What does vaporwave make you feel?

[IlluminatiPirate]

As a genre, what sort of moods does vaporwave invoke within the minds of its listeners? I'm curious as to how different the feelings would be from person to person.

 

[reQverb]

loneliness, despair, empty office buildings with flickering CRT monitors.

 

[StarLiner]

It makes me feel like facing a disappointed ghost of the old times that we killed.

 

[Vapormax0]

Nostalgic, temporary contentment, vintage, good.

 

[VALYU]

I think it all depends on how it’s done I’ve heard some that has made me hype, some sad and some that evokes a feeling of looking through Pandora’s Box. 8)

 

[sheikks]

It makes me feel like I’m at the top of a building in a pool on the roof looking off onto a 1980s city

 

[vaporwavemaster1]

ヴェイパーウェイヴは、インターネットの黄金時代は終わったかもしれないが、古典的なメディアを入れることができる組み合わせは無限にあることを私に理解させます。サウンドコラージュは、特にそれがなければ忘れられていたメディアに光を当てるのに役立つ場合、高貴な目的です。

 

[kliffi]

vaporwave makes me feel like music really does bring people together

 

[Topaz]

Vaporwave is really powerful in what it brings to me, I've recently got a bunch of bandcamp albums on my phone and just taking walks. It just makes me remember past events of my life, depending on the music.

Anything by II nothing II makes me remember living in my home town in Indiana where it was always gloomy and rainy. But I remember it positively through that lens, so in a way, I've found it to be a coping mechanism of the past. I can't talk too much about my personal life (bc I find it sorta obnoxious) but certain vaporwave makes me confront my past, I think about childhood, struggles, getting lost in the forest one time. It does all these things because pure music doesn't necessarily make me think of specific memories. It's the distorted crunchy sampling that replicates feelings of past events to me.