When we were children, we watched in admiration as our parents donned their business attire each morning to go to work and could not wait until we grew up to be like them.  Now, we sit in our respective cubicles and stare dully out of office windows at the world beyond, over-caffeinated and underpaid, perhaps longing for the freedom we had when we were young.  We didn’t recognize that trading Lunchables for Dunkaroos in the cafeteria or playing Pokemon on our Game Boys were such luxuries at the time, but amid the stress of careers, relationships, and finances that most young adults experience, sometimes it feels like it would be really nice to be a kid again.

Apparently even EDM cult titans like Dillon Francis think so, too; I’m sure glad he does, because the outcome of his nostalgia is a definite end-of-festival- season banger.  Proving himself to be as versatile as he is dynamic, Dillon strays from his usual moombahton sound and teams up with progressive house champions Sultan & Ned Shepard for his new release “When We Were Young,” featuring vocals by The Chain Gang of 1974.  The track delivers everything one desires in an EDM anthem: melodic synths on top of a punchy beat, foreshadowing an uplifting chorus that will surely have crowds jumping, raising their hands and serenading their friends.

“Today we have a chance to feel again
To hear the sounds that brought us in
To laugh, to cry, to live again
Like when we were young”

The lyrics embody why we all attend shows–to feel ignited at our very cores when other aspects of our lives are dragging us down.  Dance music evokes more emotion in me than even most people can, and this is a universal encouragement to “live life living,” and a cry against the apathy that unfortunately sometimes accompanies growing up.
Listen to this track, imagine hearing it at a festival and try not to smile–it just makes you feel good.  Am I right or am I right?

Dillon even released the lyric video, so now you have no excuse not to learn the words.

http://youtu.be/ESIC2RwHX1g

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