Still you can’t call it a breakthrough. You think wrong. He built a strong fundamental yes. But it wasn’t a breakthrough at all. And with your answer you destroy all logic to your previous posts. As you said he still built towards his success and got famous later. That just shows age doesn’t matter. -.-
Culmination of 15yrs work.
And Guetta is very much the exception, rather than the rule. There isn’t a lot of room for more dads-at-the-disco.
There are a LOT of artists beyond 30. And if they are successful now it wouldn’t have mattered if they were 20 or 30. Simple as that. Aoki is over 30. Guetta is over 30.
Like Mike, Armin van buuren, Tiesto is 46, Calvin Harris and many more. Your post there is not true. Simple as that
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There are a LOT of artists beyond 30. [/quote]
You’re missing the point. I said it was harder to get a breakout after 30.
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Aoki is over 30. Guetta is over 30.Like Mike, Armin van buuren, Tiesto is 46, Calvin Harris and many more. [/quote]
Again, missing the point.
Guetta we’ve discussed, Aoki started Dim Mak at 19, not sure who Mike is (unless you mean MIKE Push?), Blue Fear came out in 1995 and Tiesto had his first records out in 1994.
Whilst you’re approaching this from a commercial breakout standpoint, it doesn’t mean these people weren’t having a good level of underground success within their chose scenes before that point. Dance music was a lot different before the digital EDM took hold on the commercial side of things.
Everyone you’ve mentioned (except Harris, he’s only just turned 30 I think?) spent years actually putting in the effort and starting their own labels, releasing their own music, putting on their own parties etc etc…I don’t like to say “paying their dues”, but you get what I mean from that.
Yet you said guetta is the exception and there’s no room for ‘dads at discos’. as i said before these artists would have become famous wether they had been 20 or 30 at that moment. It was just their music and luck.
It doesn’t matter how old you are. That is like saying you can’t learn how to play guitar at the age of 40. Sure it takes a lot of time. But it doesn’t matter if you get it done with 35 or 20. IF you EVER blow up it won’t be because of your age. It’s not like you hear a new artist and immediately google their age.
The only plausible fact that you never stated though would be because you could have a family at this age.
And I am approaching it from a commercial point of view?? How? It’s you saying the older you get the smaller your chances are of becoming successful which basically means the older you look the less appealing you will be towards the young crowd
That is how you’re gauging a ‘breakout’, in terms of commercial exposure. My point is that they were already active on their respective scenes way before that.
Armin Van Buuren, for example. He was born in 1976 (according to Wiki) yet I remember buying his second mix CD* in a high street shop (Virgin Megastore, IIRC) back in 1999. So he’d have been 23 at the time, and if he’s already at a level where a label is putting on a mix CD that can be bought by Joe Public in non-specialist shop (i.e. not an underground record shop) then he was obviously doing something right.
(* incidentally released on Tiesto’s Black Hole label, itself founded in 1997)
Check my posts above and you will get my answer to that. With the same amount of skill and luck at that time he became successful it wouldn’t have mattered if he was 20 or friggin 40.
The only reason chances of becoming successful get smaller is because there are more and more people attending electronic music. All ages. More artists = lower chance. There might be more money involved now but that just gets balanced upwards. Big names get the real money while smaller artists get paid less.
There are other factors imo, as you get older it’s harder to stay relevant - look at pretty much any album from any successful band who have been around a long time and the quality of their music invariably gets worse, most bands their first/second/third album is usually the best. I can’t think of any band who’s best material was released when they were in their 40s or whatever.
…but this is off topic because the OP will still be young enough even if he finishes college.
I’d say that depends on the artist and the taste of whoever listens to the music. You shouldn’t mix up quality with evolving. The longer you make music the more you want to change because eventually you will get bored from the same style of music
Exactly. You’re no longer part of the target audience.
You just completely flipped his post by just quoting just that one line haha 
I don’t see this arguement going anywhere as we just changed the subject of Some_Guy’s actual question.
I’ll say it like this: My opinion is you should finish the college
@Haxy you sound like my dad … I’m not really considering dropping out because really I don’t think I can make good music under pressure. Plus, I haven’t worked in my life (but wouldn’t have a problem with that) and I’m almost 100% dependant on my dad. What I wanted to know was if I had any chance of getting famous while studying… Because its very time consuming and I need to give it my best effort.
I would consider myself currently an advanced beginner lol. I’m 18 and I’ve been producing (learning) since I was 13 when I first found out about fl. Now I’m pretty puch used to sytrus and can make great sounds. My only problems I would say are: 1- mixing(for lack of great hardware) 2-arrangment of stuff in a track 3- not enough time.
If anything here sounds stupid, it probably is. I was feeling down about myself earlier and wanted to post something, so I did… Now I see how stupid this really was =))
Diplo = overrated
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How do you over-rate a god?
Atheism?
How are you Atheist when you belive in Diplo and acknowledge his existence?
I don’t believe he is anything more than just a man. As a musician he’s good but really he’s the last one I’d think of if I was searching for a god.
Atheism is against theism, I believe aediploism was the word I was looking for.
Before even thinking about becoming some big shot producer you should sort yourself a job. I’ll never be able to respect a person who’s never worked before, just as I’d have a hard time looking myself in the mirror were I in a similar position. Seriously man, get a job, get some soft skillz, develop your character, make some experiences and grow.
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all about that ironic disappearance in the workforce cause you cba with anything else imo
to Op
do you like producing or not?
if you do
ultimately it doesn’t matter about popularity
and you’re probably not that good (yet) anyway
so keep practising & studying for your day job.
meanwhile floss daily