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Re:Uninteresting Places by Apocryphon on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @10:17PM (#23982886)
I wonder how many weird internet musical micro-genres will be birthed by the economic and social waste laid by COVID-19. Mallsoft was just a weird vaporware offshoot paean to mall culture in the '80s and '90s; now it's a requiem to the malls of today.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/mallwave-mallsoft

Re:Uninteresting Places by TedDoesntTalk on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:55AM (#23983629)
What the...? I never heard of mallsoft before. I watched some of thoss videos (well, listened). I cant believe that's a thing. I'm laughing. Am i supposed to laugh or is this considered art?
Re:Uninteresting Places by thinkingemote on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @03:43AM (#23984294)
Mallsoft popped into my head when reading this too. Basically mallsoft is a sub genre of vaporwave which is Ambient / electronic music with a focus on evoking and creating nostalgia. mallsoft is a sub genre because it focuses on the nostalgia of an empty shopping mall.

Vaporwave etc is absolutely fascinating.

It's also dead now.

Re:Uninteresting Places by Apocryphon on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @03:47AM (#23984313)
It's just expired because it was a big internet niche fad in like 2012. Subsequent micro-genres have appeared since, and also had their turns. Perhaps we'll soon see new ones based on '00s nostalgia.
Re:Uninteresting Places by msla on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @01:10AM (#23983680)
> Am i supposed to laugh or is this considered art?

I don't know... does she have a hot ass?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.H.O.O.Q.

Re:Uninteresting Places by msla on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @11:00AM (#23987386)
That's right: Europeans consider Dada "problematic" these days. It's too disrespectful.

I apologize.