Charlie Brooker (yes I'm quoting him again, because he's right about everything ever), said in a piece about nightclubs, and that's where this music is suited, that yes, it's enjoyable on drugs, but neck enough ketamine and you'd have the best night of your life, alone, flicking old corks across the floor of a shed.
I'll sound like an old man here, but if you go back to disco, that genre was also basically created to induce rhythmical body movements like dancing, yet, somehow it had an upbeat, good time feel to it. Most 'club' music nowadays seems to be all about rhythmic basslines and nothing about heart and soul.
Oh and sampling a 70's track and putting the vocals thru a chipmunk vocaliser doesn't count.
This is even more hypocritical because I love a lot of electronica, I just don't 'get' club music.
The other point Brooker made about nightclubs is no-one really likes them, it's just that everyone thinks everyone else expects you to, it's a massive conspiracy designed to induce friday night misery on those who don't have any drugs. Also, if you go to nightclubs to get laid, you by default, for the good of the human race, shouldn't be allowed to procreate.
Spend your WKD and drug money on a hooker instead, and lessen the misery for all involved.
I'm not slamming an entire genre of music, I'm slamming most of what's played in nightclub, I'd suggest that if it's not getting played in nightclubs, that by default makes it quite good, and that if you need to chemically alter your very mind to enjoy something, it's not 'good'.
However, I will leave myself open, I didn't think I could like dance music until I discovered Orbital, or rap til Cypress Hill, country til Johnny Cash, I'm sure there's someone out there in dubstep I could get on with. Hell, Fallout 3 opened my mind to pre 60's music