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Tropical house has been my favorite type of music for a long while, for its relaxed but yet upbeat rhythms. A mixture of deep house and dance hall creates a song extremely universal and pleasing to the ears. The video goes in depth with what each of the common genres are in popular music and describes their origin. I always said that Top 40 is more like EDM and Electronic than people think. Now after watching this I can answer why that is, because although Top 40 is usually artist/singer based most underlying beats are electronic, house, bass, or dance. A perfect example is Major Lazer & DJ Snake - Lean On (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqeW9_5kURI). It's extremely upbeat, happy, and dance like with its beat while it has a female vocalist

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