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Post by Deleted on Jul 31, 2018 14:50:35 GMT 10
From my understanding, electronic music (I'll call it EDM even though nobody called it that yet in the 2000s) remained popular in Europe during the 2000s while the genre declined in the US. In the US, EDM was popular in the 90s and then around 2001 or so it declined in popularity sharply before coming back around 2009. I remember in the mid '00s, around 2005 or so, I was pretty into EDM but it widely had a "gay" or "geek" stigma and for the most part that was correct. Most of the cool people of the time were either listening to emo rock or hip-hop. If you listened to EDM that typically meant you were either gay, on drugs, or a geek. I think this perception kept people from really embracing the genre through most of the 2000s. It was a very homophobic time and anything typically associated with the LGBT community was hated by most straight men. That all started to change in 2009 when David Guetta started to become mainstream and Lady Gaga made the electronic music sound popular.
So what do you think? Did electronic music remain popular in Europe in the 2000s? Are my reasons for its decline in the US accurate?
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Post by SharksFan99 on Jul 31, 2018 16:41:51 GMT 10
I can't speak on the perception of electronic music in the US at the time, but given the fact that the US is quite renowned for being resistant to imported pop releases from other countries, it wouldn't surprise me in the least if that played a significant part in the genre declining around the turn of the decade. In fact, from the period of time between the 2nd November 1963 and the 20th April 2002, there was at least one British artist on the Billboard Hot 100 charts each week.
Electronic music did remain popular in Europe throughout the 2000s. Daft Punk, in particular, were very popular around the Early-Mid 2000s. "One More Time" was one of the biggest international hits of 2001. Italian producer Alex Gaudino also had an international hit back in 2007 in the form of "Destination Calabria", which charted within the Top-10 in numerous European countries.
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Post by Telso on Aug 12, 2018 6:50:12 GMT 10
EDM was still very popular in Europe throughout the 2000s, mostly under the form of House and Trance. Past 2002, not so much in the US until Britney embraced it in her Blackout era which I would say inspired the Electropop era to come to itself around late 2008-2009.
In the meantime, the only EDM song imported from Europe that did well in the US was "Everytime We Touch" by Cascada with a surprising top 10 in 2006 as far as I know
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Post by Telso on Aug 12, 2018 7:08:08 GMT 10
Out of the top of my head, here are a few European EDM hits that were huge throughout the 2000s:
^Mostly huge in France and Belgium alone but still worth a mention
I'm sure you might recognize a few ones
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Post by SharksFan99 on Aug 12, 2018 9:49:39 GMT 10
Out of the top of my head, here are a few European EDM hits that were huge throughout the 2000s: To be honest, the only song i'm familiar with is "Call On Me", which was a Top-10 hit here back in Late 2004. I know I mentioned this song in my earlier post in this thread, but just out of curiosity, do you remember this song? It was a massive hit here back in 2007.
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Post by #Infinity on Aug 13, 2018 15:50:53 GMT 10
For some strange reason, Americans did embrace electronic dance music in 2002. Songs like these were all major chart hits that year:
My only explanation for this phenomenon is that after the sharp implosion of teen pop after 9/11, pop radio needed something else to fill the void of sugary, melodious music as an alternative to the raunchier hip hop-oriented stuff that was growing bigger than ever otherwise. By mid-2003, however, pop-urban and teen singer/songwriters like Avril Lavigne were the true wave of the future for the mainstream crowd in America, leaving electronica mostly neglected until the end of the decade.
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Post by Telso on Aug 15, 2018 1:04:49 GMT 10
To be honest, the only song i'm familiar with is "Call On Me", which was a Top-10 hit here back in Late 2004. I know I mentioned this song in my earlier post in this thread, but just out of curiosity, do you remember this song? It was a massive hit here back in 2007. Yes I do remember that song! It was very popular here too. Btw I forgot to mention this song which was one of the very last big hits for the Eurodance genre that was absolutely inescapable back in 2004 everywhere you went in Europe. Yes THAT song that became a famous meme years after Also childhood memories *cries*
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2018 1:45:29 GMT 10
It's all rubbish to me. Just a mass of senseless noise.
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