Bedroom Pop

Bedroom Pop. Even if you haven't hard the term, you've probably listened to it.

It's intertwined with lo-fi ("lo-fi" stands for "low fidelity", a musical aesthetic in which the sound quality of the music lower than contemporary musical standards and is characterized by recognizable imperfections in the recording and production), and is often used interchangably with it. The genre expanded alongside the rise of the Internet and is pushed forward by a generation of artists who have never known life without the World Wide Web.

John Stein of Spotify says, "There's a certain lo-fi, psychedelic-leaning sound that most artists in the space touch on, but the real thing that connects these artists... is that they're creative and independently mnded. They're making their music themselves - it's personal, and it feels fresh and real to fans. To most people, your bedroom is where you can truly be yourself... I think the term works well in that mindset."

In this decade especially, lo-fi and bedroom pop has solidified itself into a musical sub-genre, giving rise to a development of other downtempo music tagged as "lo-fi hip hop" or "chillhop." It has also solidified itself into a movement of artists who, for the first time in history, are able to find and connect with a community of like-minded people who were raised alongside, if not raised by, the Internet.

Tl;dr, Gen Z culture is heavily influenced by the online world and rapidly evolving technology, and bedroom pop, or lo-fi, is a good example of that. 

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