Chillwave has evolved into a controversial genre, and internet music critics are taking sides in a war--either u can validate the genre, or fight to discredit it. Being 'down' with chillwave means that you are 'young' and 'down with the fun, modern scene.' H8ing chillwave means that you are older, and more about 'rock n roll' and h8 what 'indie internet music has evolved in2.' Many older music critics are using anti-chillwave pieces to subconsciously voice their frustration with the death of the music critic / paying music journalism positions.

After the New York Times wrote a 'scathing' blog post about chillwave, some Village Voice blog writer wrote a piece 'in defense' of chillwave.

He 'asserts' that old people h8 every new trend:

In short, chillwave sucks because it retrofits older, better music for younger, more ignorant, stuck-up weirdos and nerds. Sounds like the critique lobbed at every indie trend of the past decade.

Wonder if critics even care about 'the scene' / 'art', or if they are just trying to get blog hits with the google search term 'chillwave.'

It seems like most anti chillwave pieces are just trying to 'hate on hipsters' where hipster is defined as 'modern internet consumer of indie music':

Chillwave contrives a revaluation of the past and present. It gathers the still too-loaded sounds and emotions of the '80s and confronts a contemporary audience (generation, maybe?) with them, raw and uncooked. The slivers of beachy ambience in, say, Animal Collective or MGMT actually sound like a "hedged hipster imitation" of the go-for-broke cheez chillwave's fully embraced. This is why Pareles' comment that the music is "non-commital" is so baffling. Chillwave really goes there.

Is chillwave going 2 be around 4evr?

That chillwave is now a bonafide scene, including not just a few stragglers here and there, but small labels full of them, suggests a tiny but significant shift in sensibility. As in: 'Hey, let's cut the bullshit. New age, on its own terms even, can be pretty good.' And though chillwave's nostalgic for new age and other unthinkably "bad" aspects of the '80s, it doesn't necessarily revere them

Is chillwave here 2 stay, whether we like it or not?

What side r u on in the chillwave war?
Are anti-chillwavers sort of like people who 'didn't like rock n roll'?
Does chillwave represent everything that is wrong with music?
Will chillwave become the new 'indie' in 2k15?
Is chillwave bashing the new 'hipster bashing'?
Will 'old people' and 'traditional music journalists' h8 everything that the internet breeds?