Signup for your FREE trial to The Great Courses Plus here: http://ow.ly/sOeo30rkCRJ Have you ever listened to lofi hiphop when you need to study, focus, or relax? Over the past 3 years, lofi stations like ChilledCow/Lofi Girl have grown a community based on that premise. In this video, Sabrina explores why lofi has become the poster child for study music and if it even works. She also tries to teach a machine to generate lofi music and... it wasn't great. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MONTHLY NEWSLETTER https://www.answerinprogress.com/newsletter SOCIAL MEDIA Sabrina Twitter: https://twitter.com/nerdyandquirky Instagram: http://instagram.com/nerdyandquirky Melissa Twitter: https://twitter.com/mehlizfern Instagram: http://instagram.com/mehlizfern Taha Twitter: https://twitter.com/khanstopme Instagram: http://instagram.com/khanstopme CREDITS Produced by Sabrina Cruz Video Editing by Joe Trickey Motion Design by Sabrina Cruz Sound Design by Joe Trickey MUSIC Epidemic Sound. Get started today. http://share.epidemicsound.com/answerinprogress THUMBNAIL Lofi Girl is an illustration by Juan Pablo Machado for the ChilledCow YouTube channel. RECOMMENDED READING Understanding J Dilla: The Soul of Hip Hop (2020) by Volksgeist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaFczz4NuwY Generating Songs With Neural Networks (Neural Composer) (2018) by CodeParade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWxfnNXlVy8 How lo-fi artists make music perfect for work. (Or studying. Or chilling.) (2020) by Steven Johnson https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/how-lo-fi-artists-make-music-perfect-for-work-or-studying-or-chilling/2020/02/18/c88bf92e-49e4-11ea-bdbf-1dfb23249293_story.html TIMESTAMPS 00:00 weird flex but okay 00:26 if another one of yall say i have ADHD, i fight 01:25 research montage is my happy place 01:47 the anatomy of lofi hiphop 02:29 sacrificing myself to the machine 03:25 debugging? more like depressing. 04:37 avoiding my problems 05:15 why lofi music helps you focus 06:49 time to get my code to work! 07:19 i couldn't get my code to work. 10:44 extracting a lesson from the mess 11:46 share this video with a friend who listens to lofi 11:53 paying the bills ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to the joke under the fold! This is a genuinely terrible one. I'm sorry. What's a rabbit's favourite genre of music? Hippity hop. I'm so sorry about that one. Leave a comment with the word HOP to let me know you were here ;-)