Why do people like dubstep?

[Seagoon]

For the past few months, the only thing everyone's been talking about at school is dubstep. I had no idea what it was, so I searched it on youtube, but all I could find were videos that had nothing in them but three or four minutes of beeping and loud bass. It was literally one of the worst things I had ever heard, and I really can't see the appeal.

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

3 per cent of dubstep is actually any good... find some of the good stuff like Nero.

 

[General Twinkletoes]

i like some dubstep... but a lot is shit. I don't like any music much though, so my opinion doesn't really matter here.

 

[Jim Grim]

It's just like any genre of music. Most of it's shitty and there's some good stuff. I like this one, for example:

 

[wooty]

It is because people who like dubstep all have secret shares in the company that makes neurofen. God knows they need it.

 

[Funkysandwich]

Because people will listen to whatever the radio plays for them.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

I had never heard of it until now but upon listening to it, it is pretty terrible. It is just noise.

 

[SSoSFAGTiaCaGwaP]

I feel really horrible for saying this, but... I thought that was really mediocre. It just seemed like the same thirty seconds repeated over and over with the drum beat changed slightly. But if some people find this amazing, then I guess it can't be that bad, it's just not my type of music.

 

[I Have No Idea]

While it may not be good for actual listening material, it's fun to hear it at a party and stuff. I use this track for whenever I go running, actually.



Pretty badass.

Plus, I'm kinda getting tired of how some people think they're better because they don't like a certain type of music. Being pretentious doesn't make you look cool.

 

[Alphavillain]

In a world where Screamo exists, all reasoning fails.

 

[DaJoW]

A better question is: Why do people like death metal? Sounds a lot worse to me. It's just another type of music that some people like and a lot of others don't.

 

[MammothBlade]

Why? Well, because some dubstep is awesome of course. There is plenty of shite too, though.

 

[Russian_Assassin]

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

Shit, I knew I had to try going to a dubstep party while on molly... I saw some guys rolling on the last one I went to and got jealous (I had already taken MDMA that month and I do not allow myself to use it more often than that). So yeah, I think dubstep became popular thanks to fabulous drugs, sober people interpreting it as something other than MDMA trip fuel and thus making it mainstream.

Personally, I only like dubstep if I've smoked some weed (and presumably taken molly). Hell, even psychedelic music is listen-able when sober. So I guess dubstep does suck a bit

 

[Athinira]

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.

That's funny. I can dance to dubstep, and it definitely puts some emotions into me (even if it's not my favorite music genre), so all i can conclude from your post is that you should probably be featured in the next episode of "Bullsh*t", because just because something doesn't work out for you, doesn't mean it doesn't work out for others

I think I'll just let someone else say this for me:

But these were all extremely personal experiences. I'd no doubt have felt differently if I'd had a different personality. I can't really share the emotions of a film critic blubbing at the end of It's A Wonderful Life, and I don't expect them to share those of my eight-year-old self blubbing equally hard at a funeral scene in Wing Commander. There are no doubt people reading this who were moved to tears by Aeris dying in Final Fantasy 7. I can't sympathize any more than I can with Roger Ebert, but I can't tell you that you didn't have those emotions, or that they're somehow wrong.
- Yahtzee, Extra Punctuation: Videos as Art [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/columns/extra-punctuation/7473-Extra-Punctuation-Videogames-as-Art.2]

Not only that, but you also bring up the most moronic argument of all moronic arguments one can make: That remixes of music is somehow "ruining" the original.

Listen, remixing a song with dubsteb (or whatever other genre) can NEVER ruin the original. The original doesn't burn in a fire just because Skrillex decides to bring it into his studio.

You don't like the remix, then listen to the original. Then those of us who prefer the remix can listen to that instead, and everybody goes home happy. Nobody forced you to click the YouTube videos in this thread, and if you expected to hear what you personally consider "crap" then why the hell did would you listen in the first place?

It's like complaining that Star Wars fanfiction ruined the Star Wars universe. I think most people who to this day and age think the Star Wars universe ruined agrees that George Lucas did that himself.

I feel sorry for people like you. I really do.

 

[ProtoChimp]

For the past few months, the only thing everyone's been talking about at school is dubstep. I had no idea what it was, so I searched it on youtube, but all I could find were videos that had nothing in them but three or four minutes of beeping and loud bass. It was literally one of the worst things I had ever heard, and I really can't see the appeal.

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

Like all types of music there are good and bad. There are some gems like magnetic man and Skrillex... but unfortunately alot of artists have no idea what they're doing, and you end up with shit.

 

[EvilMaggot]

i listen to a few artists

but why?

i like it... not the same generic beat that most techno has atm... its more random

crank this one up ^^

 

[ProtoChimp]

Plus, I'm kinda getting tired of how some people think they're better because they don't like a certain type of music. Being pretentious doesn't make you look cool.

*hugs* Yes. Yes. So true.

 

[CrashBang]

There are some really good dubsteps like


I have no clue how it became popular but i really don't care

Skrillex is excellent, I agree. However, I don't know enough about the electronic music world to differentiate between electro, substep, D&B etc so I'm not even sure if Skrillex is dubstep, I just know I love him.

OT: The dubstep I've heard at clubs etc is wank so I know that, for the most part, I don't like it but there may be good stuff out there, like Skrillex!

 

[Robert Ewing]

I love dubstep, I think it's catchy, and sounds cool.

The thing I do hate is the culture surrounding it. The whole 'smoke weed erryday' culture. Makes me feel like I've lost precious IQ points.

 

[similar.squirrel]

You've probably been hearing 'brostep' like Skrillex. It's the pop-punk/nu-metal of that particular genre.

Also, I got into it while I was high. I have a feeling a lot of people do the same. Try it on something illegal that I cannot advocate taking here.

 

[tokae]

When will people realize that "Dubstep" is just Hardtrance or in some embarassing cases just Gothic-Electro?
Want to know why? Because that's soooo 90's.. :/
Not that I care really, I don't listen to it.. I just keep on shuffling!