Opinion on Calvin Harris

johnnyruane40

He seems to be getting a lot of hate lately for the music he produces but personally I think he's great. I'd like to hear some opinions from people on here.

The Moldy Gowl

He is a big, fat, smelly gowl.

Heard it from the horses mouth. Neigh

Banjo String

His jocks would tear the arse off ye.

Though they do make my package look even more impressive.

ColeTrain

Anyone who listens to Calvin Harris is a Calvin Harris fan.

Birneybau

He's Scottish.

Lyger

He makes that Ibiza/Aya Napia (or wherever the kids go these days) boyracer, DJ "anthem" stuff, which is often very very sh*te in my opinion.
But his stuff is actually really good I think - very good melodies and a bit tongue in cheek I'd say.
Didn't know he was getting hate.

Tail Docker

Which Calvin Harris? The one down the road from us is a savage lad with a hedge-cutter. Very smooth. Bit of a git when he's jarred though.

Birneybau

Lyger wrote: »

He makes that Ibiza/Aya Napia (or wherever the kids go these days) boyracer, DJ "anthem" stuff, which is often very very sh*te in my opinion.
But his stuff is actually really good I think - very good melodies and a bit tongue in cheek I'd say.
Didn't know he was getting hate.

Tongue in cheek how? You think he's funny? Like a clown?

The Backwards Man

Put it this way, it takes a special type of person to stand on the same stage as Jedward and look a bigger eejit.

kwestfan08

The best of them mainstream DJs IMO. Miles better than Guetta, et al.

diddley

Banjo String wrote: »

His jocks would tear the arse off ye.

Though they do make my package look even more impressive.

You robbed his jocks?

Ah heyour....

johnnyruane40

The Backwards Man wrote: »

Put it this way, it takes a special type of person to stand on the same stage as Jedward and look a bigger eejit.

That special type of person would be Avicii. He's an awful mug and his music is pure dirt.

joe swanson

Hate his articles in the sindo. Not to keen on his music.

obezyana

Seen him DJ live twice and he was really good i was pleasantly surprised because i wouldnt be a fan of his music. From meeting him on both occasions he does seem a tad bit dozy tho

Rough Sleeper

I think pretty much everything in the charts is rubbish and if you listen to it you have a ****ty, juvenile taste in music. I say pretty much everything because anything I've heard from Calvin Harris is actually pretty likeable and catchy. It's cheesey for sure, but the man can lay down a good hook.

fleet_admiral

Hes no Norman Cook

Rough Sleeper

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Hes no Norman Cook

He's probably better than him at this stage. Which isn't saying much:

He gets all the girls

razorblunt

Saw him in Vegas in Hakkasan, awesome set.

K4t

One hit wonder (quality wise) imo. This was his peak and anything he has done since has been almost instantly forgettable, barring one or two exceptions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOV5WXISM24

The Backwards Man

razorblunt wrote: »

Saw him in Vegas in Hakkasan, awesome set.

He plays there once a month, thirty grand for three hours fiddling with a mouse, where did I go wrong?

Minjor

Can't argue with his success, always seems to involved in some of the biggest songs every year.

dont bother

he started off (when he used to sing on all his own tracks) and it was good then. he made music in his attic bedroom on his laptop, recorded his own voice, wrote/produced all the tracks himself.

then whatever happened - he decided, fook this, i think i'll make music that can be anthems for absolute scum to rob cars to, bash people to, and generally just music for absolute knackers to enjoy.

he's only rich because there's a LOT of scum in the world who like all this sh!t...

yeah they're catchy songs, but the sounds/loops/beats he uses these days to make that awful EDM style sound, are just purely for knackers ears to enjoy.

such a shame - think it all went a bit south when he focussed more on being a "producer/dj" instead of an actual performer.

renegademaster

johnnyruane40 wrote: »

He seems to be getting a lot of hate lately for the music he produces but personally I think he's great. I'd like to hear some opinions from people on here.

here's where i am with the dance scene, calvin doesn't even come into it

http://www.djtechtools.com/2013/12/19/history-of-the-rave-scene-how-djs-built-modern-dance-music/

AnonoBoy

Isn't he the guy who pretended his laptop was robbed a few years back because he hadn't done any work on his new album and the deadline for delivery was coming up?

What a tw*t.

razorblunt

The Backwards Man wrote: »

He plays there once a month, thirty grand for three hours fiddling with a mouse, where did I go wrong?

Yep, himself Tiesto, Steve Aoki and some other fella share weekends.

Money for nothing! Press Play and go!
His remixes sounded awesome I have to say!

preston johnny

The Backwards Man wrote: »

He plays there once a month, thirty grand for three hours fiddling with a mouse, where did I go wrong?

At least he's only fiddling with a mouse, unlike his Uncle Rolf :eek:

ollie1

He is the World’s Highest-Paid DJ at the moment made $66 million in the last 12 months and was the highest paid DJ the year before as well . Madness :eek:

we'llallhavetea

dont bother wrote: »

he started off (when he used to sing on all his own tracks) and it was good then. he made music in his attic bedroom on his laptop, recorded his own voice, wrote/produced all the tracks himself.

then whatever happened - he decided, fook this, i think i'll make music that can be anthems for absolute scum to rob cars to, bash people to, and generally just music for absolute knackers to enjoy.

he's only rich because there's a LOT of scum in the world who like all this sh!t...

yeah they're catchy songs, but the sounds/loops/beats he uses these days to make that awful EDM style sound, are just purely for knackers ears to enjoy.

such a shame - think it all went a bit south when he focussed more on being a "producer/dj" instead of an actual performer.

sorry, who does he makes songs for? didnt quite catch it :rolleyes:

Barely There

I think he's excellent at making music for people who aren't really into music.

