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Simplepowa
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Major Lazer Take Aim at Media Over EDM Show Drug Deaths
#18903378 - 09/28/13 04:13 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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By HILARY HUGHES | Sep 12, 2013 AT 11:15AM
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Jillionaire and Diplo of Major Lazer perform in Philadelphia.
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Dance and EDM artists have been enduring an onslaught of unwelcome attention in the wake of the deaths at New York's Electric Zoo and a Zedd show in Boston last month. This was apparent at Boston Calling Festival over this past weekend, where 21 drug-related arrests were made. (Although, notably, none of the arrests were for the drug at the center of the firestorm, molly - or powdered MDMA.)
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One of the bigger festival draws, Diplo and his Major Lazer crew, had some strong opinions on the media firestorm.
"The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other," Major Lazer's Jillionaire told Rolling Stone this past weekend at the Boston Calling Festival. "It doesn't matter what anyone who's 50-years-old has to say about these festivals. How many kids go to a football game and drink too much beer?"
"How many kids drive a car when they shouldn't?" Diplo added. "The drug thing happens, and this is the first time music writers can have something to write about. Electronic music is so young, and these audiences are full of 18 - no, 13-year-olds - and people who are 30, and 30 is old. Music writers and critics are old. When I was younger and living in Philadelphia, there was a crazy heroin problem. I had a lot of friends who died from Oxycontin and heroin overdoses. No one wrote about those kids. When 6,000 kids party for three days and two kids die, it's a story because the writers don't write about electronic music, as it's flat and boring all the time."
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According to Jillionaire, the problem could stem simply from drug inexperience. "It's going to sound weird, but we need to teach kids how to do drugs, the same way we teach them about drinking responsibly and having safe sex," he said. "If you're going to go to a festival, drink water for six days before you get there; don't drink no alcohol. If you're going to do a pill and a half, don't do four more and then pass out, overheat, and die of cardiac arrest. Instead of acting like drugs don't exist, acknowledge that drugs will be at a festival and address them."
"We're such a conservative culture that we'd rather not talk about the things kids want to do, even though they're going to do them anyway," Diplo said. "We'd rather ignore it to solve the problem. In Florida, where I'm from, drugs have been a part of club culture since day one. Kids have always been going to raves in the woods. 20 years ago, Orlando was one of the first places to have rave culture, and we learned how to do drugs. It's going to happen; you can't control it. Persecuting a festival is not going to help it because kids are going to do them regardless. Hell, they'll do them in their houses. That's why crystal meth is a problem in America. Drugs are a big problem in America, because we have money to spend and a culture that wants to be turnt up all the time."
http://m.rollingstone.com/music/news/major-lazer-take-aim-at-media-over-edm-show-drug-deaths-20130912/
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Re: Major Lazer Take Aim at Media Over EDM Show Drug Deaths [Re: Simplepowa] 1
#18903448 - 09/28/13 04:38 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Simplepowa said: "and people who are 30, and 30 is old.
well.......fuck
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Re: Major Lazer Take Aim at Media Over EDM Show Drug Deaths [Re: PNW FunGuy]
#18903836 - 09/28/13 06:14 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Same here. I went to a rave here @ a strip club not too long ago and I felt like a grandpa...
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Re: Major Lazer Take Aim at Media Over EDM Show Drug Deaths [Re: PNW FunGuy]
#18905724 - 09/29/13 03:28 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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PNW FunGuy said:
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Simplepowa said: "and people who are 30, and 30 is old.
well.......fuck 
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Re: Major Lazer Take Aim at Media Over EDM Show Drug Deaths [Re: LiquidGlass] 2
#18905974 - 09/29/13 06:55 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Diplo fucking sucks.
If I was stuck at one of his shows I would WANT to die.
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Re: Major Lazer Take Aim at Media Over EDM Show Drug Deaths [Re: RobMarley420] 1
#18906118 - 09/29/13 07:55 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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RobMarley420 said: Diplo fucking sucks.
If I was stuck at one of his shows I would WANT to die.
Yeah i saw major lazer at burning man and everyone was going crazy but it was pretty much garbage
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Re: Major Lazer Take Aim at Media Over EDM Show Drug Deaths [Re: Simplepowa]
#18906405 - 09/29/13 10:00 AM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Drugs are a big problem in America, because we have money to spend and a culture that wants to be turnt up all the time.
Seeing that annoys the hell out of me (I hate the culture I'm automatically associated with) but nowadays this is probably closer to the truth than I want to believe...I'm not a fan of Diplo at all, but at least he had the balls to say some of the things that a lot of people think about, but never act on. It won't change anything on it's own, but as long as more people are becoming aware of the problem, I guess it's a good thing.
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Re: Major Lazer Take Aim at Media Over EDM Show Drug Deaths [Re: OneiricOutlier]
#18909068 - 09/29/13 09:20 PM (10 years, 4 months ago) |
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Diplo does suck. His set at city bisco last year was pretty lame. "Turnt up"...KYS
but his message is correct.
the kids that like his music wear neon tank tops that read EAT SLEEP RAGE MOLLY...so yeah its safe to say they are inexperienced with drugs and represent a risk for festival promoters.
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