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Will "electronic music" ever be recognized as a legitimate music genre?
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| StereoPrincess |
So after watching all these award shows, will EDM ever break the main stream and have a legitimate category of its own that actually gets presented during the actual show and where the EDM artists get treated as real celebrities?
The "pop" music now, and even hip hop are so over-produced and technically electronic that the excuse that "real instruments" are not used in EDM is obsolete now.
What are peoples opinions on EDM ever making it big? |
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| LKD |
| it's when elitists stop calling deadmaufaive a sellout |
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| CMR |
It won't be because "EDM" is not a genre, its a collection of genres. Sort of like "rock music". "Electronic music" is even less of a genre, it only signifies how the music was produced (the equivalent being say, "guitar music").
And I don't think recognition on some MTV award or whatever is necessary to make a genre(s) of music "legitimate" anyway. |
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| WittyHandle |
| I'll never understand why people want something that feels unique and special to be accepted by the majority of the population. What good could possibly come of it? |
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| *~LiSa-LoO~* |
| I doubt it. I think uneducated people will continue to call it "techno" forever. My bootcamp instructor always calls it techno. She'll play Sandstorm and tell us she has some "old school techno" it drives me crazy. I wish she would get a new playlist. We listen to the same 5 songs, 2 or 3 times a class twice a week. |
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| Bryce Santiago |
| quote: | Originally posted by *~LiSa-LoO~*
I doubt it. I think uneducated people will continue to call it "techno" forever. My bootcamp instructor always calls it techno. She'll play Sandstorm and tell us she has some "old school techno" it drives me crazy. I wish she would get a new playlist. We listen to the same 5 songs, 2 or 3 times a class twice a week. |
HAHAAH your so right - why does everyone on earth (like I mean rockers and just general joe blow the plumber) call any Dance music techno. Especially House, they love to call House - Techno. It's funny how still to this day nothing has changed.
I was at a Skatepark last year and these skater trash dudes kept saying "dude turn that Techno off".
I don't even really remember Techno being THAT big in the 90's. In Toronto we had Phryl and Techno at some of the bigger raves, but from what I remember it was still smaller in comparison to the House & Trance lineup. |
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| Bryce Santiago |
| quote: | Originally posted by StereoPrincess
So after watching all these award shows, will EDM ever break the main stream and have a legitimate category of its own that actually gets presented during the actual show and where the EDM artists get treated as real celebrities?
The "pop" music now, and even hip hop are so over-produced and technically electronic that the excuse that "real instruments" are not used in EDM is obsolete now.
What are peoples opinions on EDM ever making it big? |
It's already big. Most Pop music I hear in supermarkets and R&B songs now have vocals over a House beat. Not to mention I even heard a pop song the other day in Subway that had low-produced Trance background to it with pop vocals over it. There's not much more pop than you can get than what's happening right now. |
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| TheVrk |
| quote: | Originally posted by GGM
I hope not. |
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| StereoPrincess |
| quote: | Originally posted by CMR
It won't be because "EDM" is not a genre, its a collection of genres. Sort of like "rock music". |
well "rock" has it's own category. so maybe eventually EDM will. i mean, rock only came out in the 60s really. hip hop/urban in the 80s. it had to start somewhere. |
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| StereoPrincess |
| quote: | Originally posted by CMR
It won't be because "EDM" is not a genre, its a collection of genres. Sort of like "rock music". "Electronic music" is even less of a genre, it only signifies how the music was produced (the equivalent being say, "guitar music").
And I don't think recognition on some MTV award or whatever is necessary to make a genre(s) of music "legitimate" anyway. |
well, maybe not MTV music but like the Grammy's would be good. |
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| cammaxwell |
I think it's already pretty mainstream enough, any more so and it would lose that underground edge in my opinion.
And they already do have lots of it out there in the awards shows, it's just called Dance and they don't necessarily televise that part of the show because not as many people want to see it. |
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