Retrowave/Synthwave

I'm largely on the flipside of this. Much of the stuff today has a homogenized repetition to it, (re)creating musicality, sounds and soundscapes with the self-awareness of a themed costume party. Thing is, either the artist composes memorable tracks or he/she doesn't, regardless of the style. And there are in fact some good songs throughout Neo-80s that I've quite enjoyed, that don't come off either forced or campy. But it's a classic case of diamonds in the rough, where the overwhelming sea of content being put out regularly suffers from too much sameness; I listen to any five random tracks from random artists and I just get bored with it. 

Comparably, the original music from its time was much less controlled, wearing different hats via different-yet-parallel subgenres, from mainstream MTV Pop to Electro-Funk, Italo Disco and, arguably, at its best and purest with new wave film/television scoring—all of it rife with a self-driving sense of independent experimentation, less a thing fashion than it was genuine discovery. The authenticity of such novelty affords the better part of its content a sense of uniqueness. Neo-80s only every really acts as a pharmaceutical of sorts by isolating strands of the original era as something to be manufactured; at its best lies a handful of genuinely gifted and inspired artists -- or artists at their best moments -- while the rest of it for me is a bit too monotonously hipsterish.