The pop-ification of digital dance music didn’t begin with the Chainsmokers, however no act blurs the road between enviornment anthems and DJ tradition fairly like Alex Pall and Drew Taggart.
In 2013, the duo have been simply one other EDM twosome making remixes of indie rock bands for DJs on Hype Machine. By 2017, the pair have been headlining their very own worldwide enviornment tour on the again of a multi-platinum sing-along that had simply damaged the document for longest streak on the Billboard Sizzling 100 high 5 in historical past.
Once you’re searching for a proof — some musical node that connects the tissue of the Chainsmokers’ signature dubstep-heavy DJ units and the group’s de facto pop stardom — one should inevitably flip to 2016 crossover hit “Do not Let Me Down.”
Highly effective and eruptive, the music’s darkish digital hook and vivid melodic verses straddle the Chainsmokers’ bleeding synth previous and made-for-radio future. Each halves are stitched collectively by the hauntingly sturdy, but emotionally determined, efficiency of then 17-year-old vocalist Daya.
It is a single that belonged as a lot on a competition set record because it did within the darkest electro-trap membership flooring, and it earned the Chainsmokers their first GRAMMY win for Finest Dance Recording in 2017. It begs the query: How did they pull that off?
