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once your tastes evolve (they have to), you will progress on to other types, styles, genres, whatever; of music. im willing to bet that the majority of EDM listeners start with trance. im also willing to bet that once you have spent some good time with EDM as a whole, your tastes will have changed. people just don't start listening to mainstream trance (the genre some might call cheesy) after having a long history in their local underground breakcore movment. it happens the other way around. this happens because mainstream music (dont even begin to tell me trance isnt mainstream) is accessible. trance is relatively mainstream, therefore its alot easier to stuble across and discover it than alot of the more underground types of electronic music, or music in general. now dont start the arguement about how trance is popular because its good. trance is popular because its formulaic. formulaic sells. look at pop and hiphop. half the popular mainstream shit out there...dont begin to tell me its good. but there ARE people who defend it and listen to it, even though we call it shit, or cheesy, etc. same thing here, guys. just on a minor scale.
look at alot of the producers that we have here on these boards. alot of them tend to try and make trance music. ive been there, man. you start a song with a specific intention. in these cases, it seems to be that the intention is trance music. even unknowingly, to the subtlest details, you take influence from the music you listen to. i guess thats a bad example because not all of you can relate.
back to what i was saying before. you start listening to trance (or any mainstream music) first because of the accessibility. everyone starts listening to mainstream music when they get into it. sometimes it takes years, sometimes months. but thats how everyone starts, give or take the luckey few who grow up without such influences. again, as your tastes expand and progress, which they do over time, your thirst and need for new music to listen to, grows. SO you dig deeper. alot of the people who have answered that calling and dug deeper, tend to bash on the more mainstream music because some how the whole process of expanding tastes which i described, seems somehow evident to them. and in this case, people get REALLY defensive because trance is built around emotion. hip-hop isn't built around powerful layed SS chords or love-injected vocals, "fuck" "bitch" "YEEEAH!" doesnt stir as much emotion, for sure. so your dealing with a very powerful genre. thats why i think people latch on to it and defend it the way they do, because when your stuck in that aformentioned mainstream progression process, the music your listening to, is all you know. thats the thing with mainstream music. its formulaic, so there IS something for everyone. if music was so intensely varied in the mainstream, people new to the scene would find thing much to radical and different for them. hence why people tend to hand to genres and defend them so much. and like i said, when your dealing with something that sparks as much emotive as trance...well you got a bunch of people on guard, on edge, and ready to argue. hence these annoying fucking bitch-fests with people talking shit and defending things they know FUCK ALL about. that means you gouryella. if you dont know why im pointing you, you must have not read what i so generously spent 5 minutes typing, above.
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