“This kind of hip-hop is not new,” Candey said as he traced aspects of the lo-fi subgenre back to Brian Eno’s 1978 album “Ambient 1: Music for Airports.” “But channel is kind of the primary disseminating voice.”Ĭandey likened contemporary lo-fi music to an Eno quote about how ambient music should “accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular it must be as ignorable as it is interesting.” Griffin Candey, a doctoral candidate at the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance, said that he came across the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s lo-fi videos while he was working on a paper about the lo-fi hip-hop community for his musicology class. With more than 11 million subscribers (and tens of thousands of people streaming at most hours of the day and night), it became national news when the Lofi Girl stream was removed for two days during July.

Lo-fi music is often associated with Lofi Girl: the uber-famous YouTube channel that runs a 24/7 stream of lo-fi music set to an illustration of an animated girl wearing a green sweater and large over-ear headphones and calmly writing.

I’m watching my emotional support squid.”

Tell me why im waiting lo fi