Even with the sound sounding tired and house making a big revival, stuff like that DVBBS song can show that any OLD SHIT can still go to #1 in 2014. So will it go on to become a new chart mainstayer or has it simply changed direction now from David Guetta and Afrojack to Martin Garrix and Avicii?

 

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I'd say we're moving away from EDM. It's such a generic and lazy term as it is.

 

Someone like Deadmau5 was the genre pioneer, but his music is so much more intense than someone like Martin Garrix or Avicci. It's like calling everything indie. I think House/Dance music will be top of the charts for some time. It's always been flirting with it, people just love a good dancefloor filler. All the way back from the 90s to 2014. Tsunami & Animals for example, while 'generic' I think to truly experience the song, you have to hear it in some obscene club or rave.. that's what gets people buying it.

I don't think Tsunami is even that watered down tbh, it's only cause Tinie Tempah has been thrown on for a single release that everyone's calling it lazy and generic bullshit etc blah blah blah. I also don't think that EDM is 'tiring' already, perhaps in the near future yes, but currently it's electropop songs that are going out of trend.

The term EDM makes no sense. There's no "trends" at all if you use that term, since it covers basically everything. There used to be crunk, dubstep and dance-pop in the charts, but there isn't much of those anymore, while at the moment there's more drum & bass, trap and deep house, and we've even got a grime song that might go top 20 soon.

 

The David Guetta/Lady Gaga/Taio Cruz kind of music has really died off though (yay!).

 

Electronic dance music has constantly been in the charts since the 1980's, so it's not going to go away, which is why I think it's pointless to talk about.

 

A better discussion would be how long is deep house going to keep dominating? And what genre will replace it when it fades?

Edited March 24, 201411 yr by Eric_Blob

I love "Tsunami", my favorite dance song of the last few months, but the original instrumental that was a hit everywhere, not the crappy one with Tinie.

 

Also EDM, an american term that I dont care for, isn't a trend. Different subgenres of dance music go in and out of style, but its always there and its always popular since the late 80s. It ain't goin' anywhere.

Edited March 24, 201411 yr by Euphorique

EDM could really refer to anything though, couldn't it? There are a lot of different styles of electronic and dance music and they will always be prevalent. There is stuff more commercial/formulaic like David Guetta/Calvin Harris/Avicii, but there's also some vastly different and experimental styles as well. I'd be hard pressed to find anyone that didn't like any form of Electronic and dance music whatsoever. The term can apply to any form of dance music

 

I like how we have some really different songs of the genre doing well atm - looking at the current charts, Rather Be, My Love, I Got U & Changes are all within the electronic/dance boundaries but they're not exactly typical 'EDM', and it's good as atm they seem to be taking the place of the really formulaic EDM (That David Guetta song would've been massive a few years back when anything by him could sell in massive numbers, as it stands, it's a hit but not a huge one). Yes, Tsunami got to number 1, but it hasn't sold that impressively considering how popular it was last year, plus this version with Tinie may be totally faceless, but the original instrumental is much more different and far more standout.

 

So EDM will never go away, just different styles come and go really (as pretty much everyone has said!). It's just the formulaic Guetta-esque electropop that's going out of style at this moment, but who's to say it won't return at some point?

Edited March 24, 201411 yr by Chez Wombat

It will be in the charts for a while. I would compare it to hip-hop. Hip-Hop dominated the last decade, but now is in a slight decline. I'm sure there's another genre which will supplant dance music as the chart favourite, but not for another few years.

I actually think it was when the likes of David Guetta started teaming up with Akon, Rihanna, Chris Brown, etc. that got dance music out there to more of the masses, and people stopped calling all dance music "techno" or "euro trash" and actually started paying attention.

I think Play Hard was the last proper big hit to smash that was in the Guetta/Cruz style that Eric talks about...

And don't get me wrong. I love Animals and Wake Me Up, just not the ripoffs that have emerged from them.