Pop Culture and me

lets face it Electronic dance music also known as EDM has become an “it sensation” in the music world. Over the past few years the genre of music has become such an important part of our lives because it's basically everywhere. Now, in 2013 you don't necessarily need to go to a club scene to enjoy the performance of a Dj, you can see them in movie trailers, billboards, commercials, radios, and live streams playing from all over the world. Let me define to you exactly what Electronic Dance Music really is. It a set of percussive electronic music genres produced primarily for environments centered in dance-based entertainment, such as nightclub settings. The music is largely created for use by disc jockeys and is produced with the intention of it being heard in the context of a continuous DJ set; wherein the DJ progresses from one record to the next via a synchronized segue or "mix". For me this genre of music has become part of my life, it is what my friends and I associate with and most importantly my whole generation and even past generations listen too. In these last two years I have grown to love this type of music more and more. I am lucky enough to have attended a few Edm concerts and the experience I had for each one was simply a truly unique experience. Throughout my life I have been to a few concerts from different types of music like rap and country and even an Italian concert, but nothing compares to Electric Daisy Festival or The Last Tour from Swedish House Mafia and many more. These concerts make you feel something that is impossible to forget. People fly from all over the world to see some DJ's perform and when you are in the crowd and you are surrounded by millions of people, they all feel like family in a sense. Everyone is there for the same reason to come together and experience the live music being Grimaldi, 2 performed by the most famous Dj's of our time, and also as my peers say “rave” which is a type of dance that follows the edm music beats. Only in Edm music when the beat drops a whole crowd of emotions drop with it. There was a point in these fans lives, where they realized that they absolutely loved this genre of music and that changed their lives. You see, because of these true fanatics, Edm has become an epidemic. The way these Dj's introduced their music was through collaboration with artists that were already big in the pop-music world. The growth of social media has played an enormous role is the growth of these Dj's. They all marketed themselves through these networks, creating even more popularity and fans from all over the world, especially Europe and America. Since the 1980's dance music has been popular. Back then in Chicago and New York, dance music was a social turning point for many people. All of the big and popular nightclubs played dance tracks and everyone was becoming addicted to it. The fans weren't only addicted to the type of music, they were addicted to the drug abuse that was happening all around them and that many were strongly influenced by. The Drug that was used in the 80's was Ecstasy. Much like todays Edm community, unfortunately drugs has a major influence on these young followers. Along with a new music epidemic, a new drug seems to come with it, in edm festivals and parties theirs drugs being taken and probably given to people without their conscious. I am living in the growth of this great music and people turning that into a drug fest. A month ago, there was a big music festival called Ezoo and this festival was supposed to be three days long, it was cut short because on the second day a couple of tragic incidents occurred. Two young college students passed away from overdosing and their were a few more people brought to hospitals and places in intesive care. I know it's nothing new to hear that people kill themselves by taking drugs, but this is the generation of people I am growing up with and this is not the type of people that I like to be associated with. Since the late 80's early 90's raves and dance music have been strongly associated with MDMA. The rise of this music industry should be Grimaldi, 3 about embracing the talent that these artists have showed us and just enjoying the music that they made for people to enjoy and listen to without the need to take drugs. So, its safe to conclude that history does repeat itself. We saw behavior like this in the 80, 90's and now in our time. There are pros and cons to most things and situations we as a whole community are exposed with, but it all depends on how you as an individual approaches it with. The rise of this music genre is great and will continue to be great and the drugs will continue to be offered, but you need to be stronger than that and not let the drugs be the reason why you feel part of this community.
Dance musics intertwining with music already popular and accepted was a great way for fans to ease to this music. The artists made it much simpler for fans to be comftorable with. This created a new pop culture epidemic that will continue.