Infected Mushroom: “Dance music is pop music to many people”
I’m not going to post the whole article, but over at Australian music news site inthemix, there’s a great interview with Israeli psytrance/electronica duo Infected Mushroom and I read this really interesting line and felt like sharing it. After being asked, “Dance music seems finally to have taken off in a big way in the States. What do you think of this sudden popularity?”, Infected Mushroom answers with this little pearl of wisdom:
“Well you know there are good aspects of it and bad aspects of it. The good aspects are there are so many more events and more people are getting into electronic music. The bad aspect of it, in my opinion, is that dance music is also pop to many people today, and there are a lot who don’t really see the difference. That’s bad. But you know what, that’s the price of being mainstream. So in the overall picture I think we’re in a good position today.”
It’s something I’ve brought up many times on this site and I’m sure you’ll hear it again. Pop music is notorious for ripping off concepts of underground culture and music, and right now the electronic and dance music scene is just being brutally exploited. Everywhere you go you hear four on the floor beats whether it’s on the radio or in a commercial for a printer. It only adds insult to injury that some prominent EDM artists have become so “pop” themselves that their music is almost indistinguishable from that of pop radio music. It’s sad, and ultimately those of us who truly appreciate and live for this music just need to ride the wave and wait it out. All these corporate nimrods who think Skrillex invented dubstep will find some other underground scene to exploit, once they determine EDM is “so last year.”
