Are you checking out other stuff?

I will never like dubstep, the style is just too annoying to me. All I can think of when listening it is a crazy drunk monkey hammering heaps of cardboard boxes. Don't think it will be very mainstream ever either.
I only listen the artists you mentioned in clubs, cause that's what they play there, but it's not something I would ever listen on a daily basis. House music is just too... boring, dance and trance music has more energy which I prefer by far. Unlike Waust I agree it's more cheesy but imo. the more cheesy the better, I love cheesy dance music.
And when i finally do relax, I prefer something a lot less powerful namely classical music.

I agree with pretty much everything you said... although I like electropop / dance-pop more... but also Nero, SHM, Avicii...

Indeed italo is more cheesy most of the time but that's no news to me... Have italo kept me from listening to other music? Maybe, but I've been listening to other music for many years now, and I think that mainstream music since 2007 or so is much better than mainstream music from 2001-2006 (no exact years, just estimations). Yes I might have missed some not-so-mainstream, foreign music, but well... I don't regret anything. Not too long after the quality of italodance started decreasing, mainstream music became better. So it was perfectly timed (almost).

And at the time when many italodance producers switched to house, yes, I took a stand against that. And I do not regret that, because I did not and still do not like the italo house productions from back then. It appeared that most of them were just skilled italodance producers, not skilled producers in general. Or I just don't like that music style, I don't care. And yes, of course it is true that when you listen to a different kind of music more often, chances increase that you will appreciate that music style more.

I hope this post makes any sense to you, because I just literally typed what was on my mind.

This is a very interesting topic!

I do have to admit I've also pretty much forced myself to turn away from italo so I wouldn't end up being glued to it for the rest of my life like Waust (I'M JUST KIDDING LOL DONT KILL ME)
I just didn't want to limit what I listened to as much as I used to.. I couldn't even listen to handsup before without being sick lol.

So step by step I got used to house (like summer of 09?) and last summer I adopted the Skrillex craze (mostly to have something musical in common with my friends) and realizing how bad dubstep is made me realize how much cooler electrohouse is...

And today I'm everything 12-year-old me hated! BUT!!!! I still remember where I came from into all those other music styles I listen to today (pretty much anything electronic, like electropop, trance, house, azis etc) which I think is very important (which is why I always go back to my italo playlist every now and then :33333333333333)

I would like to end this post with this. I discovered this as I went through his discography and it took me back a few years :3
Listen! Modern with influences from the past, no? ;-3

I think that that kind of music... Avvici.. Guetta and those others, it's just a modal thing, think about it.... in the next future years anyone will remind any of them, the mainstream music of now it's poor, there is no variations, in my opinion it's bad music... only your are the only who can scape from mainstream.... once i tried to make house music like that, but were to simple to me.... i better mix and make another styles like R & B.... but in melodic way with accoustic instruments, more rich. Italo is no cheap, try fussion like orchestral arranges and powerfull synth, the results are amazing. Yes Italo won't live forever but try other things, mainstream it's a fashion of radios, i'll never be mad for heard and made italo or Lento. It's a life style and if you and i make another style, make it with full conviction of it, make it for passion more than money.

Well... in the case that you need to make some stuff for money, do it right with professionality, if you don't like that style jus t put yourself a nickname ..... see ya --- sorry about my bad english.

McWaust wrote:

Dano ...I don't force myself to listen italo. You both sounds like you were forced and it was the most horrible time of your life lol ..too bad for you then I don't see it that way at all.

I listen other styles now and then, but they are not interesting to me, as italo is. Italo is the ultimative for me and I can listen other genres, but italo is still no. 1!

Oh no, don't misunderstand! I only speak for myself and I didn't force myself to listen to italo at all. What I was trying to say is that I had set my mind into that everything in the electronic genre that wasn't italo sucked. This wasn't something I had done on purpose, it's just the way it had always been..
As time went by and releases in italo were fewer and fewer I tried to go back in time instead to find songs I had missed and that worked for me for a while. But then that also got meh.. and I needed something new, so I had to change my mind about other subgenres in electronic music (now that's something i forced myself to do) so i could still have my required dosage of new music and eat the cake too (i dont even know anymore, i need sleep)

I hope that cleared that out.. :3

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