some people would argue that EDM is a bastardization of a genre tag as well (i would be one of them) but we can save that debate

but 'dance music' just isnt a genre at its core, it wasnt a particular genre, it was just music created to make you dance/to dance to. it could be waltz, it could be rock and roll, it could be r&b, whatever. the term just got adopted by dj nightclub scene bullshit to describe whatever kind of electronic they felt like stringing together in a set. then we come to the term 'electronic dance music' which also means very little and isn't really a genre considering people make electronic to facilitate dancing in any number of the electronic sub genres. Its just a really ineffective and silly blanket term. which has now been commercialized by the music industry in the US as a HYPE mechanism to only further add to the convolution. so people think its a genre now.

Sorry I'll be more specific: tiesto, David guetta, avicii etc fucking suck

edm is such an expansive "genre" with an obscene level of diversity. i don't get why it gets such a bad rep, or why people seem to limit the term to very bad poppy house and trance (mostly).

edm is such an expansive "genre" with an obscene level of diversity. i don't get why it gets such a bad rep

also this is aimed at the reviewer not you cyg, (he asked on the previous page) trance and house
arent the same no

It's probably because most people who listen to more than house/trance/trap use the term "electronic music" instead bc more culturally accepted and whatnot

well they probably use it also because its a real genre

revolutionary

Alright, first let me apologise for taking so long to do this but I've been pretty busy. Anyway, here's what i think of the review:

Picking these out randomly, you have a lot of 'descriptions' that don't really say much, for example "Their is no doubt it wasn't entirely bad", "pretty decently", "wasn't praised much by fans" etc. They just seem like cop outs for actual criticism. I would try to be more sure of what it is you're trying to convey, which, since this is a 1 rating I'd assume that negativity/disappointment would be the pervading feeling. Also, as has already been pointed out, there are a few instances of there/their mix-ups and other small stuff like that.

"With another year on the start-up with 2015, Avicii again has another chance to make up to fans and to EDM in general, to regain his respectability with his brand-new EP "The Days/Nights" which released a bit before the New Year began." - not liking this sentence, it's pretty convoluted and broken up poorly, I'd consider rewriting it.

"The production and song structure has been mediocre for some time now, and it doesn't cease to continue with awfully predictable concepts with a quiet start-up, then a boring buildup that doesn't differ from the rest of the EDM field aside from a select field: with it to be capped off by a pretty terrible main section bombarded by supersaw synths, only to rinse and repeat." - There are a few run-on sentences like this. This should be broken up into two, maybe three sentences depending on how you do it. Also, incorrect and poorly implemented use of colon here, should be a new sentence.

Anyway, it's a great review overall mate, just some things you could work on. The descriptions overall seem to lack conviction for me, you kind of dance around what you are implying instead of just saying "this was bad/good". Couple grammar problems but nothing too major, just needs a quick proofread imo. But solid effort for sure, you did well reviewing this and it's quite in-depth too.

Avicii had some decent prog house tracks in the early 2010's but everything from Levels onward is complete rubbish. He should stop producing and just focus more on entertaining crowds.

he is focusing on entertaining the crowds. And if he's got half a brain cell left he wont stop, now that he's mega successful.