Why can I vividly picture what these smell like?

That you can picture any kind of smell is worth calling a scientist about.

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It's called synesthesia.

I picture your mom every night

That design is called "Jazz" for some reason.

Probably because it’s likely made of the obscenity that is American buttercream.

I got a face mask with this design on it at the start of covid. One day I was walking out of a shop and a guy wearing a jacket with the same design walked past me. We both did the "Spider-Man pointing" meme

I didn't know the cups, but that design has been all over the 90s and especially the colors. Everything was in those colors. Including fake silk track suits.

Back in the late 80s and early 90s we had these things called malls, and they all played music without lyrics, because a mall is a noisy place and any lyrics get lost.

Also I think there were performance fees for playing copyright music. The laws are obtuse.

Anyway, most of the malls settled on this mass produced milquetoast "smooth jazz". And then piped that into all of their stores.

This story has nothing to do with the creation of that pattern, which was made for a Sweetheart Cup Company internal design contest. The designer needed a name that wasn't just Gina's submission, and so a random word was picked.

The fact that most malls had started using those same sort of pastel colors might have had some subconscious impact, but that's just my thoughts on it.

That's better than my lazy assumption that it had to do with an old trope started in the 1950's that resurged during the early personal computer age in the form of lightning bolts, stars, smoke, animations shooting out of an instrument to show the intensity of the musician or just a banging song.

🤓👍

I want to wrap my car like this so bad

That weird waxy coating, right?

Yes, performance fees were, and still are a thing. That's why there are separate streaming services for playing background music in e.g. restaurants and malls, which have licences that cover that use case. You can't just use e.g. Spotify even if you pay the appropriate fees separately, at least where I'm from (Finland). Same goes for playing TV and radio in the background – if it's specifically as background noise or e.g. TV at a bar you typically need separate licencing on top of the one used by the channel itself for distribution. Might be different in the US for example, but copyright laws tend to be quite similar across countries (unfortunately).

The smooth jazz in malls part is likely a lot due to the (historically) overwhelming market share of the company Muzak. They were the pioneer of background music in commercial environments and got a strong enough presence in the market that their name ended up a generic one. AFAIK they're still a large player in the business.

Mall music basically ended up as its own genre due to Muzak and how big it became, and started influencing other media as well. As an example, the style was referred to in the soundtrack of the first Sims game in the buy mode, where it brought with it the feeling of rampant consumerism and buzz of purchasing new stuff. At least according to this video essay on the subject, which in my mind makes its point quite convincingly. (the relevant part from 11:46 onwards re-watched the video and the relevant part actually starts at approx the 5 minute mark, but the video is altogether quite interesting)

With your nose?

I can picture smells but I don't think I have synesthesia, I thought that was just for seeing colors from sounds and stuff?

Pretty sure what you're thinking of is the blasphemy called fondant.

I... I think i was talking about the waxy cups? But maybe that's fondant, too. (Though, somehow my smell association with fondant is the cold freezer-burn smell.)

I would also say I can picture a smell, but maybe "imagine" is a better word.

Synesthesia is any kind of crossing of senses. I had a friend in college who had synesthesia for colors and smells and shapes (I apparently smell like a purple and orange blobby shape) but she also had these weird ways of visualizing time that was also in a similar vein. It's pretty complex and multifaceted.

Edit: This thread is delightfully full of giddy 90s trolls who are goofing on absolutely everything.

Yup, Gina Ekiss had said that the name was just a random word.

https://www.news-leader.com/videos/news/local/ozarks/2015/06/17/28899057/

Whoops, I misunderstood then.

they would have called it jizz, but that was taken by a genre of syncopated space synth bebop

aaaand fuck i just bought drapes in all three of these colors now i know why

My hood has a bunch of rock chips from the track. So I did buy a $40 cheap as fuck wrap off Amazon and did my hood well enough for a first time.

I'm hesitant to do it on the nicer paint, but honestly, it's not even a full side on my white car. I should nut up and finally do it when warm.

I mean yes on the one hand, but on the other hand it's now will the Taco Bell Tortilla.

Oh yeeah

Do it ...anyways

Thanks. Had no idea as a Finn what this was about and I was born in the 80's.

When did they stop making those...

Same. All of what you said. I figured it was something that just wasn't a thing here.

Are you the protagonist of My Summer Car?

I know the game but haven't played it, so you tell me. Am I?

Jazzy af

Mallsoft is also a subgenre of vaporwave.

Of course, true aficionados listen to ‘Attention K-Mart Shoppers’.

Ew who jazzed on the cake?

About that:

‘jazz’: etymology unknown. Numerous references suggest that the term may be connected to ‘jasm’ and ‘jism’.

But what is ‘jism’?

‘jism’: first attested with the meaning “energy” in 1842, and with the meaning “semen” in c.1888.

Seems justified.
Behold 🫴

I would like to introduce you to the jizz wailers. Today may we all be the lucky ten thousand

Please note: [emphasis added]

Appearances Star Wars: Return of the Jedi junior[wtf Ryder Windham???] novelization(First mentioned)

If you curse with things like "dick of a pussy", I'm gonna guess yes.

I don't think I've ever used or even heard the phrase... unfortunately..?

But "the pussy of a dick" would be something like "vitun kyrpä", which is something I may have used once or twice or thrice or...

But it's more like saying "you fucking dick". "Vittu" is our "fuck" more or less, contextually, although if you take it literally it means a certain type of female reproductive organ, yeah. But then again if you take "fuck" literally it's having sex.