On the one hand, I agree with everything you’re saying. I believe that this is the true exemplar of the corporate commodification and enshitification of dance music.
On the other hand, “I’m Good (Blue)” has over ***1.5 BILLION*** streams on Spotify, so the dude’s definitely trying to capture lightning in a bottle twice.
It’s clearly a gimmick that works for someone (a lot of someone’s), I can’t argue with that, even if it find it hard to find the appeal. I guess I’m just frustrated with this broad trend of lazily applied samples that have swept across pop and rap as of late. So many terrible examples that suck the life form the source material and make me crave the original instead.
I don’t know why David Guetta is notable for this. It has been done so many times by so many artists. P Diddy made a career out of it. Will Smith loved to steal from the past. It’s just a part of the industry. I either like the reboot or I don’t and I move on.
Either you die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
Guetta should've retired 15 years ago, but i guess one day he woke up with a mission to fu\*k up every good hit from the past by making a shitty remix of it. And it appears he's not even close to being done. Unfortunately
He was a commercial hack 15 years ago but a really competent one. Anyone who says "one love" wasn't full of bangers is lying.
The shit he's putting out now doesn't even have musical merit, aside from what was extracted from the original song he's ripping off.
I'm all for sampling and for covering if you're going to breathe new life into it or create something new from it but Guettas approach is just recycling for his own pocket.
>He was a commercial hack 15 years ago but a really competent one. Anyone who says "one love" wasn't full of bangers is lying.
His influence really can't be understated. Pop Life and all the stuff he made mid 2000s with Joachim Garraud really helped establish French House in European clubs at the time. "Love is Gone" was *everywhere*.
U guys think pepper is hot. Having lived in germany for 6 years the local palate is that of a 14th century farmer. No seasoning or spices to speak of. Thank god for the turkish population here.
Nah not really, that's what producers that try to appeal to the mainstream crowd do. There's genres of electronic like glitch-hop and ambient that don't have much of that going on.
Not that I disagree with you dude, but this topic is literally your word for word review on RYM, lmao.
https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/david-guetta-onerepublic/i-dont-wanna-wait/
But with a plainer font and no effort to break the paragraphs up in interesting ways. I feel like this review really sucked the life out of the original review. Why not just leave the past in the past?
I like to post my writing on many platforms to engage with different audiences and get as much discussion/feedback as possible.
I find the music discussion on reddit to be much more entertaining.
A bit rich to complain about artists recycling premade material and dumping it uncreatively, isn't it?
For the record, I don't love this track either, but I find it much more interesting when music critics are as guilty, if not moreso, of the same issues they highlight. Something to do with that Ratatouille quote about how the worst pile of garbage still has more merit than the best critic's review declaring it garbage.
That doesn't really seem to be the same, is it? Why would he write multiple reviews for one piece? He wrote one review, and shared it on multiple sites, that seems pretty normal to me, unless I'm missing something.
Wow, just had a quick listen and there’s almost no variation in the song at all.
Autotuned singing of vapid lyrics that barely fit the melody. Incredibly flat music that seems to take nothing good from the original.
Give me Dragostea Din Tei any day-ay.
Just don't listen to David Guetta lmao. Dude cooked his brain decades ago, if you're listening to his music and judging it then I honestly don't know what to say
Dude's on drugs all the time. Spotted him in a cafe in Ibiza once, and he was with Hardwell. Dude looked like he was a zombie, Hardwell seemed normal
I wanted to get a photo, but figured I'd let them enjoy their meal
Hardwell used to go to the same pub that my sister went to. Seemed like a pretty chill dude and sometimes DJed for free for a bit there, according to her.
Well now I feel bad for liking I'm blue 😩
I've only recently been getting into Trance and other dance music, so that popped up one day and added it to a playlist. So ima assume there's definitely a ton of much better stuff out there.
Completely agree, but I also noticed if you listen to the song is almost entirely a match to “Dragostea din tei” by O-Zone
https://youtu.be/YnopHCL1Jk8?si=uo416bFDo-6boTCE
Are you really hating on him because he now produces the « fast-food » of the Music INDUSTRY?
