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1. 1 kent on Dec 8th, 2008 said:

   I would say that Emmon really is closer to pop-electro than trance — close to e.g. early Adult.

   I only bring this up because I like Emmon and hate trance music. If I haven’t mentioned that before. Like, every time you post something about trance.

2. 2 Peter on Dec 8th, 2008 said:

   “a forest of neon tubes…”

3. 3 Aike on Dec 8th, 2008 said:

   Well, it has that Swedish touch, doesnt it.

   Not bad, very 80s, but luckily no shoulder pads and crap hairdos.

   I agree not very trancey, and the video obviously was shot on a multi-million dollar budget. But hey, she has a decent voice and it doesn’t send me into uncontrollable palpitations or hysterical laughter. I’d listen to it again voluntarily…

4. 4 Rob P. on Dec 9th, 2008 said:

   Love it! To me, the only trance element here is the super-detuned synth melody. Agreed, a bit like early Adult. – with less of their punk element.

   I’m suddenly imagining a rework/cover by Miss Kittin…

5. 5 Mad AL on Dec 9th, 2008 said:

   My memory slides further back… sounds like a faster version of Yazoo (but without Vince Clarke pretending to interact with a synth in the background). [adopts pretentious posturing] What is this “trance” of which you speak?

   I love her voice. I keep coming back to watch the video again, and again, and again, and…

6. 6 Torley on Dec 9th, 2008 said:

   2 simple elements are required to be recognized as “trance” (in the generic, not the all-substyle-spanning sense): a big saw melody and 4/4 kick drum. Yes, there can be others, but these are the most common.

7. 7 eric on Dec 9th, 2008 said:

   good song…but i agree, this has nothing to do with trance.

8. 8 BlueBrat on Dec 9th, 2008 said:

   Leave it at Synthpop, this is not trance, it does not follow a trance structure or dance structure at all, but a typical rock-format.

   TBH, this could almost be future-pop or industrial-pop, like VNV or Apoptygma Berserk.

   Good song, her singing is great. Wish they would have tuned the one synth to her voice though, a bit sour to my ears.

9. 9 elaine jameson on Dec 9th, 2008 said:

   Totally stereotypical trance lead synth.

   Maybe people are stopping the video before it veers into trancelvania.

10. 10 Mad AL on Dec 10th, 2008 said:

    My point (I knew I had one) was that I was mocking the notion that synth music begins at “trance”. The lead synth line is typical of a hell of a lot more content than “trance”, and predates “trance” considerably. Just because “trance” has over-used and abused that sound doesn’t give it any exclusive ownership, no more than breakcore’s usage of the “Amen…” break gives it any exclusive claim to all usage of that loop. Not that I have any problem with trance, I just don’t think its all that useful a label anymore.

    There may be a lot of other things that also “quack like a duck”… it doesn’t make them all ducks. Not that I have any problem with ducks.

    All of which is completely beside my other point… I like this track. I like it a lot. (I also like reading my own writing, which is why this post is so needlessly long)

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12. 12 Matt on Dec 13th, 2008 said:

    Hmm. Too boring for me to consider it synthpop. But not boring enough to be labeled trance.

13. 13 kev on music on Dec 15th, 2008 said:

    it’s synth pop

14. 14 kev on music on Dec 15th, 2008 said:

    or simply pop music with a bit of taste of arp’ed synth and baseline

15. 15 wi_ngo on Jan 8th, 2009 said:

    I would agree with all the other commenters about it being pretty much straight-ahead ’synthpop’.

    I’m not a fan of labels of any sort, though. ‘Trance’ is one of those that is especially broad and nebulous.

    That said, the track is nice. Great sounds all around, regardless of how it could be categorized.

16. 16 electro pop music on Jul 9th, 2009 said:

    i have 2 agree… more pop electro than trance really

17. 17 David Michaels on Aug 25th, 2009 said:

    Pop electro but a catchy tune!

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