!!
yes!
"The people who are most likely to be impressed by this album are those who have not heard the original songs"
100% correct and probably why i like the album so much, lol
***** (make a new video soon, nerd)
thank *****
vaginaaaaa saaaaaame
Truth
Viyqe Renoir holy shit i remember the video in your icon! What the hell was its name? I cant remember it for the life of me, lol
Although I agree that Macintosh Plus isn't really creating anything brand new, I also think that was one of the main points of the Floral Shoppe. In my opinion it is kind of emphasizing the emotional emptiness of digital space in a stylized manner which is why it's both eerie and unenjoyable at times. I think the lack of new content created in this album is a way of emphasizing the (arguable) idea that nothing is truly original anymore. It does this by appropriating music that came before Floral Shoppe. Perhaps it is intentionally "soulless" but then again, I could be reading way to far into this. I enjoy parts of this album though. Its unlike other music I have ever heard before which really interests me, even if I find it distasteful once in a while.
+Graham Jefferson you're high
+Graham Jefferson nvm me too
This is the most vaporwavy comment E V E R
+Graham Jefferson I totally agree, honestly. Vaporwave is meant to be enjoyed then forgotten, like background music to your life. There's other vaporwave I like way more than Macintosh Plus though, like Android Apartment, Luxury Elite, and Dante Mars Ajeto!. I know that Flower Shoppe is the 'iconic' vaporwave album, but there's a lot better stuff out there.
+Graham Jefferson No dad, its SUPPOSED to be unoriginal.
it’s 2019 and vaporwave is still a thing
I think that a lot of the focus on the technical aspects of the album missed the point. It might be because I'm coming from a place of having lived through the era of a lot of that music, but there's a feeling of melancholic nostalgia laid on top of it for me. That the tracks aren't as manipulated and twisted into something new doesn't feel like that's even the point - to me, this feels like a really fine-tuned piece of work. If you find the sweet spot, why push it further just to push it? The essence of "vaporwave" comes through more in this, for me, than anything else. This album embodies it for me. That's just my feeling on the matter. We all have our own interpretations.
100% said what I feel. Its the best of vapour wave because its less plundery ... Maybe its not plunderphonics, its more chopped and screwed
I personally loved Floral Shoppe to death, but I'm completely new to the sample genre and was enchanted by its wiles. Thank you for mentioning other albums as better alternatives, because I want to dive into the rest of this genre with the best foot forward! If any of you have other recommendations, please, let me know.
Try Eco virtual atmospheres 1 and 3
look up the samples used on the album as well, some good songs in there
Pages is so good
I've been listening to Vaporwave for more than a year by now and I still love Floral Shoppe.
Vek managed to turn the songs into distorted eerie pieces that are still interesting to listen to, and also without turning them into unlistenable garbage (thing that lots of Vaporwave artists never quite achieve)
NO NOW, CLARENCE CLARITY
10 years later and this album is still talked about. Fantano did change his mind on this album and included it in another video.
Which video
@@sxmbxdy ^^^
@@sxmbxdy @James’s Intern don’t know if you guys are still looking but i believe it’s one of his “10 albums i’ve changed my mind on” videos
@@lizardmammal2623 Thank you!!!
A E S T H E T I C S
+Jones what's the origin of this aeshetics thing. The reddit ?
+ThisIsErdoS FrankJavCee
H A L L U C I N O G E N
T H I S I S J U S T S T U P I D
I T S A L L I N Y O U R D I C K
Blank banshee 0
a light 9 out of 10
Review it, Anthony baby.
aurel What was the point of writing that.
Seduction.
He will never see that comment.
floral shoppe was the shit
***** good trolls
snowdevil002 Great ruseman
Machine Kurt wonderful kicks
mah nigga
Indeed.
This is one of the best review you have ever done. Super informative and thoroughly executed.
Still, you gotta skip to 4:00 in to get to the actual review.
He said America. America where? What? Who? Too many questions. Bad review.
Jr Tfgo
Vektroid is from Portland, Oregon.
When I first heard of Vaporwave I thought it was going to be typical hipster shit, but I kind of like it. Makes me want to play GTA vice city or Hotline Miami.
hotline miami sort of reflects the same color schemes that are commonly found in examples of vaporwave aesthetics too
Honestly, I'm a sucker for stuff that just sounds bizarre. The album really did that for me. I'm a fan of it.
ViricideFilly Check out The Unseen by Quasimoto if you don't know it
Interesting seeing how this youtuber's style has changed over the years lol
The style of this video was and will always be favorite.
