Internet musicInternet music (also known as online music or digital music) is a style of music influenced by Internet culture and practices that originated from or were significantly shaped by the Internet, as well as encompassing a wide range of genres and music scenes that have developed primarily online, often outside traditional music industry structures.
Internet aestheticAn Internet aesthetic is a visual style, subculture, or thematic trend that originated and proliferated primarily through the Internet.MicrogenreAmicrogenre is a specialized or niche genre, often used to describe narrowly defined subcategories within music, literature, film, or art. The term has been in use since at least the 1970s, particularly in the context of music, where it refers to specific stylistic offshoots of prominent genres, such as the many sub-subgenres of heavy metal and electronic music.
Lounge musicLounge music is a type of easy listening music popular in the 1950s and 1960s. This music is meant to evoke in the listeners an emotion, or the feeling of being in a place with a tranquil theme such as a jungle, an island paradise or outer space. The range of lounge music encompasses beautiful music–influenced instrumentals, and modern electronica (with chillout and downtempo influences), while remaining thematically focused on its retro–space age cultural elements.
Internet memeAn Internet meme, or meme (), is a cultural item (such as an idea, behavior, or style) that spreads across the Internet, now primarily through social media platforms. Internet memes manifest in a variety of formats, including images, videos (e.g. GIFs), and other viral content. Key characteristics of memes include their tendency to be parodied, their use of intertextuality, their viral dissemination, and their continual evolution.
Contemporary R&BContemporary R&B is a popular musicgenre, originating from African-American musicians in the 1970s that combines rhythm and blues with elements of pop, disco, funk, soul, jazz, blues, electronic and hip-hop. The incorporation of disco and electronic textures and production styles, which has come to prominence since the 2010s, brought forth a style called electro-R&B. The genre features a distinctive record production style and a smooth, lush style of vocal arrangement.
Chopped and screwedMusic genre and technique of remixing music Chopped and screwedOther names Screwed and chopped slowed and throwed Stylistic origins Southern hip hop electro bounce Memphis rap sampledelia codeine effect Cultural originsEarly 1990s, Houston, Texas, United StatesDerivative formsWitch houseseapunkvaporwavecloud rapsigilkorephonkSubgenresFuture screwSlowed + reverbRegional scenesHouston and Longview, TexasOther topicsCodeine Dirty rapbounceMemphis rapChopped and screwedcrunktrap Chopped and screwed (also called screwed and chopped or slowed and throwed) is a genre of hip-hop music and technique of remixing and sampling music that involves slowing down the tempo and DJing.
Elevator musicElevator music (also known as Muzak, piped music, or lift music) is a type of background music played in elevators, in rooms where many people come together for reasons other than listening to music, and during telephone calls when placed on hold.
Smooth jazzSmooth jazz is a commercially oriented sub-genre style of jazz music by R&B, funk, rock and pop music styles (separately, or in any combination). Beginning in the early-1970s, jazz fusion (aka "fusion") was a movement by some jazz musicians to merge the instrumental virtuosity and improvisation of traditional jazz, with a modern, electronic sensibility.
SubcultureIn the sociology of culture, a subculture is a group of people within a culturalsociety that differentiates itself from the values of the mainstream or dominant culture (or superculture) to which it belongs, often maintaining some of its founding principles. Subcultures develop their own norms and values regarding cultural, political, and sexual matters. Subcultures coexist within mainstream society while keeping their specific characteristics intact.
Consumer capitalismConsumer capitalism is a theoretical economic and social political condition in which consumer demand is manipulated in a deliberate and coordinated way on a very large scale through mass-marketing techniques, to the advantage of sellers. This theory is controversial. It suggests manipulation of consumer demand so potent that it has a coercive effect, amounts to a departure from free-market capitalism, and has an adverse effect on society in general.
Popular culturePopular culture (also called pop culture or mass culture) is generally recognized by members of a society as a set of practices, beliefs, artistic output (also known as popular art [cf. pop art] or mass art, sometimes contrasted with fine art) and objects that are dominant or prevalent in a society at a given point in time. Popular culture also encompasses the activities and feelings produced as a result of interaction with these dominant objects.vaporwaveRelated word or term.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.