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The Weeknd drives through purgatory (with a little help from Jim Carrey)

Switched on Pop

CHAPTER

The Music Critic's Commentary on Consumer Culture, Ye, Vapor Wave

The music critic and frind of the pod, simon reynolds, says that hypnogogic is the term for a state between being awake and falling asleep. That brings us to vapor wave, because a bunch of musicians are inspired by this world of burial's hotological pop,. r l pinks and james frero's hypnogosy pop. "Vapor wave" uses old commercial sounds of the eighties, like sometimes even like camar shopping musac as well as samples of classic eighties records, but way re interpreted.

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