Music is one of the most important art forms in 21st century. Wherever you go, you can always hear music being played, maybe on the radio in your car, maybe in the mall that you like, or most likely in a night club. You do not have to go to a concert to listen to music any more.
Since most people liked it, the radio station plays a whole lot of pop music. Pop is undoubtedly the most popular genre of music. But as music industry is developing, there is not such a big difference between these different genres. What you don’t realize is that a big portion of “pop” music is actually electronic music.
It usually makes people confused about what genre of music the song they heard is. That is surely a general situation. One reason is that some of these DJs made some songs that do not sound too “Electronic”, or in another word, they sound like pop music. That is a good thing because the combination of pop and electronic music is usually better than either one of them.
Among all the DJs that combine pop music and electronic music together, the most famous one is certainly David Guetta.
David Guetta is a DJ from France, one of the most famous dance-pop music producers in the world. He first started as a DJ in night in 1980s and 1990s. In 2002, he released his album, Just a Little More Love. Most people may never listened to this album, but it is the beginning of this great DJ’s real career.
Several years after the release of David Guetta’s fourth album, he released his fifth album Nothing but the Beat. The album was a huge success, it included the dance-pop track “Titanium” featuring Sia. One noticeable thing about it is that this song is still played on radio a lot even in 2014. In the re-release of Nothing but the Beat, the album Nothing but the Beat 2.0 hit the radio again later in 2012. With the unique charm of dance-pop music, it peaked number one at the UK Dance Chart and received a nomination for Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronica Album at the 54th Grammy Awards. Although it did not get the Grammy Award, the tracks in this album are still popular after almost three years.
It is pretty obvious that a good DJ does not have to do the pure-electronic music to succeed. Some DJs that came to people’s sight recently have explained this really well.
Have you listened to the song “Rather Be”? The electronic music group Clean Bandit, from Cambridge, England, is the maker of this song. From the picture above, it might be a little hard to believe that is an electronic music group. But they are electronic music maker, although their music is not just the typical electronic music that people would think of, it has the elements of classical music and deep-house music. They use a lot of it and it makes it easier for most people to accept and get used to their music.
Sometimes, these electronic music does not have that much electrical charged sounds, or to some people, they call it electrical noise. And these music could still be good, and these elements, like classical music, that seems to be dead, could be used again. If you agree with me, please leave me a comment, I can introduce some more about this next time.