![]() ![]() He describe the scene's re-use of memes as a satirical take on pointless online content that is only on the internet to "do nothing other than fill the void": Īccording to Dicksoak, most works of the style are critiques of EDM or "are just uploaded because they sound funny." However, Bassil disagreed, writing that there are also many tracks that keep repurposing a certain meme, such as "mom's spaghetti" or the re-use of vocals from recordings by hip hop group Death Grips. Noisey critic Ryan Bassil spotlight the variety of music coming out of the weird SoundCloud landscape: "One minute you could be listening to the Seinfeld theme reimagined as an aneurysm inducing dubstep corker, the next, you're recovering from hearing a version of Tenacious D's "Tribute" that's akin to having a stroke." Bassil analyzes that the tracks "often take the past and repurpose it into something that, although not altogether useful, sounds fresh and reflective of the abstract, confusing panoramic that encapsulates the modern internet." Bassil compared the lexicon of SoundClown's track titles to that of Reddit and Twitter users. Ideaot described the weird SoundCloud community as "largely just people who are friends with each other." The people who make weird SoundCloud are known as SoundClowns, a term coined by producer Dicksoak. Weird SoundCloud is a mash-up and parody music genre labeled by journalist Audra Schroeder as an in-joke that is "deconstructing and reshaping memes and popular music, recontextualizing the sacred texts of millennial chat rooms." Most tracks range from around 30 seconds to one minute in length. The fact that people enjoyed it and/or treated it as "A travesty" (Direct quote from one of my tracks) spurs me on." Characteristics Another producer in the community, DJ (AT-AT), reasoned producers joining the scene "want to express their musicality," "see it as a more mature form of YouTube Poop," or are "just looking for recognition on social media sites." AT-AT said that it was "a fun thing to do, and after I stopped making "proper" music I felt I needed a bit of an outlet for my creativity. Weird SoundCloud producer Ideaot suggested that some in the phenomenon came from the YouTube Poop scene. ![]() In a January 2014 interview, DJ Kevin Wang suggested that the Weird SoundCloud has "been around in the last one to two years", but started to gain much popularity the previous year through electronic dance music internet blogs. ![]() One critic, Audra Schroeder, categorized it as an in-joke that is "deconstructing and reshaping memes and popular music, recontextualizing the sacred texts of millennial chat rooms." The scene has been described by its producers and music journalists to be a satirical take on electronic dance music and useless, throwaway internet content. Weird SoundCloud, or SoundClown, is a mashup parody music scene taking place on the online distribution platform SoundCloud. Genre of parody music, usually associated with SoundCloud ![]()
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