Will Hollywood ever discover techno music?

In 2015, Claire Danes went on the Ellen show and explained that she likes to dance to techno. Ellen immediately asked Danes to show her some dance moves and put on what she thought was techno music. And even though Danes tried her best to say that “This is not techno”, Ellen had no idea. Nor did the producers who probably chose the music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cy9GregPIA4

The cringy clip is painful to watch, however the misguided understanding of techno is not unfamiliar, as the same lack of knowledge can be found in most American cinema. Of course, there will always be a bunch of exceptions, but generally speaking, Hollywood seems to have no idea what techno actually is.

This is mostly true in all American films, but especially noticeable in your typical caper films where some super cool characters embark on a roller coaster ride through a whole bunch of plot twists. In its European iterations, the typically slick robbers will often pull of their heist to a soundtrack of drum&bass, techno, house, ambient, and other subgenres of its ilk. Generally electronic music from the 21st century.

Similar caper films from Hollywood on the other hand will invariably consist of rock, jazz and old crooner songs. It is like they are 40 years or more behind the times. And even when a movie features a scene at club or rave, the soundtrack will usually be some cheesy eurodance from the early 90s, akin to what Ellen played for Claire Danes.