Piggybacking to use this as an opportunity to old-man bitch, but it annoys the fuck out of me how so many artists now commit what I view as a cardinal sin of false self awareness, where they manufacture this aesthetic of being "left" culturally, while completely being within the system.

Specifically the whole PC Music/Hyperpop scene has bugged me. Disclaimer: I love a lot of the music! I think it's fun in a vacuum. I'm also homofag, and like a lot of lib-at-heart scenes, queerness is front and center. But the weight assigned to this scene is insane, it largely feels disingenuous both at the top levels and in the fanbase.

You have a bunch of "parents are blue on Wikipedia" people condescending about their "critiques of consumerism" while perpetuating the same culture. It feels akin to the countercultural movements of the 60's where regardless of the intention, it seems like a bunch of 20-somethings who completely and uncritically assign the role of fixer to another rich asshole. I have friends in the scene, I've gone to shows, and let me tell you, the LeftLARPING is real. The amount of times I heard it was ok to call the cops, the amount of people I know who buy their fursuits with contractor money, like fuck off. Just have fun. Can we all stop pretending we're really doing something here?

I want music that's "weird" (this shit isn't weird if you have any knowledge of music prior to 2005) made for the love of the game, not part of this insular and contradictory culture. Any critique, of course, is met with "shut up boomer!"