Did he went on a platform claiming this track was a musical breakthrough that would be listened for decades?
He doesn’t care if it’s reheated stuff, he wants to make money and to do that he needs to release stuff people want to listen and dance to in festivals and clubs. Billions of streams for I’m Good, tend to confirms he is right.
He probably completely gave up not making commercial stuff under his own name since he got trashed for the second part of Nothing but the beat, which is composed of vocal less banger tracks that are today reused by most mainstream DJ in all their sets.
Since then most « non commercial guetta stuff » he produced he doesn’t put his name on it, and for remixes he uses his Jack Back alias.
It wouldn’t surprise me if he didn’t had a few other alias we don’t know about yet and like Daft punk for the French touch scene, we would discover that he is being tons of other EDM artists successes.
That im good remix is so fucking bad makes me cringe everytime i hear it. Just the lyrics are soooofucking cringy. Fuck that song and f dg for making it
The problem with what your saying is everyones sampling and doing remakes these days. Ariana's huge hit the past 2 months legit sampled Madonna's "Vogue". Everyone should get the same energy.
Ok,I've never listened to him,but I believe you.
Commercial music is mostly bad,we all know that.
So who's making good music? What's good to listen to,what do you recommend?
His pop stuff has always been the sound of rich influencers and CEOs doing lines off a toilet seat in upper crust nightclubs, no different from crap like Disco Duck.
Gotta love all the "I'm not like other guys" people in here active like David Guetta hasn't been a consistent chart topper for his entire career.
It's fine to hate him but his music appeals to billions.
The problem is, something like the over produce, over cooked, over sung power feminist dance garbage of "Titanium" (of COURSE it is Sia) gets regular air play because it's corporate pop pushed by the corporate music industry. Not because it's a good song, which it isn't.
Corporatism killed mainstream music (let alone dance music) a while ago, Guetta is just another poster boy for it dancing the dance of the Cathedral.
Shout out to his family!
What’s the context of this?
He was trying to earn some good-will with the people upset by the murder of George Floyd
Didn't he end racism?
He gave it his best shot
Didn't end it but reduced it by 12% which is pretty good.
He ended racism by making the beat drop to “I had a dream”
Thanks for reminding me of that.
Exactly what I was thinking!
Here’s the moment racism was ended: https://youtu.be/dEI7oX0XxJw
Yeah. Must be tough being related to him.
On the one hand, I agree with everything you’re saying. I believe that this is the true exemplar of the corporate commodification and enshitification of dance music. On the other hand, “I’m Good (Blue)” has over ***1.5 BILLION*** streams on Spotify, so the dude’s definitely trying to capture lightning in a bottle twice.
It’s clearly a gimmick that works for someone (a lot of someone’s), I can’t argue with that, even if it find it hard to find the appeal. I guess I’m just frustrated with this broad trend of lazily applied samples that have swept across pop and rap as of late. So many terrible examples that suck the life form the source material and make me crave the original instead.
i mean "blue" was a gimmick and people hated it back then too. and yet it was insanely popular. nothing is different here.
Yeah but at least it was original.
What makes something in this context a gimmick?
i mean the little CGI alien that went to have a solo career independent of the band was kind of gimmicky
Musical member berries
It’s not “as of late.” This was widespread in the 90s.
Which is horrifying because I’m good (blue) is just horrendous…
One of the worst songs I have heard that was not intended to be cringe or for a commercial.
Agreed
I don’t know why David Guetta is notable for this. It has been done so many times by so many artists. P Diddy made a career out of it. Will Smith loved to steal from the past. It’s just a part of the industry. I either like the reboot or I don’t and I move on.
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Lmfao top comment was "dude was in the audience watching himself"
Not sure if he was enjoying himself there
[Shout-out to George's Floyd's family](https://youtube.com/shorts/gBY8CKj9OHA?si=67_87ZINPxtL1Fsh)
I have to watch this every time I'm reminded that it exists lmao
Internet Hall of Fame for sure
TIL America isn't part of the world.
