Can trance be considered underground music yet? or just popular music?

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Posted by Zombie0915 on Oct-28-2005 18:08:

I miss when we realized that we were all part of the masses, rather than being so full of ourselves thinking that we are some higher class that was allowed to constantly bitch about the general population.

I like music made for the masses, I like commercial products, I like sharing a lowest common denominator with alot of people, horay for mass produced cheap crap, cheap crap for everybody yay pop music.

I just can't help but enjoy the music, I dont pay attention to its status at all, I have a certain tase but somtimes its for stuff on the top40 radio and sometimes random songs made from complete unknowns stumbled upon through the internet. I also like other musics that are considered cooler on here, I dont think that they are necessarily incompatible with each other the way lots of other people seem to think. I dont bother judging a style against its history or anything like that, there is plenty of time for me to listen to alot of music so I really find no need in ranking genres over others. Why does it matter if trance is popular or underground?

Posted by GuyintheTV on Oct-28-2005 19:09:

"trance = mainstream EDM"

OMG, STFU. Here in America, Ashlee Simpson sold the most records in 2004. Now, honestly...can you really compare ANY trance DJ with Ashlee FUCKING Simpson? Mainstream? Nobody even knows WHAT THE FUCK trance is. We, in our secluded little niche on the internet discuss songs that MAYBE 2 to 3 million Americans have even HEARD of. The reality is that there has been two trance (arguably) songs that have transcended the EDM genre into mainstream American culture. Darude's Sandstorm, and DHT's Listen to Your Heart. If you wanted to argue, one more could be Castles In The Sky by Ian Van Dahl. Andy Moor is not mainstream, comercialized cheese. HAHA. I'd like to see a survey of Amercians who even KNOW who he is. I'm guessing on about 2 to 2 1/2 mill. people. Whereas Ashlee Simpson, or Alicia Keys, or Nickelback or any of the top 200 would probably get about 200 million. Every genre of music is filled with artists who want to make money and be successful. Every song, that has ever been recorded, was made by someone who had dreams of that song being heard all over the world by millions of people. Saying a song is comercial because it was made just to 'make money,' is a stupid fucking naïve statement by a pathetic fanboy whining bitch. Trance, at least in America, is not even in the lower echelon of sub popularity (what POP actually means). Like what you like, and stop categorizing and recategorizing what you like every few years after determining its' place in your pretentious hierarchy of trance appurtenance.

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Posted by sleepydragon on Oct-28-2005 20:55:

yeah but thats america americans dont have a fucking clue in europe trance is commercial

Posted by sleepydragon on Oct-28-2005 20:58:

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Originally posted by GuyintheTV
Saying a song is comercial because it was made just to 'make money,' is a stupid fucking naïve statement by a pathetic fanboy

if ur refering to me why am i pathetic fanboy i think trance is wank now and how is it naive to say that why else would people like tiesto make these cheesy tracks if he didnt want to make money from them hes a sell out.

Posted by Lepanto on Oct-28-2005 21:05:

please look up a 4 or 5 posts where i clearly explained that ANYTHING made to make money is commercial.

the rarest 100 copies vinyl IS COMMERCIAL in a showbiz sense. NOT mainstream.

Posted by sleepydragon on Oct-28-2005 21:19:

i was only joking about that american thing by the way before any americans get offended and bash me

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