"Dance music is not the same as house music" - Steve Lawler

"Dance music is not the same as house music," ... what I've seen happen in America in the last two years is the explosion of commercial pop-electro-dance music. And so many people think it's the same culture, the same scene as what we do with house and techno, and it isn't! It so isn't."

"This electro-pop-dance that all the R&B artists are jumping on is the worst music I have ever heard in my whole life -- cheap, no soul, no meaning," Lawler says, disgusted. "[It's] only made to make money."

- Steve Lawler


http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade/2011/12/steve_lawler_this_electro-pop-.php

I don't feel that Lawler is bagging on any genre or other "music" as some are seeing as. This is more of a protest against music if you can call it that that has no value. 


My friend Lilian Machiavern wrote it a very simple nice and effective analogy that couldn't have been put better.


"it's not about musical taste. The type of music Lawler is referring to is not musical. It's not about hate 
either. He's talking about a lack of soul, meaning and passion behind it. Music made to generate money is not an artistic expression. There isn't an intellectual fundament in music like that. It's like comparing fast food to gourmet culinary. It doesnt matter if u like french, italian or chinese food. Taste is taste. But there's a fundamental reason why gourmet culinary is better than fast food. It's an expression of art and most definitely created with soul, passion and meaning. And if you offer a big mac to a renowned chef, he's going to feel as disgusted as Lawler to that type of commercial music."