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Foals: 'David Guetta is ruining hip-hop'

15 January 2013 9:17 AM, PST | Digital Spy | See recent Digital Spy - Movie News news »

Foals have accused David Guetta of harming the progression of hip-hop. The band's frontman Yannis Philippakis told Digital Spy that the 'Titanium' star's "bulls**t" music style being used to background hip-hop songs damages the genre. Philippakis said: "David Guetta is basically... it's not even something that really makes my blood boil because it is just bulls**t. It is an abomination but there needs to be bad music around. You need Jilly Cooper novels and pulp, trashy culture. "Plus, some people like s**t music. I don't like David Guetta and I don't like that style. What bothers me more really is that a lot of hip-hop is being played over those backing tracks, and I find that a shame because I like hip-hop a lot." He added: "I can't listen to current hip-hop because the MCing (more) »

- By Adam Silverstein

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Singer Blasts 'Bullsh-t' David Guetta

15 January 2013 6:50 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »

The electronic dance music backlash continues, this time in the form of Foals singer Yannis Philippakis lambasting pop-hosue producers like David Guetta. In a word, he thinks such work to be "bullsh-t."

In a wide-ranging interview with Digital Spy, Philippakis said he can't even be too mad at Guetta, because "there needs to be bad music around." Here's the full quote:

"David Guetta is basically... it's not even something that really makes my blood boil because it is just bulls**t. It is an abomination but there needs to be bad music around. You need Jilly Cooper novels and pulp, trashy culture. Plus, some people like s**t music. I don't like David Guetta and I don't like that style. What bothers me more really is that a lot of hip-hop is being played over those backing tracks, and I find that a shame because I like hip-hop a lot. »

- The Huffington Post

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