History will probably gloss over the wonky-pop acts like La Roux, the retro-soul calamities like Duffy, and skip straight to 'I Gotta Feeling' as being the song that kicked indie out of the charts. Lady Gaga followed. David Guetta too. And then there was Calvin Harris, Nicki Minaj, Taio Cruz, Flo Rida, and all those other acts that mime on a beach, decorated with scantily-clad women, proclaiming that that's the life we should aspire for, and that tonight, there's a really big party going on somewhere. Dance boomed just as indie was going out, and the ill-fated attempts to stay relevant, from Editors to the Killers, seemed to nail the indie-rock coffin shut. Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand and Foals all had to carve themselves new niches, but none of them competed for chart space anymore. Dance wasn't what killed indie as a genre though. Trends shift, and just like the late nineties, no one wanted the angular guitar music that dominated the mid-decade. We've shifted again in the last couple of years, and we might shift back to indie again. No, dance didn't kill indie, but it certainly killed a good few bands that couldn't keep up or evolve.