Vaporwave is dead. It's integral to the genre. They were saying at the beginning and five years ago also. Vaporwave cannot exist alive.
The thing to understand is that to exist or live in the music industry is incompatible with vapowave, mostly.
It's actually genius. To stay alive underground you have to kill it off before it can be adopted by the mainstream.
A software analogy could be a license which prohibits use in any professional serious setting. Or maybe the WTF license which many corps hate. Or maybe code which is itself mainly a copy of others. Stuff that can be enjoyed at home but would never be hosted by Microsoft and never be found in a company.
The other death metaphor is that it's about what has gone before, the music is about what is dead, musically and culturally.
The thing to understand is that to exist or live in the music industry is incompatible with vapowave, mostly.
It's actually genius. To stay alive underground you have to kill it off before it can be adopted by the mainstream.
A software analogy could be a license which prohibits use in any professional serious setting. Or maybe the WTF license which many corps hate. Or maybe code which is itself mainly a copy of others. Stuff that can be enjoyed at home but would never be hosted by Microsoft and never be found in a company.
The other death metaphor is that it's about what has gone before, the music is about what is dead, musically and culturally.