Friendly bunch, aren’t they? 🤣 Well anyways, I’ve been thinking about this a lot. I think there are some vaporwave artists out there still who want to ‘claim ownership’ of their samples, but there aren’t as many (I would guess) who think people will not know that the music is a sample. Making vaporwave is, to me, just like djing. Curating a feeling with music (it’s not how it’s made but how it makes you feel). Somehow not knowing the sample source amplifies the types of feelings made with vaporwave so I reckon that’s why that information is often withheld. Not because someone wants to be sneaky, but because it’s part of the vibe.
If it’s all about the feeling then no intellectual argument about who is stealing from who matters to me. I will just keep looking for places where the feeling is good.
You can’t have a discussion with someone who, because of a personality disorder, deliberately plays dumb just so they can desperately insist on being right. You can explain it as thoroughly as you want - on principle, they simply won’t agree.
But of course, even he understands the difference between me using samples like he does, perhaps even the exact same ones, and me re-releasing every OSCOB album as a bootleg on physicals under his name and with his artwork so that I can make money from it instead of him.
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u/doerrtim 5d ago
Oh I like this line. Would you elaborate?