Poll: Dubstep: The next big thing in mainstream or another come and go fad?

[Jkudo]

For everyone who doesn't know what it is...


Anyway it's played in most clubs in England i think (Or maybe it's just the Northeast? =\), I've just gotten used to it, but i don't actually like it (if that makes sense)

That mix was actually my first encounter with dubstep, a few of my friends were talking about it for a while so i eventually just looked it up. It's awesome but i dont know how popular it will get. I doubt it will get huge.

 

[unoleian]

It may be gaining popularity, but it won't have mass market success. It's far to strange for the average listener. Very few 15 year olds are going to listen to shit like this

Spoiler: videos

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Your Skrillex track is exactly the way the sound is going to go. That's not strictly a dubstep track-- moreso than most any other track on that EP-- (which I've been rocking like crazy the past couple weeks- Rock n' Roll and Kill Everybody are fucking dope) but I digress--

There's some very cool sounds and wicked good feelings that come with the sounds in dubstep, but I for one don't see any longevity in the sound on its own-- Hard electro will never be the same, however, and to me that's a good thing--

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In popular music or other genres, we'll certainly be hearing dubstep-style sounds coming into hiphop and pop without a doubt, but it will never be the pure filthy bass wobbling over your brain, but more sort of like how you regularly hear trance/house-like soft synths in a lot of pop from the past decade.

You'll never hear pure filth or crunkstep on the radio, I guarantee you that, but the sound is hear to stay.

And some of it is damn lovely. Better live on as big of a PA as possible, but that's where it really thrives. Dubstep sounds like utter shit on your average stereo equipment...so that will constrain its reach, IMO.

I think it wont be as big as it is in a year or two but it'll still be there, personally i think most of them sound the same (Skream seriously i can't tell half his stuff apart) some of the newer stuff is good though

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Spoiler: Skrillex-- Kill Everybody

LOVE this track-- this remix is better, though-- I want to remix the remix with the original and cut it into an extended track. I think it would sound SO ILL!!!!

It's a shame that good dubstep like Burial will never become well-known because people always associate dubstep with the shitty "wom wom wom wom" style of it.

Spoiler: Burial

Also, it's hilarious how so many metalheads on here complain about people not liking metal because they listen to one shit example and then class all of it as the same. Theeeennnn, we have those very people who complained about it doing exactly the same thing with dubstep and electronica in general. Hypocrits.

Well, Burial is now officially on my list of "to buys" within near future. My list was getting rather short, and my b-day supplied me with a whole other hard drive to start stuffing, so...

...but it kind of makes me think of Bonobo (trip-hop) or Pretty Lights (electro glitch-hop) more than what I've come to understand as dubstep, so perhaps I need to perform more research...

 

[Jazoni89]

who calls that crap music? Its like every time I turn around some new shitty music is out and for some reason people love it. What ever happened to music from Metallica and other actually GOOD artists?Red Right Hand

Edit: ok that one that Red Right Hand put up is pretty good. I would rather have that around then some of the other examples shown

Okay, you have a Condition, its called Metal elitism syndrome.

Its common amongst boys your age, but don't fret, I'll refer you to my assistant Doctor P who will prescribe you with some banging dub tunes.

 

[Meatspinner]

3 pages in and no-one has posted the "Still Alive" Dubstep remix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDYIdBZUl2Y

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EDIT: Cant seem to get the embed thing to work

 

[Layzor]

Where's the "no it's just too shit" option?

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

Stuff about Skrillex and dubstep

Totally agree with you bud. Kill everybody is good and Rock N' Roll is a great track to. Fucking Die is like an orgasm in my ear.

 

[Rhymenoceros]

Just saw this thread while looking for an old post of mine. Have to say- so far, it seems to be going strong

 

[thelittleman66]

I think people are getting tired of the whole party thing. What music needs is another Grunge to change things for at least a couple years, not bland techno.

 

[similar.squirrel]

Define the 'next big thing'. To me, that sounds just like a passing fad.

The genre gaining popularity doesn't really bother me, in any case. I'd be happy to hear dubstep [even Skrillex..] in a club in lieu of the usual shitty chart music, anyway.

Also, to the people professing ignorance about the genre:

Look it up. What the fuck's the point in including an poll option for you guys when you're clearly not qualified to participate in the thread in the first place?

 

[Ham_authority95]

Whether you like dubstep or not, you can not deny the fact that its popularity has increased in leaps and bounds since the middle of 2010. Hell, even Rusko is producing the new Britney Spears album (as much as that pains me to know.) However, as dubstep slowly moves from the UK underground to the radio, do you guys here at Escapist believe that it is going to be the next big genre of music to explode through the mainstream this decade like Hair Metal in the 80s, Rap in the 90s, and Pop in the 2000s, or are its underground roots too strong to allow it to do so?

To those that are listeners of Dubstep, will you continue to listen to dubstep even if you see 12 year old girls screaming names like Doctor P and Nero like they do Justin Bieber now? Personally, I would be a bit turned off the genre as a whole if it busted through the mainstream like pop but hey, that's just my non-conformist nature. Discuss.

EDIT: The first option frigged up somehow and it's supposed to be, "Yes, It's going to hit the mainstream harder than a freight train."

They play Dubstep at my school dances now. Do YOU think it's mainstream?

It may be gaining popularity, but it won't have mass market success. It's far to strange for the average listener. Very few 15 year olds are going to listen to shit like this
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Look at my response above. Dubstep is VERY popular among the 15-17 demographic.