Like WOW!!! After eight hours at Detroit's Electronic Music Festival yesterday--much of it on my feet dancing--today I'm ready to go back downtown for more!
If you’re a fan of electronic music you'll know what I mean when I say these DJs mix it up like magicians behind the decks. But if you don't know the difference between house and techno, or to be more specific, how slamming, dark, minimal, futuristic, soulful, funky, hooky and ambient electronic music sounds, just trust me--it's ALL great to dance to. With that pounding bass beat, you pretty much trance out, at least I do.
And there was something else that made me trance out yesterday, and that was the LOVE that these thousands of young folks poured out on this white-haired, scooter-riding woman they call "Grandma." It was bizarre! I was a mini-celebrity. Many of them remembered me from last year. Said they'd danced with me, had taken pictures of me, admired me, wanted to be like me when they got to be grannies, etc. One fellow even said, "You're the coolest chick here!"
So, more pictures were taken, most with starry-eyed boys and girls with their arms around me. I was showered with gifts--3 bracelets, 1 necklace, 1 t-shirt, 1 authentic-dj-gear.com waterproof bag, untold numbers of kisses, hugs and I-love-you's. Every time I needed to get in or out of my favorite of the five stages--the always crowded tented area called the Beatport stage--there were big strong fellows ready to clear my way. It was like the parting of the Red Sea!
One young woman named Olivia even asked if she could take my picture with my camera, so now you can see what I looked like bathed in the blue spotlight and grinning like the dancin' fool I am.
Are you surprised I'm ready to go back for more?