Some of you may have previously heard of a subgenre of music classified as “Nerdcore”. For those of you unfamiliar with it, here is the description from Wikipedia
Nerdcore hip hop, is a sub-genre of hip hop music characterized by themes and subject matter considered to be of general interest to nerds, though it can appeal to others as well… Though nerdcore rappers rhyme about anything from politics to science fiction, there are some perennial favorites in nerdcore subject matter, including Star Wars, Internet pornography, role-playing games, science, fantasy and computers.
A search for Nerdcore on YouTube returns some interesting results. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nerdcore
One of the first Nerdcore artists “Mc Frontalot” sums up the rationale behind Nerdcore succinctly: “Nerdcore hip-hop is the spinning of geek shame into bravo through rapping”. Geeks taking what they love and spinning it into an art form to share with others.
Nerdcore is fine for those that like repetitive beats, however today on twitter there may be the sparks of a new subgenre of music known as the “First World Problem Blues”. Taking the melancholy and sadness inherent in blues music, but using it to lament on the problems we suffer daily in the first world (examples of this meme can be found here http://www.quickmeme.com/First-World-Problems/).
It started off innocently enough with a well known geek specialising in “Visual Studio Team Foundation”, asked an innocent question on twitter:
Random question – anyone know a good blues guitar teacher?—
Steve Godbold (@SteveGodbold) August 22, 2012
It quickly spiralled out of control as other nerds twisted it into a new shortly lived meme
@SteveGodbold Run out of other ways to express "I've got those TFS blues…"—
Chris Gilbert (@chriswithpants) August 22, 2012
@SteveGodbold @jtango18 @JakCharlton @chriswithpants I ain't got nothin but the #firstworldproblem blues!—
(@DamianM) August 22, 2012
@SteveGodbold @jtango18 @JakCharlton @chriswithpants "Well my old lady done tore down my kanban board"—
(@DamianM) August 22, 2012
Right all, trolling done? Seriously though – blues guitar teacher, in Sydney. Anyone?—
Steve Godbold (@SteveGodbold) August 22, 2012
@SteveGodbold @JakCharlton @jtango18 @chriswithpants "my google can't find no guitar teachers, I got the #firstworldproblem blues"—
(@DamianM) August 22, 2012
@davetchepak @damianm @stevegodbold @jtango18 @chriswithpants "My branch dun merged, but its all outta whack" #firstworldproblemblues—
Jak Charlton (@JakCharlton) August 22, 2012
@SteveGodbold @JakCharlton @jtango18 @chriswithpants Standin down the crossroads, tryin to get team build to work #firstworldproblemblues—
(@DamianM) August 22, 2012
