![]() ![]() Kaitlin and Jamie, two of the admins behind have also observed real-world effects that they attribute to music shitposting pages like theirs – a meme page with 11,600 followers, dedicated to the “Wuthering Heights” singer “who may or may not even have a full understanding of the way that she completely rocked the queer communities minds and changed the lives of every unhinged theatre gay ever,” says Jamie. It's really crazy how memes can influence a person's listening habits.” “If these memes match your sense of humour, or if you admire the person posting these memes, you may wonder if the music will appeal to you as well. “Memes can give you a first ‘taste’ of a musical genre or artist without actually having to hear the music itself,” she says. Of Arca (how she’d like to be referred to here), the owner of (51,900 followers) says she’s received plenty of comments and direct messages from followers who hadn’t heard of Arca before they discovered her shitposting page. This sort of amateur, low-effort, low quality, and distorted visual language is quickly being recognised as artistically interesting, and I think that’s definitely a positive thing.” Her music video for ‘ Mequetrefe’, for instance, contains various editing techniques that were previously only used in shitposts. “Arca is intentionally blurring the line between high art and user-made memes. “She follows virtually every big page and always shares the content they post,” says Anna. The unhinged, inside-joke energy of shitposting has liberated a growing number of musicians-everyone from the lead singer of Eve 6 to Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo-to present themselves from a place of absurdity rather than self-seriousness. Which is just enough to break out of the mould and make something unique,” he told Zane Lowe in an interview.įor Mayer, and an increasing number of musicians, leaning into trash and aligning themselves with the ironic and anti-aesthetic credo of shitposting – where all meaning is exhausted and made hysterical – has become a new and exciting creative force. And you go: ‘That’s the best thing I ever heard you play.’ It makes a mockery of their interpretation of the experience. “Artists sit in front of you and play you what they think is their garbage. In 2021, he released Sob Rock, an album he described as the sonic equivalent of a shitpost. The less sense it made, and the more time you devoted to that senselessness, the funnier it became: a shitpost.īut let’s circle back to John Mayer for a second. With his unique playing style of the darbuka, the 32-year-old street musician became popular in Turkey on the local version of Turkey’s Got Talent, a TV competition, 10 years ago.Shitposting tends to recycle the 4AM hysteria of a slumber party you had when you were younger, when you and your friends got so high on sleeplessness and one another’s company that you’d say something like “squash bottle” and laugh about it till sunrise. He added that he always wanted to be the only person in the world to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest with his darbuka and that this desire was partially fulfilled with his latest viral videos. He also expressed his happiness for creating a fun atmosphere in the U.S. So, I congratulate Joe Biden as someone who defends these values,” he said. are, in fact, values that every human being should defend. Speaking about the memes including himself and Biden, Göregen congratulated the president-elect and expressed his intention to play the darbuka for him. 6, describing Göregen’s viral video and inviting users to subscribe to his channel and listen to his music. YouTube also shared a post on its official Twitter and Instagram accounts on Dec. Parodies of his video were also shared by millions of people around the world.īiden supporters later added a dancing Donald Trump to the video after Trump lost the presidential election, and Göregen became world-renowned amid the tense U.S. 1, and it received millions of likes within a month. He later shared the video on his YouTube channel on Nov. However, in October, a social media user photoshopped an animated clip of a cat “vibing,” or rhythmically bobbing its head to his music in the video, generating numerous memes on Twitter. Seated on a bench in an Istanbul park, he played the darbuka, a goblet-shaped single-headed hand drum, while singing in the video. Last year, Göregen performed his rendition of Ievan Polkka, a popular Finnish song from the 1930s, and the video was uploaded on YouTube. President-elect Joe Biden and congratulate him on his win. ![]() ![]() Visually-impaired Turkish musician in ‘cat vibing to Ievan Polka’ video wants to play for US president-elect ISTANBULīilal Göregen, a visually-impaired Turkish musician who took social media by the storm after a video of him playing the Turkish darbuka while a cat “vibes” to the Finnish song “Ievan Polka” went viral, has said he wants to play for U.S. ![]()
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