“If you’re getting attention,” Garrix says, “people want to have a part of it. There are a lot of such people in his life at the moment. While he is affable and engaged during these 15 minutes, the anonymous nature of the chic but sterile environment, and the fact that you have been granted only a sliver of time with him, are both reminders that Garrix is very famous and that you are a stranger whom he will most likely never see again. He drinks a can of orange soda and wears a stylish, leather-sleeved T-shirt that probably cost more than your rent last month.
Without it, I wouldn’t be sitting here …Īt the moment, Garrix is in his dressing room at Electric Daisy Carnival New York doing a series of interviews, 15 minutes allotted to each reporter. But the song has meant so much, career-wise. I’ve heard it, like, a million times already. This is based primarily on the power of his monster single “Animals,” one of the biggest tracks of 2013 in and beyond the realm of electronic dance music. All standard.Īll notions of normalcy warp when one is considered one of the hottest DJs on the planet-which, of course, Garrix currently is. Tomorrow he’ll fly to Las Vegas, where he has a high-profile, face-on-billboards style residency at mega-club Hakkasan, and where there will be more parties and girls and paychecks and intermittent bursts of confetti.
Consider that during this time period, he made more money than most people earn in a year-hell, probably in 10. It was the most unusual thing that has happened to him in months.Ĭonsider that in the last seven days, Garrix (birth name: Martijn Garritsen) flew to Brazil, then France, then here to New York. He celebrated his birthday with friends at his parents’ house in Amsterdam.