Originally posted by Bryce Santiago
The article looks good but I can't read it, it's too small and when I zoom in it won't fit in the window. If you have a PDF i'd like to read it.
If you click "View this document on Scribd" it's larger and easier to read. If that's still not enough, you can click on fullscreen from there.
Guest
errrrrrrrrr I found a few grammar mistakes :(
p.s interesting article though
acronym
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Originally posted by chris1011
errrrrrrrrr I found a few grammar mistakes :(
p.s interesting article though
Oh aye, there are almost certainly mistakes. It was the end of the year and I was absolutely swamped with projects. My attention slipped.
nacarter
One of the problems that EDM will always have is that the songs don't cater to the short attention spans of mainstream audiences. 12-17 year olds buying music want formulaic songs with catchy vocals neatly packaged into a 3-3.5 minute format. Radio caters to this demographic + they want to fit in as many commercials as possible, so they don't want long songs either. The Ritalin generation simply can't do a 5-7 minute song. Yes, we all think that pretty much all trance done in the last 5+ years is dull and formulaic, but it's still pretty out there compared with the mainstream product () that's been pushed by the labels for the last 50 years.
And let's not even get into chord progression and arpeggiation.
On a slightly unrelated note - the biggest upside of hiphop is that it gives strippers a never ending playlist of nasty to shake it to.
Sly_Guy
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Originally posted by StereoPrincess
and i think the drugs thing is just a cop out. rock and roll is definitely more ingrained with drug culture than EDM ever was.
worst drugs at that. heroin is not your friend. and rock is very very popular.
I don't know about that. You typical EDM event crowd probably does a lot more drugs in a lot more variety than your rock concert crowd. And that is atypical in a sense that there are more people who listen to the EDM genre who use them, not just the artists who create it.
But that being said, music is music, not a statement on the recreational preferences of those listening. Drugs have never stopped good music from gaining exposure or popularity, whether it be Jimi Hendrix lining his headband with coke, or Carl Cox snuffing candy off a spinning vinyl. The issue I think that the mainstream would have with EDM is the conception that you've gotta be ed up to enjoy it, and with the US government's political stance of "drugs are bad, m'kay", it scares off elements of the mainstream that still believe everything they're told through irrational shock commercials like this one:
Nick Cenik
It's too mainstream as it is.
Zyklon_Jay
yeah every song needs takakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakakak kaka kaka kaka kaka kaka for 4 hours.
*~LiSa-LoO~*
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Originally posted by Zyklon_Jay
wow, epic thread....if epic meant retarded.
Kind of like your personality then.
samhouse
Its totally fine how it is. Mainstream dance and vocal pop can have its fun on the radio airwaves and the cutting edge underground artists can continue to evolve and take the music in wonderful new directions.
CandyGirl
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Originally posted by GGM
I hope not.
Sums it up perfectly.
*~LiSa-LoO~*
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Originally posted by CandyGirl
Sums it up perfectly.
