Is Toro y Moi the only Chillwave survivor?

I can't fashion because what if situations happens when I'm about?

Plunderphonics is a genre where the music is almost or entirely made up of samples, like The Avalanches. Lots of the most popular electro swing songs heavily sampled the melodies of existing jazz songs, maybe most famously the electro swing hit "We No Speak Americano" by Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP which song samples the 1956 Italian song "Tu Vuò Fà L'Americano". And to further their point, Yolanda Be Cool are an Australian band so they do actually "speak Americano" or at least English and not Neapolitan. The only "original" element added to the song is the electro beats, the melody and lyrics and the basic rhythm are all "plundered" from the original.

Hey Rin, I'm genuinely curious. What's with the distaste some people have toward Electro Swing?

I think a lot of people come at it from a lot of angles. to try and cover a few without just dismissing it outright...

for the most part, a lot of the general population's distaste for it comes from the time period and subcultures it's impossible to divorce it from. frankly, it's "vintage/retro pastiche" by way of a specific strand of hipsters who fell out of vogue a decade ago, and the way people involved behaved themselves created a lasting negative impression

that being said, there's also pointed lack of respect for it in electronic music culture as a whole. it's a very homogenous genre that was inescapable for a long time, but maybe most contentiously, it relied on repackaging a large family of genres into one consistent sound

there's also something to be said about the social dynamics at play, which unspokenly inform a lot of the historic scuffing around the genre: electroswing was a commercially successful genre primarily pioneered and played by white euro producers, derived heavily from (and often directly plunderphonic of) genres that were much seen as being much more respectful towards the minority musicians within them

and of course, if respected tastemakers dislike a genre for any of the reasons listed above, people who respect them tend to come away with a much more negative opinion of it

the end result is that you have a lot of different inciting offences overlapping, making sure that there's almost always something -- often multiple things -- for any given person to take issue with

in short, it commits nearly every cardinal sin in a scene where reputation matters a lot, and once an electronic genre has a bad reputation, it loses respect, which forms a spiral it's unlikely to escape

obviously missing a lot here, but that's the abridged version

Made this post 8 years ago and now it is fish store time 5 days a week 🙃

Guess what? It’s fish store time.

Who Is The Cybertruck For

They say the Cybertruck is for people with more money than sense, for divorced dads, or for men in a mid-life crisis. I'm not sure. I don't think the Cybertruck is for people who need a Cybertruck, or any truck, or a bullet-proof maybe-amphibious SUV.

The Cybertruck is for people who can drop their disposable income on a Cybertruck to round out their collection. Is that divorced dads? Why would somebody who can afford to buy a Cybertruck not just buy a another Lamborghini, and park it in his garage in the Hollywood Hills?

So are only semi-retired divorced dads who can afford a Cybertruck but can't afford a chauffeur or a Lamborghini the market? I don't think it makes sense.

Let's shift gears a little. Writers become YouTubers and influencers sooner or later, to promote their work, and then they often get swept up in incentive gradients that force them into the template of gear reviewers, gossip/reaction channels, or trolls. I have seen two woodworking videos, by different channels, that came out during the same week. And they both contained a bit of "trolling" in the beginning, as in "yeah I know I showed this thing wrong in the first three minutes", then they had a "password" later in the video to prove that you are a "real fan" who watches the video all the way through, and there was some weird outrage-bait tangent in the narration of the piece. A while back, probably in 2020, I had watched another YouTube video in which a YouTuber had deliberately shown a mistake in the first five minutes, but did not immediately comment on it. Instead, through movie magic, the video just continued with a different piece had built correctly off-camera. Twenty minutes later he explained that he put the wrong step in there intentionally, in order to boost engagement from woodworkers who would flock to the comment section and tout their experience, but there is nothing you can do now, because YouTube has recently disabled downvoting. There is nothing you can do short of closing a video less than 10% in, but it's too late now. Everything you can do will boost engagement.

I don't actually use YouTube through YouTube. But this week, I decided to look at some woodworking YouTube videos, and these two different channels had copied that formula: 1. Rile up the comment section against the "trolls" who don't watch the video to the end, because that's what YouTube uses to measure engagement. 2. Include a shaggy dog tangent story while you show repetitive table saw cuts, with some slight hint of "outrage bait". 3. Some hand wringing/existential angst about the nature of being a YouTuber, the inability make a living selling furniture like this if he weren't a YouTuber. 4. Defensive comments pre-empting the comments about his prominent use of the Festool (tm) DOMINO (tm). 5. Tell the viewer to imagine how much money a client would have to pay if he commissioned this piece as a one-off.

I mean, a two-minute video showing an old Chinese guy making a cabinet with jade and mother of pearly inlays using only hand tools is just as fake as a video showing a time lapse of three young men in Indonesia building a castle and a swimming pool from nothing but clay and wooden sticks. But at least those don't follow a weird formula to keep you watching to the end.

So is the Cybertruck for divorced dads? Is the Cybertruck for insomniacs who watch woodworking videos?

No. It's for influencers. The Cybertruck is for people who can write it off as a business expense.

MrBeast has Lamborghinis in his videos, according to all those thumbnails I never click, like Tai Lopez does in his Hollywood Hills. But would you click on a video of Linus Tech Tips reviewing a BYD Pick-up truck? Would you care if Logan Paul bought an IAT T-MAD? I mean, the DOMINO (tm) is not like a Cybertruck, it's just too expensive for the hobbyist woodworker to justify or even afford. (The hobbyist woodworker would have to use hand-cut dovetails out of sheer necessity).

The Cybertruck is even better. It's a conversation piece, a luxury item, conspicuous consumption, and it's not even for the kind of guy who spends $7000 on a custom-made dresser by commissioning a YouTuber who then proceeds to change the design because that's easier to film.

The Cybertruck is a vehicle for people who make a video titled "WE BOUGHT A CYBERTRUCK" followed by "NEWS ABOUT OUR RELATIONSHIP" followed by "GETTING DRIVE THRU IN CYBERTRUCK" followed by "ONE WEEK ROAD TRIP IN OUR CYBERTRUCK CHALLENGE" followed by "SELLING OUR CYBERTRUCK?"

The Cybertruck is a vehicle for the kind of person you think would have a Cybertruck. You look at them and say "huh, figures". What you don't know is their daily driver is an old Honda. They have the Cybertruck because they know that you expect them to have one, so you click and think "LOL, these rich people with their stupid Cybertrucks".

The Cybertruck is clickbait on wheels. The Cybertruck is a meme.

Just resurfaced my headlights who wants to suck me

I'm literally so good at every part of lawyering

@foldingcookie2

First ever zoom court wish me luck

Girlbossed the shit out of that. Motion granted.

First ever zoom court wish me luck

Sorry were you talking to me?

What I was ju-

Oh yo-

Okay

Were you talking to me?

First ever zoom court wish me luck

First ever zoom court wish me luck

People (at least where I live) really like when you say "have a blessed day" and you don't even have to specify which deity you are wishing them blessed by!