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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.

Mc Frontalot

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:

http://twitter.com/SteveGodbold/status/238120794406932480

It quickly spiralled out of control as other nerds twisted it into a new shortly lived meme

http://twitter.com/chriswithpants/status/238121500685774848

http://twitter.com/DamianM/status/238121751492562944

http://twitter.com/DamianM/status/238122005625446401

http://twitter.com/SteveGodbold/status/238122391014879233

http://twitter.com/DamianM/status/238122690504970240

http://twitter.com/JakCharlton/status/238124099593965568

http://twitter.com/DamianM/status/238125364872888321

By David Burela