Resonance and the allure of somber music – Marie Claire Mexico

As the world constantly disappoints us, music has become a kind of refuge

There is a song with a perennial presence in certain niches on the internet. Its charm is the nostalgic and faint sound. Is about Resonanceby Randy Goffe who has decided to use an alias as anonymous as he is Home. Despite her release in 2014, her rise to fame was thanks to a January 9, 2016 vine by @hemtube where she dances with her kitty, reaching 85 million views. Electronic Gems He uploaded a video with the song in July 2014, which as of this writing has 113.4 million views and 1.6 million likes.

Resonance has caused such an impact that it has inspired video essays trying to theoretically describe how something can move inside you. Although Maybe it’s just a case of magical inspiration and perfect vibes.

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Some users on TikTok have begun to associate this song with the scene between Ana de Armas and Ryan Gosling in Blade Runner 2049. Her seducing with just the phrase “You look lonely, I can fix that” while Resonance plays in the background has become synonymous of this lo-fi aura that has found a corner on the internet.

It is curious that this movement is a spiritual successor of the Vapor waves. If you don’t know him, here is a little of his history.

Vaporwave, music and consumption

Daniel Lopatinan electronic musician better known as Oneohtrix Point Never (you’ve probably heard some of his songs at Chanel shows in the last 5 years), released an album under the alias Chuck Person called Eccojam Vol. 1. The songs on this album were made from fragments of tracks from the 80s slowed down and in eternal loops, with echoes and reverberations to give a vaporous quality to the music, hence the term Vaporwave.

This subgenre born on the internet would reach the mainstream through Floral Shoppean album of Macintosh Plus (an alias of Ramona Andra Xavier, currently known as Vectroid). EL track Lisa Frank 420 / Modern Computing | transforma It’s Your Move de Grace Ross en una balada extraña, lenta y dulce.

The identity of vaporwave is found in the reappropriation of the pop culture symbols of the 80s. The main values ​​of this music ironically idolize capitalism, commercial brands and luxury. It can be seen in the names that some chose, such as Saint Pepsi, Luxury Elite o 猫シ Corp. Macross 82-99of Mexican origin, reached #1 on albums Bandcampthe platform where this genre and its variants proliferated on record labels such as Fortune 500 o Keats Collective.

The result is shown in graphics that combine Greek columns and busts with neon colors, sunsets and text in Japanese. A presentation of Rihanna in SNL He projected images of this style while singing Diamonds, although the performance was too professional to look authentic.

Hazy and nebulous sounds to dream

However, as the years passed The movement lost strength and returned to darkness. The irony with which the culture of hyper-consumerism was embraced ceased to be attractive when we realized that this culture was burying us, but it left a unique musical legacy. The mashup of Resonance x Genesis de Grimes x Not Allowed de Tv Girl is one of many examples of songs modified to achieve that hazy texture.

Now these gloomy and faint sounds are trending again on social networks. The Resonance example is one, but current songs or songs that precede it by more than two decades have the same opportunity to go viral. The way we consume music and our reduced attention span has meant that trending songs are at higher or lower speeds than originally released, with voices distorted in the process. Since the pandemic you can find examples of any song with the addition of “slowed + reverb” on YouTube.

The videos called corecore They paint a frankly horrendous reality. Each one is a compilation of bad news, people shouting injustice, or general suffering. Economic crisis, misogyny, racism, transphobia and hopelessness are the daily bread. Many of these videos are accompanied by music by Aphex Twin, especially QKThr and #3 from Selected Ambient Works, Vol. II

This is why it is not surprising that the creators of these trends, the Generation Zare adopting the nihilismthe school of thought that indicates that ultimately existence is futile and meaningless. A TikTok by self-described author “The Sunny Nihilist” Wendy Syfret talks about this phenomenon and the comments suggest that we are going to move on to the Albert Camus’ absurdism that talks about the universe itself having no meaning.

Life looks more and more like a nighttime ride in some video game while it plays Snowfall de Øneheart y reidenshi in loop. Maybe reading this has left you a little sad or with new songs to add to your playlist. If you need to lift your spirits, go out and breathe, enjoy those small pleasures you can give yourself. Maybe life has no meaning. You decide if you give him one or live without him, embracing the uncertainty of tomorrow. {

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