Released on February 5, 2016 from Columbia records, the song “Don’t let me down” by Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall, otherwise known as the DJ duo the Chain-Smokers, incorporates a stylized beat and lyrics through the singing styles of soloist Daya, that embodies the key aesthetic of a commercial success in todays popular music industry. In establishing itself on the Billboard Hot 100 charts for over six months, the electronic dance music song has affectively been advertised to the masses as a clear embodiment of “popular music” through its peak in summer popularity that occurred in July for a solid three weeks. However, when examining beyond the cultural popularity of song, the repetitive lyrics in which the singer Daya repeat’s “don’t let me…” thirty eight times with the supporting sound an the vague relation to any particular meaning in the songs melody, creates a hollowed form of what exemplifies the generic and overly versed …show more content…
Pseudo-individualism in “Don’t let me down” is used through Adorno’s “illusion of choice” where the listener believes that what they are listening to is “different” or “unique” from other forms of music because of the songs featuring set of stylized clichés that are made up of The Chain Smokers electronic dance music (EDM) platform (Adorno, “On Popular Music,” 24); The EDM “platform” consists of “new synth sounds” within the repetitive chorus of the songs application of what Adornos defines as “baby talk” and “GEM” within the lyrics and melody that fully encapsulate the false sense of originality and uniqness for their audience (Adorno, “On Popular Music,”