I think the most important part of the article is this bit:
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“The buzzards circling worries me,” she continued. “The saturation worries me. But who backs down? Which promoter stops? There’s a huge demand, it’s being supplied currently, but at what point do kids get sick of it, and whose fault will that be? I’m as guilty as anyone else.”
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Especially in 2011 time, when it was just getting desperate. I kept thinking to myself, how is the dance era ever going to end is EVERY famous artist is releasing a continuous stream of dance songs? The most desperate situation was Lady Gaga releasing 10 electropop songs in a row. The definition of taking the easy routes to get hits. A few years before in the Nelly Furtado/Gwen Stefani/Fergie days, they had to make sure all their singles sounded distinctly different to the previous one, but by 2009 time, you could just release the same song over and over again, and people were eating it up.
That said though, the dance-pop era is coming to a close for sure. Feel This Moment (and I guess Gentleman), are the only big dance songs right now. Chris Brown is going back to R&B, Nicki Minaj is going back to hip hop, I'm sure others will follow suit. And we've got a year dominated by Macklemore, Bruno Mars and Justin Timberlake. They're successful because they're NOT doing dance music.