Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Somebody kill the DJ

Now that Green Day are back and they have a theme such as "Someone Kill The DJ" (with dance hit airs to Franz Ferdinand), it seems appropriate to use as the soundtrack for this article. This past weekend I was at a dinner with my lifelong friends. Someone took over the computer and put music with Spotify. "Tacata" Pitbull with some of its many featurings, the song "Squid" Bongo Botrako, Danza Kuduro, David Guetta ... The worse thing at times and cocktails in vein level was not enough to lose the papers "I Got A Feeling". In one of those, I slipped away to "click" what I thought would be a few of those hits you like lightning shaking music and put your summer memories. Let's see ... "How Deep Is Your Love" The Rapture, one of Kakkmaddaffakka, "Hold On" by Alabama Shakes, any Two Door Cinema Club and wham! No more me time! Suddenly, one of my friends started saying that he wanted to dance with those songs that you could not move and put something estrillo. (Does "Tacata" is something more than just a fucking guttural chorus?). I thought he was joking, but someone seconded the motion of censure and asked "Guetta or something more lively you all know." I was faced idiot in front of the black and white screen of the player. As if all my efforts to search for that hit, all disks recently heard, all reviews written in recent years, attended festivals and everything learned were not worth at all. At that point my judgment and my self-esteem had musical bits to reggaeton rhythm.
Inevitably I thought the British chonis attending the FIB or Ibiza Rocks, those who lose or papers with Guetta Jessie J, but also who you let the voice singing The Stone Roses, Florence & The Machine and The Maccabees. Will garrulito everything you want, but your taste in music is broad, and its voracious appetite promiscuous. And I got to the point of questioning why here the commercial and the indie or alternative are often light years. Two worlds that look behind a screen, not daring to approach positions for fear of contagion. Why it seems crazy to think that groups like Foster The People, Citizens! or the aforementioned Two Door Cinema Club may appear as a Top 40 list? Remember when MTV was engaged to do that? A music program and provide a ready hetereogéneas and stimulating ... Lately I have the feeling that all the songs that appear on commercial listings are cut from the same pattern (more than usual) and tomorrow only remember a handful of recurring endlessly. Occasionally arise that make tightrope artists from both worlds and often receive sticks for it, but it already gives to another article in itself. For now, I leave thinking there waiting your opinion about the secrecy of both scenes vs. the English model, who seems that things are going pretty well.
Maybe someday we will not have to settle for listening to the same songs on Rock Fm REM or Radio3 programming. Perhaps there will come a time when radio meant to grant other "popular" and "commercial" and everyone will benefit from it.

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