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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

062 - Rant About Going Wrong

So I guess this is rant week.

Big songs can really come in all shapes and sizes.  A huge bass isn’t necessary to make a song a massive club banger that is necessary to make it popular.  But then again on the other side, you cant just throw an electro beat behind crappy vocals and bad lyrics and expect it to be a number one track.  Sadly that is how top 40 seems to be going.  They assume that Miley Cyrus can be popular by making a song with the lyrical intelligence of a dead horse.  The sad thing is, PEOPLE EAT IT UP.  True, there are some exceptions to this (I like Rihanna and Calvin Harris together), but most are pure ear torture.  It does depend on the electro artist as well, some seem to get sucked into the game and will do music for anyone, People like Madeon are doing it right.  Overall, loving the influx of electronic into pop and top 40, but it needs to be done the right way. 


ON THAT NOTE, this song is incredible.  The stinger for me is the set of vocals that send chills down your spine (which if you haven’t noticed is one of my favorite aspects of house songs and electronic music).  Armin Van Buuren is a big name and a big player in this genre, yet it surprises me how many people haven’t heard of him, or hear his name and instantly discount him as a nobody.  He is a extremely gifted artist and this remix of one of his own songs really speaks to me in the way that even if a song isn’t perfect, you can always mix it again the second time around.



2 comments:

  1. Hey, I've heard many songs better than Miley Cyrus that were written by dead horses!

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  2. Haha please share these songs, I am quite intrigued!

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