LOOK HOW FAR WE'VE COME....
HAVE WE COME FAR ENOUGH?...
HOW MUCH FARTHER MUST WE GO?...
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Has anyone noticed;
* Although, we've come this far in mainstream dance music advancement and popularity, it still seems as if there is somewhat of a "dance music void"?
Let me explain. You turn on your radio, tune in to your top 40 or rhythmic hits radio station, and you hear a lot of uptempo, dance, and house & b or whatever you want to call it. Yet, if you tune in to any dance formats or listen to any late night "underground" dance mixshow programs, it still seems as if there's pretty much a moderate to big difference between the mainstream and not so mainstream dance sound! In a way, even with all these uptempo pop hits, it still seems as if dance is lacking on hits radio, with exception to two or three of them that may frequently play that seemingly "outshine" the rest of the uptempo hits when judged from a dance music fanatic's point of view. (For most of us, those songs are mainly "Take over control" by Afrojack and "Hello" by Martin Solveig.
I also notice how during the iHeart Radio Festival announcements, when they announced all the names of performers coming up, the cheers toward David Guetta were kind of lower than the cheers for the rest of the performers, as if people are just listening and embracing the music but not giving a genuine damn about who the people behind it are unless it's a name they already knew. How far must we go in order to be fully recognized like Ke$ha or Black Eyed Peas are? Didn't Bruno Mars surface onto the mainstream hits scene AFTER David Guetta? Well, I guess Bruno Mars is more known as a singer and not a producer, and it's most likely if there was an announcement for "Red One" or "Scott Storch", there probably would've been less cheering there as well, so... i guess it's really no big deal.
I also find it strange how we could come so far, yet there's still this feeling of incompleteness in the air when it comes to dance music on mainstream radio. Yet, back in the 90's when La Bouche, No Mercy, Livin Joy, Amber, or even later when Alice Deejay, Gigi D'Agostino..etc surfaced, things seemed a bit more real, despite the fact that there was LESS uptempo domination during those times. I wonder what it could be making it seem or feel that way... ???
HAVE WE COME FAR ENOUGH?...
HOW MUCH FARTHER MUST WE GO?...
___________________________________________________________________________________
Has anyone noticed;
* Although, we've come this far in mainstream dance music advancement and popularity, it still seems as if there is somewhat of a "dance music void"?
Let me explain. You turn on your radio, tune in to your top 40 or rhythmic hits radio station, and you hear a lot of uptempo, dance, and house & b or whatever you want to call it. Yet, if you tune in to any dance formats or listen to any late night "underground" dance mixshow programs, it still seems as if there's pretty much a moderate to big difference between the mainstream and not so mainstream dance sound! In a way, even with all these uptempo pop hits, it still seems as if dance is lacking on hits radio, with exception to two or three of them that may frequently play that seemingly "outshine" the rest of the uptempo hits when judged from a dance music fanatic's point of view. (For most of us, those songs are mainly "Take over control" by Afrojack and "Hello" by Martin Solveig.
I also notice how during the iHeart Radio Festival announcements, when they announced all the names of performers coming up, the cheers toward David Guetta were kind of lower than the cheers for the rest of the performers, as if people are just listening and embracing the music but not giving a genuine damn about who the people behind it are unless it's a name they already knew. How far must we go in order to be fully recognized like Ke$ha or Black Eyed Peas are? Didn't Bruno Mars surface onto the mainstream hits scene AFTER David Guetta? Well, I guess Bruno Mars is more known as a singer and not a producer, and it's most likely if there was an announcement for "Red One" or "Scott Storch", there probably would've been less cheering there as well, so... i guess it's really no big deal.
I also find it strange how we could come so far, yet there's still this feeling of incompleteness in the air when it comes to dance music on mainstream radio. Yet, back in the 90's when La Bouche, No Mercy, Livin Joy, Amber, or even later when Alice Deejay, Gigi D'Agostino..etc surfaced, things seemed a bit more real, despite the fact that there was LESS uptempo domination during those times. I wonder what it could be making it seem or feel that way... ???
We had a conversation about this a couple of years ago (shortly after Energy ended I believe) and you swore that Phoenix radio was better than Tucson. At the time, there wasn't much of this dancier pop playing on the radio and if I were to compare Tucson to Phoenix radio, I would say KRQ at least played some recurrents like Darude, Sonique, Ian van Dahl, etc. that weren't being played as frequently on KZZP or KZON at the time.