Ten Reasons EDM Is the Wimpiest Youth Culture Movement Ever

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Ever since the Beat Generation, youth culture in America has been a vibrant and rebellious driving force.

The Beats had risky views on race relations, jazz, and pot. The hippies had psychedelic drugs, sit-ins, and protest songs. Punks had mosh pits, spitting in each other's faces, and rivet jackets. Hip-hoppers had gold chains, breakdancing, and guns.

And what is there today? Ravers and EDM dominate American youth culture, and we're probably the wimpiest generation ever.

It ain't easy being hard when you're rolling face, hugging a Care Bear.



Fist Pumping
Sorry, bro. Fist pumping is not cool and manly. Punching a wall because that drop was so hard? That would be kinda cool. Thrusting your jazz-hand skyward to the infectious, spunky beat? Wimpy. Not to mention, bros are inherently wimpy. A buff dude in a neon muscle tank with big pupils is one of the lamest things you could ever be. Sorry we're not sorry.



Big-Room Builds
Of course, maybe bros wouldn't be moved to such wimpy moves if the music was a little less cheesy. What's with the brogressive house movement? Why does it all have to sound like Jesus came back on a Technicolor spaceship to rain roses over the club? It's really not that epic, yo. It's really all about the same.
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DarlingCR
DarlingCR

the vicks/pacifier girls are only good from making their fathers ashamed. 

joebonham
joebonham

"Ten Reasons EDM Is the Wimpiest Youth Culture Ever"
"EDM: Five More Annoying Buzzwords"
"Ten Most Played-Out EDM Songs"
"Pitbull Remixes Daft Punk's 'Get Lucky' ... Daleee!"

Wow, you have a horrible "news" site for music. Talk about horrible journalism.

jmac79
jmac79

i don't understand why people don't see mexico as an edm hot spot.  asot 600 was in mexico city and tiesto just played there last night too. avicii has played in mexico, and deadmau5 has been playing there since '08.  the only person who's been buying fans is dj bl3nd.

ny91yoshi
ny91yoshi

the truth of the matter, is not that these artists bought fake likes, its that fake profile accounts are liking these popular artists pages because of their already well established fanbases to spam them with fake posts and ads, and alot of these fake profiles happen to come from mexico city apparently.

spaspa6
spaspa6

The author sounds very bitter. He picks silly and arbitrary things to pick on (Vick's vapor rub, for instance). That's a classic bully tactic.  He even clings to the schoolyard insult "wimp".

The EDM culture certainly has its flaws. For instance, the line between chemical spiritualism and chemical addiction is fuzzy at best. An alarming percentage of people cross that line. 

However, the EDM generation are sincere in their love for art, for dance, for creative expression, and for one another. It's not fake. It's not jaded. It's not judgmental. It's not sarcastic. The sincerity is real. Living and speaking sincerely is something the author hasn't begun to comprehend.

Harrison_Fjord
Harrison_Fjord

Shit is hilarious.  That is all. 

Also,  Brogressive.  Hahaha....

pander75
pander75

Wow... thanks for the nice flashback to 2001!

MadMadLove
MadMadLove

Top 1 Reason this Article is Lame: 

1. This list has been made with the same exact list dozens of times. 

Top 1 Reason It is Wrong:

www.plurforsure.org

^^That website was created after 1 of the worst journalistic forays into the EDM scene. 

Infantile Bloggers and "Journalists" Beware: My tiny clothes raving booty is here to let you know you can type all you want, it could never stop the human spirit from doing what it wants. 

Your writing is irrelevant. A phat beat will cause more people to dance than your poopy writing can make people stop. 

Holler in the Glitter lined Streets,
I Dont Know You, But I Love You

nate.bayer1
nate.bayer1

@MadMadLove or maybe it's been said dozens of times... because it's true....w

MadMadLove
MadMadLove

@nate.bayer1 @MadMadLove  Subjective opinions can never be "true" only objective empirical facts and even then parameters must be set. 

"Furry boots are dumb" is not a true fact. 

Anything else Nate? =) 

MadMadLove
MadMadLove

@bhughes1010 @MadMadLove @nate.bayer1 

Question for you: Do you believe intellect is a bully's weapon? 

If you feel "bullied" by a smart person, do you realize what you are saying about yourself?

To answer your question, no I am not bullying, nor bullying people with my intellect, which is the most awesome, hilarious accusation EVER! =) 

I work for the Southern Poverty Law Center on their anti bullying campaign, and I run an anti bullying facebook group. <3 

So Bhughes looks like you are one hell of a psychic ;)

I go from "intellectual" to "Dumb kid in furry boots" in 2 sentences. BOMB. 

