Eli Enis and DIIV's Ben Newman discuss what the moody genre's viral popularity tells us about the changing nature of fame, fandom, and musical subcultures.
love the inclusion of "vibes" into the analysis, and found so much to chew on throughout this thing. also i love DIIV, and I hope that legacy musicians don't feel like legacy musicians... they're "legacy" not because they're washed, but because they came up in a different political economy of music centered around live acts, myspace, college radio, what have you! In that regard, I think the whole zoomer/millennial/X "generations" idea is a total construct and serves to pit olders and youngers against each other. As someone maybe poised in between the two camps (for now.... heheh) Openmindedness is such a good trait in both camps.
tl;dr : Cool to see the family tree of the "vibe", lol, from Hildegard of Bingen to Galaxie 500 to DIIV to "the girl reading this".
Have a Nice Life also got a huge swing with Tiktok
love the inclusion of "vibes" into the analysis, and found so much to chew on throughout this thing. also i love DIIV, and I hope that legacy musicians don't feel like legacy musicians... they're "legacy" not because they're washed, but because they came up in a different political economy of music centered around live acts, myspace, college radio, what have you! In that regard, I think the whole zoomer/millennial/X "generations" idea is a total construct and serves to pit olders and youngers against each other. As someone maybe poised in between the two camps (for now.... heheh) Openmindedness is such a good trait in both camps.
tl;dr : Cool to see the family tree of the "vibe", lol, from Hildegard of Bingen to Galaxie 500 to DIIV to "the girl reading this".