After being on this forum for some time it seems that some Orgers have an issue with EDM. Why? A lot of r&b acts are going this direction and the reactions to this seem to be on the negative side. Is it wrong for music to take advantage of the tools that technology has provided artists? Is it just that some of you have a problem with the pop versions and dig the original work of the DJs or you just dislike the producers? I mean...I guess since Europe never really had a fallout with disco like the US did, it was just natural that the music just transformed that way? Well what about the techno that came from the midwest?

Even though r&b is really just a blanket term, it has always been, at its essential, dance music from swing to jazz to disco and etc. So, now with EDM has emerged & become more prominent why should r&b turn its nose away from it? It's even very rare to see a thread talking about the music and only once have I heard Aphex Twin being mentioned. That being said: Do a lot of you just hate EDM? Do a lot of you just heavily dislike electronica and if you do, why? Is this why hip hop isn't mentioned as much?

Or, since the r&b listeners seem to go through new styles of music much faster than everyone else, do you feel that we've already passed that stage and need to move onto something newer?

I am just curious really.

I like r&b. I like electronic dance music. I don't particularly care for one masquerading as the other. I don't know why, but I just don't. Maybe it's because the brand of it that's currently dominating the urbain airwaves is such a watered-down bastardization of both that doesn't really accomplish the goals of either?

I'd love to hate the contemporary R&B/EDM fusion, but it's functioned as a pleasant, harmless background music for me. There's been a lot of griping on music having been reduced to midtempo plodder, but the tempos have definitely picked up. When the tempos pick up, often the melodies become catchier as well etc.

As for "proper" EDM, I don't listen to it anywhere nearly as much as I used to. Not even IDM, which is sort of funny because I used to do that type of stuff myself for a while.