Is Electro Swing popular? It seems like the kind of genre that would be good for a few novelty albums, then fizzle out overnight.

>>73
How do you "ironically" consume media?

>>74
You dig it but not for the intentions of the product

>>77
>but not for the intentions of the product
Isn't the music intended to be music?

>>78
The music is intended to conjure an aesthetic. An aesthetic can be enjoyed actively by playing into the themes of the music or ironically by playing the music and trying to figure out what choices were made because an artist had a vision that wanted to be released and which were made to pander to the sort of people who'd enjoy this material unironically. For instance, why is every electro swing song have a massive booming 4/4 bass drum that drowns out everything else until it disapears for a quiet moment? Is this because an artist felt that a club atmosphere would be the right place to mask and distort clever musical passages and improvisations, or because 4/4 is easier to dance aimlessly to?

>>78
That's very reductionist anon

>>134
So you're dissecting and examining why you don't like the songs and who it appeals to and why, then? "Ironically" is a pretty bad descriptor for that kind of activity then, because it's the inverse of how it's usually used, which I believe is intentionally doing something you don't believe is a good use of your time or doing it poorly for attention.
>>170
I'm just trying to puzzle this out.

>>173
I'm gonna put an example I guess: Limp Bizkit's Nookie.
If you heard this unironically it would be about fucking up and how you're only human. Listening it ironically you get humouristic aspects, from the fact that it's about Fred Durst getting cucked and the whole town laughing at him, the term "Nookie" and rhyming it with "Cookie", then saying to stick it up your YEAH, instead of ass. And then the very shallow emotions that are being said on the "I'm only human" part. It all makes for some funny entertainment.
Listening Nookie unironically would mean that you feel mad and with anger from social norms, listening to it ironically makes you laugh at the way this message is presented. Not that one way is the valid manner of listening it, but a song can have more value than it originally wanted to give.