Ummm, the people that play festivals and massives....you don't think a lot of them started out as local artists? 

I feel what you are saying, you're not the first to point this out, rock listeners have had this issue for a long time. 

Have you gone to plurforsure.org? 

That website is about making the scene better and safer. If you have any complaints, thoughts etc on the scene, please feel free to leave a comment on the website, I am very interested in what everyone has to say and feel. 

Im going to be a major player in the EDM LA scene, so Im here to make it better. 

Do nothing but insult those that try, and Bhuges you wont be invited to shit. 

I have never worn furry boots my legs I like to show off my legs. =)  I added new photos to the website to show you my EDC 2010 outfit....

I love proving Party Poopers Wrong. <3

mad Mad Love to you! 




bhughes1010
bhughes1010 like.author.displayName 1 Like

@MadMadLove@nate.bayer1@MadMadLove @nate.bayer1 Do you think you can bully people with your intellect on here? Is that what you're attempting to do in this situation? You must be one of those dumb kids wearing neon shirts or a girl wearing furry boots. Kids pay top dollar and flock to these huge festivals but will never be caught dead attending shows in their local scene with actual artists who pour their heart into the music they create and love. 

stopannoyingbloggers
stopannoyingbloggers

The author is probably one of those wanna be white gangsters. Seriously, pick out some more stereotypes about a certain movement. You can find negative aspects about any culture movement if you look hard enough. Seriously whats wrong about a culture of peace and love? Really i mean come on, you are using the word wimpy for christ sakes. Ooooooooooo that is so offensive. Do something more productive than bitching and ranting about some music scene you hate. You sound exactly like Deadmau5. Therefor that makes you even "wimpier" than the rest of us.

jonweiskopf
jonweiskopf like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 3 Like

okay, you guys, this article is fucking hilarious. the individual who wrote it is being funny. thats it. there is no true negative connotation with any of it, unless you are, in fact, one of the idiots being made fun of. sorry. 

fuckthispost
fuckthispost like.author.displayName 1 Like

deadmau5 does not produce trance.

DestroDNB
DestroDNB

lol its funny but hippies will always be the wussiest group of teenage dirtbags evar

rider1
rider1

People need to get a sense of humor! Relax its mad funny

saelios
saelios like.author.displayName 1 Like

@rider1 it was pretty funny he definately got a rise out of people which whether or not what he was going for it works. haha

frostybean
frostybean

lol whoever wrote this article is a complete idiot and knows NOTHING about the scene at all. you literally just made yourself look retarded, good luck making it as a journalist with your complete lack of skill and knowledge 

nate.bayer1
nate.bayer1

@frostybean actually the scene is shit and all of you are indeed colorful toddlers. Enjoy your repetitive shit music :)

rider1
rider1

@frostybean I would say he is already a journalist, that is why you are reading his article. He just stated facts in a very comical way. 

trolllsmakemesick
trolllsmakemesick

go fuck yourself "kat" your a useless troll whose journalism career highest point is writing for this crappy website. Why dont your write articles on what you enjoy (such as double headed dildos), and stop hating on shit that people enjoy. All you're doing is trying to be the ugly troll that you are so that you can get reaction. suck a dick you wench

househead91
househead91 like.author.displayName 1 Like

edm back when it started was very different from what it is now. back then it really was about PLUR. now it about doing drugs and honestly just hoping the half naked girls with freak on you. back when it all started EDM was about feeling love and giving love. you were able to walk into an event and felt as if everyone was already your friends and family. nobody cared what you did. now it's about these hipster ass kids running around fist pumping and eating magic beans calling themselves "ravers" i understand your concern there... its honestly has done a total 180. yes the EDM communty is a bunch of  fist pumping, half naked, neon colored dressed drugged up people but just remember this.. edm definitely one of the most "feel good" genres out there. fine you are right.. we don't have guns, break dancing, mosh pits, gold chains, or cool jackets but what we do have in common is the music we listen to.. to me thats all that really matters. we are all in one place enjoying the music and feeling good. call us whimpy, call us soft, call us a bunch of unmanly bros fist pumping.. but at least we get to do it without caring if we are tough or not. why do you need to act all tough anyway? why do guys act all tough? who cares if you are tough and can smash a can on your head. AND JUST REMEMBER THIS WE HAVE HALF NAKED GIRLS RUNNING AROUND LIKE THEY DONT CARE. i dont think rap or country or punk does that. 

