Not that I had any doubt, but the fact that electronic dance music has gone mainstream really hit me this week when I heard local Top 40 station KRCK play Alex Clare’s “Too Close” (aka the “Is that dubstep in an Internet Explorer commercial?” song), a David Guetta song (“Titanium,” featuring Sia, I think) and a promo featuring a snippet of “Turn Me On,” Guetta’s jam with Nicki Minaj, all in a row. Then, a few songs later, there were Calvin Harris and Ne-Yo with “Let’s Go.”

David Guetta performs at the Sahara Tent on Saturday, April 14, during the first weekend Coachella 2012. (Omar Ornelas, The Desert Sun)

Earlier this month, Wall Street Journal rock and pop critic Jim Fusilli examined the fear in EDM circles that this commercial success will corrupt the genre, calling out quite a few Coachella artists:

When Mr. Guetta spun at Coachella in April, he leaned heavily on his pop productions. Similarly, the highlight of Calvin Harris’s pop-minded set at the same festival was an appearance by Rihanna, who turned up to sing “We Found Love,” their collaboration from her 2011 disc “Talk That Talk.” But the backing tracks built by Messrs. Guetta and Harris are cliché-riddled, white-bread house that don’t represent the best of the genre.

Fusilli also offers up AVICII as an example of what’s worrying the EDM veterans he interviewed.

If you’ve spent some time in the Sahara Tent at Coachella, give Fusilli’s article a read and let us know what you think by commenting on this post or tweeting to @MyCoachella: Are pop crossovers ruining EDM?

• PHOTOS: David Guetta plays Coachella 2012, Weekend 1