For those of you unfamiliar with “dubstep”, it’s a saucy new latin dance step! NO! That’s what the name would lead you to believe. However, it’s basically a genre of songs, I suppose, that revolve around “dropping the bass” or more simply, making this “wuuu wubwubwub” sound. You hear it spring up in a few popular songs on the radio from time to time. Though, my first real exposure to it was with Saints Row 3 when you win a mission or something, it played a little dubabub tune. Seemed cool enough and fit the theme. But then we get it mixing in with more mainstream music like Too Close where the weird dorky guy singing a love(?) ballad of sorts has some wubadubbs tossed into the background.
Maybe it’s just me, but I think some of these cross overs are a bit hit and miss. Sure, I like Kanye, but when he pops in to say hi in my Katy, then I got issues. Some songs work with genre crossovers. In fact, some are amazing! But then some are just weird and don’t flow well together.
Anyways… Now all I hear is The Fozz droppin some mad wakas. >)
Alright folks, what’s your favorite musical genre?
Confusion…. went past…. me Ceilin’…
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long story short… dubstep music sounds like “wuba wuba wuba”. fozzy the bear says “waka waka waka”. mix together in an insane artist’s brain and thus we get this. >)
Dat logic just got yourself a cult.
I can’t speak for favorites, but I know which ones I hate- Oldies (50s,60s,70s), country, the VAST majority of rap (though me and Eminem are tight), and *drumroll* dubstep.
Now I’m not saying ALL dubstep is bad. If its in the background of a song or in just a small section, thats fine. But when the ENTIRE song is “wub wub wub un un wub wub” thats when my brain starts to hurt -_-. Idk how people can stand to listen to it for extended amounts of time. I feel like it would make your ears bleed after a while.
Genres I love: Techno, Hip-Hop, Rock, Pop, J-Rock and K- Rock, J- Pop, Classical, Alt Rock, and pretty much anything else with a nice beat and a sound message.
Hence why I can’t stand rap. Cause, and you can’t really tell me I’m wrong, but most of it seems to be all about sex, money, and the police. Occasionally there will be a diamond in the rough that ACTUALLY has some kind of meaning, but for the most part, it doesn’t. Of course, if it did I wouldnt know about it cause half the time the lyrics don’t even make any sense. They just string along words that sound good together without actually having any meaning.
And I’m not gonna bore you with my hate for country music, so lets just say it stems from my childhood growing up in the south.
man, I used to listen to a lot of j/k rock/pop! been a while though. Utada was one of my favs! and Malice Mizer and dir en grey.
Classic Rock (60s - 80s mostly) though I’ve started getting into some newer music like early to mid-90s rock and even some 00s rock as well.
sigh… I miss my 80s station… >(
1970′s….especially 1972!!! Music that can be hummed to. :-o
70s also had some amazing hits! and then the 80s hit… and everybody forgot what good fashion was… XD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hr2Bc5qMhE4&feature=BFa&list=LLN42BWMeAEmnv_zP5l5F9-g
Think only a small part is actual dubstep. But at least dubstep aint rap.
Dont want to sound to preachy, but usually when i hear people comparing one thing to another they are just getting to attached to the other thing and disappointed the new thing is not enough like it. You should judge modern music against other modern music. Not against entirely different genres made by entirely different generations. Just like how there is some rap (just not very much) that i like.
well, also… deadmouse is freakin awesome! found them through minecraft!
I think it works well when used lightly… you know, sprinkle a dash here and there, but if you dump it all in, you’re liable to ruin the cake!
good point! now don’t get me wrong here, I love a wide variety of musics… from the jpops to rock to 80s to goth to country to hiphop (not rap) to almost anything else… I think what bugs me is when one encroaches on the other. maybe it’s just me. >)
To be technically correct the “wubwubwub” isn’t dropping the bass; “wubwubwub” is called a wobble bass. Dropping the bass refers to bringing the volume of the song, especially the bass part, down very soft then suddenly coming back even stronger. The most important defining feature of dubstep is the half step rhythm where you have a slow deep bass coiled with more rhythm at twice or four times the rhythm giving a tightly coiled high energy feeling to the song. Dubba Johnny has a few tracks such as that do a good job of explaining what the features of dubstep are.
ah! ty for clearing that up! and now I can call it a “waka bass”!