Madeon (2021)

One Liner: Another EDM guy making EDM guy stuff.

Wikipedia Genre: Electropop, House, nu-disco
Home: France

Poster Position: 6
Weekend Two Only.

Sunday at 7:30 on the Miller Lite Stage

Thoughts:  This dude was here in 2016, but billed as Porter Robinson and Madeon.  It is more EDM stuff that sounds just like the last EDM stuff you listened to.  The nice thing is that Madeon's top track is also featuring Porter Robinson, so it's like they never split up at all!  Back in 2016, this had 2.5 million streams, but now it is racked up to 161.4 million streams.  This is "Shelter."

Listening to that track - I'd have difficulty saying which artist is which, to be honest.  Both guys have a similar sound of soft synth pop electronic.  Maybe Madeon is a little groovier than Porter Robinson.  Maybe?  This guy is French, and according to Wikipedia, came to fame through a YouTube video called "Pop Culture."  Here you go.

Huh, pretty cool.  Like a super short clip mash of a Girl Talk song, but with much tinier chunks of songs.  Fun to guess at what all is in there.  I hear Coldplay, Buggles, Madonna, Daft Punk... think that's all I get.  Pretty rad.  Wikipedia says 39 songs are in there.  Wikipedia also mentions a lot of video games and shows that have used his music, and says that his song "Finale" continues to be used for X Games broadcasts.

Well, since then, his music is more of the usual pop electro.  Here is his second-most streamed track, called "You're On," which has 67.1 million streams.

Something about that tune is very French to me.  Not bad, nice groove, still don't care to go listen to it again.  However, for me, the list of people that are similar artists on Spotify is a used barf bag of electro: Tiesto, Zedd, Deadmau5, Krewella, etc.  No thanks.  I'm sure it is fun stuff live to jam out to, but not my thing.