Someone said that to me recently I couldn't help but think "wtf?"

Other things that bug the crap out of me is "I just don't want to listen to a set I want to take a journey." or when people make it into a spiritual thing like "Good dance music is when everyone is lost in the floor in the groove and things like people having sex on the dance floor just seems normal and everything is perfect with the world at that instant." I remember that Ishkar dude saying something like that in the past and I was like "what a freak."

I just don't understand this train of thought. I'm thinking people are just so insecure with themselves that they latch themselves onto the music they listen to and try to portray that stereotype. It's as bad as the emo kids that cut themselves, wear black make-up, and write poetry. Music is music and nothing more. People listen to what they like but to change their entire personality and image based on the music they listen to is completely insane to me. Sure, this thread is a little bit of a flame bait but I'm interested in what people think about this type of thought in EDM.

What you all think? I honestly thought this type of thinking about dance music died out around 2002 but lately it seems to be coming back.

as shitty as trance has been lately I don't think I'd want to walk around saying its my life

if its paying your bills, then its your life

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Originally posted by weymouth Someone said that to me recently I couldn't help but think "wtf?"

Was that Armin?

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dude that's what people used to say back in the day, nobody hardly ever says that anymore - much due to the fact that trance music is so different now.

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I don't know about the whole "it's my reason for living" bit, but that part about fucked-up debauchery on the dance floor...?

Yeah, I could dig it.

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What a fucking joke...

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Originally posted by Clovis I remember when I thought trance sets took me on a journey. What a fucking joke...

lol Clovis is an e-tard!

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Originally posted by StanVoid dude that's what people used to say back in the day, nobody hardly ever says that anymore - much due to the fact that trance music is so different now.

+1
just because the latest vocal trance hit or cliche'h supersaw isn't actually psychedelic doesn't mean you need to make a thread about it.

Go listen to some decent stuff and tell me it doesn't change the way you think about things.

And besides... music should change your mood

mood is a temporary change of personality

which will form habits

if you listen to psychedelic music=you become a deeper person

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Last edited by Darkarbiter on Dec-18-2007 at 21:08

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Originally posted by weymouth Music is music and nothing more.

"Literature is literature and nothing more."

"Movies are movies and nothing more."

I'm not sure what you're trying to get at, but I think that music can give people new perspectives or prompt them to rethink some part of their lives just as good books or movies can. You might treat music (or books or movies) as simple entertainment and "nothing more," but plenty of other people happen to see more in it. Hell, pretty much every culture out there uses music in connection with religion in some way. You might like to scoff at that, too, but you'd certainly be in the minority, speaking globally...

I can agree that saying "it's my life" is kind of silly and childish, but that doesn't mean that music's value lies only in entertainment value narrowly construed. Like any kind of art, what you get out of it is going to be influenced by what you expect to get out of it.

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Originally posted by StanVoid dude that's what people used to say back in the day, nobody hardly ever says that anymore - much due to the fact that trance music is so different now.

Errmm different compared to tthe old classic german trance or to the epic/melodic trance of 98? Because if its the second, you must be kidding. The structure of today's trance is actually IDENTICAL to that sound. This is probably a reason why every "older" trance-fan hates trance so much these days. Every tune is constructed in so mathematical and precise ways it makes one seek! You have a build-up with a steady beat in the beginning (usually with lots of non-sense sounds playing) then a long break-down and then a massive comeback with all the elements and the lead-line. There are no alarms and no surprises with this type of music anymore (not that other genres of EDM have changed much...). This from 98. Its like the same thing for 10 years...