Like I said, I think it's trying to emulate vaporwave. Vaporwave is (was?) a music and aesthetic movement that showed up in the beginning of the decade, wholly on the internet. Wikipedia describes it thus:
"It draws primarily on musical and cultural sources from the 1980s and early 1990s while also being associated with an ambiguous or satirical take on consumer capitalism and technoculture. [...]The style's visual aesthetic incorporates early Internet imagery, late 1990s web design, glitch art, and cyberpunk tropes, as well as anime, Greco-Roman statues, and 3D-rendered objects. VHS degradation is another common effect seen in vaporwave art. Generally, artists limit their source material between Japan's economic flourishment in the 1980s and the September 11 attacks or dot-com bubble burst of 2001"
It became a meme and then trickled out into popular culture and can be seen all over the place now, in some form or another. It's not so much a recreation of the 80s/early 90s as it is taking things identifiable from those times to create a mood.
Be More Chill seems to be trying to piggyback on it, which makes sense, given its plot and its internet following. But the show itself definitely doesn't fall into that genre.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."
Updated On: 11/27/18 at 12:01 PM
