Rihanna “Only One” (in the world) - Pop is the new techno??
Is it just me, or has the pop scene been slowly stealing away our thunder by becoming more and more electro? I think its great that electronic is growing and that almost everyone knows who tiesto or david guetta (even tho i cant stand guetta) is. And dont get me wrong, i like pop every now and then…but if the day came where pop and electronic/house/techno was mistaken for each other, that would be a very sad day for me. Thoughts? Strong biased opinions? lol
I recall the same lamentation when Sasha was working on remix for Madonna in the late 90s. Electro has been a wildly popular sound for the past few years and it’s unsurprising that it should trickle up into the mainstream. What bothers me is most videos I watch on youtube has a lot of fist pumping head bobbers who don’t dance
haha, yeah…if i was a club owner, id have my bouncers kick the kids out that dont appreciate good music. its called dance music for a reason! at LEAST jump around alittle. more often then not, people around you are too f-ed up or enjoying the music too much to notice how bad you suck at dancing lol.
Happens every few years or so. EDM based pop will slowly and grotesquely eat itself over the next year until another underground sound gets co-opted leaving your electro safe to enjoy again.
Last year at school when I DJ’d parties, nobody wanted dubstep, now almost literally every house party I go to is a dubstep party. It really has taken over.
thats another funny thing about us EDM lovers…and for that matter most non-mainstream fans. they WANT it to stay out of the mainstream. its like they want to be part of an exclusive club of fans lol. the fact that deadmau5 got to “dj” for the VMAs is a huge step for him. even as little of attention that he got, and little air time that he had…his facebook fan page jumped from 500k to a million in like a week! and the fact that he ustreams almost once a week. that is simply unheard of from someone of his “level of fame”. anyways, i dont mean to stray from the whole point of this website and its forum…but i just thought it was interesting.
dubstep is pretty sweet stuff, but it seems to be limited to that one sound your talking about space monkey…and its been around in england for a while now if im not mistaken.
I think that glitchy electro house sound from wolfgang gartner and porter robinson is what seems to be exploding in the clubs now. the crowd goes wild in dallas at lizard lounge when they hear wolfgang being played
I was lucky to attend this year’s VMAs, and I can you Deadmau5 did squat. Seeing his custom booth was nice, but he didnt performed or really his music much. They could have had any dude up there with a video mouse head on. The music he played was a mix of his and other VMA artists. I think it’s funny, he sh!tted on DJ a few years back, and he took a role of one at the VMAs.
IMO, its good and bad that EDM is going mainstream again, that means as DJs, we could get more work to play the music we like instead of mixing stuff we dont like.
In Other News, Britney Spears Working With Dubstep Producer Rusko On New Album
Britney & Rusko is old news, about 5 months old at least.
What did anyone expect..?
Did anyone expect that Dubstep, as a Genre was more discerning or that its main players (or even its underground players) were less into making money or chasing fame.
There are some serioulsy deluded people in the dubstep scene… really.
wow, see there exactly is what i was talking about. britney spears and rusko?? how f-ed up was the person that said “lets get these two together and make a track for her new album!” i like rusko, he has some good stuff…and britney even has her place and time, but together is like putting salt on ice-cream, or sugar on popcorn…you just dont do it!
I love music and I love it when other people love music. Well except for Katy Perry maybe, she molested Elmo and I can’t stand people messing with Elmo. .
