EDM heads, please explain the appeal to me... Vol. I Just Don't Get It

Ive listened to "edm" for years now...

I prefer deep trance but I enjoy every genre of it pretty much. Its great driving music and alot of it just puts me in a good mood. Im a hiphop fan but for the past few years 80% of rap has been terrible. Alot of these new artists you either cant understand or dont make sense or both. Its pretty bad

I find myself listening to edm more than anything lately 
 
I understand people saying they personally don't like it, but if you have even the slightest ability to empathize then it isn't too difficult to see what its appeal can be to those who enjoy it.

However, the thing that I cant understand is people who've been fans of the genre since before it really blew up still listening to the generic commercial ****.
 
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zube42 said:
You're wrong though.
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Since nobody will take my word for it, I'll just attempt to back my claim with some Internet history.

First of all, there's a message board actually called EDMPlanet. I remember it from back in the day, and just a quick search of the oldest posts on there goes back to 2002. So there's that.

I was never a member there, so let's look at a place I was a member of many years ago: Trance Addict. A quick Google search using the term "Tranceaddict", "EDM" and plugging in a random year (for fun, we'll use 2005), reveals that yes, people have at least been using the acronym for awhile.

First link: to ASTOT message board, linking to TA, and the first sentence reads "Thousands of members of one of the biggest EDM sites on the internet have voted over the past few weeks."

http://forum.astateoftrance.com/topic/4669-tranceaddictcom-top-100-djs-poll-2005/

Okay, fine, so Trance Addict didn't actually use the term. Well, I found another link...to a 42-page thread from 2004 titled "Tranceaddict's Top 100 EDM Tracks"

http://www.tranceaddict.com/forums/...perpage=12&forumid=&pagenumber=1#.VCYfmBbaW8A

This is the intro paragraph: "Now this isn't just trance, it's all categories of EDM. If you aren't sure if a track's EDM or not, use a bit of common sense. I'd hate to see the Top 100 filled entirely with epic trance, so think about all varities of EDM."

That's a huge thread from one of the most influential and popular message boards in existence for dance music. Now, whether you choose to agree with that notion is your own problem.

Anyway, the term HAS existed and WAS used by consumers of the music. Maybe you weren't that consumer. I was. My only concession is (and it's really not a concession because it's been my stance all along) that it wasn't a widely-used term. All you guys claim it literally didn't exist, which clearly isn't true. Just because you didn't see it used (or don't remember), doesn't mean it didn't exist. Also, wouldn't it just make sense that it's been around? I mean, if such a thing called the Electronic Dance Music Awards existed as far back as 1995, do you really think it took human beings 15 years to shorten that to EDM? We shorten everything in our society when we can. Especially with the acronym IDM floating around (and don't get me started on that nonsense).
 
Feenixs said:
Anyway, the term HAS existed and WAS used by consumers of the music. Maybe you weren't that consumer. I was. My only concession is (and it's really not a concession because it's been my stance all along) that it wasn't a widely-used term. All you guys claim it literally didn't exist, which clearly isn't true. Just because you didn't see it used (or don't remember), doesn't mean it didn't exist. Also, wouldn't it just make sense that it's been around? I mean, if such a thing called the Electronic Dance Music Awards existed as far back as 1995, do you really think it took human beings 15 years to shorten that to EDM? We shorten everything in our society when we can. Especially with the acronym IDM floating around (and don't get me started on that nonsense).
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i definitely agree with you that the term EDM has been around for years.
i donno if youve ever seen that popular website that explains all the different genres, and how they all relate to each other (cant remember the name, but all the old heads should know)
but thats where i first encoutered it.
and that was yyyyeeeears ago. late 90s to early 2000s.
it just wasnt widely used, and it certainly wasnt used in the way its being used today, to describe
the poppier side of dance music. the term has been morphed in its usage and meaning.

when i said nobody said EDM, i just meant that it wasnt as popular
and it cerntainly wasnt used to describe a whole "genre" of music.
 
^kinda hard to believe. i dont think ive ever met anyone that listens to only 1 genre of music.
 
B7AudiA4 said:
Unfortunately I know more than a few people who only listen to 1 genre
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Same here, and I don't get it at all. :smh:

I've always liked edm. I think the first I really heard it and was checking for it was either the Mitsubishi Eclipse commercial with Dirty Vegas' "Days Go By"



OR Daft Punk "one more time"




Swiped my stepdads ATB cd when I was like 13.

But these new EDM bros don't even really mess with the classics. If it doesn't have a drop, they don't wanna hear it.

