Susana, 21
What are you listening to?
I love minimal and house — I'm from Colombia and Miami. But ever since America's festival craze, I've been drifting away from it, because it's such a bandwagon trend.
So you weren't at EDC?
No, I wasn't. I've been to festivals all over the world — they're my thing — and I was so happy to miss EDC just because in America, festivals are about neon colors and drugs and "the scene." They're not about the music.
Does house music remind you of something or someone?
I just think it's a place where you can kind of escape reality and go into your own world. I go to festivals and to raves to be with my friends and turn off my iPhone, to know for that one day I'm there for the music and nothing else. But lately, I've just been so turned off by it that I'm getting a little bit repulsed, actually, so now I refuse to go to American festivals. You know Sensation White? They're bringing it to America, of course, and now I'm devastated, because I've been to the original Sensations in Amsterdam and now it's just going to become another American trend. You know where the first one is going to be? In Brooklyn.
Beyond house music, do you have any type of music that you share with anyone special?
I think that with most of my friends the thing we all have in common is house music.
Have you met anyone at a festival?
Yeah! I met my boyfriend at a festival. I met him at Creamfields and we've been together for two years now.
And he's just as into house and such as you are?
Even more. He's from Amsterdam.
Do you two listen to house music to get you "in the mood?"
Yeah, we listen to it with everything. People think I'm crazy because I listen to house music when I wake up, or when I go to sleep. For me, it's normal — silence makes me uncomfortable. I've tried to venture out and listen to other things — I like rock, I like indie. But they just don't do it for me!
Do you and your boyfriend have a special song?
Oh yeah, we do. "Pjanno" by Eric Prydz, because we met during Eric Prydz's set at Creamfields. It's so funny. The last place you think you'd meet a boyfriend is at a festival.
How did that go down?
I'm the least corniest, romantic person you'll ever meet, but I have to say that it was love at first sight. How lame. I can't believe I'm saying it, but it was. And obviously the music was a huge influence — the music, the environment, just everything around us. It was just magical.
Commentarium (29 Comments)
Barenaked Ladies...Jonie Mitchell...Counting Crows...Paul Simon...
"I don't know what made me go to all this emo."
Okay, Chuck....
Is it just me, or is Susana way to young to be that jaded and snobbish about music?
I'd say she's the perfect age to be that jaded and snobbish about music. When I was 21, I refused to acknowledge that good music could exist on a major label. I came around, and hopefully she will too.
One would assume "lover of house music" and "music snob" were mutually exclusive categories.
yeah if your taste in house is eric prydz who isn't house as much as dance shit music. there is house music and "house" music. you, just like her, don't see the gigantic gaping chasm between the two. she thinks she is above "American" music taste. you think you are above house music. both of your are snobs but don't really know what you`re talking about as neither have a clue about these genres. creamfields and sensation are the bottom feeding dung of electronic music scene. im telling you that as a certified music snob.
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Did you really just call Eric Prydz "dance shit music"? I hope that post is sarcastic. You clearly have only listened to "Call On Me" and have never heard any of his other work. Prydz is a genius. His work as Pryda and Cirez D is extremely innovative. The man is an absolute legend. I'm not insulting any other producers, because I love nearly all forms of house music (electro, progressive, deep, whatever). You may not personally LIKE Prydz, but that doesn't make his music "dance shit music."
That said, I'm totally with you on the "stop hating on house music" front. There's no reason a person can't enjoy house music and other forms. Most people seem to wrongly dismiss it as easy to produce or lacking complexity. It's okay to be into both "indie" type artists like Fiona Apple and house or trance artists like Avicii or Above & Beyond.
Jesus. Who knew house music fans were as sensitive/insufferable as Ron Paul followers?
"You know, like, Daddy paid for me to take these trips to Europe, have you ever been to Europe? Everyone there is so much cooler than they are in America, and I listened to this really, like cool music and got really into the whole, like, scene over there. I wanted to stay, but Daddy said I have to come back to America because he got me this stupid job in New York."
"Everyone there is so much cooler that they are in America..."
So...what's the problem? The American hinterland has been drained of whatever "cool" thing it once possessed a while ago. Now it's full of hamburger/fry-eating, bible-thumping, gun-toting tards. And the American hinterland is bigger than continental Europe. And cool music is much more ubiquitous there than here. So why the hate? Envy? And New York is ugly as shit. Ever notice?
At least the first guy was honest - that's totally reflective of your average American playlist.
I liked the last guy's anecdote about Graceland. That's totally the perfect soundtrack to a road trip w/ your mom when you're 7. That, or something Steely Dan.
The Barenaked Ladies are triple platinum. Are you?
Why does everyone leap to defend that band so aggressively?
Or defend things by the huge mass of people who like them. By that measure, 50 Shades of Gray is great literature and Two and a Half Men is sheer genius.
They're BNL now? They're that fundemental?
Or, like DMB, they're just that douchey.
Ugh.
House 'music'.
Susana, you suck.
Maybe you're just not minimal enough to get it.
That MUST be it :)
Gosh, Susana is very very beautiful. Her taste in music, aw...not so much
She was attractive until she opened her mouth. It's amazing how a completely douchey personality can ruin a person's hotness.
I was also going to post a comment to that effect. She's insufferable.
Give her a break. She's 21. When I was 21 I missed an opportunity to play drums with a band that's still together and still playing, just because I wanted to play jazz. At the time, the band - all friends of mine, btw - was playing alterna-pop (for lack of a better term) which, while I didn't really object to, just wasn't my bag back then. Now I listen to alterna-pop all the time as well as a lot of other stuff that I wouldn't have listened to - or at the very least would never have admitted to listening back then. I've even been in a couple of bands that played in that style, all quite enjoyable experiences. Give her 10, maybe even just 5 more years and she'll be embarrassed for herself.
Did Jack just eat a peanut butter and crack sandwich?
Why did it take someone this long to mention his mouth?! I'm sure it's just awkwardly photographed cig smoke, but still, dude looks rabid.
BAHAHAHAHA! You two are so right. Peanut butter and crack...that's great.
Kodochrome AND Graceland. I love Paul Simon!
Jack is cool. and cute.
Weirds me out- this is a lot of shit for someone to deal with that just 'answered a few questions for your blog' or whatever...
Just saying...
Now you say something