Do people make fun of you for listening to edm?

[hypoluxxa]

Re: Do people make fun of you for listening to edm?

Do people make fun of you for being boring?

Yes all the time, and for living in LA too.

[nbpgt]

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For as long as I've liked edm people have teased me about it. Hardcore too, I mean some of my friends just don't let up about it. I've got a few good friends who are just as heavy into edm as myself, but the majority of them haven't a clue. I figure they just don't understand the beauty of our music. Most of what they hear is cheesy workout trance or some lame tune on a car commercial and they think all edm sounds that way. Even still, people like that would never take the time to listen and try to decipher our music from that rubish. I actually feel sorry for people who musical tastes are limited to what they hear on the radio or MTV.

used to be the same way for me

[DIDI]

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Doof doof doof.

I usually give people shit about listening to indie music 'cos it's so trendy now. Every dickwad around is either some emo indie kid or neu rave or electro clash whatever fuck. Take your music and shove it, leaves me with more space on the floor when Digweed swings by again.

And the people who don't understand EDM describes everything with a 4/4 beat as 'techno' and in their minds, they're thinking some kinda euro trash dance megamix music.

Seriously I just don't get it. Within the EDM genre there's such a spectrum of sounds and sub-genres ranging from breaks to psy to trance to tech to minimal to prog to house. The 'other music' are what sounds all the same to me

I get really pissed off when people refer to edm as doof doof music! What is wrong with there hearing??

You should see some of the people who start tapping their feet etc. when I have my ipod on in the tram though

Another thing that pisses me off is people who say Djs aren't musicians, I actually got this one from a guy who play banjo in a bluegrass band!!

[Life on Other Planets AKA Johns]

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Yeah i get everything that people have mentioned on here plus more. The shit thing is most of my friends think along those lines too. So what i am planning to do is get a gig in melbourne later this year with another friend who also likes my sound and open up a nite in Melbourne. Then i am gonna invite all my mates and co workers etc advertise the nite make it really special and make the nite a real success (hopefully). Thats my idea right now cause i am sick to death of trying to explain it to people and give them cd's to listen to etc because they never listen to them or if they do they listen to them once and say nah its not for me. So i figure if they wont come out clubbing with me to listen to "DIGWEED" i will be the "DIGWEED" and then they will go (cause i will be playin) and you never know enjoy the nite and more importantly the music. Thats what i think you guys should also do hey..

[Garrick]

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^ good luck with that. not a bad idea.

i don't get teasted much at all except for at work, which is pretty much to be expected. most of my friends dig the edm scene. i have certainly turned some heads of friends that didn't originally like edm as well.

[Miguel]

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never heard anybody not liking edm

[fumanchu182]

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never heard anybody not liking edm

You must live in imagination land...

[Maff]

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my mats are 50/50 on this one but my work mates are all into 70s glam rock or 80s new romantic, but each to there own

[AntonyM]

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Another thing most people into EDM
have pretty broad musical tastes in general
and listen to a lot of other styles and usually
are open to new music whether it's dub reggae
or avant garde classical.
Secondly, some of this R&B/Pop?Hip-hop music
has seem to borrow a lot of EDM sensabilities
the sounds, the off tempo backbeat, trippier structures.
You have to remember most people have become so
accustom to having everything watered down, people
expect it, so we must educate, sheez you even hear
EDM in a lot of movie soundtracks and not just songs
but soundscapes relating to the feel of a particular scene.

[Tatanka]

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I hear about it all of the time. It mainly has to do with the fact that I'm in the military and most of these fools are either backwoods, thugs, pop freaks etc. The only ones to show any interst are the nerds believe it or not. haha. I have a shit load of money tied up in my equipment for spinning and wen I have a party all I hear is do you have hip hop blah blah blah. I thought by coming to Germany, this area would be more appreciative of the music, but since th American military has been here so long, our pop culture has infected the locals here. All they want to hear is hip hop or whatever. But if I head out of this local area a couple of hours I can find good shite. I always have to travel to hear EDM no matter what continent I'm on.

Bro, like I said before to be appreciated aboad you must get to the U.K. I used to get mad props from both the local community and those base hobbits.
Just thinking about the times there....DAMN I needz to return to my 2nd home!

[Miroslav]

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hmm somehow missed this thread before... I live in Columbus, OH, which means that most people around me are ass-backwards lemmings who will simply never have the mental capability and awareness to even grasp the concept of anything beyond commercial radio and/or TV. It's sad. So I'm through even trying to explain to anyone what this EDM stuff is and what it means to me. They're just not capable of getting it.

[Jenks]

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guess i'm pretty fortunate. everyone around me is into techno. i live in a city where there are a lot of techno/house heads. underground scene here is tight.

[Tatanka]

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guess i'm pretty fortunate. everyone around me is into techno. i live in a city where there are a lot of techno/house heads. underground scene here is tight.

Man I wish I would've known you awhile ago. I was at Scott AFB for just over a week and frequented the St Louis area. BTW, SL is the hotness and the breweries there.
I think I would have had a better time had I known someone with the low down.
Don't count me out though....i'll be back!

[srbbnd]

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Yes. "It all sounds the same." Usually is what is said to me.

[hypoluxxa]

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People @ work tell me I like "balls slappin balls music". As in, I like ghey music.