thecandlefire
thecandlefire

@househead91 you fail as an individual if you think that edm is the only scene with half naked chicks running around lol. But I do agree with the rest of your statement (:

italianxi213
italianxi213

Whoever created this post is a fucking loser. Maybe you should endulgde a bit more on the community, your a little punk and we strive for world peace. Sorry we don't wear trashy leather jackets and scummy outfits to be badass. We explore opposite ends of the spectrum to brig fun and enjoyment, comfort and energy! Go fuck yourself for even assuming half of this shit. As for bro step and such, I think it just got a little out of hand. It's music, and music is music, however there happens to be a large population that is attracted to it. Even if that population is "bros" so bark up a different tree and speak upon a group or movement that you actually know.

rider1
rider1

@italianxi213 so what have you done lately for world peace. Have you join the peace corp? Open a school in Africa, open a homeless shelter? 

DJ_Spokk
DJ_Spokk like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 2 Like

Most young EDM producers teach themselves EVERYTHING... They don't go learn production lessons from their high school teachers because no highschool teacher has a clue. Neither do our parents. Yeah there's a few commuter colleges but ain't nobody got time for that! Up and coming producers sit at their desks for hours and hours learning everything there is to know about production and DJing and teach themselves. (EDC DISCOVERY PROJECT IS PERFECT FOR WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT) 


And as for the culture. We are different. We are starting a new era. A beautiful careless era that may not be as "tough" as you wish. But maybe that's because we don't have to be. We're bringing back summer of love" And there's nothing you so called "tough" guys can do about it. 

robert.n.nielsen
robert.n.nielsen

fuk PLUR too

thecandlefire
thecandlefire

@robert.n.nielsen fuck "peace" fuck "love" fuck "unity" fuck "respect." You sound like a 12 year old. 

discogurlie
discogurlie

I'd like to point out that  Jazz hands are open not fists. Big room builds haven't been cool since the mid nineties because they lead to no where and it's monotonous.As for the pacifier you will wish those kids have one when someone bites off their tongue. The buying fans sync buttons and cheating were never part of the program. That's all new. This is not a movement it's a fad.

fuckoff6969696
fuckoff6969696 like.author.displayName 1 Like

If this shit is so easy and not music, then why don't you do it and make a ton of money? Instead of writing for, "wimpy" websites. DJing is much different then creating music and I would love to see you try to create a EDM song. All these other assholes which talk about picking up a real instrument really should do their research. The majority of EDM producers know music theory and how to play various instruments. This blog is seriously stupid and quite honestly pointless. EDM is popular and will continue to be and you can sit around with your thumb up your ass complaining about how it sucks and it is not real music all you want, it won't change a thing. 

discogurlie
discogurlie

@fuckoff6969696 The dance music that's out now is very simple not very good watered down copies of material from the past. Most people can't go make a ton of money doing music because they don't hire musicians. If you are under the impression that any of those people are there because they have skills you are dead wrong.

TTFTW
TTFTW like.author.displayName 1 Like

We're all entitled to our opinions, but on one page you ask why every song has to sound like Jesus' resurrection, and on your last page you criticize producers for not experimenting enough? That makes very little sense. You also criticize tweens wearing furry boots? Why are you telling them to grow up? They're 14. People look like idiots with inhalers shoved up their noses? Possibly, but do you think people who paid good money to experience their favorite music in their favorite way have even a modicum of interest in what we think they look like? I totally understand you think other generations went harder or did it right, but I also have a feeling you'll be criticizing every generation from now until you realize you should stop blogging. Then again, criticism is an easy way for an amateur blogger to get a paycheck, so in the true sense of PLUR, I'm not mad at ya.  Do your thing. I'll respect your hustle. Next time, though, understand that we're just out here doing us, and are glad people like you choose to stay at home when we're raving.

justlang
justlang like.author.displayName 1 Like

God, I hate when the damn G string on my MacBook goes out of tune! And that buzz on the low E? Drives me nuts! Better take it to the computer store and get it set up! Maybe these dumb kids should raid their parents music collection to find out what talent is. Better yet, pick up a fucking instrument! Grow up.

whatever
whatever

"you make ok trance" - The author talking about Deadmau5. Get your genres right, he makes Progressive and Electro House

