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But dance music can be an even harsher beast than that. In America it just changed in the last three years from rock and country being the standard to electronic music becoming the standard. In America dance music was only for gay and underground clubs that were perceived as really sketchy.
When asked what he puts the success of his own career down to, his response shows that his feet are still firmly planted on the ground. I remember six, seven years ago when I played in Holland still, I had one of my first gigs in a capacity club and there were 10 people.
When I played a song that made them dance I was so happy. Commercial success is nothing. It matters if people relate. Afrojack said his reply was silly, and something along the lines of, "Nah, it's too much of a song for me, you know?
Like, I'm more cool, and underground. He said that after the song became a hit, interviewers who had checked the liner notes would ask him about the song. He had actually loved working on the song and was proud of his contribution, he said, and should have been confident enough in himself to embrace it. Afrojack explained that it took him some more time even after that incident to gain that confidence and not link his ego's satisfaction to voices that would be hard on him.
Like, you just get pressured into doing something that everyone says is right," he said. Now that almost eight years have passed, Afrojack can laugh about his decision, but he also wants to use it as a case study for the DJs on his record label that he mentors.
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