This is by far my most elaborate shitpost...
Nyaaa~!!! *yawns and stretches as my kitty ears twitch* ^•ﻌ•^
Yeah...I'm Slice. I'm a lazy kitty who makes vaporwave or whatever. I've
I'm getting a bit emotional thinking about how close I am to releasing my first album.
I'm just thinking about how vaporwave is a very big and influential part of my life. I've been listening to vaporwave since I was in 5th grade. I'm now finally a part of a community that helped me form a sense of identity.
Everyone finds it weird that I listen to vaporwave. My friends thought I had a shit music taste and my parents didn't understand it. I did perfectly. It just captured how memories sounded, like trying to remember the melody of a song you haven't heard in forever, and it sounds completely different when you listen to it again. I always wanted to make my own music but never had the time or resources...until now.
I know I said that I always wanted to make vaporwave but it was something I never gave too much thought about. Then I literally had a dream where I was making vaporwave. I'm not even kidding! I had a dream I was sitting in front of a laptop and playing with an 80s sample. That reignited my spark for vaporwave and making songs myself.
Then what makes this a shitpost? Why am I making something I care about so much into an unserious shitpost? To be honest...I don't know. I thought it would be funny lol. 🥴
And it's not too crazy for my album to be a shitpost because vaporwave is a meme after all. There's a lot of meme elements in the genre. From Macintosh Plus 420 to Simpsonwave, memes are a corner stone of the genre and a reason why it was popular in the first place.
I chose to focus on 2000s otaku nostalgia because I find being a otaku to be incredibly nostalgic and more relatable than that classic 80s Vaporwave nostalgia. I was a bit of an otaku in 2020 and I used to cosplay a lot as a teen. Conventions were my favorite things to attend and I miss them so much. And there's just something so raw and unique and genuine about """""bad""""" cosplay and """""cringe""""" nerd behavior. I don't mean bad and cringe as a terrible thing (hence the quotations), I just find that sort of stuff really human and beautiful. I was a bad cosplayer myself. 😭 At the end of the day, it's just passion and love for something unconventional and I will always adore that.
There's also some other personal events from the early 2020s that I will focus on with the other albums I plan on doing like coming to terms with being trans and my identity.
Now here's the more serious side to my project. While making this album and doing some research, I'm kind of taken aback at the state of the community. It went from a thriving music based community with tons of artists to AI slop and aesthetics. I know aesthetics are a huge part of vaporwave but now it's oversaturated with random images that have little to no relevance to Vaporwave. I feel like vaporwave is now just a word to throw around to get views on nostalgic posts.
Don't even get me started on the AI slop...Why are we generating music that is literally so easy to make? I have literally made a song while sitting on the toilet on my phone with no ai. It's literally picking a sample, slowing it down, and looping it a little, that's it! It's incredibly easy to make a very simple vaporwave song. I know copyright is a bit of a complication but you can easily overcome that by making your sample unrecognizable. Why are we so lazy with a genre of music that takes little to no effort to make? That blows my mind with how lazy and soulless people have become. It truly upsets me.
That's why my music journey is important to me. I want to revive vaporwave. Do I expect to be as big as George Clanton? Absolutely not...I just want to have some satisfaction in knowing that I'm that vaporwave artist I always wanted to be and to be proof that vaporwave isn't truly dead.
