Music / NewsOne place you’ll never get FOMO: TomorrowlandSteve Aoki and David Guetta are EDM heavyweights seeing out their days with ‘big drop banger’ remixes of nursery rhymes and Celine DionShareLink copied ✔️July 27, 2015MusicNewsText Thomas Gorton Electronic Dance Music (EDM) is huge. Stratospherically popular, about as big as anything can be. The global EDM industry is worth approximately £4.5 billion; its head honchos are the world’s top earning DJs, boyfriends to Taylor Swift, darlings of Las Vegas superclubs and special guests at.....Belgian festival Tomorrowland, the "father of EDM festivals", possible worst place on Earth and annual home to the game’s biggest and best EDM DJs. Disturbing footage from the festival – held last weekend – has emerged today and it’s confusing stuff for all of us. Steve Aoki and David Guetta, two of the biggest draws for any EDM fan who knows a thing or two about drops, are seen playing remixes of Celine Dion’s "My Heart Will Go On" and "If You're Happy and You Know It Clap Your Hands", an actual nursery rhyme. But instead of thinking "Jesus Christ, I haven’t been four years old in ages, what’s this about?", people are going apeshit. It looks like a nursing home full of people on pills. Here’s Guetta performing his hit "childcore" single in a massive dome in Frankfurt about a month ago. Even YourEDM doesn’t like it. Guetta may have assaulted the Tomorrowland stage with his own brand of baby shambles, but his esteemed contemporary Steve Aoki doesn’t fare much better with a "big drop" rehash of that tune off Titanic. Check out the Steve Aoki remix of the Andrew Spencer remix of "My Heart Will Go On". Everyone fucking loves it. In many ways, it’s easy to see why. The production values are huge, the festival is full of other human beings who enjoy the same thing (generally a formula for a good time) and it’s really really loud. The adrenal glands get pumping, you’re waving some glowsticks about and you’re thinking about quitting your job. But then it all comes crashing down on you – you’re listening to a Celine Dion remix in a huge field full of people you don’t know. People don’t come back from these sorts of epiphanies. This clip of David Guetta performing at Tomorrowland last year feels like a moment that we may have lost a man. But as Steve Aoki says "If people are going to put me on the main stage, I’m going to do my thing on the main stage." It’s not Aoki’s fault, this is want people want. It’s our hysterical mainstream, reflective of a high-octane consumerist culture that just wants more, now, bigger and faster than before. There is no-one to blame and no-one to be angry at, it’s just how we’ve evolved. But doesn’t it just sound and look terrible? Imagine being so basic this gets your adrenaline pumping. https://t.co/mt5sYjtInc— trey taylor (@treytylor) July 8, 2015Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.TrendingWild photos of Melbourne’s multiplying ‘dyke’ dancefloorsIn an ongoing archive of work, photographer Tamara Schumacher documents the rise of FLINTA-filled dancefloors reshaping lesbian nightlife in AustraliaArt & PhotographyFilm & TV9 great films you can watch on YouTube for freeHEYDUDEFashionHEYDUDE wants you to be outside this summerArt & PhotographyThese photos portray life on a tropical island as a beautiful prisonArt & PhotographyCamille Vivier’s fierce, fantastical photographs of the female formBeauty10 of the hottest Instagram accounts fusing art, sex and eroticaArt & PhotographyHow a cult artist from Japan predicted today’s bleak timesFashionWorld Cup 2026: Unpacking the 13 most stylish football kits on the pitchArts+CultureUnravelling the disturbing theory behind Ghibli’s ‘Totoro’Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy