**WARNING**: no hate comments, only intellectual debates allowed 
As a teenager living in the 21st century that is obsessed with ‘dance music’, I do not understand Electronic Dance Music (a.k.a EDM) like others do. This is usually what a normal conversation between me and a normal teenager who loves EDM goes. 
*Me: I don’t like this EDM song*
*Friend: what? why? but it’s so cool and chill.* 
*Me \*in my head\*: Technically cool and chill cannot describe a piece of music but alright* 
*Me: It’s just so boring and repetitive* 
*Friend: \*gasp\** 
Wow, ain’t it surprising that there is a 17 year old who doesn’t like EDM and want to go to clubs? It’s surprising how many teenagers actually thinks this is new and ‘hip’. HAH do you think in the 1700s people don’t dance to music as well? Well, the term ‘dance music’ is used very loosely nowadays because to be honest (music majors, back me up on this),  dance music has existed way before Zedd or Calvin Harris has made it famous with their beats. 
In the Baroque era, there are balls and in balls, people dance. Of course to be fair, their dance music is different because of the limitations of technology and instruments that are presented at that time. Still, dance music existed in a form of *Suites* in its technical term which consists of different dances such as *gavottes* and *minuets.* 
Okay now let’s talk the existence of **ELECTRONIC DANCE MUSIC.** First came the Father of electronic music who is amazing and deserves more recognition – Mr Arnold Schoenberg. This was the guy who basically made all of EDM possible. This man created serialism which was using a twelve tone technique to make music and incorporating it with maths. **WITH MATHS.** His pieces aren’t my favourite but he took his discovery to a whole new level that changed the way we do music today with serialism and with our computers. 

So you teenagers out there who thinks they’re ‘hip’ because they like this new thing called ‘dance music’ well I’m sorry to tell you but the European aristocrats in the 1700s are way ahead of you and they have WAY better movements than your grinding movements in the club. Anyways, I don’t hate **ALL** EDM music, some I tolerate like the new Chainsmoker song but I don’t get how people nowadays like such simple music, I think our taste in music has declined since the ages have gone by. What happened to the quality of dance music that were in the Jazz Age in the Cotton Club in Harlem accompanied by the beautiful voices of Ella Fitzgerald or Bessie Smith? How have civilization come to this point of music history in which all we need is a ‘bass drop’? Isn’t that just a tad bit disappointing? 

   I agree that our ears have been accustomed to pattern and familiarity, the 4/4 in the ‘bass drop’ and the fist pumps in the air are exciting and repetitive that you start to forget what the music is about. You don’t care what the lyrics are anymore, you just want the hear the good ‘bass’ and to see where the ‘bass drop’ is. I’m not saying that creating EDM is easy because I know it’s not but can’t it be a bit more challenging to the artists? There is no unique sound anymore, everything starts to blend in together and the only thing these DJs can do is change which instrument or add some weird sound effect/noise that has not been heart before (Justin Bieber’s Sorry has a weird dolphin noise going on). Also as a musician, you can clearly tell which DJs know music to a deeper level or not just by the quality of how the music sounds and written to. 
All I’m saying is that EDM is boring and that’s what I dislike about it. It’s supposed to bring you joy and bring you to dance and excitement but all it’s doing to me is a repetitive fist pumps and wishing the song would just end because it’s going nowhere. Isn’t it bad enough that you have to get drunk to listen to the music and to enjoy it? Because when you’re sober and not in teh right place in the right time, it doesn’t make sense? Then EDM isn’t timeless. We need more timeless music, not repetitive beats while anxiously waiting for a bass drop.