COVER STORY: David Guetta0
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That’s not just because of the all-important crowd reaction but the sound systems that can’t be replicated in studios. Hearing the sounds bouncing off the walls is the only way to gauge its early effectiveness.
As free and open as Guetta is about electronic dance music, he knows that it can be trivialized, such as what happened to disco. Sure, he collaborates and there aren’t real rules, but Guetta paints himself as something like a protective parent, over not just his music, but also all that is created by the architects of this format.
“There’s not really a rule. Sometimes it’s just an accident,” he said of how he decides with whom to collaborate. “I really trust life and what it brings me, but sometimes I would make a song and feel like this artist would really be perfect for this… A lot of pop artists want to be part of it, which is great, but then they don’t always understand the music, the culture. That, for me, can be a little frightening. I think it’s amazing that the big pop artists are coming into our world. I love inviting hip-hop artists into my world. But it has to stay our world. It can’t use elements to do something that is not respecting the culture anymore. There is a limit. I love mixing different sounds, but it has to stay true to the origins.”
