Why do people like dubstep?

[Arachon]

People on this forum really need to get a sense of what subjectivity entails.

 

[rob_simple]

That's why I like Dubstep. I could literally do everything to that song.

 

[mooncalf]

There was a period of about a week where I couldn't *stop* listening to my Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites EP, and while I'm over that I still like this style of music. It's like rock got metal, and electronic got this. It's heavy and at times incomprehensible but is built on familiar foundations/structures.
If anyone's saying it's a passing craze, then I'd say they're being petty about it, it's not the only music out there, and you only have to listen to and you make the kind of music that you like, right? Shine on you Polka-Ska-Blackgrass loving diamonds.

 

[Mad World]

I actually don't really understand, either.

I'm surprised it seems to becoming so mainstream. It seems to be at the point where people only listen to it because it's popular. In other words, they don't really like it.

Personally, I don't dislike it. But I definitely do not see why it's not more of a niche.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

I can totally see why people like dubstep in a club. The bass and everything really work well, but I dunno why on earth you'd want to sit around listening to it on an iPod. It's good in certain situations, but it's not really my cup of tea most of the time.

 

[RichardThompson]

I like dubstep but hate other dance/rave music.
Why? I play the tuba and bass guitar, you learn to love a good bass line.

 

[FolkLikePanda]

I dunno music like that gives me a headache and soon enough makes me aggressive, probably because it really annoys me and reminds of dickheads who drive around blasting music out of their cars.

 

[Calvar Draveir]

Because they made the decision to accept it for what it is, and live with what it's not. That's the whole reason anyone likes anything, I think.

 

[gizunt]

I used to listen to classic rock and rock in general and nothing else. It's definitly not from clubs (clubs have mainstream stuff with some changes minor changes usually).I dunno, Dubstep sounds cool, diffrent then the usual electronic stuff I hear (better in my opinion).

 

[The Man With the Soap]

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?

We like it solely to piss you off and make you ask that question. It's a worldwide conspiracy against you.

 

[k3v1n]

people like it because other people have different tastes in music.

 

[Cxizent]

People like dubstep because it's beat is very primal. It's like why people like drums. It's just that primal instinct to hit something. Dubstep uses that primal urge and turns it into something to be played in a club. Ironically most people who like dubstep also like metal and visa visa in my experiences. The two genres both have that primal beat that leads to moshing and thats why people like it as far as i can see.

vice versa

 

[flaming_squirrel]

The sheer amount of arrogant, opinionated bullshit in this thread is astounding.


Why do people like metal?
Why do people like reggae?
Why do people like classical?
Why do people like XYZ?

Now if only some people could stop acting like complete 'tards and just enjoy what they listen to.

 

[Deadlock Radium]

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

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Ontopic: I like dubstep. I love dubstep actually, but that doesn't mean that I am a slave to the elecronic music genre. It's actually quite on the contrary. I usually dislike most techno and all that, and prefer rock and metal. It's just the whole of a proper dubstep-song that makes me enjoy it so very much. That and the endless remixes, so you never grow completely tired.

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[Cain_Zeros]

I'm not sure. Honestly the sudden shifts in tone in it are just bad song-writing. It's jarring, and in any other genre it'd be called on it, because every other genre has at least some consistency within a single song.

 

[Cain_Zeros]

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Oh, look at that. A lot of people have never heard of subjectivity and have subsequently taken it upon themselves to make ill-fated attempts at dismissing the possible artistic merits of an entire genre of music by using various objective standards selectively derived from their own personal tastes and perceptions - even going so far as to make ridiculous negative generalisations about it's listeners or their tastes - in the hopes that they can somehow prove that their opinion on one paticular genre is factual (inevitably failing to realise that similar arguments could be made - and HAVE been made - against any other genre), all of this motivated by nothing more complex than a distaste for said genre.

You know I really really really wish I could say that I've never seen this sort of thing before... there's a time and a place for this - it's called comedy. If you're not saying shit like that just because you want to make someone chuckle, then it's just opinionated raving.

Come on, guys. Really? Really?

Except I stated that it's objectively bad. Every dubstep song I've heard jumps all over the fucking place with no sense of consistency. That's genuinely bad song-writing whether people enjoy it or not.

 

[Nuclear Pancake]

I hated it up to about a month ago until i came to Uni, when your drunk and with good friends it sounds amazing. Don't think i could just sit in and listen to it though.

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

when people refer to dubstep as ''music'', i am personally offended as a musician. there is no talent or artistry involved. if you search on youtube ''how to make dubstep'', the first video will show you how in under 5 minutes. its really that easy to be a DJ, if you have ever owned an Ipod your basically there. in my country we have a name for people that live for dubstep and are out at clubs every-night, picking up chiiiicks and generally living life to the MAX-treme...

''bogans''

When people refer to dubstep as "music" I am personally unable to give a shit, as a musician, I find that I practise my art, so that I can enjoy it, I take pleasure in my craft, I don't care what other people are doing, and nothing can offend me to my core by just existing, now if someone made some dubstep involving a creative insult directed at my mother or my lineage i might take offense, but that offense would be directed towards the creator not the genre...

It seems you're either too easily offended, or have a difference in the reason to be an artist, really though whatever you play, play it for your own enjoyment first, others second, and don't bother to care about what passes as music these days.

Cheers.

PS I am not a professional, but I am a pianist, and have played bass a bit, and used to play cello as well... I love classical music, and listen to opera as well as classical piano, and organ music, but I also like rock of all generations, metal, jazz, and some electronic music...

 

[Darkmantle]

seems like pop music, finding a good dubstep is like trying to find a gold nugget in a lake

 

[Funkysandwich]

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What are you trying to prove? No one has been, or ever will be, 100% objective. Not me, not you.
So why bother? If I want to express me distate for dubstep on the internet, why bother stopping me? What harm will I do?