Why is Shoegaze So Popular Again?

Alan McGee is Scottish. He’s not a cockney.

Happy days are here again! 😄

Loveless was my favorite album of the 90s. It’s nice to get company, at long last, especially since everyone now seems so well studied across the genres. This earned a subscription.

So popular again?!?! 😂😂😂😂😂

Ah yeah, the classic shoegaze album Slovaki

I’ve tried to connect with MBV. No luck, despite being a huge fan of Slowdive, Lush and Sonic Youth.

I was going to be at that Atlanta show, but missed due to unforeseen circumstances. At least I caught them in 2017, when they were here last. As an old Gen X shoegeezer, I think these things tend to skip a generation; I can relate much easier to Gen Z than I ever could to Millennials.

Super old head chiming in. I grew up listening to early 80's punk ahead of the grunge explosion. Shoegaze at the time kind of felt (to me at least) heavy with extras. Like extra guitar tone, extra melody. I never felt the nerd aspect of the pedal setups but now I'm a software engineer who's spent the last 3 days listening to They Gutted a Body of Water so there's that. At the time I never heard anyone say "I'm a shoegaze fan" it was just "this shit is awesome". Now my kid is showing me Duster like I'm some old moron.

Boring boring boring

The three cornerstones of Shoegaze are MBV's Loveless, Slowdive's Souvlaki and RIDE's Nowhere.

The shoegaze revival began at least ten years ago. Catch up.

CURVE and LUSH!!!!

too bad that ridiculous 'shoegaze' term's been adopted!

I love how they're so casual about getting to interview f-ing Slowdive (and kind of envious ngl)

"again" ............
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y r young ppl so stupid again ?

Japanese Shoegaze is still alive and well.

Hey, I'm relatively new to your guys' stuff, but I dig it! Just wondering what yall's opinion on Hum is? Idk if you've talked about them in previous vids but I'm interested why gen-z hasn't gravitated to them in the same way they have to bands like Slowdive, even though they have a pretty unique and gazey sound.

Shoegaze has been cool again for at least 10 or 12 years. Surprised you didn't notice.😊

Interesting macro take. Shoegaze was always a very particular microbrew at the bar of late 80s/early 90s alternative music. MBV, Slowdive, Ride. I do agree that nostalgia and the internet helped bring the scene more visibility recently and there is appeal to this scene for kinda nerdy kids who want to be into something others don’t get or don’t want to get. But…you missed in major thing. Like the God Particle of Shoegaze…”Psychocandy” by The Jesus and Mary Chain. Having lived through these years, it was always obvious that JAMC were the godfathers of this scene. But I guess the further we go from those years and the more kids are forced to learn about this stuff through “the internet” and not real life, it’s understandable that JAMC would not be picked up.

I'm a Boomer who loves Shoegaze. This video started off great, but you slowly lost your way. Now get off my lawn!

Make Shoegaze Great AGAIN!!!!

Ironically, some of the iconic shoegaze kids such as Miki Berenyi of lush and Toni Halliday of Curve, had a difficult childhood and lived through traumatic events. Not the suburban bourgeois the press pretended they were...

Being at a Slowdive show is like dissolving into music and light. You feel the music travelling through your body. You're almost lifted from the ground, and detached from time and space. You feel the strobes flashing through your eyelids. It's a nuclear explosion. It's intense. You need earplugs if you want to stay healthy.

I am an old person who was young when this all started, and it's pretty exciting to see all these bands keeping the sound alive. I just want to put it out there that shoegaze never actually died, there have been bands like Airiel, Highspire, The Joy Formidable and perhaps most obviously, DIIV that have kept the flame smoldering through the... let's call it "Millenial years".

Sandalgaze will become popular soon.

I also like midwest, nerd intensity 100%

dude at the end was real.

shoutout to atlanta

I guess my zoomer students and I were discovering shoegaze at the same time during the pandemic. It hooked me so intensely that I finally started singing with a band and recorded a shoegaze album. I was born '89 so you cant blame me for missing it its first time around.

i like shoegaze ... but i hate my bloody valentine

Bruh Slowdive

I was born in 1956, I am watching😁

It’s not?

I LOVE LISTENING TO OBSCURE SHOEGAZE 🗣📢🔥🔥🔥

I don't know why it's come back, but I will say I know that genre has evolved and blended with grunge and metal in its current state and a bunch of cool bands have come out around that sound in recent years

What about Hum??? No mention of Hum?

Dig on Swervedriver and Ride.

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It was a fun time to be in the business.

This has inspired my dissertation thank you

SHOEGAZE IS ALIVE

Shoegaze? More like, GOONgaze amirite guys?

mad druidess mention

I’m a GenX OG shoegaze fan. This is a fair assessment of the music’s historical roots. I’m reliving my younger years thanks to the new Shoegaze/Dreampop revival happening now. A DKFM fan thanking the folks at NeoPunkFM.

the only reason shoegaze is good is because it produced a song sampled by semetary

the new shit isnt shoegaze, throwing some distortion and normal reverb isnt shoegaze. If that was the case then nirvana and smashing pumpkins and fucking kiss would be shoegaze, deftones was never shoegaze. this kids dont eben know what an alesis midiverb 2 or yamaha spx90 is which is what makes the shoegaze sound. Theres this new kid called flying fish and he literally made a song on fl studio with no guitars what so ever just VSTs and people are caliing that shoegaze u cant make this shit up. All of new "shoegaze" is just post rock fckingidiots