Electronica>trance>DnB>techno>trap>edm>hardstyle
 
Meek Meals said:
illphillip said:
What you fail to realize is damn near NONE of those guys is just a "dj" who presses play.


Pretty much every major DJ in the genre is major because they're a prolific producer first and foremost.


DJing is just a vehicle to play their music out.
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I get that guys sometimes go up there and do live effects/mixing . . . That takes talent and it's dope . . . One of my favorite "artists" right now is Cashmere Cat.​

But dis dude . . . :lol:​


​

I frequent other forums and they were saying this was a dope set . . . All I saw was a large scale version of what I do when my boys hand me the Aux cord in the whip. All he did was play the hot songs of the past 12 months.​

I kept waiting for some actual remixes too . . . even though that still wouldn't have been a "live" thing, it would have been dope.​

Went to ImShmacked and the DJ did the same thing lol. Just pressed play.​
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Aye, Denver was turnt up :lol:
 
slim420 said:
Feenixs said:
Anyway, the term HAS existed and WAS used by consumers of the music. Maybe you weren't that consumer. I was. My only concession is (and it's really not a concession because it's been my stance all along) that it wasn't a widely-used term. All you guys claim it literally didn't exist, which clearly isn't true. Just because you didn't see it used (or don't remember), doesn't mean it didn't exist. Also, wouldn't it just make sense that it's been around? I mean, if such a thing called the Electronic Dance Music Awards existed as far back as 1995, do you really think it took human beings 15 years to shorten that to EDM? We shorten everything in our society when we can. Especially with the acronym IDM floating around (and don't get me started on that nonsense).
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i definitely agree with you that the term EDM has been around for years.
i donno if youve ever seen that popular website that explains all the different genres, and how they all relate to each other (cant remember the name, but all the old heads should know)
but thats where i first encoutered it.
and that was yyyyeeeears ago. late 90s to early 2000s.
it just wasnt widely used, and it certainly wasnt used in the way its being used today, to describe
the poppier side of dance music. the term has been morphed in its usage and meaning.

when i said nobody said EDM, i just meant that it wasnt as popular
and it cerntainly wasnt used to describe a whole "genre" of music.
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All of this. This is just semantics now.

And I disagree with the contention that it was a source of controversy back then as it is now. Which was suggested.

But I'm sure there's one thread in the history of the internet somewhere to suggest otherwise.
 
illphillip said:
That started in 2007 really when David Guetta "Love Is Gone" broke at Pop Radio and cracked the Pop charts.
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About this, I've always maintained that Madonna's "Confessions on a Dance Floor" album set the wheels in motion more than anything. It was a #1 album, had one Top 10 single and all four singles hit #1 on the US dance charts. It showed that electronic music could work in pop music, and that was in 2005.

By comparison, "Love is Gone" barely cracked the Top 40 pop charts (#38), and peaked at #98 on the Hot 100. Guetta didn't really take off until 2009/2010. Of course it took longer for him because Madonna already had a loyal built-in fan base, but CDF was a huge departure from anything she'd done before, and there was no guarantee an album like that would take off in the US like it did.

Just blame Madonna and her fake British self.
 
EDM is something of itself now i remember back in the day, 90's dance was all the rage then it grew into the clubs in NYC in the eatly 2000's, too me i would rather listen tp dance music with words i cant take skrillix, his stuff sucks unless your on drugs. BUT when people say EDM is garbage, just look at Arabmuzik and Dj premo they are getting on the bandwagon to make money...what it all comes down to it is you either get it or dont like with most music.
 
IMHO once lady gaga came out in 2009, they whole craze grew to another level along with Guetta esp in the US
 
dmbrhs said:
About this, I've always maintained that Madonna's "Confessions on a Dance Floor" album set the wheels in motion more than anything. It was a #1 album, had one Top 10 single and all four singles hit #1 on the US dance charts. It showed that electronic music could work in pop music, and that was in 2005.
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it was probably ray of light in 1998 that showed it could work in pop.

shes always aligned her self with dance music/dance scene.

did it with house with vogue even before ray of light.

no surprise shes been trying the same thing with edm as of late.
 
can't explain something that doesn't appeal to you.

we all have different tastes in music.

I mostly gravitate toward rock/pop/electronic and everything else I've given it a try but it does not appeal to me..

but I don't try to understand why others like it because we all have an affinity to certain things..

you might think its trash, but others may thinks it's the best thing they have ever listened to. Nobody is wrong here just different taste in music..
 
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