Meanings
- uncountableentertainmenta house offshoot which emerged from vaporwave in the early 2010s, characterized by reverb effects, more rhythmic structures, and often, vocal samples from city pop and anime.
Where many future funk producers make soundtracks for kawaii dance halls and coastal drives, SUI UZI's feels more at home at a darkening club after last call, or on a lonely drive home from a first date gone wrong.
2020 February 29, deliriously...daniel, “A Twilit Trist: Looking Back at SUI UZI's Night Songs Trilogy”, in Private Suite Magazine, number 11, page 252 more examples
A lot of people would say that future funk just rips off the original song, but I disagree. It brings a new meaning and feeling to it. There’s a lot more effort put into it than a lot of people think. It also brings a lot of attention to the original song.
2019 November 12, Margaret Cataldi, “Classical composer explains future funk”, in The Prospector, archived from the original on 18 Dec 2020This can include the use of looped GIF animations and manipulated pop music tracks in Future Funk YouTube videos, which adapts eighties pop culture from Japan to the Vaporwave style of lo-fi and retro remixes and samples.
2023 October 15, Daniel Johnson, Textual Cacophony: Online Video and Anonymity in Japan, Cornell University Press, page 30
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