While some of us enjoyed Calvin Harris’ recent tracks like “We Found Love” and “Sweet Nothing”, a lot of people didn’t appreciate his ascendance into mainstream pop music culture. Harris is definitely riding the success wave as evidenced by his exclusive residency with Hakkasan and headlining spots at music festivals like Firefly.
However Harris’ Billboard Chart dominance may end there, as he appears to be changing direction and going back into making “good music”.
According to Music Week he said,
“I’m doing more dance music that probably won’t get into the charts. I was in the studio yesterday. I just want to make good music; this award is like drawing a line under the past two years where I’ve just been intensely fucking working to try and make singles and hit records.”
Even though Calvin regularly talked about how easy it was to make pop music, he should be credited as the first electronic dance music producer to breakthrough to the American mainstream audience. Most people probably aren’t aware that he produced “We Found Love” but that definitely came before we started hearing “Don’t You Worry Child” over the airwaves. It’s incredible that Harris who’s Scottish beat the Swedes to it.
We’ll see if the change has any impact on his future releases. I saw Calvin Harris at The Buku Music & Arts Project earlier this year and he practically played all of his hit singles in their entirety with little to no mixing at all. Even in the BBC Radio 1 Set we posted yesterday, it’s primarily made up of pop / progressive house tracks.
I’m hoping we get more synthpop / nu-disco sounds like this one.
(H/T NME)
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