I certainly don't want Eurobeat sounding as generic as some Top 40 is, for sure! But even if it did begin taking on production elements of those genres/styles/songs, I don't think the Musicianship behind Eurobeat would die at all, as perhaps the fear may be. "Harder" instrumentation, for example, might make our beloved Aggressive style even more potent, as long as it keeps enough of its original elements intact!drnrg wrote:Experimenting is o.k. on any level. Sure try new things. Just as long as Eurobeat does not start sounding like that cookie cutter dance pop/Dub Step/Electro Hop or whatever you wanna call it that LMFAO,David Guetta and all those other top 40 artists are making these days.
BTW, All those examples are great. I'll take some Transy Pamsy over the abomination of noise called LMFAO any day.
And lest we forget, Trance isn't exactly a shining example of every song being a unique little snowflake (is THIS the part where the snare takes a super long time to build up to the climax?). Neither is Eurobeat— we have an entire thread dedicated to soundalikes for our genre alone! A Eurobeat fan has to be VERY careful of accusing other genres of being "cookie cutter", lest they be reminded VERY swiftly of the fact that our entire genre is largely dependent on INTRO RIFF V1 PRECHORUS CHORUS RIFF V2 PRECHORUS CHORUS RIFF OUTRO using Four-to-the-floor Dance Beat, Octaved Bass on 8ths, stabs on every other 8th, and synth brass (usually from a JD800), usually between 140 and 165 bpm, with lyrics usually consisting of Burning, Love, Car, Baby, Fire, Desire, Higher, Tonight, Sex, and Tokyo... amongst others.
What Eurobeat DOES have above other genres is the aforementioned musicianship. Even our most cookie-cutter songs USUALLY have a great deal more musical thought behind them than, yes, most Top-40 songs usually do (there are some exceptions on both ends, if one takes an objective stance). This is what has made Eurobeat so special amongst its peers— even for a popular genre (at one time), it still had a great deal of true content to it, instead of being entirely shiny fluff.
So, yes, Eurobeat DOES have something over Top-40 music, but an objective stance suggests that it isn't exactly by a landslide.