Love love love this! As someone who just graduated college with a music degree I can absolutely see all the thematic and stylistic themes you're drawing on in this discussion, as well as understand the elusiveness of the idea of vaporwave.
It certainly describes the aesthetic of this time, of being lost in a world where you're never lost, alone in a world where you're never alone, and on the precipice of a complete transformation in human consciousness.
RE: The Rise of Vaporwave & New Age Aesthetics