Electronic dance music is a kind of music enjoyed by millions of America's college sophomores and people who are trying not to fall asleep while driving home, but have already rolled down their windows to no effect and Red Bull has long ago lost its efficacy, so they need a synthesizer to simulate falling off a cliff lest they crash directly into a K-rail in the median.
And, also, people on drugs. People on drugs love electronic dance music.
Anyway, Anthony Bourdain went to Las Vegas and these people were everywhere, hundreds of thousands of Roger Sterlings in a bathtub, and they, now, were the people buying bottle service, and now bottle service costs somewhere in the $50,000 range, and this is why we can't have nice things, and this is why Anthony Bourdain is so goddamn despondent about EDM, because it is the domain of America's vampire children of the one-percent.
But he said it more eloquently.
"Where once they used to say, 'Cocaine is God's way of saying you have too much money' — now, maybe EDM is. Come ye lords and princelings of douchedom."
Bourdain suggested that maybe this is just a horrible phase, like that time in the '60s when everyone pretended to enjoy sitar music or that bad moment in 1997 when every white person in America wore billowing khaki pants and danced to swing music.
At least people who listen to EDM can blame it on all of the drugs. There was no excuse for those fking khakis.
"Are we just old?" he asks Penn Jillette in the middle of it. "Or are we non-douchey?"
The second one.
