Poll: Dubstep, how do YOU feel about it?

[Leninv3l]

I detest dubstep. It's like a bastardization of all good electro music. Frankly, i find it obnoxious and repetitive.

But to each his own I guess...

 

[Vault101]

heres one I like

less heavy on the wubs

 

[farscythe]

eh not to keen on all the skrillex type stuff tho occasionally im in the right mood for it and it just works.

prefer slower stuff
wich may or may not be dubstep its been years since i cared about properly labeling music rather than just enjoying it and not caring

 

[Jovip]

Maybe as a devote metalhead something inside of me churns to have a great hatred towards other forms of music but i am also a lover of jazz and rock. I will grant the exception that they are in the same vein though. To me, Dubstep literally all sounds the same. It's possible i'm just a musical cynic and that i can't believe anything new actually sounds good. Which i guess is what i will chock it up to. I don't like it and it bores me greatly. Does it bother me other people like it? not really. Any obsession or fandom annoys me when it's so devote it can't be separated from the person. otherwise, I'm pretty meh.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I'm pretty much sick of it due to how mainstream it had gotten, it seen most media have a dubstep track to their trailer! Granted I fine when it can be used well and in moderation like the first Syndicate trailer but other than that, not my type of music.

 

[Altorin]

Can't tell if dubstep or transformers orgy

 

[templar1138a]

I've heard some dubstep, and I don't really have an issue with it. The dubstep I've heard doesn't have lyrics, so at least I don't have to hear some whiny pop star singing clichés older than my grandmother.

That said, it's not my thing and I don't believe it'll last.

 

[Nash]

Forgot to post this little gem before:

 

[AgentLampshade]

I've a friend who's into dubstep. Being a young 18-24 adult, you can imagine I go to nightclubs and other such places. This is the right place to play dubstep. When everyone's too pissed to care and and the only goal is either "dance like a fool" or "get progressively drunker" (I do both.)

My friend listens to Skrillex on his laptop at home when when I'm over and we're having a chat, or playing a game. This is not the right place to play dubstep.

I also can't differentiate between what's supposed to be good and what's bad within the genre, it all sounds like a robot whistling through a voicebox underwater.

 

[Rednog]

I don't get what people see in it, so I went with "The music kids listen to these days...". I know older generations have always complained about the newer generation listening to that "noise" but dubstep is quite literally that. It's a bunch of noises mashed together in patterns.

 

[Samwise137]

If I wanted to hear a bugs bunny cartoon copulating with early 90's AOL, I'd fire up my old dial-up modem and Boomerang Network. BUT: I am a fan of music in general and anything that gets people listening to music of any variety is cool by me. As I often do, I'll paraphrase the band Chumbawamba: just because I don't listen to dubstep, doesn't mean you shouldn't.

 

[Chalacachaca]

I don't like it, but at least it's tolerable.

 

[Darren716]

Personally I hate any music that uses computer effects, it just sounds very unnatural to me and I feel it takes much less effort than actually learning how to sing or play an instrument. I will give dubstep one thing however, I would rather listen to it than anything that is autotuned.

 

[EscapeGoat_v1legacy]

Definitely not a fan. My tastes on music outside my musical comfort zone tend to veer towards a preference of 50's and 60's rock-and-roll, blues and classical, and electronic music as a whole is really quite an alien genre to me. I often find it very difficult to engage with the music, and as such find it hard to enjoy, and non more so than dubstep.

As a rule, I avoid dubstep. I've listened to plenty of it - it's all but unavoidable in clubs nowadays, and being involved in the Alternative Music societies at university means I do hear it fairly often, but I've yet to lose myself in it and really enjoy it.

That said, there is one exception. Ephixa's dubstep remixes of a set of Legend of Zelda songs sound brilliant to me, and I thoroughly enjoy them, especially the couple of remixes with NoneLikeJoshua's rap over it.

 

[Dfskelleton]

I think of Dubstep in the same way I think of Rap: it can be alright when mixed in with other things, but on it's own it sounds flat out awful.
There may be a song or two that I'll like, but other than that, it usually just hurts my brain.

 

[SadisticBrownie]

Bloody awful, unless I'm drunk enough not to care.

 

[Ryujisama]

Dubstep equates to me the sound your VCR used to make when it was about to eat up your favorite tape. It's electronic garbage, and very generic electronic garbage at that. I have never heard a dubstep song I've liked, and those I can even have the stomach for sound just like the rest...

 

[thegamermn]

I enjoy dubstep like Felguk&Example and Flux Pavillion, not brostep like Skrillex and Neo

 

[exessmirror]

it was better when it wasn't mainstream

 

[Kurt Cristal]

I don't like it. The wub wub is obnoxious and, at this point, painfully predictable, and so few artists build up to the wub wub moment in the first place. Even songs that go light on the wubs annoy me.

I'm not big on most electronic music because most people seem to write music as extended beats rather than songs, but dubstep in particular is grating.

another annoying this is when they take a sample...and its just kind of there, I doesnt feel like they work it in..its just "beat/hook" "singing" "beat/hook" "singing"...I don't know.


mabye I'm just full of crap

That song is alright but fits more into the Electro category. A bit of a pet peeve of mine is that so many people confuse the two. Although, they do intertwine here and there.