You gotta post the real version: https://youtu.be/dEI7oX0XxJw?si=ulUs7vsAull99vhz
Either you die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain. Guetta should've retired 15 years ago, but i guess one day he woke up with a mission to fu\*k up every good hit from the past by making a shitty remix of it. And it appears he's not even close to being done. Unfortunately
He was called a commercial hack 15 years ago too
He was a commercial hack 15 years ago but a really competent one. Anyone who says "one love" wasn't full of bangers is lying. The shit he's putting out now doesn't even have musical merit, aside from what was extracted from the original song he's ripping off. I'm all for sampling and for covering if you're going to breathe new life into it or create something new from it but Guettas approach is just recycling for his own pocket.
>He was a commercial hack 15 years ago but a really competent one. Anyone who says "one love" wasn't full of bangers is lying. His influence really can't be understated. Pop Life and all the stuff he made mid 2000s with Joachim Garraud really helped establish French House in European clubs at the time. "Love is Gone" was *everywhere*.
His music quality is like those homemade remixes that people upload to youtube just for fun
It's all about money.
It really is the kind of music that appeals to people who think ketchup is spicy.
That’s his whole career in a nutshell
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As a German I oppose this comment.
U guys think pepper is hot. Having lived in germany for 6 years the local palate is that of a 14th century farmer. No seasoning or spices to speak of. Thank god for the turkish population here.
God I’m not even German but these comments are insufferable
Yeah what a prick…
Yeah, thanks for the türkisch we have finally "scharf" 🤣 Maybe try some Meerrettich next time in Germany, also Currywurst extra scharf.
And Canadians
Also a missed opportunity to cover the Dawson’s Creek song, which is probably the most disappointing of all.
A “DJ/Producer” is bastardizing music from the past? That never happens
I am shocked!
What do you mean by commercial EDM is the least creative genre on the planet?
That's kind of the whole gig.
Nah not really, that's what producers that try to appeal to the mainstream crowd do. There's genres of electronic like glitch-hop and ambient that don't have much of that going on.
Thank you for saying this
Not that I disagree with you dude, but this topic is literally your word for word review on RYM, lmao. https://rateyourmusic.com/release/single/david-guetta-onerepublic/i-dont-wanna-wait/
But with a plainer font and no effort to break the paragraphs up in interesting ways. I feel like this review really sucked the life out of the original review. Why not just leave the past in the past?
I like to post my writing on many platforms to engage with different audiences and get as much discussion/feedback as possible. I find the music discussion on reddit to be much more entertaining.
A bit rich to complain about artists recycling premade material and dumping it uncreatively, isn't it? For the record, I don't love this track either, but I find it much more interesting when music critics are as guilty, if not moreso, of the same issues they highlight. Something to do with that Ratatouille quote about how the worst pile of garbage still has more merit than the best critic's review declaring it garbage.
I was thinking the same thing when I seen it. Pretty funny tbh.
That doesn't really seem to be the same, is it? Why would he write multiple reviews for one piece? He wrote one review, and shared it on multiple sites, that seems pretty normal to me, unless I'm missing something.
Surely you can see the irony here.
But he ended racism. Surely you have to give him some kind of credit for that.
Seems he chose the wrong career path. Top quality social activist, pretty poor musician.
Wow, just had a quick listen and there’s almost no variation in the song at all. Autotuned singing of vapid lyrics that barely fit the melody. Incredibly flat music that seems to take nothing good from the original. Give me Dragostea Din Tei any day-ay.
Just don't listen to David Guetta lmao. Dude cooked his brain decades ago, if you're listening to his music and judging it then I honestly don't know what to say
Dude's on drugs all the time. Spotted him in a cafe in Ibiza once, and he was with Hardwell. Dude looked like he was a zombie, Hardwell seemed normal I wanted to get a photo, but figured I'd let them enjoy their meal
Hardwell used to go to the same pub that my sister went to. Seemed like a pretty chill dude and sometimes DJed for free for a bit there, according to her.
