I've listened to this album once. The usual first-time skip through. Tiesto's music introduced me to this dance culture but fuck what a turn he's taken for the worst. It's really weird, too. Here I am on TA about five years into this scene truly disappointed in a guy I was jamming out to 1,825 days ago. Sure, I've burrowed deeper into the music while he has in a phototropic-like way grown himself into a stage whore. But fuck. Another thing that boggles my mind is how much people eat this shit up. I traveled through Creamfields In Search of Sunrise to get to where I am now. I'm astonished at not only how contemptible this package of so-called music is but at how poor other people's tastes are aurally. I don't care if you're a 14-year-old MDMA junkie or a 46-year-old life-long Tijs groupie. This shit is that bad.
Meh. And what the fuck with that cover? Is he trolling? For fuck sake, man.
Signed,
Jul-10-2014 01:33
OrangestO
–30–
Registered: Feb 2010
Location:
quote:
Originally posted by ghostshrooms
Understandably it's pop. 14 year olds and others like pop. Different genres, different tastes, not necessarily poor contemptible music tastes.
Yea, true. It's pop. But at 14 I was listening to Ice Cube if that means anything.
I guess I just can't believe how much he's "sold out." (I hate that term, btw.)
As an artist myself (writer), I can imagine changing that much no matter how many zeros, bottles, or thongs it guaranteed me.
EDIT: Haha. "Writer"
Can't*
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Jul-10-2014 01:56
Dj Pluviose
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Oct 2010
Location:
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And I have to fucking listen to it, as if it were real music. It's like having to give a job interview to a labrador dressed in a bespoke pinstripe.
This shit was hilarious.
Jul-10-2014 20:23
Viber
In Search Of Unicorns
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: City, Country format
quote:
Originally posted by OrangestO
Signed,
Is that you in the pic? please tell me it's you in the pic!
I can't believe ANYONE has made a tattoo of tiest0r
Jul-10-2014 22:24
djnitride
Tiesto played my record
Registered: Nov 2009
Location: Texas
Where is that pic of the guy with a Hardwell, Avicii and Tiesto tattoo....
Jul-10-2014 22:59
tubularbills
Max Power!
Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Middle of fucking nowhere
I didn't even know Tiesto had made a new album. i thought he was just doing the "club life" stuff.
Jul-11-2014 15:38
Swamper
Webmonstah
Registered: Jan 2000
Location: Toronto, Canada
I haven't heard the "album" so I can't comment, however, while us veterans may all hate the music Tiesto now plays you have to admit he is doing something right for prolonging his career -- the kids eat up whatever he plays and those who remember him 'back in the day' are not really coming out to parties any more. Us, the die-hards, who live and breathe electronic music, are offended... but if the 'shit' he plays brings pleasure to the new crop of kids entering the scene who are we to rain on their parade?
(Using all my powers not to become a jaded raver... )
___________________
"In a world of illusion you only see what you feel"
Jul-11-2014 17:17
meriter
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Registered: May 2009
Location:
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Originally posted by Swamper
those who remember him 'back in the day' are not really coming out to parties any more
theres a reason for that
Jul-11-2014 18:00
Mr.Mystery
Static Guru
Registered: Dec 2001
Location: Vantaa
The whole review just reeks of attention-seeking to me. Bashing Tiësto is like shooting fish in a barrel.
Jul-11-2014 18:05
SYSTEM-J
IDKFA.
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Manchester
quote:
Originally posted by Mr.Mystery
The whole review just reeks of attention-seeking to me. Bashing Tiësto is like shooting fish in a barrel.
DJ Mag don't get a great deal of choice in what they write about. Promo companies pay for them to cover things. This particular writer probably had no desire to write a single word about Tiesto.
I didn't have much choice with my review either. I did because we wanted to cover big names to generate web traffic, and I'd dodged out of covering several awful releases in a row, leaving some other poor bastard to do it. Eventually Sykonee forced me to cover it so I got blind drunk and just wrote the first words that came to find. It turned out to be the most popular review I've ever written.
Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
It turned out to be the most popular review I've ever written.
My point exactly.
Jul-11-2014 20:09
SYSTEM-J
IDKFA.
Registered: Sep 2003
Location: Manchester
Your point is wrong. DJ Mag are not going to boost their sales with some 100 word capsule review of a Tiesto album. They cover it because they directly get paid to cover it. How many people read those words is irrelevant to their editorial policy.
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