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What you're noticing is the transition of EDM from an obscure, underground culture where artists are loved and praised for their art into pop culture, where the artists are loved and praised just because. Taking photos at pop concerts has been commonplace for the past thirty, forty, fifty years. The only reason you never really saw it in dance music twenty years ago is because nobody gave a shit in the grand scheme of things. Now, as DJs and live acts are beginning to be treated the same way as people like Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, people are going to treat these shows in the same manner.
You lament that something "happened" or that something "went wrong". Nothing did. Great music is still out there, but you're (in my opinion) not going to find it at big shows like that. Shows that you're talking about are not designed for you, they're designed for everybody - to be easily consumed by as many people as possible and, unfortunately for some, that target audience is the same group of people that go see Lady Gaga and stand behind their cameras. It's just what that culture is used to.
You can either choose to accept the "pop-ification" of the less-underground styles of dance music and put up with it when you're out, or you can choose to go to better venues and see artists that, while possibly lesser-known, are still just as good as good as, if not better than, someone like Armin/Tiesto/Big-name-arena-artist. I go to these kinds of shows all the time, and I really couldn't tell you the last time I saw someone other than the photographer snap a picture of a DJ.
Last edited by idoru on Feb-05-2013 at 18:07
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