the dj and the state of pure adrenaline that concertgoers would encounter when they reached this moment of, of the drop, it s so incredibly high octane. when skrillex won three grammys in 2012, it was a moment when you really felt like edm had arrived. and the grammy goes to. uh, sunny moore for cinema (skrillex remix). grammy goes to. skrillex. skrillex! [cheers and applause] but for every development in popular music, there s a reaction. [music] [hanif] when house of balloons came out, the weeknd was an artist who was dabbling in darker, more downbeat pop as a counter-reaction to. the feel-good pop of the era. and the counter question and answer was, isn t there more than one way to feel good?
the kind of electronic music, um, era, just going in a totally different direction. i was like, diplo, skrillex? uh, i don t really know if that s, like, where i want to go. and they, they did it. i was like, oh my gosh, this is blowing my mind. i need you the most [finneas] skrillex added tropical house textures and energy to that record that it needed to really evolve. and that was so cool, to watch somebody take all these skills that they had honed and, like, translate them into this totally different, you know, genre. [music] all of a sudden, this tropical house paradigm starts to show up in other artists, like the chainsmokers in their song closer. we ain t ever getting older [nate] it s got this dembow rhythm, which shows up in a lot of these tracks. duh, duh, duh-duh, duh, duh-duh, duh, duh-duh, duh. i m in love with the shape of you [nate] it sends ed sheeran s shape of you to the top of the charts,