Beans
More like Lo-Fi Hip-Hop and other genres have ripped off Vaporwave and god forbid whatever the heck "Slowed + Reverb" is.
@@HMz83 “white people chopped & screwed” lmao
@@averyjenson Yeah, Slowed + Reverb is pretty much just that
@@HMz83 I didn't knew Slowed + Reverb was a thing, and now i want to forget. Disgusting that it's even a thing, it's literally the opposite of nightcore
-someone who doesn't know what the word lofi means
Excellent review, and I agree completely! but what is some of Vaporwave's best? This music can be truly stunning - puts me in a different place and time; working over my entire life's memories and emotions. Talk about creating an aesthetic!
i agree it puts me back in the 90's back when i was a kid, hanging with friends that are no longer here, back when i had no worries, it really does work up my emotions hanging out at the park with my mom when i was a kid..shit we need to have a 90's party
Alejandro Marquez :-)
Blank Banshee
i really like t e l e p a t h テレパシー能力者
yung sherman, yung gud and yung lean but hes more rap.
I actually found this album to be top notch. The first track on the record seemed so reminiscent of Pink Floyd with that bass line.
nigga, it's slowed down diana ross
I'm white.
***** That's better.
SqueedilyPlays nigga shut up you can be called nigga and still be white
An excellent use of vocabulary.
Is wood made of trees, or are trees made of wood?
/music plays
This goes into 420 coments.
trees are made of wood
Yes, they are
duh
i m j u s t a k i d
Chillwave, Vaporwave, Poopwave, Peewave, Wavewave, Anotherwavegenrewave.
Post-WaveWave.
not listening to post-dark-ambient-lowecase-shriekwave-noisecore
U forgot New Wave
+FUBAR Microwave
Heatwave
A E S T H E T I C
Nice Frankjavcee reference!
+#madboys2015 wakkaflockafreshfireflameflex Ass the dick
+Shrek The Ogre Hello my kin
+Shrek The Ogre get the fuck out of my swamp
Lord Shrek Wtf. I was here first
can u review Viper - "You'll cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack" CD
+cool dude pls
Unfortunatelly, Floral Shoppe the most celebrated but not at all one of the best.
Who doesn't know and want to, bl00dwave, CVLTVRΣ, ID Cℎίℯƒ, YUNG BAE and most importantly マクロスMACROSS 82-99 is who you are looking for.
Hrnek Bezucha Saint pepsi? ;)
napukapu okay :)
+abel amaro Future Funk is often regarded as a subgenre of Vaporwave.
This entire thread including OP are just things that should have been aborted but weren't. Sort of.
+napukapu jesus man calm down
Dunno, i like the vaporwave sound. It's like listening to 4chan.
Xylon beta I always liken it to listening to Tumblr. The work of Big Black, Death Grips and GG Allin seems more like 4chan.
Forgot about those guys
shh dont hint our secret club.
4chan can fuck off but I like Vaporwave
Wow this aged badly.
Your mom aged badly!
Jk, hope you're doing well. Love you
I unironically love vaporwave. I like the way it tells a story or puts u in a new place in a different time.
I am wearing a Macintosh Plus shirt right now as I watch this.
***** Yep.
Glad you enjoyed the shirt send a picture of you wearing it to the page
Grim Teeshirt Chin chin has spread to vaporwave
Plasticnightmare // Chase thanks for wasting money
you should review whitewoods
a couple song like beachwalk, beat street, and somber waves and other songs
Beach walk is amazing
>implying 'Misery loves' ain't the best
I'm hoping you heard his
podcast with Pyrocynical and NFKRZ
How can vaporwave be real if our ears are not real
2deep4me
*jaden smith intensifies*
thank you for your kind words. if you want some dark ambient, look up some xasthur, lustmord, or the new raime.
Who is blud talking to
@@sxmbxdy coundlt reply back in the day
@@sxmbxdy TH-cam used to have a thing where your replies didnt go under "replies" but instead became new entire comments with a ping to the person they're talking and that seems to be a relic of that time, with the ping being removed by youtube too.
Why did you take this L and hate on vaporwave Mr Fanthony?
Floral Shoppe is a ground breaking album. A genuine progression of the electronic music idiom. Ramona Andra Xavier is a talented producer.
