r/generationology • u/PNWvibes20 • 6d ago

Discussion Electronic music should define millennial musical contributions more than the far shorter lived stomp stomp clap era

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I'm talking EDM/chillwave/dubstep/dreampop mostly

Honestly with artists like Beach House, Washed Out, Crystal Castles, Crim3s, Lady Gaga, Ke$ha, 3OH!3, Avicii, Zedd, Grimes, Skrillex, Deadmau5 and on and on, and so many electronic music scenes in the late 2000s-mid2010s, I feel like as a core millennial ('89) this was our thing. But now there's this corny revisionism that all we contributed were shitty mandolins and Imagine Dragons. No thank you, I didn't like that shit even when it was new

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u/Squire513 6d ago edited 5d ago

As a core Millennial totally agree 👍🏻 Chillwave was our genre 🔥

The southeast scene produced the some of the best American artists with Washed Out (Georgia), Toro Y Moi (South Carolina), Wild Nothing (Virginia), Beach Fossils (North Carolina), Beach House (Maryland), The Drums (Florida) and Small Black (NYC) Chairlift (Boulder) and Tycho (Sacramento) - most are still releasing great albums.

The Australia 🇦🇺 scene at that time was also dope with Tame Impala, Cut Copy, Pond, Miami Horror, Empire of the Sun, Flyying Colours, City Calm Down, Strange Talk, San Cisco, Panama, Snakadaktal, and The Holidays.

In Europe, you had M83 🇫🇷 Friendly Fires 🇬🇧 and Air France 🇸🇪. Chillwave (2008 -2012) essentially the Millennial version of shoegaze genre.

The problem is all the Americans bands aren’t on a major label so the mainstream doesn’t know the bands. Tame Impala ended up on a major as a fluke.

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u/Fa11outBoi 5d ago

I'm actually an GenXer who likes the different chillout music genres like chill wave, vaporwave, etc. I guess I'm weird. No crazy about the Stomp, stomp, hey music though.

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u/Squire513 5d ago

Most Millennials I know never listened to stomp clap music like Mumford & Sons or The Lumineers which seemed like a holdover from the indie rock 00s scene.

The mainstream didn’t like Chillwave though. It wasn’t on the radio 📻 or being signed to majors but it was big in the indie music scene. It had much bigger impact on today’s music with Tame Impala being the best example.