"EDM will die?"
This kind of question can only be answered by the listeners, you know, the ones that don't give a dang about how music is made or how close some songs sounds like, but they still pay for the show tickets and stuff. So if anyone wanna see EDM dying, they must either kill all the normal people/listeners or brainwash them into not paying the club tickets or festivals anymore.
But even if normal people wouldn't exist anymore, the EDM DJs/producers will still have other producers as listeners lol, especially now where there's almost no city without at least an EDM producer in it, lol. I wouldn't be surprised to find out there's over 100k EDM producers consisting in both pros and amateurs, that'd be enough to like and listen to eachother's songs lol.

 

Amen!

 

No, it's not. Music never dies!

 

I've been heavily involved in EDM since the beginning and so have many of you, but let's face it . . . beat-based stuff is trendy by nature and not many, if any, tracks will survive the test of time. Years from now you will still hear The Beatles, Motown, etc. Technology has been the best and worst thing for music. Best because musicians no longer have to rob houses to afford an hour of studio time . . . even Garageband does more than the Fab Four could have imagined. Worst because now anyone and everyone can produce music simply be assembling a bunch of "found" loops in a pleasing manner and/or automatically correcting their horrible singing. My musicianship skills have slowly been replaced along the way. I'm now a librarian of loops and a collage artist. I need to reinvent myself before it's too late. In my opinion, EDM needs an enima. Back to teaching, far far away.

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I wonder why?

kick kick kick kick kick kick kick kick, kick snare, kick snare, kick snare, kick snare....kick kick kick kick

 

Yes it will get worse, thanks to DAWs, plug-ins and all these shitty midi, phrases and samples libraries:

“In the olden days of 30 or 40 years ago people didn’t just make things, so people would go to photography exhibitions, they would go buy records, and there were professional artists. Now everybody’s a photographer, everybody’s a film-maker, everybody’s a writer, everybody’s a musician, and I think that radically and drastically changed the way people think about other people’s creativity. Because in the old days you’d think “whoa these people who made a record I have no idea how they did that” and now someone listens to music and think to themselves “Oh, they use the same software I have.”

“We’re sacrificing rare creativity that has depth for ubiquitous creativity that is very shallow. Like letters vs emails. A letter was rare, but people would tend to write quite a lot. Emails are ubiquitous and they tend to be twenty words. It’s the same sort of thing with music thirty years ago, someone might work on it for six months, and really struggle and it was rare and perhaps had depth, whereas now, you can make an okay sounding piece of music in 30 minutes but it might not have has much depth. [The danger is] because if you can make something look pretty good with not that much effort it’s hard to push yourself to make something great.”

“Art and culture potentially might succumb to that same principle where if everybody is a musician, everybody is making mediocre music, eventually the world is covered with mediocrity. And people start to become comfortable with mediocrity.”

Quoted from Moby's interview ("PressPausePlay" documentary)

 

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Well,Holywood is pretty much dead,not only are movies really bad,but scoring is fucking terrible.
Generic libraries,scores with identical recipes.
Taikos,generic risers,horns,a sad piano with a huge reverb in the middle and then repeat the same shit again.

 

EDM A.K.A Big Room or more commonly known as the talentless douchebags "music", is already dead for 2 years....
The 12 years old kids are now growing up, and understanding that the real "Electronic Dance Music" haves nothing to do with that garbage.

 

When most of you that commented here will start understanding that the most important aspect is to satisfy the public, not the personal preferences of other producers (like below)

then you will understand why this

Hollywood made in 2015 over $ 700 million with Star Wars and over $ 600 million with Jurassic World to name just these two. And it grows year by year.

And is the same with music industry. And when people will get bored, the music & movies will change to make the public pay again. By the way, the trends in pop music and US "EDM" are changing on a yearly basis since 2010. It's how it works and it always worked like that.

As for the DJ, no constitution says that the DJ's should exist forever. Adapt (do crazy shit like Madeon, or popular tracks, or get good at social media and make crappy songs) or disappear. It's that easy.

Cheers!

 

@jayxflash
When i was talking about Hollywood being dead,i meant being dead inside,artistically there is nothing there.
They are serving 3rd grade material to toddlers,they don`t even aim at adults any more.

 

EDM is DEAD. Long Live MUSIC

 

Back in September 1975, a band played in Britain for the very first time. On stages from Croydon to Bath, from Southport to Yeovil, they wore smart suits and ties and played peculiar instruments. There was no clamour for tickets, no feverish press. This review of a half-full show in Newcastle was par for the course: "Spineless, emotionless sound with no variety, less taste... [and] damn little attempt to pull off anything experimental, artistically satisfying or new," wrote Keith Ging in the Melody Maker. "For God's sake," he railed, "keep the robots out of music."

There will always be shit music around and there will always be good music around​

 

EDM?

OR

Acoustic?

 

Every time i hear/read "EDM" I already think of those commercial songs with shitty vocals and annoying Synth/Led lines. Big room etc..
Then we have Techno, House and so on

 

Whoa, Whoa , Whoa When was EDM ever popular? Dying? its always been dead, lame, what have you, kinda remember now in the 80a.
Bands ,Artist like Warrant , Billy Squire Ect.. were just dropped like a bad habit so yeh every 10 yrs turn of the century or so ! Music Changes Dramatically

 

I have a feeling Madeon is a fabricated artist who actually has no talent.. You can teach a monkey to do his pop culture routine.. I think he is made up honestly. And if you're taking a personal shot at me regarding having a large following and shitty songs that's not cool.. Some of you are OK with the rich stealing our songs and the glory but I will not sell out..

 

This was my view tonight. Doesnt seem to be dying from my perspective. #FLEX

 

Everything was fine until the "specially metal" part. Pop and metal are definetely the musical styles that have evolved the most in the last decades. For good or (specially in the case of Pop) for bad.

 

I agree entirely with you goose. Really westfinch? It sounds to me like you’re taking quite a jab at electronic music there. Although when reading your post again I do agree with some of your sentiments. Tell me. What genres do you dabble in? It may look like some live djs and producers are simply button mashing, but this, I’m afraid is also something that has been unfairly associated with live electronic music. It is really not as easy as that at all. Just my 1 cent☺.

 

I agree entirely with you goose. Really westfinch? It sounds to me like you’re taking quite a jab at electronic music there. Although when reading your post again I do agree with some of your sentiments. Tell me. What genres do you dabble in? It may look like some live djs and producers are simply button mashing, but this, I’m afraid is also something that has been unfairly associated with live electronic music. It is really not as easy as that at all. Just my 1 cent☺.