What are your honest opinions of SewerSlvt?

[Lolcow]

I'm curious what the forum thinks about her because I'm confused. I am a zoomer. I can't understand what she was, what her reputation is, or how to interpret her. I can't seem to get an idea what people actually think of her. I haven't seen anyone put any effort into an analysis of her that wasn't horribly shallow, low hanging fruit. Is this because she isn't considered worthy of serious discussion? Or is it from a lack of information, since on the Internet people like to avoid topics they can't take a strong position on.

 

[WKYK]

When you say honest opinions what do you mean? The music or the person? Musically I do enjoy some of sewersluts music, lexapro delirium is one of my favorite songs to throw on loop while I study and do homework. But it looks like your post is maybe asking more about sewerslut's legacy in electronic music, so I can share my personal experience (which is very limited).

I browsed /mu/ pretty hard back in 2019/2020 so I remember seeing posts about sewerslut back when drowning in the sewer was released. There was just something that happened then, I don't know what but breakcore music just had a huge resurgence. I remember out of nowhere everyone started listening to WLFGRL despite it having been out for years at that point (I wanna say the song "ghost" blew up on tiktok but I don't use the app I've only heard things). But yeah sewerslut was just a big name in that wave. And then Mr. Kill Myself came out as a single and that blew up, and from there sewerslut was a breakcore staple in online discussion. It might have helped that covid was keeping ppl inside, which led to more music exploration, but that could be a stretch.

I remember sewerslut performed at the a2b2 night of fire online concert and was the only act I cared about besides MG, which was cool. There was some sort of issue with sewersluts music on streaming, where all the money made by the music was getting taken by whatever distributor was used to get it up. And then I remember sewerslut releasing their final album, but around then I was weening off of /mu/ and didn't really listen to that sort of music often any more.

But yeah, that's my experience with sewerslut, I'm not a music historian or analyst or whatever, I'm just a dude who was kinda in the know around the time sewerslut blew up. If you have any questions about that time period I can do my best to answer them, otherwise I'm also curious what other ppl remember about the sewerslut days.

 

[Lolcow]

I guess this post supports my idea that people just don't take her seriously. Any attempts to do so were painfully shallow sob fests. Her music is genuinely moving, impactful. But her personality was perplexing, what with the whole matter of being transgender. She seemingly had no issue being androgynous, and seemed to me to suggest a complex motivation for that identity. But when I took a closer look she seemed like an incredibly simple person. Her personality didn't match her actions. Then she disappeared without a trace. KiwiFarms thought she was making a charade. This makes no sense, neither does the alternative. Just an overall confusing person, whom I can't help but keep thinking aobut because of the connection I feel with her.

 

[Mirchicom]

All I know about them is their album has a kill count of at least one,
pretty good album though me and my girlfriend listen to it a lot
so, ironically, it iss good couples music

 

[Doctor Dirck]

I like Sewerslvt's music a lot. I sometimes listen to it while I write or read because I don't have to think too much about it while I listen. The part that I'm critical about is that there's certain media that just attracts the worst kind of people possible and Sewerslvt is one of those unfortunate cases.

 

[sopp]

sewerslvt not good

 

[LostintheCycle]

Well frankly, I don't see much point in getting to know the artists, if that's what you seem to mean. An artist makes good music that I listen to; they're not my friend.
Why would you analyze somebody who obviously keeps their life private, so that there is very little to go off of? Sure there's some obvious things you can gather from the topics in the music, but beyond that there is nothing.
In terms on my opinions on Sewerslvt music, it's of variable interest and quality but the good is damn good.

 

[wearyinternettraveler]

Sewerslvt is essential breakcore. Honestly not being able to separate the art from the artist seems like a recent innovation from Internet communities. It sometimes seems that there's more discussion surrounding the various nontroversies than there is about the music and related artists, which is a shame for people like me who use music communities as their primary way to find new artists.

The part that I'm critical about is that there's certain media that just attracts the worst kind of people possible and Sewerslvt is one of those unfortunate cases.

Honestly I think it just comes with the territory. I like 100gecs and Shed Theory but you're not gonna find something like that without irony-poisoned freaks finding it too. I think it has to do with alt music (read: "reject music") being found by... rejects.

 

[Doctor Dirck]

Honestly I think it just comes with the territory. I like 100gecs and Shed Theory but you're not gonna find something like that without irony-poisoned freaks finding it too. I think it has to do with alt music (read: "reject music") being found by... rejects.

Nah I kept my response short because anyone that really goes into detail about it just sounds like they're malding but my response I think got misinterpreted which is 100% my fault.