SEPT 23 1989

back in my day sonny this was the standard

hatrickpatrick

Which song in particular are people bashing? "I'm Not Alone" and "We Found Love" are melodically amazing in my view, apart from that silly "ramp / whoosh" bit in We Found Love but that seems to be becoming a staple of EDM lately so not exactly CH's fault...

AnonoBoy

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Which song in particular are people bashing? "I'm Not Alone" and "We Found Love" are melodically amazing in my view

And therein lies the rub.

end of the road

there is good dance music still but by jesus do you have to dig to find it. most of the good djs like tiesto and so on back in the day have sold out to EDM. a shame but thats how it is i suppose.

biko

I prefer Calvin and Hobbes myself.

dont bother

end of the road wrote: »

there is good dance music still but by jesus do you have to dig to find it. most of the good djs like tiesto and so on back in the day have sold out to EDM. a shame but thats how it is i suppose.

true.
i'll give tiesto credit where it's due... he seems to always play decent songs when he's DJing, but the muck he releases as singles now is as bad as the CH/Guetta/Avicii tripe.

i consider it throwaway music. it's got a certain amount of a bang/pop when it's released at first - then fizzles out. usually if i was to see a new release (for example that "Blame" song he has out at the minute) on a monday, and would know for a fact, by the time friday rolls around and i'm having a few drinks with tunes on youtube, it wont make the cut cos even in a matter of a few days it will have been overexposed, overplayed and has already become boring. a sure sign of a bad song, made in probably about an hour using the exact formula he used for his previous hits, just changing up the sounds a bit and the melody.

i produce music myself, and you're right, it's VERY hard to find decent dance music now.
a few examples which are trying to turn around the trend would be maybe more of that ibiza/balearic vibe - like "deep house" stuff, but then, that is turning into mainstream muck aswell!!

best thing to do: dig out old albums by the likes of "the knife" or old compilation cd's from about 2004-2006 that would have a good selection of non-mainstream decent music from that time - before EDM kicked off...

suicide_circus

Any yokes?

dont bother

suicide_circus wrote: »

Any yokes?

no, they all do coke now. duh

hatrickpatrick

What do people specifically not like about EDM though? Let's take Avicii, what is it about his style that people don't like? The melodies? The rhythm? The lyrics? The vocals?

skimpydoo

One word ****e.

skimpydoo

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

What do people specifically not like about EDM though? Let's take Avicii, what is it about his style that people don't like? The melodies? The rhythm? The lyrics? The vocals?

I don't like everything.

hatrickpatrick

skimpydoo wrote: »

I don't like everything.

That doesn't explain much Compositionally what's wrong with the songs? Or is it just cool to not like modern music?

skimpydoo

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

That doesn't explain much Compositionally what's wrong with the songs? Or is it just cool to not like modern music?

I like modern music and here are some examples. Blackberry Smoke, Rival Sons, Vintage Trouble & Crow Black Chicken. As f0r the songs, the music is crap and the lyrics are dreadful.

jus_tin4

kwestfan08 wrote: »

The best of them mainstream DJs IMO. Miles better than Guetta, et al.

Deadmau5 is much better imo anyways, much more creative, better melodies, better production

DoYouEvenLift

He's the mackelmore of dance music

Diabhal Beag

Inoffensive tbh. He gets a lot of airplay but still doesn't make me want to strangle the radio, which I can't say for Hozier.

hatrickpatrick

skimpydoo wrote: »

I like modern music and here are some examples. Blackberry Smoke, Rival Sons, Vintage Trouble & Crow Black Chicken. As f0r the songs, the music is crap and the lyrics are dreadful.

Ok let's take a specific example - "Wake Me Up (When It's All Over)" - decent guitar progression, lyrics which resonate with a lot of young people, really nice vocals, what exactly is crap about it?

end of the road

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

What do people specifically not like about EDM though? Let's take Avicii, what is it about his style that people don't like? The melodies? The rhythm? The lyrics? The vocals?

i don't care about it as such, but it is over played. most of the dance music on radio these days is this "deep" house. everyones playing it, nobody is doing anything different

How Soon Is Now

Music in general is ****ing awful now a days there's nothing out there now id want to turn a radio on for.

As for the so called dance music that gets played now.......

As is the problem with a lot of things in society in this day and age it doesn't take very much talent to entertain the masses!

I find myself going back to older music all the time ive lost track of whats out there now because the standard is awful unless u go digging big time and i cant be bothered.

obezyana

Diabhal Beag wrote: »

Inoffensive tbh. He gets a lot of airplay but still doesn't make me want to strangle the radio, which I can't say for Hozier.

I fcuking hate Hozier.......pure dreadful sounding music. :mad:

he's worth over $200 million, he's only 30. He has a nice life - well done.
http://en.mediamass.net/people/calvin-harris/highest-paid.html