OMGZ I x3 EDM

I know I'm always talking about EDM but I just can't stress how much I love it and how much it moves me. I just love watching youtube videos of sets from Identity Festival, Hard Festival, Las Vegas, Electric Daisy Festival, etc. It obviously has just as much impact on other people (if not more) than myself. I'm so attracted to the passion from the DJs, the energy from the crowd, the lights from the venue, the atmosphere, and everything about it. Most of all, the whole experience exudes happiness. I understand that half the people are rolling but I enjoy the music being completely sober. This music moves people so much and it's something very unique to EDM, not seen in any other genre of music. Any other concerts I go to, most people just stand there and listen passively. At EDM shows, the audience contributes to the energy and people get so into it through dancing and just having a great time getting lost in the music. People just let go of it all. The lyrics in electronic music, if any, don't make much sense so it can mean whatever you want it to mean. The electronic synthesizers brings another level of creativity that isn't available on traditional instruments. the possibilities are endless and it just makes people feel... good...

Despite the hate from some people who don't appreciate it, there has been so much EDM influences in mainstream music. Jason Derulo' Don't Wanna Come Home which takes the riff from Robyn's Show me Love, Dubstep featured in Niggas in Paris, soft dubstep around 2:40 in Flo Rida's Good Feeling and the hook which has a very 1980's Chicago House influence feel, and obviously almost all pop beats feature electronic production. I mentioned this previously, but David Guetta's Nothing But The Beat is such an amazing album despite people's varying opinion on him. Not only because everything on his album is so catchy, but he features so many pop artists that will really bring EDM into the mainstream.

Growing up, pop was the cool thing (i.e. Backstreet Boys & Spice Girls). A bit later in the 1990s everyong was into the whole hip-hop thing. Now, high school and college kids all are obsessed with EDM. I wish I was exposed to it a bit earlier, so I would have had an earlier start to my dream of becoming an international DJ.

To share a bit of what I mean, see the video below. Just to caveat, this is Swedish House Mafia's CLOSING SET of EDC, which means people have literally been hard core dancing for 8 hours already and this STILL there is that much energy.




Also, see below for Kaskade's set in March at the Marquee in Las Vegas. I think I see myself dancing somewhere in the video. Was looking through youtube videos and this girl referred to 3/12/11 at Marquee "the best night of my life." I definitely speak in superlatives all the time so the validity of this may be discounted, but I totally agree. The energy that night was insane and it was definitely an amazing night where even after 8 months, I remember it vividly in my mind.