Why do people like dubstep?

[Creator002]

Huh. Didn't know dubstep was so popular.
I listen to dubstep. Have a few songs on my phone (about 5). I don't know why I like it. I don't know why I like Rammstein or RPGs or programming. Just one of those things.

 

[Zerazar]

I have no idea. I think they have higher auditory processing ability than others. Because they apparently hear something entirely different than I do.
And I actually say this with a serious face. I'm very bad at music. But man I don't get dubstep. I really can't tell the difference between most dubstep.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Why do people like it? Is there actually good dubstep out there? How did it become so popular?

Why do people like country? Why do people like rap? It's just a matter of preference...

I've never listened to it before, but after listening to a few songs on here that people posted, it sounds like really slow and boring industrial...

 

[Zaverexus]

Because people have no musical taste or knowledge.
Dubstep is just noise, but there seem to be people who know no better.

its purposeless noise, can't even dance to it, waste of time.

music should either evoke emotion (see anger,happiness,sadness, melancholy, peace) or be in conjunction with an activity (see swing music, most videogame songs, and the massively wide genre known as "dance")

step achieves none of these criteria, whilst also ruining the various songs it comes across (im talking to you whoever posted that butchered version of still alive.

It'l go away in due time, its gained very little traction, and whilst some elements may survive by being integrated into other genres such as house and techno(which has already happened to a certain extent), the movement itself will die down.

This pretty much expresses my view.

 

[Athinira]

2 things

1) notice my use of the words either/or
2)and i kindley disagree that its capable of creating any emotion other annoyance/ire at the misuse of other music.

So what you are saying is that any emotions WE get from listening to dubstep is somehow 'false'?

Not only is that an arrogant idea, it's just also directly stupid. Do you, in all seriousness, believe that everyone who listens to dubstep do so because we find that it annoys us? Typically, human beings want to avoid things that annoy them, but perhaps you know better?

Reading your posts feels like listening to a religious person telling someone of a another religion that his god is false ) I'm going to refer to the quote by Yahtzee in my last response to you. It's still very appropriate.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Why do people like music? I listened to it once, it was just a bunch of weird sounds with some tempo. Is there good music? How did it become so popular?

/sarcasm

 

[ACman]

DrrrrrrrRUUUUUUUUUGGgggggggggggSSSSSSSSSSSZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!



Watch out for the K-hole!

 

[Get_A_Grip_]

Why do you like the music that you like?
Why do you hate the music that you hate?

 

[Moeez]

its purposeless noise, can't even dance to it, waste of time.

music should either evoke emotion (see anger,happiness,sadness, melancholy, peace) or be in conjunction with an activity (see swing music, most videogame songs, and the massively wide genre known as "dance")

step achieves none of these criteria, whilst also ruining the various songs it comes across (im talking to you whoever posted that butchered version of still alive.

It'l go away in due time, its gained very little traction, and whilst some elements may survive by being integrated into other genres such as house and techno(which has already happened to a certain extent), the movement itself will die down.

Haha at people calling dubstep "purposeless noise", cranky old people said the same thing to rock/hip-hop/jazz in all of their permeations. I mean, jazz for goodness sake! I love your rigid definitions, do you put a list of it on your wall so you can always remember to bring up these made-up limitations in debates?

I think you're just ignorant, and not looking hard enough. There is all kinds of dubstep. Not all dubstep is "wubwubwub". You might hate just one type of dubstep, which is this commercial kind right now. Dubstep is meant to be sick, visceral, primal, but also can be very moody.


If that doesn't give you chills, I don't know what will.

 

[new_age_reject]

Wow... so many ignorant people on this thread.
Dupstep is good due to the heavy beats, dirty bass and the fact that it sounds amazing coming out of a massive system.
If you think you hate dubstep then don't listen to ANY skrillex songs (he's what's bad about the genre) and start listening to people like Benga and Skream.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVKboRPgu0U
Listen to this fantastic Benga tune and you might change your mind a bit.

 

[unoleian]

*counts number of times Skrillex's name comes up in this thread*

*slams head into desk*

Skrillex has done more to single-handedly trash the sound than the rest of the new wave of producers combined. He had some neat ideas at first but his 'music' has devolved into what sounds like a car crusher fucking a dinosaur. I for one don't really like him-- he has two tracks to his name that are remotely decent, and I don't have a clue why he's exploded into such popularity.

