Timbaland: I Created Dubstep

[milksnake]

i grew out of hating things because they are popular. thank god for that.

[pkay]

Pop isn't a bad thing, it's just like all other music, some good some bad... I love Micheal Jackson, don't you? Hating on pop is such a silly way to be "underground" and "cool".

I disagree. MJ being one of a handful of exceptions, "Pop" is inherently unoriginal and follows pre-established formulas to produce an unoffensive sound that is easy for anybody to follow. Usually this means it is without risk and basically uninteresting to me as I like hearing real creativity that is unbounded by pop's many constraints.

And in many cases, Pop is in fact cheesy and non-genuine, because the ultimate motivation for production of said music is to make money -- integrity and originality be damned. Even if it means exploiting fads, people's weaknesses and/or urgency to belong to something, the profiteer only cares about $$$ at the end of the day.

Cheesy pop music might not be as overbearing in your everyday existence as it is in mine but it should bug any serious music fan that hundreds of millions of people are all into the same handful of artists at any given moment. There is more music available for the listening than ever, yet the amount of artists in mainstream rotation remain at about the same number as they did in the 1950s.

This is because advertising only works via repetition and basically brainwashing, and this is why "pop" music stations play the same 10-15 songs over and over and over and over for weeks, months, years on end, slowly rotating out other tracks for similar sounding new ones. The tracks themselves are usually quite repetitive and take advantage of current trends to make feel people comfortable by hearing something they are familiar with. They also mix well into commercials for minimal brain stimulation.

For ME (notice the preface), "Sexy Back" is 100% one of these tunes. I find this unforgiveable because I feel they are basically trying to hand me a shit sandwich whilst telling me its actually a rose... Just take a whiff of the artificial scent on top of this heap and you'll find life is easier... Cannot get into it, and makes me lose a whole lot of respect for the man.

You're confusing top 40 with pop music.

You seem burnt on what has become top 40 music, which at any given time can be rock, hip hop, rap, or pop music.

[fractal]

To be fair, I felt the same way cyrusfx did when I was 17 or so, I even had the gall to believe that there is a difference between hip hop and rap... Now I can just enjoy music for music without worrying about anything beyond whether I like the way it sounds or not.

I agree with what pkay said

name some of your favorite dubstep artist and I'll give you a list of pop songs that they use

[cyrusfx]

You're confusing top 40 with pop music.

You seem burnt on what has become top 40 music, which at any given time can be rock, hip hop, rap, or pop music.

Pop subgenres exist across all the aforementioned, hence terms like "pop rock".

[cyrusfx]

To be fair, I felt the same way cyrusfx did when I was 17 or so, I even had the gall to believe that there is a difference between hip hop and rap...

There is, whether you believe in it or not.

Now I can just enjoy music for music without worrying about anything beyond whether I like the way it sounds or not.

Uh, that's exactly what I do, too. I don't start enjoying something and then realize who its by and then decide its crap.

[BonerJams04]

sexy back is a tune and you all know it

[Jizz]

sexy back is a tune and you all know it

[R4]

Timberland Brings back so many memories.

[blinx420]

timbaland had me going wtf at dem dirty wobbles before dubstep came about yee

[Jizz]

all about the beat on this one


and of course this one, where he does his best whale impressions

[Cornbreadddd]

[Maccaveli]

I wish he'd go back to this kind of stuff:


Sounds just like any other pop producer these days...

[Shum]

or as the man himself would put it; all other pop producers sound like Timbaland.

[blinx420]

[fractal]

or as the man himself would put it; all other pop producers sound like Timbaland.

pretty true now days... there would be no "purple sound" if there was no timbo

[cyrusfx]

And two years later, Timbaland still makin shitty music for spoiled white kids who want to pretend they're black. Its a market. I guess I shouldn't hate on him for genius opportunism & exploitation of low-level human psychology.

[BonerJams04]

nah man, odd future is for wannabe blacks nowadays

[_TraX_]

wtf are you guys talking about ? Akon is the shit, alright? he drives lambos, gets bitchez, and collabs with fuckin everyone. Besides, his alto voice is angelic, his melodies, infectious
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