EDM bubble bursted finally?

finelikewine

While underground dance music is still going strong, it's commercial mutant offspring seems to run out of steam. It's been getting quiet around it's once most famous purveyors like David Guette, Swedish House Mafia, Skrillex and this kind.
And to complete the misery it's biggest marketer in the US, the SFX corporation, seems to be bankrupt, according to this:     http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2015/08/24/the-fall-of-an-edm-empire-sfx/#20fbd802f8c0

Is the fad finally over? Are Becky and Chad still getting their groove on to EDM in Vegas or is there already the next monstrosity happening?

kala

I'm sure people hated Chicago house and Detroit techno when it was new
Vantage
Time and place 
Nightlife
Your age when you hit "the scene"
It's an endless cycle
Nothing's new
People are manipulating a system with precepts and tropes that is totally derivative.
It's great to dance ,take drugs and revel in your beauty when you're young .
Next

ketan

trzakhstan

Skrillex had a mega successful hit song last year, maybe the two biggest songs of the year in dance music.

meistromoco

trzakhstan said:

Skrillex had a mega successful hit song last year, maybe the two biggest songs of the year in dance music.

yeah he seems to have firmly established himself as a reliable pop music producer with his recent string of hits. He clearly benefited from the "rise of EDM" or whatever but he's proven to be far more talented (even if it's not your cup of tea) and has set himself apart from the crop of festival "djs" playing prerecorded mixes, jumping around on stage with ghost producers churning out completely disposable crap for them. That phenomenon is hopefully ending.  

willie_fugal

the biggest thing for Skrillex in 2015 was producing (along with Diplo) for Justin Bieber.

billbradley

I'm just going to leave this here...

https://www.instagram.com/edmgirls/

white_tea

^^^^^^^ EDM seems umm firmly entrenched in the pop landscape at this point. What theoretically would take its place? 

batmon

white_tea said:

^^^^^^^ EDM seems umm firmly entrenched in the pop landscape at this point. What theoretically would take its place? 

Neo EDM

billbradley

white_tea said:

^^^^^^^ EDM seems umm firmly entrenched in the pop landscape at this point. What theoretically would take its place? 

I'm not sure but girls didn't dress like that back when I went to raves.

skel

batmon said:

white_tea said:

^^^^^^^ EDM seems umm firmly entrenched in the pop landscape at this point. What theoretically would take its place? 

Neo EDM

Trenchcoat EDM

Jimster

skel said:

batmon said:

white_tea said:

^^^^^^^ EDM seems umm firmly entrenched in the pop landscape at this point. What theoretically would take its place? 

Neo EDM

Trenchcoat EDM

EDModer

RAJ

Do people actually listen to this garbage sober?

Electronic Drug Music

DOR

Electronic Dance Music in some form or the other in my city will never die. It's been a huge part of the the music scene for a long time now.

I now see these promoters using youtube's live function to stream quality video from these events. Thousands upon thousand doing their thing. I can't hate. You wanna make some serious money DJing? Be a successful EDM DJ and travel the world.

willie_fugal

RAJ said:

Do people actually listen to this garbage sober?

just remember that this has been said about literally every generation's pop music since rock n roll

finelikewine

willie_fugal said:

RAJ said:

Do people actually listen to this garbage sober?

just remember that this has been said about literally every generation's pop music since rock n roll

you are right. BUT EDM isn't something ingeniously new, that yielded the now generation. It's a continuation of shit generic bland music, that was there from the get-go. It is very much in a lineage of big room house, trance, euro dance and bad italo disco, which has been there forever. It is not something insurgently new, that we old farts just can't understand.

willie_fugal

finelikewine said:

willie_fugal said:

RAJ said:

Do people actually listen to this garbage sober?

just remember that this has been said about literally every generation's pop music since rock n roll

you are right. BUT EDM isn't something new, that yielded the now generation. It's a continuation of shit generic bland music, that was there from the get-go. It is very much in a lineage of big room house, trance, euro dance and bad italo disco, which has been there forever. It is not something insurgently new, that we old farts just can't understand.

i generally agree, except that it's a little different in the States b/c for the last 20 years most of that music you mentioned was not on the radar for the average american, until a few years ago (or even still, really).

Flomotion

EDM's still on the rise in the US in a big way in commercial terms. I know several smart people (promoters and digital folks) launching new businesses around the current boom and from what I see EDM is by no means played out. 

RAJ

Musical equivalent of this:

billbradley

People have listened to bad music for decades. That isn't going to change anytime soon.

white_tea

Yeah I guess teens and preteens are going to stop dancing to EDM and just start listening to rock or something? Really though, the sheer amount of sex and drugs that's part of the EDM party - and with the BPMs fast enough for even the worst-dancing white folks across the USA - will continue to bring in the masses, indefinitely.

Also, for whatever reason that Forbes link did not work on either a PC or Mac for me. Probably for the best!

willie_fugal

MDMA ain't goin nowhere!

batmon

willie_fugal said:

finelikewine said:

willie_fugal said:

RAJ said:

Do people actually listen to this garbage sober?

just remember that this has been said about literally every generation's pop music since rock n roll

you are right. BUT EDM isn't something new, that yielded the now generation. It's a continuation of shit generic bland music, that was there from the get-go. It is very much in a lineage of big room house, trance, euro dance and bad italo disco, which has been there forever. It is not something insurgently new, that we old farts just can't understand.

i generally agree, except that it's a little different in the States b/c for the last 20 years most of that music you mentioned was not on the radar for the average american, until a few years ago (or even still, really).

When the average American from 1996 to 2016 went to their local big club, what Dance music was being played?

 

batmon

Flomotion said:

EDM's still on the rise in the US in a big way in commercial terms. I know several smart people (promoters and digital folks) launching new businesses around the current boom and from what I see EDM is by no means played out. 

Isnt that what Played Out means?

just sayin

Flomotion

batmon said:

Flomotion said:

EDM's still on the rise in the US in a big way in commercial terms. I know several smart people (promoters and digital folks) launching new businesses around the current boom and from what I see EDM is by no means played out. 

Isnt that what Played Out means?

just sayin

It's Playing Out.

deezlee

white_tea

Flomotion said:

batmon said:

Flomotion said:

EDM's still on the rise in the US in a big way in commercial terms. I know several smart people (promoters and digital folks) launching new businesses around the current boom and from what I see EDM is by no means played out. 

Isnt that what Played Out means?

just sayin

It's Playing Out.

Question was about the bubble bursting. Setting aside aesthetic choices such as my favoring of 'tropical house,' whether or not EDM is played out is debatable. I did just get an email about an upcoming festival here called Spring Awakening that's trading down on its location (then: Soldier Feid; now: Jackson Park) for more space, and also offering concertgoers an option to purchase tickets on fucking layaway - those tea leaves too complex for my eyes.

trzakhstan

*burst