The transition of the vapors into the mainstream

The only way vaporwave could get more chill is vaporstillwater.

I barely consider vaportrap part of the vaporwave genre/movement. Some vapotrap like Staqq Overflow, Taspo, and some of ULTRA's later work are a bit closer to vaporwave in nature I think, but it really little to do, aside from some of the concepts, art, maybe bits of samples used, with vaporwave's essence.

The stuff you guys are mentioning, the stuff that sounds like Candyland that 's slowly reaching the mainstream is mostly the merger of chillstep with trap, chillwave, cloud rap, and trap pop etc etc... Maybe a bit of the PC Music juke / club vibe as well. It's all cutesy, playful, euphoric melodies, hyperreal sounds and pitched up and down vocal snips with very straightforward trap beats. Some of it, i think, is brilliant, while most of it is tired and bandwagony. Of course, I cringe most of the time I hear 808s now which is sad, and that every track has dancing hi hats is just ughh.. Though im not too sad, cuz i always preferred 909 and 707 anyway :D

Of course because of the Blank Banshee / Sad Boys / cloud rap vibe being the most associated style with how newbs come to understand what "vaporwave" is, in addition to visual elements of vaporwave / tumblr culture getting more and more trendy, this new sound will no doubt be filed as vaporwave from the public sphere. Really it should ideally be called something else or just considered a newer evolution of hip hop / trap-infused pop drawing from all kinds of different internet microgenres (as that's what it is -- & see the recent movie "Nerve"), but the masses and corporations always like to label movements with a singular phrase that never quite does it justice to the actual sound.

The words and labels don't matter as much to me however, as it's the spirit of vaporwave that has attracted me to it originally. When I hear Internet Club, Mac +, Mediafired, Bodyline, or Disconscious, it's a personal, atmospheric and often spiritual experience that no Fader, VICE, or MTV Blog article telling me the flavor of the month, can change for me.

  On 9/9/2016 at 10:14 AM, peace 7 said:

The only way vaporwave could get more chill is vaporstillwater.

Vapient

To me vaporwave remains not an actual music genre but rather an artistic concept.

To me it is a hairstyle of the future.

Beautiful

  On 9/13/2016 at 3:03 AM, Mesh Gear Fox said:

lol. agree with a lot of what has been said. the broporwave thing is pretty silly, though. most people using that tag to demean the music of others were far less talented than saint pepsi, who sort of triggered that backlash. there's a certain magic to his early work that i think goes over people's heads. 

yeah I actually like his early stuff and Luxury Elite's as well

It's kind of like when people were labeling early aggro dubstep (Coki, Caspa, etc) brostep before the really divisive post-Skrillex stuff came out

  On 9/12/2016 at 10:02 PM, Salvatorin said:

To me vaporwave remains not an actual music genre but rather an artistic concept.