Firstly, I'm on Agora Road where there's regular discussions about dickriding the future technocratic demi-gods like they're Roko's basilisk, and conspiracy theories about the color caps of milk being a psyop to push 1% or some shit like that so I'm not really a stranger to manic behavior on the internet I don't think. Also idgaf about Sewerslvt personally. I think they made good music, had a semi-rotten lot in life, and a quick once-over of the story of them is interesting and unfortunate. Otherwise Sewerslvt doesn't occupy more than 30 minutes of my mind once every 6 months or so while I listen to half an album of theirs.

The thing I don't like about the community that surrounds her aren't necessarily the people that are out of touch with reality, or the more vocal fans that love or hate her, but the stupid ass rage baiting that comes with the new interaction motived algorithm culture. These people with absolutely NO talent at all who can only find their place online by rage baiting a particularly responsive fanbase to interact with what they made for clout online. Again algorithms across the board love this kind of shit, youtube, twitter, instagram, they all apparently profit off of this model of operation and then you end up with unethical behaviors in the pursuit of gaming these systems and I find that particularly prevalent in Sewerslvt's orbiters. Examples:

Now in the pursuit of a stitch of an online following or a few $$ people can make shovelware-type music, compilations, or articles and just title it something ridiculous and offensive and get rewarded for it. 10 years ago this used to be a little funny to do with a ridiculous community or a community that took itself too seriously, and you could say "just trolling lol <3" But to my knowledge these are people who were actually trying to make it in music and found that making 10 shitty songs in FLstudio a day wasn't going to cut it and needed a new angle. That top image person in particular is in this weird ass 3-way content farm that tries to find success in just flooding YT, Soundcloud, and Twitter with reposts in the hope that one of them will take off:

Again don't have the first issue with Sewerslvt, her music is alright. Don't have an issue with most of Sewerslvt's fans but on-the-whole it does attract a certain kind of person and a chunk of that demographic fucking sucks.

100gecs

I also like several 100 gecs songs and several more of Laura Les's solo songs.

 

[GENOSAD]

Not too fond of pedos.

 

[vulonkaaz]

was there a controversy with severslvt ?

I tend to not care at all about internet controversies because I have seen people whose reputation was ruined to the point of literal suicide over false accusations, now when there's a controversy about someone I automatically side with the person getting accused of stuff no matter how bad it is

I haven't listened to her a lot but what I've heard was pretty great

 

[punisheddead]

I'm curious what the forum thinks about her because I'm confused.

A shame what happened overall, I enjoyed the music personally, a few tracks even resonating with me in some darker times. But post shit show the magic is gone and while the tracks are still good there's definitely a "sour taste in my mouth" that's hard to ignore.

If you know about their whole sadboy sheldon arc and where they originally came from it ends up making sense that they would have some rather wild skeletons in the closet. I totally get why people don't want to associate, if even half of the shit is true it's bad morally and for business.

All in all I don't care all that much. There's a low post success rate for good internet musicians: they either sell out, have skeletons in the closet or end it at some point and I'm kinda desensitized to it.

Examples:

This fucking generic music bot drives me up the wall. It's all the same person and i've blocked over a dozen of their accounts so far, thank god for extensions.

 

[Rübezahl]

Listen to a bit of her and listen to a bit of what happened.
Idk, it's good music.
Maybe I don't have a full picture but I don't consider what she did as bad especially because she was a kid at the time.

 

[Lolcow]

Sewerslvt is essential breakcore. Honestly not being able to separate the art from the artist seems like a recent innovation from Internet communities. It sometimes seems that there's more discussion surrounding the various nontroversies than there is about the music and related artists, which is a shame for people like me who use music communities as their primary way to find new artists.


Honestly I think it just comes with the territory. I like 100gecs and Shed Theory but you're not gonna find something like that without irony-poisoned freaks finding it too. I think it has to do with alt music (read: "reject music") being found by... rejects.

Art that is separable from its artist is bad art. I equate that kind of entertainment with porn. If I were to enjoy it for impersonal stimulation that would mean either the author's intentions are impersonal or I don't consider their intentions worth consideration for whatever reason.

 

[Lolcow]

Nah I kept my response short because anyone that really goes into detail about it just sounds like they're malding but my response I think got misinterpreted which is 100% my fault.

Firstly, I'm on Agora Road where there's regular discussions about dickriding the future technocratic demi-gods like they're Roko's basilisk, and conspiracy theories about the color caps of milk being a psyop to push 1% or some shit like that so I'm not really a stranger to manic behavior on the internet I don't think. Also idgaf about Sewerslvt personally. I think they made good music, had a semi-rotten lot in life, and a quick once-over of the story of them is interesting and unfortunate. Otherwise Sewerslvt doesn't occupy more than 30 minutes of my mind once every 6 months or so while I listen to half an album of theirs.

