Why Pitch Perfect Is Actually the EDM Movie of Our Generation

You might think Pitch Perfect is just some feel-good, hur-dur slapstick romcom, and you wouldn't really be wrong, but inside and in between those adorable song and dance routines is actually a heavy dose of truth serum. While we're forced to wait for the surely stellar We Are Your Friends starring Zac Efron, it just may be that Pitch Perfect is the best EDM metaphor we've yet got on a high-school friendly silver screen.

Just hear us out.

So, the star of the movie is Beca, played by the lovely Anna Kendrick. Beca is a college-dorm bedroom producer, DJ, and mash-up genius, tooling around on Serato, while annoying her square-ass roommate.

She embarks on a hero's journey to become the ultimate EDM icon, knowing college is a useless obstacle. She gets herself a dank industry-insider job on campus stacking CDs with hunky assholes. EDM is all about hunky assholes.

This nice dude with a sense of humor develops a schoolboy crush on her, but she pushes him away, because obvi there is no room for nice guys in the DJ booth of success.

Her stupid dad is like "Beca, you have to try to make college work for you. DJing is not a thing anyone does for a living." But she's like "Whatever, dad, I hate you, too. I'm gonna go join a club." "Clubs" on campus are just a metaphor for the nightlife scene, of course.

She finds a sick crew with a dope dress code to fall in line with, works her way through the ranks, and is eventually initiated into the Illuminati.

She stars partying super hard because this is LA, the center of everything, and you are young and beautiful and the drinks are free.

Her health becomes secondary to the wild ride that is EDM fame.

With all this partying and showboating and posturing and name-dropping, she no longer has time to produce next-level mash-ups. That's nbd. Nobody in EDM does. She gets some ghost writers to throw some shit together (as portrayed by sock puppets), and it's p dope.

The blog critics are like "Beca is a sham. Her latest mix of Flo Rida and the Breakfast Club soundtrack sounds like my asshole leaked on a mixer."

But Beca is almost 100 percent in the bitch now, so she knows how to deal with the press.

Everyone on the West Coast and the hippest parts of New York now dick ride her so hard that even Diplo comes to her party sometimes. She gets a call from big industry giants and they are like, "Beca, we want to sign you. You are going to be the next Avicii."

She gets an edgy haircut, starts dressing like an urban sewer-dweller, and stops talking to all her friends. She plays mid-tier sets at Ultra and Coachella and EDC. That dude who she used to bang in college hangs out in the crowd with his dorky bro and waves a flag in the air like "I used to hit that!"

That is the plot of Pitch Perfect, and that is how EDM works in the real world.

Don't miss Pitch Perfect 2, in theaters Friday, May 15, to see how DJ Becs Sex handles an international career, AKA making $50k a night while hanging out in airports with shitty wifi.

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