"Dance music always existed but now it's popular. After… Gaga happened, it opened a lot of doors," he explained. "I have big DJs, I'm not going to mention names, but who came to me and said, 'Oh, thank you, you opened the doors for us, finally we're doing productions.' Because dance music before, the DJs used to do remixes. Now the radio song is a DJ version. So it's an amazing opportunity that happened and i think the dance music is going to stay."
Yeah, he was a DJ. He was asked to remix a JLO song by Charlie Walk, then chairman of Epic Records and was then asked to produce all of Kat DeLuna's album, 9 Lives.
Yeah, he was a DJ. He was asked to remix a JLO song by Charlie Walk, then chairman of Epic Records and was then asked to produce all of Kat DeLuna's album, 9 Lives.
His breakthrough was through Shakira, when FIFA hooked them up for the Hips Don't Lie remix.
The old divas made djs careers alive during the 90's.
Even in the 80's.
The clubs existed and djs made their names and worked on other singers albums and made great profits.
Also artists such as madonna and janet did lots of dance songs and hit the no.1 on dance charts. And their works automatically got played on mainstream radios too.
NY has great dance radio stations, and djs got famous and the works by them got played all the time.
Nothing new.
He is just staning GAGA as if nothing happened before.
But were the songs that these dj's produced being played on the radio as the original version and not remixed???
And even so, it wasn't like every song that came on the radio was dance
Yes.
In 1996, Madonna's don't cry for me argentina single as dance version also hit the major radios and it almost had a chance to become a no.1 song but warner released it too late and fuc*ked it up.
Yes there were dance versions which got even more popular than the original ones. And even got released commercially and on the radio. It's not like GAGA INVENTED SOMETHING!
It's all pretty bs, music just evolved.
Britney, Madonna, Kanye, Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, Chris Brown and others all released dance and electro influenced music a small period for Gaga. Gaga just was lucky that she made the right career move and got to do the last push this hype needed.
DJ's were also getting more and more populair during the years, I saw/heard Guetta, Tiesto and Armin Van Buuren and other DJ singles on tv/radio even before Gaga was around and even then they had decent to good results.
This dance hype was about to happen with or without Gaga, if Gaga had not given that last push, someone else would have done it.
Also, during the 90's Madonna and Whitney made Junior Vasquez the superstar DJ!
He even made a song about 'IF MADONNA CALLS' and that made news and Madonna got upset.
Mariah made David Morales a superstar dj too.
I don't see gaga has done anything new.
Redone is just kissing her *** and staning. I don't see otherwise.
It's all pretty bs, music just evolved.
Britney, Madonna, Kanye, Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, Chris Brown and others all released dance and electro influenced music a small period for Gaga. Gaga just was lucky that she made the right career move and got to do the last push this hype needed.
DJ's were also getting more and more populair during the years, I saw/heard Guetta, Tiesto and Armin Van Buuren and other DJ singles on tv/radio even before Gaga was around and even then they had decent to good results.
This dance hype was about to happen with or without Gaga, if Gaga had not given that last push, someone else would have done it.
Guys you are NOT getting the point. The emphasize is on mainstream radio. The point is that DJ producers and up until this time were not able to make as much money nor was it POPULAR to release a remix of a song. I don't care if Madonna did it in 1996 it's ****ing 2012, times change. Those DJ's were not played on mainstream radios and furthermore if they had their music played by the radio, their name was usually never on the finished product (only the singers). Get over it, DJ's/Producers are becoming a lot more popular and in mainstream radio as well.
Yes.
In 1996, Madonna's don't cry for me argentina single as dance version also hit the major radios and it almost had a chance to become a no.1 song but warner released it too late and fuc*ked it up.