I used to back DJ Sneak on his movement agaisnt the SMH, David Guetta and so on… but it’s really gotten old and really fast. I can’t stand SMH or anything like that, but watching him rant on and on about it just shows that he’s massively butthurt. He’s (Sneak) an incredibly talented dj and just comes off as a whining baby because their house music (though awful) isn’t ‘true house’ by his standards.
The thing is, big pop acts are what brings people in. True fans of a genre will end up looking into the underground eventually, but every genre needs mainstream acts to attract fans. Nobody just starts off listening to dark underground 7am techno, there’s a progression. Just like nobody starts off listening to death metal, they usually start off with mainstream metal bands and work there way underground.
Lastly, all these new (and sometimes awful, *cough* Paris *cough*) acts don’t impact the underground at all. If anything, it gets improved when new fans tire of the mainstream and look elsewhere for their beats.
End rant.
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