Tonight Gold 104 played Avicii’s “Wake Me Up.” I was surprised to hear it but figured enough time has passed now that it has entered the canon of what qualifies as a “Great Song” in their terms.
However it was an apparently custom edit that removed the beat drop sections, like this:
I found this a bit blasphemous to be honest. Avicii’s great innovation was to merge EDM with traditional acoustic songwriting. He wanted to bring the KIIS and Gold audiences together basically. To strip out his innovation in order to make the song more palatable feels really disrespectful and is butchering it. It made me a bit sad especially since he is gone.