I like Top 40 people. I use to be a Top 40 DJ for 12 years. I always HAD to play some stuff I did not really like. I always tried to get around it but sometimes you had to do it to keep the crowd pleased.
I blame marketing and radio. It’s gotten 100 times worse now than it was 10 years ago. Now they have to release stuff. If they sign an artist they force the radio stations (which they own) to play them in heavy rotation and even if a track sucks (the label will argue with the artist and make changes to the track even though they [the label] doesn’t know shit about music production) they have to play it because the signed the artist to 6-10 releases already. Then the idiots who still listen to FM radio will be driving to work and daydreaming about killing their boss while “Swedish House Mafia” blares from their speakers and gets subconsciously embedded in their brain.
Later on they are shopping with their girlfriend at the mall, the gas station, the oil change, the car wash, the barber, the corner store, and the SHM is inescapable. That’s 5 times a day, 35 times a week, 1050 times a week.
Shit by the end of this thread I might like this shitty song too.
Where do you play this track? If I was at a small venue and this track cam on it would be shit. What do people do? jump up and down? Even at a huge venue it’s ridiculous. It has no bassline and no rhythm. This is why this crap works at festivals. People just stand in one spot and jump up and down.
I just listened to it for the first time. Its total dog shit. How anyone would want to listen to/produce/dj this type of music is beyond me. I genuinely believe its a taste thing. Some people don’t have any. SHM included.
This song, at tons of small places in Miami is a hit. Don’t you live here?
My observation from folks like loverocket and the other guy who said this song was crap is that you guys go so much OUT OF YOUR way to go against the grain that you create posts to let people know you are against mainstream. Kinda like to validate it to yourselves. The glass is always half full. Imagine if for every country song, or DnB song, or Glitch Hop, Grime or whatever other genre I don’t listen to I made a post “who the hell listens to this crap” strictly to then tell folks Hip Hop is the better genre, or even better Hip Hop is dead…Hip Hop from the 90’s is real Hip Hop so I must be legit.
It’s this cycle just to prove/validate yourself by going against the mainstream.
SHM — not really crazy about them, but their songs are hits and this is catchy tune. Not sure what the big deal was that this song needed it’s own thread.
Generally the entire rooms raises their hands in the air and sing the chorus together, then rave for a bit when the drums come in, then go back to singing. It works even better if you’ve got a decent lighting rig which can shine spotlights down on the crowd.
I do kind of agree with you. The track in itself is mediocre at its best. SHM did quite a good job with save the world, or greyhound for that matter, but this track just.. doesn’t convey as much energy as their others. The only part i really like is the intro of the extended mix.
Nevertheless, i still get requests for this track at almost every gig, so you can’t deny the reach it had all over the world.
I believe the reason why it’s so popular is that they used it to promote their onelasttour thing, used it as a “farewell track”.
except not as well worded.