Will Going Mainstream Make Dub Step Lame?
 

Because every freaking music store I walk into is playing it, there's a million dub step compilation albums out and it's seeping into the top 40. I think it's going to ruin it when everyone likes it because it's the cool thing to do. It's drum and bass all over again. I really prefer decent music to be heard by people with actual music tastes.

Thoughts?

Lol reading that made me bust out laughing because it reminded me of a brostep definition that I read on UB.

The only way that dubstep will be ruined by the mainstream is that you personally won't like it anymore just because a larger audience is hearing it.

This is a silly mentality that I had back when I was in high school. Going around saying that I liked a band before they were cool and now on the radio that everyone likes it and hating it now.

I personally think it's a good thing because it's a gateway that may get people more interested in dubstep and look into artists that don't get as much mainstream coverage. In turn those artists will gain more fans and it's win/win all around except for the elitists that don't feel special anymore because more people like the same thing they do.

Yes. Yes it will.

I like Boxcutter and Benga, but I also like Flux Pavillion. When any genre goes mainstream, it becomes oversaturated and generic...and the music becomes more of a business than an art. However, there is still good music out there. It just becomes harder and harder to sift through all the crap. Elitists will just have to accept it until the phase passes.

Well it already altered it immensely. From:



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I don't know what else can really happen? It's completely different from it's original self. I know Skrillex is playing the shit out of Moombahton right now.

Well, she's got a point to some extent, DJ. Once a trend is set, it's inevitably knocked off repeatedly until it's just a shade of itself. Everything mainstream has credible roots, but very little of mainstream music deserves credit itself.

I understand that but one of the points I was trying to make is that just because a few artists may water down what they do for greater appeal. There will still be artists putting out material that stays closer to its roots that will keep the purists satisfied.

Uh... "make" dub step lame. If you ask me giving simplistic dance music a different name, and pretending it's some vastly original amazing new trend is lamer than anything. So rather than making dubstep lame it'll probably actually just make mainstream lamer.

I thought dub step was already lame?

I agree with you and this is basically what I was trying to say. There is gonna be more bad artists and more bad music, but there will still be artists that continue to put out good music (just smaller in proportion). People shouldn't be so closed-minded as to shut out a genre entirely once it goes mainstream.