I actually was a latecomer to the EDM party. I actually thought my musical tastes topped out sometime around 2009, with a very few songs actually making my music radar go off. Had I finally reached that point where people get when they no longer can get into anything new as it's just too different? To think I felt that way about Alternative Rock which I absolutely loathed during most of the 1990s. I finally became tolerant of it in late 1998 and started adding it to my cassette mix tapes. Even thought Alternative was about as off-limits to me as North Korea is off-limits to US citizens, a few songs skirted my "sanctions". I actually got into EDM in late 2017 - with a little help from doing something else I never thought I would do again. I fell in love! No and it was not Kim Jong-Un. He was still 5 months out, hee hee. Anyway, EDM would become the soundtrack to those times and associated with the one who was the apple of my eye. It was immaterial whether or not the person liked that kind of music, it just happened to be the music that was being heard most of the time. Like Alternative, few EDM tunes flew under the radar as well prior to it blowing up, such as Swedish House Mafia with "Don't You Worry Child" or Jason Derulo with "Cheyenne" - if that's even EDM. Well as of 2022, I am feeling like the genre has become watered down. While some may say it became watered down long before now, I have always liked when a genre that is more "out in left field" becomes more - as they say - "accessible", and that usually means when it becomes more "mainstream". Unfortunately when that happens things tend to go from "out in left field" to the "extreme right". No I don't mean politics. I've remember when House was new and it was mostly instrumental, but as it became more popular, different artists would adopt some elements of the dance music - or their songs remixed into it - and this made House more enjoyable. I could only tolerate so much of House in it's "pure" state for so long before it started sounding monotonous and repetitive. Think of drinking straight Whiskey or even Espresso. After awhile it may start not being enjoyable. Now when you add it so something like a cola or an ale, it adds pizazz to that in which it's being added to all the while it becoming less strong and the flavors creating something different and enjoyable. This was how I felt about House when it was mingled with R&B or Pop artists' music in the form of being remixed (Depeche Mode with "Strange Love" as remixed by Phil Harding) or made that way (Madonna with "Vogue" as produced by Shep Pettibone). As we know, House - as it sounded in the mid-to-late 80's and what it sounds like nowadays are as different as night to day. As for EDM, some of the acts that I have enj ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRfnIgTRyt8

I suppose they would take a tourist to the tourist places of the USA because those are the places that tourists would rather see. I guess when other countries do this, however; it because they have something to hide. #tourism #touristattraction ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfCzSr_V-lY

The madness won't stop unless we stop giving it the attention it craves and therefore feeding it exacerbates the situation: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/one-dead-two-dead-in-shooting-at-dallas-shopping-center/ar-AA11HIqv?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=1d52ac80c5d8408ca19fd5f7bcdf9881 Shootings get attention so stop covering them. Society nor the world are benefiting from us covering the shootings. Nothing is being done about them therefore why cover them? It's not doing any good. If anything, it's only making people more aggravated and angry and fueling the fire for them to do more because they know that is what is getting the news. For the sake of the collective sanity of America, Stop covering the shootings. Stop giving everybody undeserved attention. #shooting #guncrime #news #shorts ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_rMwhQfa00

A remake of one of my "Dueling Elevator Videos" that I made back years ago where i feature a side-by-side of two perspective viewpoints recording the same elevator at the same time. Here we have DieselDucy and his friend Jimster586 doing an "elevator drag race", where each get into different elevators and "race" to the top floor. Actually I think GeorgeF551 was the originator of that term (but I may be wrong) as well as the "Man-Powered Elevator" dubbing of stair cases. Anyway, it's a vintage gated elevator against a newer (now old, but not vintage) elevator with motor-operated doors. For this remake, I panned DieselDucy's audio to the left while the audio for Jimster586's video to the right. It's a race to the top and may the best elevator win. #elevators #elevatorcommunity ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcB7NVqDGB4