It's not about the music it's about how many reblogs you can get and your thrift shop aesthetic
ass dead dicks
Rusty Shackleford beauty
This is a very 2014 comment and I love it for that reason
I W A N T T O K I L L M Y S E L F
RIP
A E S T H E T I C S
ｄｒｉｎｋ ｍｅ
/music plays
fuck off youre not edgy
I'm surprised his hipster ass doesn't love this shit.
zbaker330 Liking your comment BC of the Interstate 8 picture
How can this not be the top comment
There's a guy on youtube who takes Limp Bizkit isolated vocal tracks and puts them over every possible song. He sometimes chops and mixes up the vocal parts and he sometimes slows or speeds them up, adds effects, etc. If Vaporwave is a genre, this guy has done enough videos to also be a genre. I'll call it Limpwave. Only the truly cool music snobs listen to Limpwave.
Vaporwave is still alive 2023
REVEIW SOMETHING BY SAINT PEPSI
_bepis_
I hate all the ironic memes and aesthetic shit but I can't get enough of this music
I miss harambe...
/music plays
casey sanders forever in our hearts
reported
You're too normal on this channel. I'm going back to the meme channel.
smh, I bet you're normal irl, normie.
It's dead
I wish we could...
F
As someone that has a whole vapor vinyl collection I can say vaporwave took off in a big way, especially with sub genres like futurefunk.
It's funny how everyone criticizing Anthony fails to address his main complaint; that is, Macintosh Plus does not edit the source/sample material enough to be given props for his admittedly great sound
I know right? The arguments that I've seen so far are either, "you don't get my special brand of music!" or "what right do reviewers have to review music!"
Macintosh plus is a female
Charlie Leonard You're right!
So admittedly great sound is a 4/10?
Glad I stopped this video 25 seconds in.
xxxViceroyxxx you only watched 25 seconds of the video and are completely fixated on the score rather than the content of the review so I'm not really sure what I can say to someone who can't be arsed to hear a dissenting opinion ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Negativland is fantastic!
I L♥VE vaporwave i love the way it makes me feel..
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+sporebean 22 you are embarrassing
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I never liked this album that much, until I copied the whole thing onto a cassette and listened to it in my car.
This is now one of my favourite albums.
Boards of Canada be editing like this for years.
+Krateling boards of Canada is the definition of a shitty dead meme
+Christian Toomey And you're the textbook definition of a troll. ;)
+Krateling not theyre just entry level junk
@@BIGDRIP2 wow look how special I am guys I just called something entry level "junk" am I a real music fan yet??
Apparently you can't like/dislike something if it's FuNnI mEME MuSaaKKK
+Carrotttt U gaTTa do it with irony brehh. U kno hatefully pretend u like to be the top keks.
Sincerethony Honestano here talked about post-irony. Something I didn't even consider to be humanely plausible
This should be a meme review
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Sun Dreams スンドリームズ vaporwave and memes go hand in hand
Backhand Things no memes and culture go hand in hand people who are looking for (vaporwave for example) are looking for something specific, people who are looking for memes look for anything of even slight relevance
beth h that might have been the gayest comment ever
am i wrong?
I actually really like the opening track
sorry dude, you cant feel art.
9 year old comment. You Can feel it literally and figuratively.
Well now it's on vinyl and bring celebrated heavily...
Good job
I can't believe my eyes 420k views
+ghosty683 but now is 440k :(
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/pusic mlays
the whole way through this i was waiting for you to say the names of the tracks
If you haven't heard them, check out 'Haircuts for Men' and 'Windows 96 '. Whether they're vaporwave or something else altogether, who knows, but they're in the same ... well, the same odd corner of the universe as Macintosh/Vektroid.
Haircuts for men are sick
2017, vaporwave is still going
2019 vaporwave is still going
2020 people
Aaaannd it’s dead.
@@daed1819 nah mate your still alive and going
Can confirm, it's 2023 and vapor wave is a thing still
I'd adjust it to 7 myself. while I agree that her editing prowess really didn't always come into it's own, that isn't a reason to pull so many points, we are talking objective quality here, not the amount of effort put in, and while track 2 was carried by the quality of the source material, that doesn't necessarily mean it is bad.
I love this album. I mean the sampling isn't always complex but Daft Punk does the same type of stuff
***** What the fuck makes Daft Punks Sampling "right" and Ramona/Macintosh Plus's "wrong?"
***** Not only is it not very engaging, but it's just straight up lazy sounding. I don't care how 'tragically nostalgic' a vaporwave song may sound to you, at its core each song could have very well been made in under a day. There's nothing to it, it feels like it lacks substance and heart.
