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haha, of all the pop stars I am in love with Katy Perry. Been searching for her elmo video all day.
Damn it i was watching it before but its been removed now.
My Katy Perry obsession is worrying.
i need to see that video…elmo vs kate perry.
So wait, you guys are mad because pop artists are desecrating your beloved EDM? You can’t remain part of the exclusive club forever, especially when nobody’s guarding the door. Time to find another obscure genre to jump on before it gets “discovered.”
I’m going to start a new genre called poop stomp. NO WAY a name like that could ever be promulgated by pill popping popstars. THIS will be a base for my DJ stage masked persona
For me its like this: yes, I want a healthy, thriving, forward-thinking, boundary pushing underground. (its where the real heart and soul of any relevant art form should come from)
Its also a sanctuary for many who originally joined this “tribe” of EDM in the first place (the underground). Its a place to escape and oppose much of the qualities, characteristics and influences the “real world” surrounds people with on a daily basis.
It always sucks to see an art form that is precious and personal to you get raided by the machine (no pun intended). The knee-jerk response to something beautiful being mass-marketed, diluted, whored-out and stripped of any heart will usually be disgust from those who remember “the good-ol days”.
But its a cycle and nothing stays entirely pure or “underground” for long. Ask any Punk who was fortunate enough to be part of its early birth or any Raver who experienced the days where there was 1 genre. I think as long as an art form keeps its roots underground and constantly moving forward…you can have the best of both worlds!
As long as record labels can still put out their own style and remain out of the major labels’ perview i’ll be happy.
Same as almost every other genre of music and its fans ever.
Went to my first Subloaded night in Bristol about 6 years ago I think … the dubstep bug never really bit as something to dance to - the production was nice, but it doesn’t work at home, and at the time it was beardstroker central. It’s evolving massively at the moment, if you look at the stuff that’s kicking around in Bristol at the mo (Peverelist, Guido , Joker, Appleblim, Headhunter, Pinch, Gemmy). Hell, Punch Drunk records have just released their 5th year anniversary album … so yeah, it’s been around for a while round these parts …
I have genuinely never know a Genre of music that breeds blinkered fans as much as dubstep.
Even my good friends that love dubstep hate the dubstep obsessives.
Wow, the reactions to this are seriously surprising me…
When people ask me what I love to spin I say underground (minimal) techno. The reason I add “underground” is because it is underground. However, the reason I like the music isn’t because it’s underground, it’s because it’s AWESOME!
Now if tomorrow I woke up, and (minimal) techno was all of a sudden pop, i’d be extremely happy, since this would mean more opportunities to play at gigs, more people who share the same taste in music, more people producing. I’d love it, really.
So I don’t understand why “mainstream” upsets you guys… Sure, changing your style to go mainstream is bad (Guetta?) but when a style is liked by a lot of people, there’s just more to share.
Isn’t that the reason we are dj’s? Sharing the love for our music?
I agree… I spin electro, electro pop and top 40 with my own little twist alot of the times. So if electro keeps becoming more popular and more played on the radios..then I get to hear more good electro music by top notch producers aaaand I get to play more gigs and people feel my music more..Win/win situation I think.
I have said this before, who cares the style, a good song is a good song. Someone asked me once, what was my preferred style of music, I paused and replied: Style? what style? So I answered, Yes!
At the end of the day mix what you feel and feel what you mix. (techno, house, trance, dance, classical, hiphop, r’n’b, dub, latin, folkloric, ethnic, top 40 hell event the bottom 40 if it has a good beat, who cares…)
Thanks and don’t let genres complicate your life, GOOD IS GOOD no mater the genres.
I would rock this Rihanna song at a party without even blinking an eye…
xEleventy Billion
Me too… Im playing this at my Top 40 gigs already and its winner.
Its just a frickin pop song that uses some of the popular production sounds of the moment its not a stealing a genre.
Ridiculous…
Madonna has had this sound for years yet no one complains about that…
More importantly… is Rihanna fit or not.. I can’t work it out.
I agree Perry is fit, and GaGa is not…
Not sure where I stand on rihanna
Thoughts?
Rihanna and Perry and def attractive females…GaGa is a very unattractive…female looking figure…
Its a good question. In some photos Rihanna looks well fit and when she played at the Radio 1 Big Weekend here she looked damn sexy with that umbrella, but in other pics she looks like shes been chasing parked cars…
No-one comes close to my beloved Katy Perry…
Me and my boys used to play a fun (sexist) game called
Fit Butters or Butters Fitty.
Fit means good looking, Butters means ugly.
Many if not most girls (and probably boys) fall in in to one camp or the other. Their either a goodlooking ugly girl or an ugly goodlooking girl.
Rihanna is a fit butters, she looks like she should be ugly but there’s something definitely fit about her…