Faint Waves Wants To Rescue Us From Living Second-Hand Lives

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Florida-based vapor wave artist, Faint Waves, released a new EP this September, Cameron. The track, "Second-Hand Life" is said to be based off of the 1967 book by Charles Jackson. This artist refers to writer's work as sexual, but also that his idea for this track is expansion from detachment.

Indeed, the story is about a couple, the protagonist who is groomed into nymphomania from a very young age, and the man she loved who left her for another woman. Readers have commented that the man doesn't know how to love and that he wants to learn, which they have referred to as anhedonia. 

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It's important to establish this because it goes with what Faint Wave is expressing with this track. Rather than a sexual matter, "it's really a theme (or protest) against detachment, from reality, from the world around us." His continues to protest that we are becoming more detached, immersed in our lives on social media, our devices, perhaps even our own bubbles and that we need to break away from time to time in order to feel real again. 

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The music is perfectly fitting for the vintage computer animation footage collected for this video. The changes that brighten up this composition start at 1:30. At 1:48, it broadens out and then when the audio goes muffled at 2:31, it's like a VHS tape that got a little damaged as it runs through the top-loader heads. 

The original video source explains the visuals used in it, which is credited to a YouTube channel for collecting them. Having seen these visuals when they came out, I remember them in a collection called The Mind's Eye. Don't know why that hasn't been mentioned. I guess I'm far too fucking old. Oh, well. 

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