Speaking of Resident Evil 7 and WTFs, I had a very, very strange coincidence a little while ago.
Earlier today (well, yesterday) I saw on Facebook that a band I know was planning to do a livestream of themselves playing the new Resident Evil game all night. I found this mildly amusing and mentioned it to my friend, describing them as "the most cooked band in the world", which probably isn't too far from the truth.
Hours later, I am sitting opposite that same friend at the dining table, both of us using our respective laptops.
I'm being subjected to his taste in music, which is sometimes rather good but this time was mostly a variety of rather insipid vaporwave with irritating pitch-shifted vocals along with the occasional decent beat. Eventually though I hear something very strange, and, I realised, rather good. At first I thought it was the same artist as the last track and was rather impressed, especially since the guy was actually singing, but no, it was something entirely different.
I go over there to have a look at the Bandcamp page, which displayed rather amusing cover art and (of course) a tantalising tape release on offer. The music kind of reminded me of a more-chill version of some of the best tracks from the We Love Katamari soundtrack. Anyway, I had him scroll down so I could see what genre it was described as, and to my surprise and amazement I saw "Co-released with Gnar Tapes in 2016" in the description.
Gnar Tapes is the label run by the members of The Most Cooked Band In The WorldTM, White Fang.
...Maybe that coincidence doesn't mean that much to y'all, but given how disparate our musical preferences are for the most part it was rather amusing having worlds collide like that. The album in question was on a label that presumably releases vaporwave for the most part, too. Now I'm most likely gonna grab a copy of it on tape once I get paid.
I'm pretty sure the band's Resident Evil livestream is still going strong, by the way, albeit with only one of them still awake.
This rambly tale was brought to you by music-induced euphoria, sleep deprivation and the time 5:25 AM.