EDMElectroLover
EDMElectroLover

I HATE THIS GUY, he knows nothing about music. Theres thousands of variations of electronic music and EDM music, each one with distinct different sounds. You have to really trully feel the music and vibrations flowing through your body internally and it affects your physical and especially your mental state, causing you to react differently than any other type of genre in music. The "vibes" you get from listening to electronic music make you happy and want to dance and share the love with everyone, everyones positive energy flows throughout everyone else and everyone feels it, it just feels good. It's extremely hard to explain if you don't have a love for music or you don't have a musical ear, I love ALL kinds of music but there is no other music except for electronic music or EDM that affects me so greatly to the point where it changes my life and my emotions and I just feel amazing and want to dance and have a good time with everyone around me, spreading the love. I feel as if it almost tells stories, and I can imagine like the heavens gates opening up to me on the break downs leading into the drop and then explosions of crazy good feelings when the drop comes. I can feel my self orgasmically vibrating good feelings througout my entire body when I listen to it, I guess its just unexplainable to someone who doeesnt know music or feel music or have a musical hear.

EDMElectroLover
EDMElectroLover like.author.displayName 1 Like

oh, and by the way, whoever wrote this article go fuck yourself. (-_-) 

daveeo
daveeo like.author.displayName 1 Like

So why is 'EDM', or just 'Dance music' to everyone else. (the 'electronic' bit is pretty obvious) being classed as a new Youth culture? its been around since the 70s/80s and started with disco. Seems now its hit big in the US that its classed as a new phenomenon??, about 20 years after it was/still is huge in the UK & Europe?? Its great that it has such a following in the US but everything has its down sides, the idiot who wrote this article should be sacked and go back to chugging 'brewski's' with his frat boy friends and the 3 other people at the slipknot reunion concert, go and get drunk and fight with them haha, what at tit

An_Actual_EDM_Fan
An_Actual_EDM_Fan like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName like.author.displayName 4 Like

The author of the article is an idiot. Allow me...

1. Nobody fist pumps because its cool. You fist pump because you're dancing to music. After the drop and subsequent fist pumping, people pretty much go back to whatever other weird dance moves they were rockin' out with. It's all part of the expression.

2. Never heard of dubstep (brostep)? There's nothing lovely dubby (no pun intended) about hard hitting and grinding bass. You're also forgetting about trap and a lot of electrohouse. If you want some gangsta' shit listen to trap. If you want some dubstep bass with more melody, listen to electrohouse.

3. If you're listening to EDM for the vocals, you're doing it wrong. It's Electronic DANCE Music. The vocals are usually nothing more than an extra layer of melody for people to sing to instead of hum to.

4. Good job picking some of the ugliest girls you could find for that picture. Some girls can really pull off the fury clothes. But even if that's not your thing, what could be more awesome than the fact that the unspoken motto for clothes at an EDM show seems to be "less is more."

5. The pacifier is as old as raving itself. This says nothing about our generation. Regardless, it's just all part of the fun of dressing up for some people. I don't see what's wrong with that.

6. People don't wear the masks to look like a ninja. They wear them for the same reason they put on anything else when attending a rave, they can. Also, kandi can be an amazing work of art. If you can't understand that, then you've obviously never tried to make any.

7. I feel the same connection with my fellows at a show whether or not I'm rolling and I know many others would agree. Not everyone at a show in rolling. Some people just don't want to try it and others realize that you can't abuse MDMA. You shouldn't need molly to enjoy a show.

8. Deadmau5 is a hero of the scene? Please tell me that was a joke. Also, he doesn't make trance.

9. You say Deadmau5's "rise to fame was genuine," yet it says right there on the picture that Deadmau5 is buying likes. How dumb are you?

10. There is much more to DJing than beat matching, but who cares because DJ's are a dying breed anyway. Most shows nowadays are all about the producer. We're there for the music, not for critiquing a DJ's ability.


That's all I have to say. There's the door, now leave.

clintbrown69
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I've been going to EDM events for 10 years now and I can tell you that the scene sucks and is very lame now.. The music is soul less. The bass lines are no longer funky and fun, they are now formulaic and boring. What ever happened to Breakbeats? Have Djs just completely forgotten about that genre? The DJs are really the ones to blame here since they NEVER have any respect for the older generation's perspective, they just want to do their own thing and yes I agree they have turned the entire movement into a joke. The fist pumping and DJ worship is a big part of the problem, I remember when no one even knew or cared about the DJ as long as he was playing good music.

marc.bouza
marc.bouza

EDM is not a "wimpy movement" its the future of music itself. you obviously have no clue what you're talking about.

kb1908
kb1908 like.author.displayName 1 Like

Sorry  the whole EDM wave going on makes me want to puke.  And I love  dance music.  but this  EDM  phase: electro pop/house brostep crap sucks! I wouldn't call the kids wimpy but maybe just a little lame.  ,The author is right on many points except deadmau5 is not trance. 

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