yeah dubstep just feels really bland and generic to me, I can't take it seriously
@vantablack what does 'dubstep' mean to you? like who are the people you picture or the scenes and places it makes you think of?
@regresssion just... generic dubstep. like any video when you search "dubstep" on youtube. random Dubstep Remixes of popular songs.
every song has like the same drop, same drumbeat, similar sounds. and its so trendy, in every commercial, and that + the general genericness of the sound + every band copying it makes it give off corporate bland vibes
and tbh yeah makes me think of lame boring white guys, gamerbros, etc. with no vocabulary who consume music solely through the youtube app on their smartphone
@vantablack gimme a moment, i genuinely need to reacquaint myself
@vantablack heh - so like, i totally recognise for most people that's just what it is. that's their cultural exposure.
i'm a londoner and just about caught the wave of dubstep that took over london's night life, and it's still what i go back to in my head. and i feel like i have a duty to the music, more than anything, to "fix" that for people?
@vantablack so like, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2En93fR_09w or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMrx8Sg76nA is what my head goes to
@vantablack and i just. it feels like dubstep getting taken over by pop culture is a textbook case of cultural and racial appropriation
@regresssion ahh, that makes sense! yeah, american dubstep ("brostep" I guess ) is what I'm really talking about here, I know there were precursors to it that weren't as... bad lol
@vantablack yeah - so like, the brostep thing happened at the same time? like i was watching people pick which path they took with their listening, so the idea that one has just been superseded by the other just doesn't make sense to me?
@regresssion ahh, I'm just going off of a brief glance at wikipedia lol.
and thank you for those links! I enjoyed them! love atmospheric chill sounding stuff :D
@vantablack heh i'm glad! certainly more out there x
@regresssion sure thing! :)