Electronic Music and Me

Just a short-ish blogpost about my foray into Electronic music, a little history about how I came to start listening to it and how it has affected me, perhaps a little on why I like it. Making this blog post because hell, I've been into EM for a short while now and I may know very little on it, but just felt like giving my own 2 cents on it.

So I guess there were a multitude of reasons that culminated in my eventual exploration of it. Well it's very limited since I listen largely to Zedd and just one song from Calvin Harris that I've begun to realise actually lacks any lyrical depth. Yeah I know, EM isn't about the lyrics, it's about the beat. But I can't bring myself to enjoy a song purely on its beat alone, it's gotta have something substantial in the lyrics department. My first exposure to it I guess, I have to thank Zen for, for relentlessly playing Zed(League of Legends champion) with Clarity(mana giving summoner spell). Every time he does that, it was customary to play Zedd - Clarity, a thing we had among ourselves that was amusing. Back then, I didn't really listen closely to it as well, it was just a joke to me and I don't have the focus to really listen to it and play at the same time. Then I had my girlfriend who was really into Electronic music and kept pressuring me to listen to it.

Well I guess one day I did, was trying to find that song Rude by Magic! and just clicked the first link without looking too closely and got the Zedd version of it. I realised a minute into the song and saw that it was by Zedd, and thought "Hell, why not listen to Clarity?" This time I actually listened to it and was completely blown away by parts of the song that I hadn't caught before, little details that just wowed me. The lyrics of the song got me, I'm a romantic at heart and it had undeniable tones of a couple that knows they can't do without each other. So dang, just like that, after a couple replays I got totally hooked on Zedd and began to explore other songs by him. That was sorta how I got into EM, albeit just exclusively Zedd at the time.

So ever since I got hooked onto EM, things that really didn't matter to me became so much more apparent. Basses and beat among others. Prior, I didn't really care much about the songs I listened to so long as they had meaningful lyrics and was pleasing to the ear. I'm not so sure how to put it but EM just has that thing that Pop doesn't offer. Apart from that, there's sounds in EM that you just can't get out of normal instruments, stuff that sends shivers through my body. It can really put me in a place that the stuff I used to listen to before didn't and that's really something.

So yeah, that's pretty much it.