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The Politics of Vaporwave
The genre's name comes from these failed promises and through its music sort of offers up an alternative history of post cold war America. A lot of millennials and older gen Z were feeling very stressed out by this idea that technology had kind of taken over our worlds within our lifetimes actually within our childhoods. I think with these kinds of like you know social conditions it made sense why vaporwave took off in the early 2010s.
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