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Dubstep
Mind control/hipster eradication project takes the internet by storm
Summary
Dubstep is an amorphous genre title whose musical roots reach far, far deeper than most internet denizens would let on. They demonstrate this willful ignorance by attaching the dubstep label to any bass-heavy music they encounter, usually by way of over-excited YouTube comments and facebook posts that scroll by unwatched like a dickboat in the night.
In reality, dubstep is the poorly-named (it's neither dub, nor is it steppy) dance music flavor of the month, propagated by club promoters, pitchfork editors and club kids who, for the moment, wish they were black. Its signature WOMWOMWOMWOM or WUBWUBWUBWUB bassline stirs the loins of college hotties and gives hipsters something to hold over the rest of us (for reals this time, right guys?) because they discovered it first in 2006. And by first, I mean after a few dozen name changes and permutations going back to late 90's London and beyond.
Dubstep's fan base is filled with, besides the obvious, 15 year old boys. For proof of this, view a Dubstep video on Youtube. The top rated comments you will no doubtingly find, will be about:
- How "dirty" or "filthy" it is
- Knock-Knock jokes
- Any variation of "gasm" that they are having. e.g "eargasm"
- Their neighbors complaining about how loud they play it
- How big the dislike bar is in correlation to Justin Biebers penis
Origins
Dubstep wasn't dubstep until about 2002. Before that, it was a tiny group of South London club DJs mucking about with those old ponies, garage and dancehall. Through a crucial combo of live sets, record store big-ups and "pirate" radio shows, dubstep broke through to the mainstream and found its way stateside around 2003. Pitchfork, being always at the cutting edge of musical happenings, finally caught wind of this development about three years after it had arrived in the US and a good while after it had become a culturally inert footnote back in the jolly UK.
Unlike many other hipster favorites, normal people found dubstep to be fairly listenable and have since taken the ball and run with it. They have been running with it for years.
Current status
Dubstep is currently going strong in mainstream England and America. While most of the Kool Kids Klub have moved on to greener pastures, large media outlets like the BBC are currently beating this horse to a pulp and teenagers from the midwest are still uploading their favorite mixes. Consider this fad to be in the terminal stages of its Coolness, with tv advertisements for Hot Dubstep Hits vol. 1 set to air in May 2012.
Facts
- If it exists, it has a dubstep remix.
Images
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