I remember hearing about vaporwave back in 2015-2016 from some friends, but I only thought it was a meme without looking more into it, only based on what they showed me.
Jump to 2019, YouTube starts recommending me Floral Shoppe's LISA FRANK 420. I click on it expecting to find it silly or funny, but to my surprise I end up loving it unironically. After that I found myself listening to it a lot on my car rides to/from work. Eventually listened to the full album, and really dug that too.
I craved more but wasn't sure where to look for vaporwave similar to Floral Shoppe. I found a video about vaporwave from theneedledrop, where he compared the album to Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1 and James Ferraro's Far Side Virtual. I jumped on those instantly, listening to them while grocery shopping or the like which I felt added to my enjoyment. Also discovered Pad Chennington through theneedledrop, who talks about vaporwave and other unique kinds of music, and the rest is history.
Man, I'd love to experience my feeling listening to LISA FRANK 420 for the first time again.
