Damn. But Daft Punk doesn't count. Like, Daft Punk can be considered old school house. I'm mainly talking about the very modern/mainstream stuff. So all that progressive house or whatever it is. Every genre has something to offer, of course, but I just don't understand its popularity.
Basically, the moment that a handful of new artists burst into the popular music scene with a different to usual sound/genre that becomes a major hit, the well established influential pop stars often follow and bring it into their own music and consequently the majority of the mainstream audience. Whilst a different genre to the usual becoming a hit happens all the time, you know there is a trend happening if what should be a rare occasion (i.e. a different genre to the currently popular one becoming a hit) starts happening a few too many times.
It is quite interesting if you look at how the popular music tastes evolved in 00s to what it is today.
In the early to late 00s R&B/Hip-Hop had dominant popularity over all other genres and EDM had relatively limited attention. People like Eminem, 50 Cent, Outkast, Nelly, Jay-Z, Timbaland, Beyonce etc were the big guns at the time. Then you had pop stars who already had well established fan-bases in the 90s bringing hip-hop into their music like Britney, JT, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Mariah Carey, JLo etc and they helped increase hip-hop's popularity in the mainstream.
By the late 00s, people like Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Ke$ha etc burst into the popular music scene where they sampled electronic music in their songs with great success. Once again, well established pop stars decided it was trendy and followed suit; bringing it to the mainstream audience. Some notable examples are Rihanna, Chris Brown, Britney and Usher who all had R&B/Hip-Hop sounds in the 00s and now have much more electronic influences in their music. The ever controversial Nicki Minaj is an interesting example who dabbles in both hip-hop (which is presumably her roots) and electronic at the same time lol
Lol but how can ppl give you shit for liking SHM lol it's so good
lol damn right haha
