By Kat:
Fresh off rocking the House of Blues Boston, Zedd has a lot to look forward to. The 23 year old has been a hit in the EDM scene for nearly three years, ever since winning a Beatport remix competition and going on tour with Skrillex and Porter Robinson.
This year, though, is a big one for the young EDM star. Since last fall, rumors have been flying about his collaboration with Lady Gaga on her upcoming Art Pop album. The album doesn’t have a release date yet, but Gaga reportedly has one goal - “to make history.”
As EDM as a genre has grown, more and more pop stars have turned to the beats of DJs to liven up their songs. This relationship is proving beneficial to both genres; EDM artists reach a wider audience while pop artists freshen stale, overused beats and get the opportunity to feed off the recent hype of EDM.
But will the collaborations go too far, to the point where the two genres are indistinguishable? Certainly, some fans of EDM have the fear of the genre going too mainstream, but pop music is called ‘popular’ music for a reason. Pop artists take the crowd pleasing style of the moment and integrate it into their top 40 hits, and right now that style is EDM. The two genres are inherently different, and will stay that way, so the mutual benefits of working together to create great music isn’t something that the hardcore EDM fan should be worried about in the long run.
Look again at Zedd, for example! His Clarity album was released to rave reviews, as was the song he produced with Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj, "Beauty and the Beat".
Listen to some of the biggest names in EDM produce some of the biggest artists in pop below!
Lady Gaga ft. Zedd - Stache
Rihanna - We Found Love ft Calvin Harris
Ludacris - Rest Of My Life ft. Usher, David Guetta
Fresh off rocking the House of Blues Boston, Zedd has a lot to look forward to. The 23 year old has been a hit in the EDM scene for nearly three years, ever since winning a Beatport remix competition and going on tour with Skrillex and Porter Robinson.This year, though, is a big one for the young EDM star. Since last fall, rumors have been flying about his collaboration with Lady Gaga on her upcoming Art Pop album. The album doesn’t have a release date yet, but Gaga reportedly has one goal - “to make history.”
Gaga has admitted to having a “major musical boner” for Zedd and the two have spent countless hours in the studio together, but how will this producer and artist collaboration impress the hardcore fans of Gaga, the Little Monsters? And even more importantly: how is this impacting the dance music fans who are seeing their scene rise to the mainstream?
As EDM as a genre has grown, more and more pop stars have turned to the beats of DJs to liven up their songs. This relationship is proving beneficial to both genres; EDM artists reach a wider audience while pop artists freshen stale, overused beats and get the opportunity to feed off the recent hype of EDM.
But will the collaborations go too far, to the point where the two genres are indistinguishable? Certainly, some fans of EDM have the fear of the genre going too mainstream, but pop music is called ‘popular’ music for a reason. Pop artists take the crowd pleasing style of the moment and integrate it into their top 40 hits, and right now that style is EDM. The two genres are inherently different, and will stay that way, so the mutual benefits of working together to create great music isn’t something that the hardcore EDM fan should be worried about in the long run.
Look again at Zedd, for example! His Clarity album was released to rave reviews, as was the song he produced with Justin Bieber and Nicki Minaj, "Beauty and the Beat".
Listen to some of the biggest names in EDM produce some of the biggest artists in pop below!
Lady Gaga ft. Zedd - Stache
Rihanna - We Found Love ft Calvin Harris
Ludacris - Rest Of My Life ft. Usher, David Guetta
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