Is EDM real music? I don't mean electronic music in general,

that's kinda the point. dance music all follows the same structure so you can dance to it. if you were to experiment and change up the formula you'd first have to invent a new dance.

>>74124415
And then you'd have to invent new humans because the formula is so deeply rooted in us.

>>74124399
the answer to "is ___ real music?" is always yes. that being said, a lot of EDM is *really* mediocre.

Every EDM song is just a cover of Darude - Sandstorm t.b.h

>>74124399
Formally, the tension and release formula I assume you're referring is present in all kinds of music. EDM just makes it very evident in what has colloquially become known as
"the drop". Structurally, the majority of pop music is also very similar. Nothing new, nothing wrong with that.

(Yes of course it is real music, regardless of whether or not you like it, and the sooner you get over your musical ego the better)

>>74124424
is my dick real music?

>>74124461
obviously, what a stupid question

you like Led Zeppelin don't you

Not to sound like a total fag, but music is an art, and I feel like art has to have some level of emotional expression of ideas and in turn cause us to feel an emotion. I feel like pop and edm don't really invoke an emotion through any real idea or message, and more just rely on pandering with the same formulas to force the emotion they know you'll feel. It's not music, its a product built and shipped to make you jump a bit, and then jump a bit harder when the beat drops...

>>74124480
>and I feel like
no one cares

>>74124480
>and I feel like

no one gives a shit what you feel, nick
fuck you

>>74124480
>but music is an art
not true
art is very specific

>not to sound like a total fag
you blew it within that sentence alone

>>74124480
>thinking that the definition of art is in any way objectively constricted

>>74124534
it is objective, but hes just wrong in general

>>74124399
Just have a look at the many EDM tutorials you can find on Youtube. These fuckers barely put any thought in their music.
This is the equivalent of cheeseburger for food.

>>74124534
>>74124490
>>74124517
Music is entirely subjective bitch, hence the "I feel like". I don't think I'm right, I'm just trying create a dialogue

>>74124415
This. Predictability is very important in dance music.

>>74124399
>Is EDM real music?

What the fuck else would be other than music? It's got music in the fucking acronym?

I swear some people are so fucking retarded it beggars belief.

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>Every EDM song has been done by a single person this entire time

>>74124399
Daily reminder that not liking an entire genre of music does not single-handedly disqualify it as 'music.'

>>74124399
if by real music you mean made with real instruments then no.

There are parts of steroids than sound kind of edm to me.

Particularly during the ending of the mix, theres a sound that I would very much enjoy listening to in a loop with small variation.

Someone should make a edm mix with that part.

>>74124399
Using the term EDM makes you look clueless on its own, the rest of your post is actually embarrassing. There's good stuff to be found in every genre and dance music is probably the most interesting kind of popular music that doesn't seem to be stagnating.

>>74125935
EDM is a perfectly valid name for it.

>>74124399


A festival 'set' for me is different from a traditional concert in the sense that the music takes a backseat in festivals. People dont give a shit what's playing when they're there with their friends jumping around to the drops.
As opposed to apperiacting the actual music if you (for example) go see Hans Zimmer live.

'EDM' can afford to be bland and generic in a festival setting.

>>74126038
the only people who use the term EDM are people that know absolutely nothing about it. it's a ridiculously broad umbrella term to the point where it's almost useless.

>>74126091
http://edm.com/

>>74126124
and in their "latest in EDM" section there are articles about Aphex Twin, Nine Inch Nails and Linkin Park, so they're all clearly in the same genre, right?

>>74126166
lmao pards

>>74124517

this is such a nick thing to say and i cackled
>source: my name is nick

they figured out a way to make people dance to fart noises and you fags still won't call it art

>>74124480
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rc85cGTlKLY

This is EDM
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSTx31dxmgA
This is EDM
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nl1UBrpC00
This is EDM
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_cKG75ewrs
This is EDM
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTIhWGJletk
And this is EDM
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYNQqJWs_s8
This is EDM
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL4KJmMGda8
This is your everyday EDM
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPSibKp2hj4
This is "nu-edm" :^) which is probably what you're talking about, when they started singing shitty songs and get put on radio. Same happened to most other EDM genres, around and since 2011.
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC-GflRB0y4

This is EDM
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnYf82I31uw
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LVqLFmqmEY
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSB8GQLkWPY

>>74124480
>It's not music

Bad music is still music.

>>74126253
shut up lol