Never once has a DJ stopped a show for a political message in my city. Everyone cheered too.

  • SexUnderSocialism [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    I'm really loving how, unlike with Ukraine, there's plenty of people seeing through the propaganda blitz. Zionists must be shitting themselves right now.

  • GaveUp [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    that's so dope

    the closest political clubbing experience I had was a person in a maid costume + furry head holding up that photo of John Cena with Mao's hair on stage in a vaporwave party

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      • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        The three figures I could point to as creating vaporwave as a style of music are a black man, a trans woman, and a Jewish man. (DJ Screw, Vektroid, and Daniel Lopatin respectively). And every time I go in a vaporwave production discord half the profiles have trans flags.

        Not to say reactionaries don't love to adopt culture from people they deem lesser though. They love rock music. But this one always felt really weird for fascists to try and usurp.

          • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]
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            I miss that era of vaporwave. It has led to some interesting spinoff subgenres that have leftist aesthetics like sovietwave.

          • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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            James Ferraro is the best musician alive at making music that sounds like it was spit right out of a corporate board room meeting on how to make the most inoffensive, blandest thing possible. And yet he's amazing, he's extremely talented. It's like the musical equivalent of those street performers who pretend they're statues. It's like if Goku started playing golf.

            Intentionally making robotic, soulless music. I love him and can't believe I forgot him.

      • GaveUp [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        The audience was definitely way left of the average American

        It was filled with Asian Zoomers in San Francisco

      • GaveUp [she/her]
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        1 year ago

        It's not, it's Sinophobic because the context of that meme is John Cena apologizing for recognizing Taiwan as a country while speaking Mandarin and also mispronouncing "ice cream" so Western Zoomers made the Cena Mao meme to make fun of him for being a "CCP shill"

          • GaveUp [she/her]
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            1 year ago

            In Mandarin. It's actually really sad. Cena was just sharing a video of him enjoying ice cream and showing off his Chinese progress/skills and all of a sudden millions of kids are making fun of him for his bad pronunciation because China bad

            https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/john-cena-speaking-chinese-and-eating-ice-cream-bing-chilling

            • AmarkuntheGatherer@lemmygrad.ml
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              1 year ago

              Thanks, this had slipped my mind. I first found out about this duringthe chess world championship, the streams were full of "DING CHILLING" referring to Ding Liren.

              Westerners are just not that imaginative, even the kids.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    I saw Machine Girl earlier this year. They had some kind of technical mishap with a bass amplifier, so the show got paused like a minute. So the band led the crowd in a chant of "Fuck Greg Abbott." It's what made me finally think the kids will be alright.

    • bubbalu [they/them]
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      1 year ago

      Love Machine Girl! Got to see them this year too and loved the show.

  • Bloobish [comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    chefs-kiss good shit, happy to see a lot of people understand the genocide that's going on right now by the IDF