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barber beats

barber beats noun: a chillout style that emerged in mid-2010s, heavily inspired from vaporwave techniques, downtempo, trip hop and instrumental hip hop.

Noun

barber beats (uncountable)

  1. a chillout style that emerged in mid-2010s, heavily inspired from vaporwave techniques, downtempo, trip hop and instrumental hip hop.
    • People still trying to dismiss barber beats as “low effort” fail to realize that most of the high effort stuff, or even the sample free nonsense, misses the point of vaporwave entirely. I bet when it started, real musicians felt the same about the scene as a whole.2022 December 8, @derivativenc, Twitter, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2024
    • Capturing the elements of Vaporwave with the utilization of warm soul samples and Lo-Fi Hip-Hop in musical arrangement, Barber Beats prominently provided a new yet, familiar taste.2023 January 7, Jeremy Adrian Eudin, Village Pipol, archived from the original on 16 Mar 2024

Origin of barber beats

Coined by Aloe City Wrld music label, when describing the production style of Haircuts for Men.

Questions about barber beats

What does barber beats mean?
Barber beats means a chillout style that emerged in mid-2010s, heavily inspired from vaporwave techniques, downtempo, trip hop and instrumental hip hop.
What part of speech is barber beats?
Barber beats is a noun.

Words near barber beats in the dictionary

  1. barbequeing
  2. barbeques
  3. barbequey
  4. barbequing
  5. barber
  6. barber beats
  7. barber chair
  8. barber chaired
  9. barber chairing
  10. barber chairs
  11. Barber County

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