Officially announcing the launch of my mix series 😫😤🤩 3 years ago I made this mix for @jerome_sound compiling lots of « cringe » influences that I loved but didn’t feel like I could play irl at the time which led me to question my approach of music and eventually transformed my perception of it leading to the style I have now What are the underlying rules that make certain genres acceptable or not? Seeing the term guilty pleasure pop up~ where does the guilt comes from ? By understanding that music taste is part of our habitus (roughly meaning your framework tends to be shaped by the social groups you have been part of/identify with) can I still vibe with music genres from communities I don’t share the same values with? (an exemple would be music « linked » to yt liberal/« bros » audiences, like house/edm/post skrillex dubstep) I realized that to me cringe is basically internalized social rules that have been forced into you through traumatic events, usually shaming during childhood, making you understand what is or isn’t socially acceptable.
 Cringing being your mirror neurons telling you that you’d be marginalized/excluded from the group if you engaged in said activity/situation that makes you cringe, hence making you unconsciously restrain yourself. Through this series I’d like to open up a space that allows artists to embrace cringe to the fullest, because in the end, if everything/everyone is cringe, nothing is and it gives us the ability to engage with reality and ourselves in a fresh, more authentic way, free of these arbitrary « good taste » rules that are bound to be broken anyway, the cycle of cringe seemingly accelerating in correlation with our consumption of culture. The first episode is scheduled to air on @ola_radio this Friday <3 hope all of this is understandable I’m not very good at explaining complex concepts in a few words but I’ll try to elaborate more every post and dig dipper into cringe theory 😬