Welcome to everything marketed for mass appeal, ever. Mainstream audiences don't exhibit refined tastes, and the product is more facade than substance. In mus

Welcome to everything marketed for mass appeal, ever. Mainstream audiences don't exhibit refined tastes, and the product is more facade than substance. In music this has been an open secret of for decades. To me, it sounds like the author just has a chip on their shoulder about EDM in specific. That goes insufficiently unexplored, but the reason is probably best described as "salty." Yet, the article is dressed it up VICE-magazine's carefully managed branding and is designed to look like an authentic entity exposing something meaningful. All flash, no substance. Irony, thy name is VICE.