Avicii’s music inspired snobbishness – yet he was the sound of collective euphoria | Elle Hunt
With culture ever more atomised, the Swedish DJ created songs that brought a generation together. Now his shy fans are sharing their Avicii moments
I did not know Tim Bergling, . But I knew well. His bouncy, blatant electronic dance music – how you imagine strobe lights might sound – was the soundtrack to my first few years at university. In 2011, whether you were drinking cheap wine out of a mug in someone’s room, or amid a heaving mass of strangers at the same grimy nightclub you went to every week, or eating pizza outside afterwards, it was only a matter of time before you heard . Often, you would hear it more than once, as DJs, buoyed by the joyous reaction its opening bars elicited, tried their luck to see if the same trick would work
