<human>: Whats up reddit,

I'm writing a paper on electronic music- that which is commonly referred to as 'techno/electro/house' (as opposed to music produced electronically, which is damn-near everything these days) and is increasingly taking over radiowaves (deadmau5), movies (daft punk), and popular music blogs/sites (a solid 75% of the stuff on HypeMachine) and I'd like some input from the most knowledgable and opinionated group of people i know- you.

As a brief history, Electronic started in the 40s with John Cage, (although arguably in 1913 with the Art of Noises, but this isn not the point), and has been progressing ever since. It's highpoints in the 1900s were likely Disco in the 70s, and then underground trance/rave parties in the 90s.

In my paper, I will be taking a historical look at the genre, while briefly touching on what other genres were doing at various times, **I want to make my thesis point that Electronic Dance Music (specifically the stuff you hear Deadmau5 and other similar artists putting out) is going to be the 'next big thing' and take over pop-music in the next decade**. Of course, predicting the future is damn near impossible, so I'll base this mostly off of the history of the genre, showing it's near-constant upward trend, and positioning it against other current and past popular genres.

This is where you come in. I'd like to know reddit's take on my thesis: **Do you think Electronic Dance Music and the likes could be the next big music?** It's already exploding pretty quickly (especially in europe, and notably in NA), and i think this is good evidence that it's going to keep going up, especially with people like deadmau5 selling out stadiums, and everything at major clubs being either EDM tracks, or popmusic remixed with electronic music.

**To clarify and simplify /

Can you give me a shortened version of the text?
<bot>: I'm not asking whether you like Electronic music / EDM, but whether you see it's popularity expanding to the point where it may represent a major decade in musical history or not.