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| Even the Addams Family is in on it. |
Well, needless to
say these styles just don’t do it for us anymore. In niches these styles are still just as
gripping and exciting as they were back in the day (even if that day was last
year), but the public wants more. The public
is the cliché unhappy housewife in a corny movie that leaves her workaholic
husband for the poor but exciting pool boy (see Sandra Bullock).
But why does the public not go
for these styles of music in the same way they used to? It’s simple: they’ve all been taken over by
the old, the elite, and the rich.
No one wants to see
Donald Trump or Bill Gates jamming to Bowie tracks. Believe me.
NO ONE. Rock and jazz have become
the music of the rich, old white man with a midlife crisis and male-pattern
baldness. When The Who went back on tour
I sat there hoping the backstage was stocked up with replacement hips for Roger Daltry (no disrespect, The Who's one of my favorite bands).
It’s all a matter of
perception. No one wants to play music
that would make their middle school band teacher go “groovy, man”. These styles are no longer attainable to the
public. You have to think too hard to listen
to them. To put it simply: NO FUN. We listen to music to have a good time;
party, flirt, dance, whatever it is that you wanna do. Enter dubstep.
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| And I was like "BWOM BWOM BWOM SQUEE BWOM". |
To some people it
sounds like two robotic whales humping for dear life, but for the poor youth it
sounds like a good time.
Dubstep is the next
step in musical development (even if it’s been around since 1999) because it’s
music for the poor, partying masses who wanna forget about 10% unemployment and
$8.00 gas until the E wears off. Unlike
jazz and rock, which have come to be about virtuosity and expensive
venues/instruments, good dubstep can be made on Garageband and pumped out through
a 10-watt amp. Unlike rap, which has become so obsessed with an image that’s unattainable by 99% of its
listeners (we can’t all be Snoop), dubstep is just some random person
cranking out oscillated bass drops to a bunch of high people who love it. Dubstep is easy, dubstep is simple, and most
of all, dubstep is cheap. People who
tell you that it’s not these three things are the same marauders who murdered
the pop music of yesteryear for all of us.
Even if dubstep isn’t
here to stay (and I don’t think it is, let’s be real here people) it’s good to
have it around right now. For all the
pretentious indie bands, dopey rappers, fake country musicians, and pop divas
eating our brains, it’s nice to have some scrawny little guy with a half-shaved
head banging on a turntable until some crazy noise comes out. That strange little man in the DJ booth reminds
me that there are other poor little creeps out there hellbent on good times and
even better music.
~Viva amigos,
~D. Merrick
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