The shape of an eye in front of the ocean, digging for stones and throwing them against its window pane. Take it down dreamer, take it down deep. - Other Families
lol dilbert trying to flame me via a snide karma. omg! a stay-in who wasn't aware of dance music during his teenage years, because he was too busy stuck in making model planes with PVA glue, denigrates 2 dance tracks as "ba-dum-tish ba-dum-tish!". omg!!!! i am slayed! how can i possibly riposte a stay-in, who has just displayed in painfully recent memory elsewhere in this sub-forum how little he knows about this music, putting-down my DJ'ing? aaaaaah existential crisis is imminent. time to re-evaluate everything of worth to my everyday life.
lol. being a dj sure is tough. girls throw themselves at you, guys regard you as the epitome of hip-cool, and 40 year olds who still live at home with their parents think you ain't shit. ain't that just the definition of bittersweet? for the record, dilbert: the reason that transition is 'note-worthy' is because those two tracks are two hugely recognisable, pull-back tracks. certain singles and tracks acquire a sort of instant-rewind signification in dance music - it's just part of the culture, part of the make-up of a night-long set - and those two tracks are easily 2 of the biggest, most instantly recognisable singles from 2011/2012. it was cardiff, not london, so i wasn't exactly playing to the most clued-in and hippest brand of dalston stay-out, so i went with the big ones. it worked. a more casual crowd totally got it. that's a job well done in the dj'ing game. not that you'd have a fucking clue what you're on about. you can't really play 12 minute tangerine dream progressive wankathons to a sexy-n-sweaty crowd at 2am.
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It was "From da-doof-doof-da-doof to ba-boom-tish".
How can people dance to that? My god.
how can people pay $150 to watch a painkiller-/coke- addicted husk of a person, a mere avatar of sexual images and re-presentations, mime along to tracks that someone else wrote and produced, in a mindnumbing array of attention-deficit costumes? i don't know. our fun that night was free. you're the sucker, a thousand dollars down. horses for courses, eh, mr. cultural critic.
the supremely ironic thing, of course, is that lately all of the pop garbage you listen to (of the last 2-3 years, especially) has taken its stylistic and genre-nod queues from... electronic dance music. a propulsive (taken to skull-boring degrees in pop music's vapid way) 4/4 house/eurodance beat underpins almost all contemporary pop music - like the gaga you adore and sing along to. you're criticising the source of the tropes and fashions which the pop industry you so immerse yourself in is constantly 2 years behind, in its neverending process of identifying->marketing->whoring->discarding.
you are a passive consumer par excellence. you even come with the bone-headed ignorance and self-assured arrogance of the pop automaton. congratulations. you're the sort of idiot that would foam at the mouth and queue up for your arena-tour $150 concert tickets over this sort of empty, appropriated third-hand bullshit:
whilst genuinely thinking this is crap:
i.e. you are the lowest common denominator in music culture. you are the petri dish amoeba, who has learned to broadcast his single-celled opinions.
not to mention the most obvious and painful answer to your question "how can people dance to that?" - which is that you don't know because you've simply never been the social type to go to a dance-event, of any rate or description. you don't strike me as someone who has ever participated in any facet of a 'real' (sub) culture - be it musical, literary, fashion. in fact, you don't strike me as a social person at all. it only makes perfect sense that you'd struggle to see how people could dance to music designed to soundtrack a good time. the only music you identify with is made by drag-queens who speak to your conflicted inner social turmoils.
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