#songoftheday / VIDEO: Zedd – “Beautiful Now” ft. Jon Bellion

“Let’s live tonight like fireflies / And one by one light up the sky,” sings an emotive Jon Bellion during Zedd’s latest dancefloor filler.  It’s not the most original lyric in the world, but Jon’s voice is so enjoyable that you’ll feel like you’re hearing it for the first time and forget all about a certain other song that mentions fireflies.  Although maybe now you won’t forget about it because I just hinted at it.  Sorry about that.  In any case, sometimes Zedd’s songs can sound more like club remixes than normal songs — not that that’s a necessarily a bad thing — but this one manages to sound ready for the clubs and like an honest to blog actual song, so big kudos there.  It’s also perfectly daydreamy and that you can’t say about most EDM music.  So, cheers to Zedd and Jon Bellion.  Zedd gets a lot of shit because other DJs turned artists are jealous of the attention he gets, but he deserves credit for knowing how to play actual instruments and making sure his songs can be played acoustically before turning them into EDM, whereas other guys tend to just start laying down beats.  Bravo!