/rant

With that out of the way, there's plenty of good to be said about the sound. You can't escape its influences on electronic and dance music, it's becoming downright ubiquitous. If nothing else, its desire and capability to morph into different beats and time signatures makes it a nice change of pace in dance music from the never-ending untz (untz untz untz) sound that's dominated the EDM/IDM for damn near 3 or 4 decades or longer.

The big problem is there's too many amateur producers out there cranking out uninspired oscillating basslines like there's no tomorrow. Making a bassline and looping it for 5 minutes over some random drum patterns, or dubbing your oscillating bassline over a pop song does not a music track make-- you'll hear no arguments on that one from me. And there's a LOT of that shit out there. A goddamn lot of it.

I appreciate artists who are willing to tackle the sound and the style and make it more than just a wobbly bassline. Producers such as Pretty Lights, Bassnectar, MiM0Sa, The Polish Ambassador, Pantyraid, Phutureprimitive, Skream, and others of their ilk are doing the sound great favors by trying to grow and expand what dubstep means, incorporating varying degrees of its sound and its inspiration into tracks that are most certainly music, and most certainly containing soul, not just robotic, by-the-numbers, formulaic beats and drops.

Give any of the above named producers a go. These guys are making sounds that are the real future of the music, not uninspired bang 'n' clang and endless massive drops made solely to please the sweaty frat kids.

 

[ACman]

Good dubstep:



I avoid the trendy stuff, but the older dubstep is pretty good.

Thats not Dubstep. That's UK 2-step Garage son. Git yor genres correct foo!

Dubstep is what happens when you accidently put a DnB 45 of 33RPM.

Then kick all the women out of the room.

Fill the air with nitrous oxide.

Put K in everybody's drink.

Take some really smacky pills.

Drink a bottle of vodka.

Smoke a Blunt.

Freak out on the way home.

Hide in someone's hedge.

Pass out.

Wake up in a Police Car.

Leg it into the night.

Goodtimes.

 

[flamingjimmy]

Dubstep became popular thanks to MDMA. That and stupid people.

I can't even tell if this is serious. But I don't do any kind of illegal drugs and I know people with scholarships that listen to dubstep.

The part about the MDMA, totally serious. I don't believe for a second that dubstep would be anywhere near as popular as it is without drugs, no way. The other part, not so much, just jossin' with you.

...I actually want to ask if you have any friends.

yeah, that's a great way to change my mind, insult me personally, that always works! That's not going to entrench me further in my position at all.

Of course I've got freinds, some of whom listen to dubstep, pretty much only when they're fucked off their faces though, I went to a dubstep rave with them once and even with MDMA it still bored me very quickly.

Music for me needs to have melodic, harmonic, and rythmic development in order to engage me. Dubstep only ticks one of those boxes, there is very little development of musical ideas, no satisfying melodies to resolve, no awesome chord sequences, no suprise key changes, etc. Sooo much repetition, over and over WUBWUBWUBWUBWUBWUB so boring imo.

 

[Mrmac23]

I like dubstep, and quite honestly, i don't know why. It's just appealing to some people to have bass that could cause about a 3 on the Richter scale if you played it loud enough, same way how some like the beep-boops of 8-bit, the soothing strings of classical music (oddly enough i like classical too) or the roaring of heavy metal.

Of course, i understand if you don't listen to dubstep yourself, but if you say stuff like this...

The music sucks and it will go away very soon. Hate this kind of crap with a passion and its not music. Everybody knows that this crap is just club music. Go out and dance to this garbage while getting very drunk. You go home with some random person and and hate yourself in the morning. Very much like to think this stuff plays in hell when you first enter.

Then i shall present to you this.


Shark, you may now have permission to fuck off.

 

[Kungfu_Teddybear]

I dunno? Why do people like rock? Why do people like metal? Why do people like games? I'm not a fan of Dubstep although I will admit I do like one song from Skrillex.

I really hated it at first but I heard it so much because my mate kept putting it on in my presence determined to get me into Skrillex, it kind of grew on me over time.

 

[lord's voken]

something else for me to add to the when did you realise you were getting old thread the moment i asked "what is dubstep" listened and though "i dont get this music"

I feel the same way. why would they ruin the imperial march like that? Im just a little bit glad I went this long before i learned what dubstep was. Though in reflection I think all kids have bad taste in music. most the stuff i listen to in middle was just total trash. not all but most of it was. I think its safe to safe that you don't develop a taste for music till you get to the college or college age..and still remain sober or are sober.