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Was interested to read today's Guardian Guide review http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/ju ... ew-singles of Anthemic by Magnetic Man and P-Money:

"Strange world, innit? Where taking a vital underground British music, like dubstep or grime, and reproducing a chart-friendly facsimile of it, in the hope of crossing over, is nowadays deemed a de facto positive thing. We're expected to take pride in one of "ours" taking on Rihanna and Ne-Yo. Rather than just shrugging at this concession to major label mediocrity. What changed?"

Reminded me of a recent interview http://www.chimpmagazine.co.uk/index.ph ... -than-most with MRK1:

"...is it time for dubstep to become popstep? Foster says: “I hope not, because if it is, it’s going to kill it out pretty quick. I’m still doing massively dark tunes. Well, in my eyes anyway. But then I’m also doing a bit of crossover stuff just to explore the boundaries of what I can do, what can happen. “But I don’t actually think that everyone’s going to start making those tunes otherwise it’s not going to be dubstep any more, it’ll be some new-named thing which then becomes not cool and everyone just disses it.”

Is it already so over for popstep?

wtf is popstep?

Some new-named thing which then becomes not cool and everyone just disses it?

if by crossing over to the mainstream you lose all the stuff that made the music interesting in the first place, what's the point? artistically at least

glottis5 wrote:if by crossing over to the mainstream you lose all the stuff that made the music interesting in the first place, what's the point? artistically at least

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new-named thing which then becomes not cool and everyone just disses it

Come on, we all know the name

this thread title fails on many levels but that 'chimpmagazine' article is a sick read