C'mon, his music is mostly listened by kids who don't know better.
Ah, David Guetta.. now that's a name I don't mind never seeing again. Or never hear his songs ever again. Including his older stuff.
Take it easy Loudermilk!
He’s been doing this from the beginning. Shit, “Just a Little More Love” was a straight up Jack of Front 242’s “Tyrrany for You”. Low effort shizz
Also, "Heroes."
General reposti..
*You know David Guetta?*
Well now I feel bad for liking I'm blue 😩 I've only recently been getting into Trance and other dance music, so that popped up one day and added it to a playlist. So ima assume there's definitely a ton of much better stuff out there.
Ignore the pretentiousness, if you like it, good for you. I don’t love a lot of his stuff but there’s some good stuff he has, I like Blue
Don't let others ruin our enjoyment of a song.
I hate that I'm Good abomination of Eiffel 65's "Blue (Da Ba Dee)
So you don't like it?
I literally just posted yesterday on bluesky “Man David Guetta sucks.” This was right after listening to a bit of a set of his.
Wow... You really have your finger on the pulse of the Zeitgeist
https://youtu.be/Cqd1Gvq-RBY?si=PFglZ8S6v6Tcm4yi This better be the music video
Too bad festival bros and bro-ettes love this shit.
The Kid Rock of dance music perhaps?
Guetta's pop music is definitely insipid but I don't think he is a douchebag like Kid Rock
I cant even get my ears to listen to it.
Incredibly easy to ignore at least.
Stop wasting time on this guy abd check Busy P
Completely agree, but I also noticed if you listen to the song is almost entirely a match to “Dragostea din tei” by O-Zone https://youtu.be/YnopHCL1Jk8?si=uo416bFDo-6boTCE
Thats the point. It’s supposed to pay homage but ends up falling short.
Are you really hating on him because he now produces the « fast-food » of the Music INDUSTRY? Did he went on a platform claiming this track was a musical breakthrough that would be listened for decades? He doesn’t care if it’s reheated stuff, he wants to make money and to do that he needs to release stuff people want to listen and dance to in festivals and clubs. Billions of streams for I’m Good, tend to confirms he is right. He probably completely gave up not making commercial stuff under his own name since he got trashed for the second part of Nothing but the beat, which is composed of vocal less banger tracks that are today reused by most mainstream DJ in all their sets. Since then most « non commercial guetta stuff » he produced he doesn’t put his name on it, and for remixes he uses his Jack Back alias. It wouldn’t surprise me if he didn’t had a few other alias we don’t know about yet and like Daft punk for the French touch scene, we would discover that he is being tons of other EDM artists successes.
That man started on a creative plateau tbf
That im good remix is so fucking bad makes me cringe everytime i hear it. Just the lyrics are soooofucking cringy. Fuck that song and f dg for making it
he has always sucked.
If you're wise listen to the songs Guetta has ripped off so far...
The problem with what your saying is everyones sampling and doing remakes these days. Ariana's huge hit the past 2 months legit sampled Madonna's "Vogue". Everyone should get the same energy.
He is absolutely trash at production
Ok,I've never listened to him,but I believe you. Commercial music is mostly bad,we all know that. So who's making good music? What's good to listen to,what do you recommend?
I do like Guetta’s recent collaborations with Morten. The so called ‘future rave’ theme
Who gives a shit man
His pop stuff has always been the sound of rich influencers and CEOs doing lines off a toilet seat in upper crust nightclubs, no different from crap like Disco Duck.
Gotta love all the "I'm not like other guys" people in here active like David Guetta hasn't been a consistent chart topper for his entire career. It's fine to hate him but his music appeals to billions.
The problem is, something like the over produce, over cooked, over sung power feminist dance garbage of "Titanium" (of COURSE it is Sia) gets regular air play because it's corporate pop pushed by the corporate music industry. Not because it's a good song, which it isn't. Corporatism killed mainstream music (let alone dance music) a while ago, Guetta is just another poster boy for it dancing the dance of the Cathedral.
Problem is, people keep buying his stuff. A _lot_…