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its amazing as well how the US invented house and techno but instead of running with it, they end up with fucking EDM
its not like there are no techno or house parties.
this is the simple answer. EDM, which of course could be house or techno if you take electronic dance music literally (because you can dance to it and its made electronically), is generally pop music.
Pop music is formulaic by nature. Yes there have been great pop artists that strayed outside the lines but by nature its meant to be 3 mins and played on the radio/tb to sell things and create bookings for the artist.
latinpop/reggaeton is the same thing, they took the beat and left the hype and aggression and added singers and entertainers.
You can basically see it with any product sold/is available to the masses, there are a lot of crappy to average similar products and there are unique products that have more craftsmanship or aesthetic design to them.
as far as what edm djs can and cannot do, you could say the same thing about pop djs not being able to do underground gigs. There are plenty that can't do that. Or some djs can control a big room or a small room but not vice versa. Every DJ is gonna be better at one thing or the other. Often, but not all the time, being a jack of all trades, leaves you as a master of none.
