Urbancore

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This aesthetic combines ink splashes and punkrock imagery to create a feeling of coolness. It was promintently featured in Persona 5 and has appeared in some of the newer Arc Sytem Works games. Its an aesthetic that appears very sporadically so it hards to pinpoint when it took off. Will try to find more images. This aesthetic can be considered a spinoff of urbancore and maybe shibuya streetpunk.

Hello, ever since I was a child i was obsessed with a certain aesthetic, yet I just never managed to find the exact name for it, for the longest time i referred to it as Underground or Urban, the closest i ever found to what i'm looking for is Urbancore, but it's still not quite there yet.

Yes, it's all very urban, as you may imagine, but it has a very Y2K feel to me, it makes me feel very nostalgic, a couple of the things that i associate with it are subway stations, certain abandoned places, underground parking lots, wet pavement, skate parks, walls covered with old graffiti or posters, brick walls of various kinds, pipes going through walls , sometimes it can have an industrial setting and a green or yellow-ish filter in the whole thing.

I feel that often in music, the best representation of that aesthetic I could find is in the album "Psyence Fiction" by UNKLE, the album cover fits perfectly, and the songs that most fit in it to me are "Be There", "U.N.K.L.E. Main Title Theme" and SPECIALLY "Bloodstain". Other songs that I also think fit in the aesthetic are:

• "Biscuit" by Portishead

• "Shook Ones, Pt. 2" by Mobb Deep

• "Low Place Like Home" by Sneaker Pimps

• "Dirge" by Death in Vegas

• "Numb", "In the End" and "Breaking the Habit" by Linkin Park

• "First Snow" by Emancipator

• "CRX" by Casino Royale

• "Mastermind" and "Things You Can Do" by Deltron 3030

• "Aquela Paz" by Charlie Brown Jr. (1997 version)

As well as these music videos:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUubW5szdwA

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnN9SQi8Mqk

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmDkzVvherk

Another thing I also thing fits perfectly with this aesthetic is the video game Fuzion Frenzy. I remember playing it a lot as a kid and it's probably the main reason why i love this aesthetic so much. The underground stages of Jet Set radio also remind me a lot of this aesthetic, although not as intensily.

Lastly, i sent a couple of album covers and generic images that i think fit in well in this aesthetic, some of these i found in the Urbancore page, so i wonder if this is just me looking too deep into the aesthetic, is it? Is there such thing as Dark Urbancore?

Thank you all for your help :)

(Took these pics myself)

Baby: Babycore

Kid: Kidcore

Teen: Urbancore

Twenties: Hipster

Adult: Corporate

Elderly: Cottagecore

Finished with candycore coloring!

Chosen Aesthetic: Candycore [requested by @Ferret god ace ]

Finished Product:

Next up, Weirdcore/Dreamcore, requested by @Bored-kitten

If you have any requests, leave them down below!

=Current Waiting List=

~Morute [One character] requested by @SweetsunflowersAltAcc

~Cryptidcore [One character] requested by @Kratossteoponme

~Dark Academia [One character] requested by @Axvdemia

~Nostalgia Kidcore & Anemoiacore [Two characters] requested by @Kid once again

~Urbancore [One Character] requested by @Karma8693439

~Goblincore & Spacecore [Two characters] requested by @Fayetheweirdogoblin

A/N for requesting:

[I will not be doing anything such as Traumacore or Ventart, as it is considered rude to take part of it unless having gone through actual trauma.]

.is there a more gray/black/white color palette version of urbancore, that is less centered around abandoned buildings? its mainly centered around looking out your window and seeing the gray cityscape apon your fluffy white/gray bed

(Not my personal aesthetic of normcore, by the way, but one of my favorites.)

Influences:

Dieselpunk, Dark Academia, Steel punk, Urbancore, and Cassette Punk, and especially 1970s Western European, American, Australian, Filipino, and Japanese architecture, art, transportation, political history, and pop culture

Main Colors and Patterns:

Black, cream, white, dark brown, sepia, maroon, plum, olive green, mustard, orange, dark teal, muted colors in stripes and lines or paisley

Main Fashions:

Double-breasted three-piece suits with shirts and ties in those colors, tweed blazers and bow ties, drab pencil skirts and trousers, clunky glasses

Main Typefaces:

original Helvetica, Eurostile, News Gothic

Description of Motifs:

An aesthetic acting as the bridge between Modernism and Postmodernism. Moody atmosphere overall. Characterized by deep-seated skepticism of corrupt government and corporations, glorification of investigative journalism or other actions that involve massive amounts of paperwork in the course of uncovering conspiracies, and particularly an ambivalent view of gritty, grimy city life and modernity (especially middle-class office life) with an undercurrent of paranoia.

Key Technologies and Architectural Styles:

Teletext, Later Electric Typewriters, Mimeographs, Early Microcomputers, Early Photocopiers, Early Subcompact Cars, Concorde and the 747, Shinkansen, Metroliner, TGV and the Advanced Passenger Train, Hovercraft, International Style and Brutalist architecture

Some Seminal Events and Programs:

The Apollo and Skylab programs, the formation of the EPA, USPS, Amtrak, NPR and PBS, OSHA, and especially the Federal Design Improvement Program, Expo ‘70 (known for its prominent architecture focused on triangles, rectangles, and strategic use of color), Watergate, the Wilson premiership, the Marcos presidency, and various other political upheavals of the decade

Films for Good Reference:

Playtime (1967), Saul Bass’ film pitching the new Bell System logo (1969), The French Connection (1970), Shaft (1971), Klute (1971), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Trafic (1971), Get Carter (1971), The Candidate (1972), The Man (1972), Soylent Green (1973), Super Fly (1972), Death Wish (1974), The Parallax View (1974), Dolemite (1975), Three Days of the Condor (1975), Taxi Driver (1976), Marathon Man (1976), All the President’s Men (1976), Network (1976), The China Syndrome (1979), The Post (2017)

Television Shows for Good Reference:

Hawaii Five-O, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Seasons 1-10 of Sesame Street, Curiosity Show, Taxi, The Rockford Files, The Brady Bunch, All in the Family, Maude, Good Times, Supertrain, Seasons 1-5 of Saturday Night Live, Seasons 7-18 of Doctor Who, Season 1 of The Eric Andre Show, Season 1 of The Americans, and any police procedural, musical variety or game show from that decade

Music for Good Reference:

Soundtracks of the above, any acid jazz, jazz rock, electronic, or funk music with strong influence from double bass, bass guitars, early synthesizers, electric piano, or saxophone (Wendy Carlos, the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Roy Budd, Billy Preston, Stevie Wonder, Bob James, Miles Davis, and even Vulfpeck are particularly notable), Pub Rock and Early New Wave (Elvis Costello, Ian Dury, Bruce Woolley, and Dire Straits are good examples), and works by Tom Waits, John Prine, Carly Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Carole King, Helen Reddy, Paul Simon, Eagles, Carpenters, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, The Jacksons, and Nick Drake from that decade