Will.i.am has become a controversial figure in electronic dance music lately. I can’t think of another pop star who has been invited to play at all the biggest electronic music venues like Will.i.am. I wasn’t at EDC in Los Angeles this year but I heard complaints that Will.i.am ruined the show by mixing in some non electronic music and his own poppy Black Eyed Peas tracks.
At the same time I see something positive in what Will.i.am is doing. I respect him for having the versatility to enter the dance music scene. Coming from a pure hip-hop background that is a big deal. At the end of the day music is music and people who are willing to explore new genres to develop their sound and creativity deserve some praise. There are definitely two sides to the coin. Some people may cringe when Lil Jon jumps on stage, but others might derive some satisfaction from the idea that house music is reaching a new audience.
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We need to get some polling functionality on DA. I’d be curious to see what people choose:
1) I wish Will.i.am would leave house music alone
2) I’m glad that Will.i.am is playing house music… but I still wouldn’t see him play
3) I love Will.i.am – I want to see him Boom Boom Now!
wish he would leave it alone
I saw him at EDC, and while I will say he has a good taste in music, he should NOT have been on main stage. I liked what he played, but his DJing skills are sub par. Bad effects, didn't transition the songs well at all, and repeated a few songs… -_- However, I think it's great that he's trying to get into the house music scene. It just shows that electronic music is growing and appeals to more people. Hopefully pretty soon it will completely take over :D
just leave house production to the real guys :p
LEAVE THE ELECTRONIC SCENE NOW! He's Taking spots of people who actually deserve it.
bunch a damn music snobs up in here…props to him for trying it out and i'd go see him play…in order for EDM to become more & more popular in the US, more & more “popular” musicians need to start playing it…i wish everyone would be like will.i.am and maybe i wouldn't have to hear fucking lil wayne everytime i go to a club
leave and take lil jon with you
hehe oops I was playing around with Disqus (our commenting platform) and accidentally hit a button on this comment. I did not edit it, that is what DJ Marsig wrote.
I also went to edc.on the program he was only suppose to have a 30 min slot. he was just used as a transition.so they can set up the next dj.hes someone more mainstream(but still the black eyed peas) that could possibly change the game in the US of A so i think its a good thing. he played some dope songs too.!
For real i think he's great for the genre.music in general is usuing the EDM sound so were on the right track!(:
why?you like to party right so does lil jon.damn stop being fuckin conservative!
OPEN YOUR FUCKING MIND(:
i heard him at EDC & thought he wasnt good enough to belong on the main stage, im pretty sure Moby, Sasha, Fedde Le Grande, or Boys Noize deserved to be in the main stage way more than him. also i hated the fact that he kept freestyling while djing, even tho i have to give it to him for trying hard to calm down all the people jumping the fences, other than that i dont think he belonged at EDC. he was probably my least favorite set of both days.
1. Leave the microphone at home
2. Leave the whole dj scence all together
I saw him at EDC. i agree with others when they say he didnt play electronic music n shit, but thats one reason he was so sick. he blended in almost every type of music. I dono about u guys, but he was the only dj i heard the whole weekend at EDC to play a gun n roses track followed by a jimi hendrix track and still got the crowd jumping and making noise. i agree his djing skills were not the greatest, but what makes a dj a great one is not how he mixes, but what songs he mixes. as far as him being in the scene, we just gotta except that it is getting larger and more popular, so people from everywhere are eventually going to come into it. at least he has knowledge of music and u gotta admit he has a diff style than a lot of ppl. so i think we should except him coming into the scene, but whether or not we want him to stay will be determined after he puts out some shit. dont be so quick to hate n doubt, at least give him a chance.
He doesn't come from a purely hip hop background.
Black Eyed Peas were house/experimental dancers/musical group way before their recent rise in fame. I've had the pleasure to even dance with all of them at bboy events.
Look at their pre-fergie albums/videos and it's pretty evident they were involved in electronic music in the past.
Will.I.Am is a businessman using music to make money and live a pleasurable lifestyle. What you see here is him having a good time and getting paid thousands of dollars to play a (decent) DJ set. Because he's famous, people will see him, which is why he'll get main stages over more talented and suitable artists. Will.I.Am is just another case that proves the world places hype over talent because it's more reliable and profitable. The Black Eyed Peas extension into house music should encourage further celebrity DJ sets (Justin Bieber anyone? haha). This effect is a double-edged sword: in return for raping our ears with terrible mixing, celebrity DJs will give the world more attention to the music we love.
I was at EDC and had a chance to see Will.i.AM perform, but very far away in the vip area where the drinks were more entertaining that the set =)
No disrespect to Will.i.AM or little john, i don't mind them stepping into the scene, but… yes here is the but!
I hate all the fucking main streamers who are fucking up the vibe of what house music and the dance scene is all about. once you bring in all the ignorant stupid drunk aggressive punk wannabe ghetto but kool because everyone is “going to EDC” and decide to disrespect the scene with you bullshit, I would like to declare war.
its nice but its also toxic to bring in another audiance who doesn't give a shit about house, in this case.
Mainstream people and artist + house : the bad kind of hipsters.
and I'm from SF. and I really dislike hipsters…
2cents.
