I have a really long history myself, don't know really where to start.
Briefly: With Rock, Metal and Goth music I played the role of a guitarist, drummer and vocalist. With hiphop, rap, and drum'n'bass took the role of a street-breakdancer/choreographer. Also a dancer in Latin, Spanish and so ... Oriental, dancing requires understanding of Music. And with Electronic Dance Music, I played the role of a Moderator
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And up till now, I'm still on the run with all types of music. However with more musical education the person becomes more selective. Like I do not hate hiphop now, but rather appreciate Old-School Hiphop, Trip-hop too. Adding Rock, Punk and Metal music never lost its charm but definitely doesn't do it for me now as much as before ... but I can still dig it. Oriental Music, well as much as ironic as it may sound to some, but this also does it to me. Those really old songs varying between classical to more quality tarab while sitting on a Lebanese meza table (especially if you're abroad for instance). Latin music never lost its gorgeous influence on me, that I can even blend it with EDM now, downtempo chillout music with a gorgeous jazz flavor on the side !
My point is, I am really proud of my musical background no matter how cheesy it might had been for a while (sometimes you can not define cheese untill you taste it). For me, without the whole passing history of my music interests, I wouldn't have reached to this current level. Now I listen to Jazz, Blues, Chillout, Downtempo, House, Minimal, Progressive sounds, Trance, Psy, Goa, Old-School Hiphop, Triphop, DnB, Techno, Tribal, Latin ... and anything else that makes my heart beat, feeling no regret whatsoever. And I'm really grateful about it since I don't only follow feelings, yet also put my brains in use. I know which music satisfies me and what to listen to ... instead of losing identity, just admit it.
Hence speaking of these recent "silly faces" praising their music and fake skills, I understand them. It's a show-off phase they're encountering but unfortunately it's becoming a wide non-ending blackhole through which our scenes are passing (struggling). I just hope they learn from it and overcome this ugly position in the Electronic Dance Music field. Maybe one day they will look back at November 2008 and laugh really bad of self-sarcasm, I'd be the first to respect that attitude. Though we're running out of positive options as the 'number' of brainwashed people is becoming a huge 'amount' ... and personally my hopes are still in square 1, as I've always been aware of how Electronic Music is spreading worldwide. A lot of people's efforts are gone to waste, yet still for some others' duty to keep a wonderful aspect of this type of Music, us, therefore remains on a safer peaceful side.
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but seriously that was everything you could hear on the radios back in the days and all these were the reason for us to appreciate music and get into the world of EDM 
