While the discussion of “Pretty Girl” moved from bass to vocals to drums, the group kept using the term “ear candy” to describe interesting moments in the music meant to complement the vocals. The event functioned like a seminar, with Dahl spending the first half of the event walking the audience through the process by which the group remixed Maggie Lindemann’s song “Pretty Girl.” They displayed the components of the track on a screen, allowing audience members to request components of the song to discuss. “When I heard that they were doing a discussion on dance music, I was pretty surprised, so I’m interested to see what the students are into, what they know, what they don’t know,” Elifritz said. The group also expressed their excitement at coming to Harvard. “A few years ago, we were all in the room talking about wanting to be DJs and wanting to do it, and we were just on a flight with Zedd a couple of days ago and now we’re buddies with him.” “It’s cool ‘cause it really wasn’t that long ago that we were just fans of the music wanting to do it,” Dahl said. The group spoke to The Harvard Crimson before the event about their meteoric rise in dance music.
The group currently has over 15 million monthly listeners on Spotify and spoke at Harvard about their production process and the hard work behind their rise to fame. The LA-based DJ trio includes Trevor Dahl, Matthew Russell (real name Matthew Elifritz), and KEVI (Kevin Ford). On April 5, the Harvard Electronic Music Collective invited the artist trio Cheat Codes to speak to students and other attendees at Sever Hall.
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