>>30210095
I agree with most of what you said, however, I think that on the other side, however, vaporwave undoubtably has a retro-futuristic, utopian vibe to it, as demonstrated by artists such as Computer Dreams, Internet Club, and Macintosh Plus. Viewed through this lens, we are asked to look at previously dismissed music again, finding value in their sonorities, their timbres, their processing. Many previously shunned musical forms have found a new respect in the music community within the past 10 years (disco, pop-country, hair metal), and many of these artists seem to ask us to make room for the sounds of vaporwave, decontextualizing the sounds in the same way as the negative interpretations but instead finding wonderful sounds inside of that negation of meaning. Stop thinking of this music as commercial music, it says, and just listen to the sounds themselves. The underground, purposefully experimental nature of the scene reinforces this view, as many of the major vaporwave releases come out on cassette (sometimes exclusively so), increasing the barrier of entry to those uninterested in the critical thought necessary to create new meaning out of old sounds (and, of course, the aesthetics of the cassette tape perfectly match the aesthetics of the music).