Vaporwave is a hyper-specific subgenre, or "microgenre," that is both a form of electronic music and an art style, although it is sometimes suggested to be primarily a visual medium. Statues represent the re-appropriation of classical art into popular culture, the 80s/90s in particular seemed to have a obsession with revitalizing classic designs to appear "modern", which now appear kitschy and dated. Some have declared this genre dead.