This is it. Weekend one opens today, David Guetta and Martin Garrix and Calvin Harris are somewhere over Belgium right now, and 200,000 people are about to pretend they didn’t pay a fortune to stand in a field. Say what you want about Tomorrowland, the mainstage singalong at golden hour is a real thing that does real damage to whatever cynicism you showed up with. Three tracks built for exactly the moment when the whole field sings the same line back.
1. Axwell Λ Ingrosso - More Than You Know
Two-thirds of Swedish House Mafia in their solo years, and this is the one that proved they didn’t need the third guy to write a stadium chorus. That vocal hook is a machine. The video was literally shot at their own festival set, which tells you exactly what it was made for.
2. Kygo - Firestone
The track that made “tropical house” a genre people actually argued about. Conrad Sewell’s vocal soars and the marimba line is pure serotonin. It’s unapologetically corny and you’ll have both hands in the air before the first chorus ends anyway.
3. Zedd - Clarity
Grammy-winning and inescapable in 2013, and it holds up better than most of what surrounded it. Foxes’ vocal does the heavy lifting and that drop still knocks the wind out of the room. The last track before you lose your voice for the rest of the weekend.
See you in the field. Or don’t, it’s a field of 200,000 and I’ll never find you.