>>39675124I was a huge music buff, 100-200 albums a year, listed to everything that sounded progressive, experimental, or just interesting and fun, from bubblegum pop to harsh noise wall.
2020 came along, i sat working from home a couple of months. Should have had all the time to enjoy even more music but, after a few weeks, it all seemed so trite.
Just a bunch of assholes trying out sounds that they can sell later.
Even the "truly" in it for the art new stuff sounded hollow and meaningless in this new context.
A few months after, found Vtubers, got emotionally invested. It took a long time to get into vtuber j-pop music, since i was sick of that shit from back in my anime music ranking days, thought it all sounded the same, but slowly got to appreciate it and, well, it matters, because i like the vtubers.
It's that simple.
Most of it won't be "conventionally good", there are some like Marine, Suisei's, Polka's, Ren Zotto's songs and Mori's End of a Life and Kiara's Do U that are pretty great and appreciated by music buffs.
Most will be standard j-pop/rock but they're still fun and interesting to me.
AKS, it's on (You) if you enjoy it anon.
If you don't right now, there's a lot of good albums that came out after the lock-down, give them a try and come back if/when you feel like it.
Peggy, Black Country, New Road, Weyes Blood, Alvvays and King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard come to mind. Hell, even Godspeed You Black Emperor put out a new album.
