compositionally speaking, we can't say that most contemporary pop music is more complicated than dance music, this becomes hard to justify when you go into the weirder ends of breakcore and speedcore. in this sense I find it hard to take the idea seriously of 'oh it's just druggy dance music' ignoring the inextricable role that drugs play in 2010s pop culture. Put it this way, shut up and dance/4 hero could make mindwarping trippy psychedelia whilst being straight edge, dave clarke could play and release hard noisy techno having never touched E's and speed. Jeff Mills is anything but a druggy. Gabba terrorist loftgroover himself was not all that impressed with E's and relatively sober from what I've heard.
It seems very hard to imagine Future, Travis Scott and lil wayne doing what they do without the aid of chemical stimulation though. not saying impossible, and not a value judgment, but I do tend to feel the all under one roof raving ecstasy mythology is lionised by proponents of this stuff to big up their own cultural capital.
This is also not to say that all druggy pop music is great or bad, like most things there are variations. But this would probably be good to discuss in terms of the xanax thread.
It seems very hard to imagine Future, Travis Scott and lil wayne doing what they do without the aid of chemical stimulation though. not saying impossible, and not a value judgment, but I do tend to feel the all under one roof raving ecstasy mythology is lionised by proponents of this stuff to big up their own cultural capital.
This is also not to say that all druggy pop music is great or bad, like most things there are variations. But this would probably be good to discuss in terms of the xanax thread.
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