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How do your non-EDM listening friends react when you tell them that you listen to EDM? (pg. 5)
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| Redd |
| quote: | Originally posted by euphoria
I've phased all of the non-edm listening people out of my life. Music is such an important part of my life I really feel that I can't relate to anyone who doesn't listen to it. |
w t f ?
I don't know if I should feel sorry for you because you're filtering out a load of friends because you're stuck up, or envy you for being able to still have friends when applied said filter. |
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| euphoria |
| quote: | Originally posted by Redd
w t f ?
I don't know if I should feel sorry for you because you're filtering out a load of friends because you're stuck up, or envy you for being able to still have friends when applied said filter. |
They listen to other styles of music, but they also listen to EDM. The friends I had that didn't listen to it or hated it....we just grew apart. There was nothing to talk to them about anymore. I would call them and tell them about a great song I heard, or a good DJ I went to see and they would be like I don't give a , all I care about is hip-hop. So why do I need friends like that?
I am willing to be friends with people who don't necesarrily listen but respect it or are willing to tolerate it when they are around me but there aren't many people like that. They are just into what they are into and that's it. |
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| sweetcaroline |
| quote: | Originally posted by SYSTEM-J
What's more interesting is the subtle way people distance themselves from you based on it. |
^This.
I mostly get silence, which is quite telling.
I can't tell you how many times I have brought a friend to a FREE party or gave them a mix CD and got no reaction at all.
I have given up on talking to my friends about electronic music and instead joined TA and made new friends who love this music. I'd rather go alone to a party and meet someone new than drag a friend along, who wants to sit at the bar or hang in the back.
One thing I have noticed is that EDM fans may be more passionate about music and its culture in general. My non EDM loving friends don't scan message boards, download livesets or spend thousands of dollars buying music and attending parties. Nor do they delve deeply into what makes a truly good track or an extraordinary set.
I think System J's comment nailed it... It's not only that we like different kinds of music, but we actually engage music in a completely different way. |
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| Domesticated |
| quote: | Originally posted by enydo
It has everything to do with culture. America, for the most part, has never really experienced the type of electronic music boom that Europe has. It has increased in popularity, and we're seeing acts like the ones you mentioned utilizing the style and flavor of electronic music, but it just hasn't had the history here. |
Hasn't had a history there? House and techno were invented in the states, as I'm sure you well know.
| quote: | Originally posted by Viber
"You dont look like someone who listens to this kind of stuff" |
I got that from this dumb yank I met the other day and I was very surprised by it. However, I think it's a euphemism for "you don't look like the kind of person who takes drugs." Many people believe that electronic music is never enjoyed without chemical assistance. |
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| floyd741 |
| quote: | Originally posted by sweetcaroline
I can't tell you how many times I have brought a friend to a FREE party or gave them a mix CD and got no reaction at all.
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+1
Just yesterday I gave my friend a short DnB mix I made to see if he liked it and when I asked him what he thought he said he forgot that I even gave him the CD.
I was trying to expose another friend of mine to house music because he likes disco. I've told him to look up a few songs but everyday he tells me that he forgot to. I even told him that I would burn him a CD or put some tracks on a flash drive but he tells me, and I quote, "Don't bother, I probably won't listen to it".
What is this aversion to EDM that so many people have? The really bad ones are the people that don't consider it real music. |
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| floyd741 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
Hasn't had a history there? House and techno were invented in the states, as I'm sure you well know.
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That's very true but the few clubs in Chicago/New York/Detroit were nothing compared the whole summer of love thing in the UK. In the US it was black people (minority) who were leading the EDM scene. In the UK it was all the white kids (majority).
Also, you can never forget about trance as it started in Germany. Though EDM was (afaik) created in the US, it was in Europe that EDM was made popular. |
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| Domesticated |
| quote: | Originally posted by floyd741
That's very true but the few clubs in Chicago/New York/Detroit were nothing compared the whole summer of love thing in the UK. In the US it was black people (minority) who were leading the EDM scene. In the UK it was all the white kids (majority).
Also, you can never forget about trance as it started in Germany. Though EDM was (afaik) created in the US, it was in Europe that EDM was made popular. |
That's completely true. However, to say that electronic music has no history in the states is still erroneous. |
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| boris_the_bear |
| quote: | Originally posted by euphoria
They listen to other styles of music, but they also listen to EDM. The friends I had that didn't listen to it or hated it....we just grew apart. There was nothing to talk to them about anymore. |
all you talk about with your friends is music? :stongue: i think that's a bit socially handicapped :rolleyes: |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by Domesticated
I got that from this dumb yank I met the other day and I was very surprised by it. However, I think it's a euphemism for "you don't look like the kind of person who takes drugs." Many people believe that electronic music is never enjoyed without chemical assistance. |
Like I said at the start:
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
They probably think it is all stupid repetitive talentless crap with an obnoxiously loud bass drum and a shelf life of thirty minutes, so how could anyone get into that without some serious drugs? |
That is the attitude in America, disregarding a few big cities.
| quote: | Originally posted by sweetcaroline
One thing I have noticed is that EDM fans may be more passionate about music and its culture in general. My non EDM loving friends don't scan message boards, download livesets or spend thousands of dollars buying music and attending parties. Nor do they delve deeply into what makes a truly good track or an extraordinary set.
I think System J's comment nailed it... It's not only that we like different kinds of music, but we actually engage music in a completely different way. |
This is because it is less popular than other kinds of music. For people to get into less popular genres, they need to care about music at least enough to be irritated by the crap they hear every day on TV and radio and seek out something different. |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| quote: | Originally posted by Gen3r4l1ty
Same principal applies. Be it fashion, music, movies, or books, you will find that everyone appreciates things on varying levels. Why have such concern for what others enjoy in life? |
You're missing my point. We have to wear clothes, but we don't have to care about them. Music is totally different because it does not serve any utilitarian role in our life, it's entirely an interest. If I'm interested in something, I'm ing interested in it. Music, films, books, whatever. There's no interest in my life that I digest in the role of a passive, mindless consumer. |
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| paulandrews |
| quote: | Originally posted by floyd741
What is this aversion to EDM that so many people have? The really bad ones are the people that don't consider it real music. |
Is it really aversion, though? They probably just don't care. It's not that important for them, as well as many other things. People are becoming more superficial in general. |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by paulandrews
Is it really aversion, though? |
It is actual aversion for a lot of Americans. For them, EDM is devoid of talent. Rock musicians have to play an instrument or sing, and rappers at least have to come up with lyrics and lay them down to a beat, which takes some skill to do well. But what do dance music "artists" do? Press a few buttons while hopped up on pills?
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