The thing I don't like about the community that surrounds her aren't necessarily the people that are out of touch with reality, or the more vocal fans that love or hate her, but the stupid ass rage baiting that comes with the new interaction motived algorithm culture. These people with absolutely NO talent at all who can only find their place online by rage baiting a particularly responsive fanbase to interact with what they made for clout online. Again algorithms across the board love this kind of shit, youtube, twitter, instagram, they all apparently profit off of this model of operation and then you end up with unethical behaviors in the pursuit of gaming these systems and I find that particularly prevalent in Sewerslvt's orbiters. Examples:
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Now in the pursuit of a stitch of an online following or a few $$ people can make shovelware-type music, compilations, or articles and just title it something ridiculous and offensive and get rewarded for it. 10 years ago this used to be a little funny to do with a ridiculous community or a community that took itself too seriously, and you could say "just trolling lol <3" But to my knowledge these are people who were actually trying to make it in music and found that making 10 shitty songs in FLstudio a day wasn't going to cut it and needed a new angle. That top image person in particular is in this weird ass 3-way content farm that tries to find success in just flooding YT, Soundcloud, and Twitter with reposts in the hope that one of them will take off:
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Again don't have the first issue with Sewerslvt, her music is alright. Don't have an issue with most of Sewerslvt's fans but on-the-whole it does attract a certain kind of person and a chunk of that demographic fucking sucks.


I also like several 100 gecs songs and several more of Laura Les's solo songs.

I really should have asked this before and I would have gotten better responses, so what's with the whole pussyfooting with Sewerslvt's pronouns? Nearly everyone I see uses they/them, even fellow trans women. Maybe I should infer immediately that they are wary of her identity, but think that's worth establishing first.

 

[赤い男]

I'm curious what the forum thinks about her because I'm confused. I am a zoomer. I can't understand what she was, what her reputation is, or how to interpret her. I can't seem to get an idea what people actually think of her. I haven't seen anyone put any effort into an analysis of her that wasn't horribly shallow, low hanging fruit. Is this because she isn't considered worthy of serious discussion? Or is it from a lack of information, since on the Internet people like to avoid topics they can't take a strong position on.

After my OD, sewerslvt was the only thing with me in that cold ass hospital room.

I preffer to save my opinion just for myself, i'll just gonna say that their music is very special to me. Regarding Jvne as a person, hope their situation got better, i see the project as simply over, eventually forgotten as everything.

 

[赤い男]

The thing I don't like about the community that surrounds her aren't necessarily the people that are out of touch with reality, or the more vocal fans that love or hate her, but the stupid ass rage baiting that comes with the new interaction motived algorithm culture. These people with absolutely NO talent at all who can only find their place online by rage baiting a particularly responsive fanbase to interact with what they made for clout online. Again algorithms across the board love this kind of shit, youtube, twitter, instagram, they all apparently profit off of this model of operation and then you end up with unethical behaviors in the pursuit of gaming these systems and I find that particularly prevalent in Sewerslvt's orbiters. Examples:

Now in the pursuit of a stitch of an online following or a few $$ people can make shovelware-type music, compilations, or articles and just title it something ridiculous and offensive and get rewarded for it. 10 years ago this used to be a little funny to do with a ridiculous community or a community that took itself too seriously, and you could say "just trolling lol <3" But to my knowledge these are people who were actually trying to make it in music and found that making 10 shitty songs in FLstudio a day wasn't going to cut it and needed a new angle. That top image person in particular is in this weird ass 3-way content farm that tries to find success in just flooding YT, Soundcloud, and Twitter with reposts in the hope that one of them will take off:

Acidgvrl is a creep and a complete weirdo sincerely. Goes beyond only sewerslvt


In my life i have never seeing such a bizarre marketing stunt, at this point i just think is a psyop of some sort tbh.

 

[赤い男]

After my OD, sewerslvt was the only thing with me in that cold ass hospital room.

I preffer to save my opinion just for myself, i'll just gonna say that their music is very special to me. Regarding Jvne as a person, hope their situation got better, i see the project as simply over, eventually forgotten as everything.

Tho, some people says they keep producing music under the label of AGONYOST now

I don't like assuming stuff, but this looks to obvious to not be Jvne.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqtWHLIHLnw

 

[Lolcow]

After my OD, sewerslvt was the only thing with me in that cold ass hospital room.

I preffer to save my opinion just for myself, i'll just gonna say that their music is very special to me. Regarding Jvne as a person, hope their situation got better, i see the project as simply over, eventually forgotten as everything.

I also have a very deep connection to her music. It's inconvenient because it's hard for me to tell what of this impact is inherent to the music and which parts are only felt through my personal connection.

 

[赤い男]

I also have a very deep connection to her music. It's inconvenient because it's hard for me to tell what of this impact is inherent to the music and which parts are only felt through my personal connection.

To me is mostly emotional connection, Jvnes music is good at best and mediocre at worse, there are better artists out there, but at the end of the day, music is an art, and for it i do think is more important what said art makes you feel to you, that's why is something special to me, because it was a company for when i was at my lowest.