And for many reasons. The lack of depth in today's people interest is represented by a superficial society that has been for many decades a battle for looks and impressions. It's now that hipsters, emo and all kinds of labels are part of our popular culture. And as far as the music, EDM has become the new sensation, the new popular music every kid wants. It's cool to like EDM and well this song is ... EDM in it's purest form. _________________ "Hurry Up, We're Dreaming"
It's now that hipsters, emo and all kinds of labels are part of our popular culture.
Yeah, it's not as though every generation has had its own scenes defined by constricting labels (teddy boys, rockers, mods, hippies, teeny-boppers, punks, goths, new romantics, baggy, I could go on all fucking night). Let's just have some perspective here, the world hasn't gone to shit. Teenagers have always been obnoxious fuckers who think they know everything, and have always loved to pigeonhole those peers of theirs who don't dress like them and listen to exactly what they listen to. So they have iPhones and now this generation's teenagers are more obnoxious than the last? Fuck that shit. Being obnoxious and judging everybody else is part of being a teenager. Embrace it, preferably sans cynicism.
EDIT: Alas, that final sentence was hella hypocritical. But I vouch for the rest of it.
Glad lethal did the substantive pouncing so that I can just follow up and say that that is surely not EDM in its purest form and that the weird equivalence old (minded?) people make between "these yungins" and "the bleepity bloops" betrays a pretty substantive history based in resistance to the hateful pitfalls of capitalist society. Electronic dance music, to take the term literally (and to make about as much differentiation between it and electronic as a whole as its detractors choose to, which is to say, none), has serviced queer liberation, black power, and lower-class access to music production in ways capitalism can't help but eventually recuperate for its own insidious ends; ergo Deadmau5. And even if its current PLUR incarnation is a little bit pedestrian musically and a lotta bit commercialized, it's no more off-the-mark than Woodstock-era hippies were and there are surely still incredibly aesthetically important artists working within EDM and more rooted electronic subgenres.
the world hasn't gone to shit. Teenagers have always been obnoxious fuckers who think they know everything, and have always loved to pigeonhole those peers of theirs who don't dress like them and listen to exactly what they listen to. So they have iPhones and now this generation's teenagers are more obnoxious than the last? Fuck that shit. Being obnoxious and judging everybody else is part of being a teenager.
I agree with this from what little I've seen, but you know, I think the problem is we're passively obnoxious. We don't even leave our houses to whine.
Also if you think your statement was hypocritical, just think about the above for a second. _________________
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