Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave And The Commodification Of Ghosts

by Grafton Tanner

You’re engaging with music that comes from nowhere, that can be attributed to no one or at best a faceless moniker, and that resists easy analysis.

The second hook to the jaw of America came in 2008 as the collapse of the economy rendered the myth of capitalism a bit harder to swallow and as Barack Obama, the progressive hope for a society that had lived through the dark age of George W. Bush, cowed before the Wall Street fat cats and then continued Bush’s hawkish tactics to police the world and erase the enemy with his ruthless drone strikes.