{"id":26796,"date":"2024-03-18T06:10:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T10:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/?p=26796"},"modified":"2024-03-18T11:52:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T15:52:48","slug":"concert-report-dj-zedd-universal-studios","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/?p=26796","title":{"rendered":"Concert Report: DJ Zedd (Universal Studios)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mardi Gras celebrations continue through April 7th at Universal Studios<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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But their Mardi Gras concert series, which has really been stacked this year, ended last night.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Their concerts take place in this bandshell area near the Hollywood Rip Ride Rocket <\/em>attraction.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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By 6PM the crowd was already filling-in the lawn. Arriving early is the only way to assure a decent vantage but it also meant you had to contend with more than two hours of New Orleans-style Zydeco music!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The ride would continue to operate during the concert but the concert and crowd were way too loud to ever hear the screams up there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Packed to the rafters!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Spotted: Fellow Photographer Alex<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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And then shortly after 8:30PM, to a huge roar of the crowd, there he was! Zedd (D). He opened with his remix of massive John Summit (USA) hit “Where You Are<\/a>” and followed that with one of his own, “I Want You To Know<\/a>” ft. Selena Gomez (USA). That was written in 2015 when he was dating her.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Zedd was born in Russia but emigrated to Germany by age 3 so he is considered to be a German DJ. His real last name begins with a “Z” which we pronounce “Zee” in American English but is pronounced “Zed” in British & Canadian English. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We’re definitely in the “Golden Era” of EDM music right now and his concert was a continuous stream of EDM hits such as Lana Del Rey (USA) “Summertime Sadness<\/a>“, Martin Garrix (F) “Animals<\/a>” and David Guetta (F) “Titanium<\/a>“.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Of course he played plenty of his own catalog of Dance hits including “Stay<\/a>“, “Beautiful Now<\/a>” and “The Middl<\/a>e”. While all EDM, many of his songs also crossed-over to the Top 40 charts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Thus, everyone knew the words…..and they sang-along too!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Zedd was voted #47 in the DJMag Top 100 DJ’s<\/a> polling last year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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He played on Saturday night at EDC-Orlando<\/em> last November on the KineticFIELD main stage<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Disco is always welcome and he gave us some House remixes of Bee Gees (GB) “How Deep Is Your Love” and Abba (S) “Gimme Gimme Gimme”.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Short versions of Darude (FIN) “Sandstorm<\/a>” and Orlando’s ACRAZE (USA) “Do It To It<\/a>“.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The relatively unknown Zedd first appeared in Orlando back in September, 2011 when he played at Vain Nightclub<\/em>. (Vain <\/em>is now Celine<\/em>). We recall Dillon Francis (USA) opened for this Insomniac\/HTG<\/em> event.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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At the one hour mark Zedd paused to thank the crowd, tell how it’s the first time he’s ever performed in a theme park and commented about how hot it was. He had done so much bouncing up there that you could see he was drenched in sweat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Early hit “Clarity<\/a>“.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Great show! As mentioned in our Friday night article, it does my heart proud to see how electronic dance music has been embraced by Millennials and Generation Z.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A good time was had by all.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2013],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-concerts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DSCN2910-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7OlZE-6Yc","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26796"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26826,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26796\/revisions\/26826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orlandoentertainmentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}