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I AGREE WITH THIS GUY.

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Wildstyle K

He pretty much says it all already AND has an audio player in the link, so no point in me repeating or reposting all of it. http://pulsemusic.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=nonsingles&action=display&thread=111164
I'll just drop the link and move right along to my thoughts on the type of content it leads to.

*Love them or hate them, but you've got to respect those artists for taking dance to an urban level in 2011/2012 with a unique style. They just may be the ones to push dance into URBAN mainstream. WVEE has ALREADY begun embracing this song AND using it in mixshows as a segway to electro dance, or "getting ready to fist pump" as the on-air guy said. I didn't even know about THAT particular song from those artists until Saturday, when I heard it on WVEE.

BIG THINGS HAPPENING
There's nothing like hearing a "brotha" talking about, AND EMBRACING fist pumping as the electro house style beats are going on over the airwaves - ON URBAN RADIO.

Take a moment to think about what I just said and let it marinate deeply into the various segments of your brain.

Dance music - crossing over to URBAN radio! Yes, WQHT has been known to recently add a few uptempo tracks here and there for a while now, but whoohoo - they are rhythmic. Dance on a RHYTHMIC really isn't a big deal nowadays. However, WVEE is the nation's LEADING urban station, #1 in their market ratings for over 2 decades solid, is on a BIG powerful signal, and they are beginning to embrace dance music within their mishows.

For those of you who are still unsure whether or not I'm over-hyping the entire situation, I'll just post 3 or 4 of the tracks I'VE HEARD LIVE on WVEE within the past 7 days (Keep in mind they are an URBAN format).

1. Sexy and I know it - LMFAO (That's got to be one of the most electronic sounding productions in top 40)
2. Calvin Harris - Bounce (Don't run to Wal-Mart to buy a pair of glasses- you're SEEING CORRECTLY!)
3. You make me feel (Disco Fries Remix) - Cobra Starship. ...


To be completely honest, I thought we had already reached the peak of excitement with this Dance Music Comeback situation and that there was not much more to look forward to as the "new sound" became "normalized". I guess it looks as if 2012 will be even MORE EXCITING for a sound that people were predicting would die by THIS AUTUMN. When you have urban(s) beginning to blatantly embrace this sound on a DAYTIME, RUSH HOUR mix - AND people on twitter SHOWING LOVE TO THE FIST PUMPING, that is BIG, for lack of a better term.

BIG!


BIG!


I'm glad that everything I've hoped for and suggested has unfolded. I really don't know what more to say, but I'm sure if I announce another "last day of posting", more exciting things will happen to force me to come back and say something. I'm sure I'm the first to inform everyone that The Nation's Leading Urban Station has begun embracing the sound this portion of these boards are strictly dedicated to.

By the way, You know my logical way of thinking; If Heavy D - "now that we found love" made it to urban, then I believe there should be no problem with "give me everything tonight" by Pitbull & Ne-yo making it onto mainstream urban today, in 2011. The fact that something so logical isn't actually happening on radio and would be "unusual" if it did today is very counter intuitive.
 
Raise your hand if your done with all this annoying squeaky ear-piercing Dutch House LMFAO nonsense & poppy mainstream "dance" and want real House Music back.
 
KDM, for a minute, I thought you accidently posted the wrong link. Now after actually listening to the song (the one you shared has been removed BTW), I realize you are in fact getting excited over a new Drake song. 1st thing, I know I have a reputation of being negative, but seriously? Drake? He is sooooooo over rated. Voice is terrible (even with auto-tune), his beats are poorly produced, and his flow is akward. Now I will admit the production in this song is better than his other work, but its a BIG stretch to consider it Dance. For the majority of you who probably skipped the info above, its a song called "Take Care" featuring Rihanna. We already have enough Urban influence in Dance today. He needs to stick to what he does best...making junk records. And furthermore, it's no secret that Urban has embraced this trend. What else can they do? Keep playing the same tired worn out downtempo records? All the new records are fast, and the slow ones are not hits. Only kids and immature dudes care about Thug records.
 
Point well taken by the OP in that as opposed to fading out, the uptempo pop sound that has been huge on CHR over the last while is now seemingly somewhat crossing over to of all places Urban Radio.
 
KDM, don't listen to them. You've actually been right from day one about this trend, and how big it'll get.
What's wrong with Urban stars and stations embracing Dance music? Whodo you think started Disco in the 70s? What were some of the biggest urban records in the 80s?
Whitney Houston had some Dance hits back in the 80s, so did Prince (remember the silly "Batdance"?), as did Michael Jackson, Billy Ocean, Irene Cara, etc.

Actually, House music broke out of Urban radio stations, not the CHR ones. WMBX 102.7 Chicago, 98.7 kiss FM New York, they were among the first to embrace it. Remember Joe Smooth "The Promised Land"?
The Urban stations in Detroit were the first to play Techno. The Urbans in Dallas had no problem playing crossover Dance, even some Euro-Pop.
Hot 105 Miami was considered an Urban in the mid 80s, but was the forefront to the late 80s sound of Hot 97 New York and Power 106 L.A.

And what about the 90s? Ce Ce Penniston sang "Finally", Melanie Thornton sang vocals on the La Bouche songs, Martha Wash sang on the C&C Music Factory stuff. All black artists.
Who remixed Everything But The Girl's "Missing" into a bonafide smash? Todd Terry.

DJ Perry, I'm sorry, but I really don't know what you're problem is. LMFAO is just as much Dance as the Jungle Brothers were back in the day with "I'll House You", or The Movement's "Jump", or 2 In A room's "Wiggle It".

And Rihanna's "We Found Love"? The face that Top 40 stations like Z-100 had it in major rotation long before most of America's net-only Dance stations speaks volumes...as to how out of touch some of these so-called mainstream Dance stations are from the mainstream.

At least Billboard's Dance/Club Play chart actually seems to be in sync with what's hot:
http://www.billboard.com/#/charts/dance-club-play-songs?begin=1&order=position

How much more Dance friendly do you want the current climate to be??? Flo Rida's latest isn't good enough? Why? B/c it wasn't produced in Romania or Germany?

And so what if Drake uses auto-tune? Eiffel 65 didn't do the same damn thing back in the day? Or Cher?

Now you know me, I like a lot of the pure Dance stuff, and underground stuff, but I also like crossover Dance. If Edward Maya, Martin Solveig, and Alexndra Stan are crossover than so is Chris Brown's "Yeah", David Guetta's "Without You", and Rihanna. What's more, even the latest by Maroon 5 with Christina, or the Cobra Starship songs are crossover Dance records. None of these are remixed Pop songs - they're all Pop songs that happen to be crossover Dance.

KDM, carry on.
 
CHRles said:
DJ Perry, I'm sorry, but I really don't know what you're problem is. LMFAO is just as much Dance as the Jungle Brothers were back in the day with "I'll House You", or The Movement's "Jump", or 2 In A room's "Wiggle It".
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Love all those songs, in addition to LMFAO. In fact, I was into them LONG before they crossed over. They were only known in the Electro world back in 2008, and I actually question them being labeled as Hip Hop as I see all the time. My problem is Drake. It doesn't fit.

It seems you assume I dislike anything Black...not true. I have no issues with Rihanna or Flo Rida. But are they Urban? No. Your retro examples are not Urban either. They are Dance / Pop. Black does not equal Urban. Urban is stuff you see on MTV's Sucka Free Countdown (which is ironic cause all they feature are suckas). That stuff has no place in Dance...including Drake. I could care less if he uses auto tune, I'm just saying he sounds like piss with it or without it.
 
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