I saw Will.I.Am at EDC since we were caught in the mass trying to get down in the main area for Laidback Luke and such. He really sucks, I don't think he can beat match, every single time he transitioned he would grab the mic and say a bunch of stupid shit and basically turn the previous track off and put the next track on. I didn't see the point. The vast genres he played were cool and would of been nice if he would of shut the hell up and mixed instead of screaming I LIEK DEM GIRLS WIT BIG TITTIEZZ and what not.
what do they have that i cant see aviccii or wolfgang gartner play next week when they come to vegas. i have no need to party with ignorant people more worried about their shoes getting stepped on than relaxing and dancing to real house music. i dont need some rapper or mc saying anything, there set should speak for its self.
i hate this crossover bs. you can thank david guetta for this black eyed peas will i am invasion. cant stand it.
I saw him in Miami at FMIF Mansion (2009) with Chuckie Luke Guetta. It was interesting to see him play but he did not know how to run his levels n luke/guetta kept having to turn him down. I think that its good that he flexes his DJ muscles but really should make sure to not fuck up whilst performing which he did in miami and sounds like he is still doing. He is the most talented member of BEP and I admire his efforts tho would never NEVER pay to see him play. But I don't pay for much lol!
life he such a big artist why can he take the time to learn how to use fuckinggg CDJS ????? IMEAN WHY DOSE HE STILL USE THE FUCKING TOY TORQ??? HAHA EMMBARSSING PLAY AT THE BIGGEST ELECTRONIC MUSIC FEST IN L.A AND HE WUZ DA ONLY DJ MIXXING OR XPONENT HAHA FUCKING LAME JUSS GET OUTS THE GAME ALREADY HAHAHAH
I can't say if he is a good or dj or not. I haven't had a chance to hear/see him do a live set. Although in his defense, he is a banging producer. Why does everyone want to keep producers in a box? Everyone gets hype when Underground electronic producers make to mainstream but then hate when already famous producers want venture into the underground. We care about the music right? Stop having such a purist mentallity. Personally, who cares who makes house as long as its banging.
No business being involved in the house music scene. Nowadays we are being bombarded with this quasi house ish crap that is dominating the pop charts, and it is guys like Will.I.Am (along with enablers like Guetta) who are responsible. This is Pop music at its finest, Pop had a hip hop sound in the first half of the past decade, now they are going with the house scene. Can't DJ properly, and the music is very sub par (Rock Your Body is terrible)
1) I wish Will.i.am would leave house music alone… I'm still very bitter at the fact that the Black Eyed Peas used a sample from Adam Freeland's track 'Man Cry' for their song 'Party All The Time'; super stoked that they acually got SUED for infringment issues (settled out of court)… I personally don't think that the B.E.P.'s have had an original musical or production thought since their inception. I'm all for being creative (and also educating the masses via using rare samples), but it seems as if the entire B.E.P. team, especially will.i.am. consistently prostitute it to the point that the tune becomes souless…
I was at EDC and I was right in the front for his set. He was not a very good DJ technically speaking but his set was the most fun, and that what matter most. Definitely refreshing.
i wish will i am would leave house musiic
he doesnt even mix
he used maudioxtorq in edc that means
he doesnt know how to mix at all
he just neeeds to fuckk off
I suppose I'd go for something in between choices 2 and 3. For this rigorous scientific poll, and more importantly, for the sake of simplicity, I'll go with number 2.
1. Leave it alone bud. I dont need to hear him and the rest of the black eyed peas no-talent ass clowns blurbing over 8 month old club bangers, its counterproductive.
I have a soft spot for giving him a bit of credit for his collaboratin with Aoki on 'in the house'…lets keep it to stuff like that Will, leave the live action to the profesionals.
Will.I.Am needs to go away. Leave it to the DJs who know what they're doing. & like someone else posted earlier, take Lil Jon with you.
A mix between answer 1 & 2
If you heard Will I Am at EDC you wouldn’t be talking shit. There are no rules about who can and can’t spin house music. Don’t forget black eye’d peas were sick as fuck on their first album ever. Some of the most classic hip hop tracks around. Will I Am the DJ has nothing to do with the Black Eyed Peas. If you know anything about djing and the Electro House tracks out there, there are some dope ass black eye’d pea tracks remixed which are fucking amazing and are played by Electro House DJ’s around the globe.
1) I wish Will.i.am would leave house music alone. Not a fan of Will.I.Am or the Black Eyed Peas. They really suck live. Yuk!
in the struggle between dance and pop we need as many people on the dance side as possible. if someone like william is representing house music it’s only going to help us grow as a community. as a producer i would love to get some of tunes to william to play in front of thousands. i don’t neccesaraly think it’s a bad thing. my 2 cents, storm
im sorry john smith but your a fucking idiot you dont know anything about djin if you think he was good, he is using a fucking midi controller that does EVERYTHIng for you u dont even need headphones. second….your even a BIGGER idiot for thinking that any black eyed peas song is good im sorry but that isnt house music and it wont even be house music. Will iam is a poor excuse for a dj he wasted a spot for a better dj to spin, he almost ruined my time at edc cuz he played HORRIBLe music then on top of that he couldnt even mix the fucking songs together with a fucking midi controller that has a SYNC button to beatmatch your songs in my book if you cant beatmatch with a fucking computer then you are a faggot fuck.
1. As a concept it’s a pretty cool idea, I liked him in Steve Aoki’s track but by the looks of it he is doing it all wrong. Playing his own (imo) shitty tracks mixed with (imo) rinsed mainstream bangers with no serious effort going into making a flowing enjoyable listening journey… strike 3 your out. Get lil john the fuck out too. Seriously how are people still supporting this guy? especially in the EDM scene? Grumpy.