I'm having a really hard time telling apart the trolls from genuine opinions on the subject of vaporwave. When someone takes a sample and manipulates it (time stretched, pitched, filtered, reversed, chopped up, ect.) and then layers on their own melodies and whatnot to the point where it becomes something entirely new, THAT's interesting. That is engaging and not JUST simply because its complex, but because the amount of work put into creating it more often than not means that the artist was more invested in it. It feels like genuine expression and more unique. It's a part of the ARTIST because we can tell he was creating the song to tell a story and convey a feeling. Not that vaporwave doesn't do that of course, but everything about vaporwave seems to be about how 'nostalgic' shit was. That's it. That's basically the extent of every vaporwave's emotional value, whereis any other genre can express a multitude of emotions and story's while also being musically interesting. I'm all for sample-based music, I play around with it a lot myself, but this kind of stuff seems to me like more of just some experimental idea that got way too popular for its own good.
It's just saying "Hey remember the 90's and old Windows PC's? That was nice" over and over again with NOTHING unique added by the artist itself. It's entirely about the listener, and part of me does respect that in terms of an artistic statement or whatever, but cultivating and entire genre from it is a little ridiculous and don't try and sit there and tell me that it's a "fined tuned piece of work" like the other guy in the comments was saying, at that point you're basically just lying.
Glider4 spot the idiot
Glider4 nah jk its just b8 right
***** No. Well for one thing, Ramona does more than just slow down samples. Also something like 420 is very much like something Daft punk would do.
Cal loves AOR, so I think he loves this album. Also, post-irony isn't really a term. It's just something I said to explain that people used to love some of this music ironically. It was listened to BECAUSE it was cheezy; however, some artists who are now embracing these formerly "cheesy" aesthetics are now being taken very seriously.
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You wouldn't review Unknown Death 2002, but you reviewed this?
different context maybe
That's because it's complete shit.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Yeah, I love Yung Lean, but I do suppose his music isn't up to standards.
( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Yung lean borrows heavily from Vaporwave, especially in Unknown Death. Most people who like Lean like Vaporwave, and vice versa.
he did review it
my hands r bread
It will never die, it is made to last. I have never had heard a genre of music that makes me reminisce about a reality no one has lived
He used to call us needledrops what a melon lol
It is 2024 and vaporwave still has s beating heart in haunted malls. Sad it got such a low score but amazed that this is from 2012 - Fantano really has had his pulse on the culture.
It was a pretty big deal at the time already, did not require having a hand on the pulse
Anthony, I think the opening track was the best track on the album! It's got this type of slowly building up, hypnotic, consuming feel that I've never felt from anything else before. The croons make that song, and it's done spectacularly. Anthony you need to give the first track a second, or fifth chance because it took awhile for me to understand what was going on. I fucking love the first track and a few other tracks. The rest of the album is okay.
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haha aesthetic guys funny meme word with spaces in between letters heehee!!!!!
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this comment section is the fuckin meme twilight zone
It is 2090, I’m from the future and this is all we listen to, there are no more genres, there is only V A P O R W A V E
Where can i buy this on vinyl
Its still alive. I love this genre so much.
It's been 10 years, this album is still celebrated and cherished. Vaporwave is also viewed as largely nostalgic. Very cool :)
it does. but maybe it could become a cool thing one day that's impressive from a performance perspective.
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Now we have DDS' Darklife. How far this sound has come is insane.
This was sampled in The Unconscious Connection by NMESH
It doesn't matter how it was made, it only matters how it sounds.
This album is 90s department store music
listened to it...can't tell if its absolutely brilliant or garbage.
This artist is honestly really good. I love the way it sounds. It makes me feel relaxed and just away from life. This kind of music really helps with stress.
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+MyAccount217 Must be the name
I feel that people who say words like "post-ironic" should never be taken seriously.
This is the funniest thing I have read allday, I heard this in the funniest voice.
It's funny because it's ironic
Yeah fuck people for using words that are right.
Can confirm, it's 2019 and vapor wave is a thing still
in 2021, vaporwave is still around. artists are still releasing cassettes and vinyls on bandcamp. i still listen to it almost daily. at this point in the genre's life, It's something i can see evolving and growing over a long span. for us, vaporwave came from the fading of the 80's and 90's and it's starting to evolve into 00's style. for future generations, they'll look at the '10's and 20's as source material.
Wait so Floral shoppe wasn't made by some japanese guy in like 1998 and some guy just so happened to have a cd he made and put it on youtube? How was I supposed to guess that this was recently made?
Vaporwave was literally my favourite genre in late 2018, and I can still vibe with it today very well, so it is indeed still a thing