Oh, this line of argument again?150Grams wrote:It's Dubstepforums for a reason.
I could drop a Dutch Hardcore remix of Miley Cyrus' 'Party In The U.S.A', but it'd be stupid as hell. Hard work or not, it's a forum for a specific genre.
First and foremost, no forum and no forumite has a monopoly on the use of the word "dubstep." It's as simple as that. How that's not patently obvious to everyone here is beyond me, but it's one indicator (of several) of a pervasive pretentiousness ... if not about "the dubstep scene," certainly about this particular forum.
It's also a feather in the cap for meme theory; cannibalization of a genre which is overpopulated and overgrown. Though on that note, I'll be interested to see where the "dubstep elitists" take things. There's definitely a broad spectrum of that which is called "dubstep" ... Skrillex and his ilk are on one and, and on the other, you have the light, linen-scented tunes that sound like the kind of thing you hear wafting through the storefront door if you walk past a ladies' fashion shop. If I had to let one go for good, it'd be the latter.
I say that, but I want to be clear - I'm not saying it as a fan of Skrillex. I'm also not saying it as a fan of the idea that Skrillex isn't dubstep.* I'm saying it as a fan of the idea that a person can do something creative and then have the courage to share it with the world in an environment where that work is treated with due respect, not dismissed on account of some superficial label. Such dismissal is no less than bargain-bin bigotry, and everyone here should be excoriating this "JensMadsen" for precisely that reason. I hope that neonmansion isn't so put off by this that he stops posting his work, and I sincerely wish that the people of this forum were more interested in the sharing of music and less interested in protecting some pie-in-the-sky ideal of a word nobody can really even define.
*Note: one of the more prominent arguments I have seen against calling Skrillex's work "dubstep" has to do with the fact that he's never really used the term to describe his work. An interesting note - one of the most, if not THE most, sackridden artists on this forum is Burial. Rightly so - Burial's great. But he also has other terms he prefers for his work (I think "two-step" is it). So ... just a bit of hypocrisy there on the part of Skrillex's detractors.
