Despite living in Poland, almost all websites I browse are in English and due to that are mostly 'populated' by either Brits or Americans.

Among these sites are Youtube, Geekosystem, Cracked, 4chan and other less known sites.

And in almost all of them, especially on Youtube, I see that electronic music is only now getting popular in the USA and that it is somehow surprising and controversial there.

What the actual fuck. Is this true? How can it be that in Poland (and I'm guessing rest of Europe?) electronic music was not only a 'thing' but one of the most popular types of music out there even way back in 2003/4 when I was starting high school, but it only now starts getting big in the states?

Like there are actual react shows with teens reacting to electronic music and their reaction is "this is new!".

No it's not new. It isn't even anything approaching new. In fact, if it was already an established thing 10 years ago, then I'd argue its is old.

It looks to me that in USA genres like rock and rap are still most powerful, while Europe is the home of electronic music (such as trance, house and the like). In fact, I can honestly say that while I personally like rock music, it is viewed in my area in a very negative light and somewhat always was as far as I can remember.

 

Really? Fuck Poland.

 

It's new for them.

Berlin, Paris, London, Ibiza are where it's at :awesome

 

Eh, from what I remember experiencing, electronic music gained some popularity back in 2008. That's when I found it at least, and I noticed my friends were starting to listen to it as well. I think I might have heard it blaring a few times from others' cellphones.

Still a lot of rockbands in the favorites though, just can't remember which ones my friends liked.

I can't talk about mainstream america because I was disconnected from the main culture. No tv, just fanfics. But I'm pretty sure electronica was gaining popularity at my school in 2008.

 

There are reaction videos of people eating sandwiches with rye instead of white.

Reaction videos are a plague fad. Do not take them seriously, and do not use them as a measuring gauge for anything. We've had electronic and house music for ages. It's not as popular over here because of cultural reasons, but that doesn't mean we've only just become aware of it's existence. That's absurd.

 

The US is very big. Something can have millions of rabid fans and still go below the notice of the mainstream. Likelihood is that electronic music has been popular in the US for a long time, it's just that it's been restricted to certain areas (e.g. Bay Area/New York) or demographics (teens and 20s).

That's still a lot of people though. It's just that it's fighting with a load of other really popular stuff for notice.

TL;DR: being the most popular thing in a tiny homogenous country is easy.

 

Taure and Raine get it right. What is the world coming to?

 

I'm not talking about only reaction videos, I'd dismiss them anyway (after all, nobody talks about 2girls1cup reactions today). But about my personal observations in the English corner of the web.

I do wonder though what caused electronic music to only now get recognizable popularity in the USA if it was already so established in Europe.

 

In a way, it didn't. The types of electronic music that are popular in the mainstream (Skrillex, Krewella, etc) are nothing like the electronic music that's been popular in Europe for the last few decades. They're much more pop-like - they have a melody, often a recognisable verse/chorus structure, and more vocals. The tracks are shorter in length, suited for radio play, and with fewer repetitive beats with small variations.

It's not that electronic music has become a lot more popular. It's that pop has evolved to incorporate certain elements of electronic music.

 

I see nothing wrong with this evolution of pop.

Myself, I listen to a lot of Electro House (Dmitri Vegas, R3hab, Nervo, Nicky Romero, Chuckie) and Hardstyle (Showtek, Deepack, Headhunterz, The Prophet).

 

I never said there was anything wrong with it...

 

And I did not claim you did. :awesome

 

In Los Angeles, it had been growing into popularity from around the years you mentioned, Xandrel, but I didn't start listening to any House or Trance (consistently) until around 2007/8, when I got into Tiesto, Armin, Above & Beyond, etc. I always liked House too (early David Guetta, Wolfgang Gartner, some Deadmau5, Faithless), and Hardstyle, but I never thought I'd see these being mentioned here . . .

EDIT: Been really into Trap recently as well.

What gets popular in America is stuff like Dubstep, though, which I've only ever mostly tolerated, liking only a few tracks out of the many.

 

I'll listen to some electronic, but I prefer music with actual instruments most of the time. I only really know one person who listens to electronic music regularly. Dubstep can fuck off as far as I'm concerned.

 

What the fuck is this "electronic" music that you speak of?!?!

 

I'm much like Red Aviary. Though I prefer music with actual instruments AND vocals.

I don't mind dubstep, and actually enjoy quite a lot of it. I think dubstep gets more hate than it deserves because it's the fad/popular thing to do to hate on it.

 

I tend to just group all of the genres such as trance, hardstyle, dubstep, etc.

If it has a computer program making the beats then I consider it electronic. Kinda broad.

 

Whooooosh.

 

Been waiting ages to use this lol.

Edit: click on it to play the gif... apparently if you pick "large thumbnail" on imgur the gif won't play in the shrunken form.

 

Unless he was deliberately obstinate to prove a point. Then again, I wouldn't know so meh.