Dubstep/Transcript

Dubstep. The word alone is incredibly polarizing. Ask someone about dubstep, and they usually get a strong opinion, one way or another. It's like Nickelback — people either will love it, or they hate it; and mostly it's just because they're trendy to have an opinion either way, like being indifferent to it, makes you more of an outcast than liking or hating it. In fact, click on any popular dubstep song on YouTube and the Comments section will just be a fight between a bunch of stupid little shits either hating it like it's the worst thing that ever happened to music, or defending it as though it's their child; and even better, click on any not-so well-known dubstep song on YouTube and you see a bunch of dumb fucks arguing with each other over different dubstep artists that couldn't chart to save their balls, and usually talking about how Skrillex sucks; and even though it does sound at times like a Bulgan sucked off by a Shop-Vac in front of a broken fan.
I'm sorry, kids, but I ain't gonna play the "indifferent" card. I couldn't give two shits about dubstep either way, and you know why? Because all techno pretty much sounds like that to me. You see: dubstep is essentially a subgenre of a subgenre of an actual genre. Originally, a mix of dub and 2-step, (dub basically meaning "remixing" and 2-step being an electronic music subgenre known for strange or unconventional beats) both of those are just a subgenre of any sort of electronica. And to the average person, it really doesn't sound any different.
Here's a good test: find someone that doesn't know much or anything for that matter about dubstep and play these five songs for them: Mr. Oizo - "Flat Beat", [plays "Flat Beat", a French house song] Benny Benassi - "Satisfaction", [plays "Satisfaction", an UK house song] Chemical Brothers - "Block Rockin' Beats",.. [plays "Block Rockin' Beats", a big beat song]
Back with another one of those block rockin' beats
...Delta Nine - "Speaker Worship", [plays "Speaker Worship", a gabber song] and, let's say, Skrillex - "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites". [plays "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites", a brostep song]
Yes, oh my gosh!
Tell them to name the dubstep song. For bonus points, do this in front of the self-professed dubstep fan and watch their face drop when they picked anything but the Skrillex song, or they say "You mean only one of them is dubstep?"; and for even more bonus points, get a self-professed dubstep fan to pick anything but the Skrillex song or claim "It's a trick question." All five of those songs are different genres, but, to the average person, they wouldn't know difference at all.
Even more confusing is that Skrillex's signature... [plays a part of the drop of "First of the Year (Equinox)"] ...sound is a later addition to dubstep — a lot of people think that's what defines a dubstep song, but it really isn't.
So, seriously, this is what people are arguing about: a subgenre of a subgenre. For the people that hate it, you'll be happy to know that it's just a fad that'll be out of the mainstream soon enough and you won't need to hear it anymore; and for the people that like it,.. well, you'll also be happy to know it's just a fad that'll be out of the mainstream soon enough and you can go back to liking something that no one else listens to or cares about, which, I think it's why so many dubstep fans hate Skrillex so much, because... There's really two types of music fans now because of the Internet: they're the people that like mainstream music, and the hipsters who hate mainstream music, but love to tell everyone about how much they liked something before it was mainstream.
So, this would be the point where I just tell everyone to shut the fuck up and listen to whatever you want to listen to, which... would kinda make me a hypocrite what with my Musical Autopsies and such. However, the difference is talk about songs you can avoid: pop music and songs that chart, that get played on the radio, on TV, in malls, at the gym,.. everywhere! Also, it's my job to listen to them. Beware you going that you constantly have to listen to dubstep! Literally, one dubstep artist charts -- it's Skrillex, and he doesn't even chart that high! I would highly recommend wherever you're going or whatever you're doing that you're being forced to listen to dubstep, you just stop doing that.
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