Unironically, where did it go wrong?
I get bands and artists exploding in popularity and then vanishing, but how the fuck did an entire genre, one that took the mainstream by storm mind you, not some obscure fad subgenre, come and go in ~2 years?
Unironically, where did it go wrong?
Isaac Sanchez
Asher Howard
because the internet decided that "cynicism" and "ironic humour" is superior and declared war on dubstep and "LOL SO RANDUM" and now we're left in the boring fucking dystopia we've been in for over a fucking decade
Landon Adams
ngmi dubbi. just give it up
Ian Barnes
shit was straight up ugly and obnoxious to hear
i guess people woke up one day and realized that WOWOWOWOOOOOWWW sound sucked donkey dick
Thomas Bennett
if you're referring to ugly dubstep. "where did it go wrong", deadmau5 was PEAK EDM then, sonny got put on Mau5Trap and thus everyone's eye were now on this GENRE BREAKING album. people picked apart the parts they liked, made their own albums leaving that genre/sound behind. Rock'n'Roll still goes hard if you ask me. i much prefer people like Space Laces tho.
Aiden Sanchez
imagine an entire decade of sound condensed into those 2 years
Jackson Gray
It didn’t vanish
It evolved
open.spotify.com
William Hughes
I wish it didn't.
Josiah Morgan
Just look at the history of popular music. Pop genres usually last between one and four years. It's like asking "why isn't doowop still around?"
Cameron Thomas
the novelty wore off and people realized that the death rattles of a fax machine were not a pleasant sound to listen to.
Caleb Thompson
Dubstep and 'Brostep' never disappeared, just changed further, branched off into other subgenres (Riddim, Melodic Riddim/Colour Bass etc). It kinda went more underground again I guess. Brostep got replaced by 'Briddim' (a blend of Riddim and Brostep) which is like, even more sound design focused than Brostep was (look up Virtual Riot to hear that). Personally I find the genre names kinda dumb, it's all just different flavours of Dubstep in the end, it never went away, just changed, also this horse has been beaten to death already but those who hate on Skrillex and 'Brostep' are missing the point, it was never trying to be the same thing as OG Dubstep (if you want to listen to minimal sub bassy 140 bpm stuff until the end of your life that's fine, don't get mad that producers want to experiment and try other stuff out though). Also Skrillex didn't even do that much dubstep/140bpm stuff, even early on many of his tracks were electro house, 'complextro', etc, a lot of 4 on the floor stuff.
Liam Garcia
recess needs a critical re-evaulation imo
but yeah the kinda dubstep that skilly boi and other "brostep" dipshits were making has died out primarily due to how shit the sound design was. the whole point of that shitty red herring of a subgenre was
>hey bro our car sound systems are shit so let's bump the mids up really high and melt our faces off instead
I'm gonna make an uptempo bootleg of malice brb
Jacob Cook
honestly all of the other genres with -step are not bad, just dubstep, particularly that late 2000s era, was awful
Luis Gonzalez
Also to add, if it wasn't for Skrillex and some other producers doing the whole Brostep thing, we never would have got some of the stuff we have now, I like Colour Bass/Melodic Riddim a lot, not every track in this mix is great but overall it gives a good taste of what that sounds like:
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My fave kinds of dubstep will probably always be stuff like this though:
(for the heavier side of OG dubstep)
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(the more chill side)
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Sebastian Phillips
All of these are wrong. The real reason is just that we grew up, and dubstep/brostep was a genre mainly targeted at prepubescent children. Most people associate the dubstep sound with the cringe time in their life now, so its never coming back.
Anthony Harris
this will soon change
Josiah Price
>dubstep
>brostep
>colour bass
>melodic riddim
Noah Phillips
t. not on tiktok
Daniel Watson
i'm not going to watch this show. what does this image mean?
Josiah Reed
brapstep was the nu-metal of the early 10's and I'm glad it's gone.
Jonathan Green
space laces is carrying the entire genre on his back youtube.com