Who the fuck is Skrillex?
 

I know that this is a project by a former singer from some "Alternative Press tour"-type band, which probably called themselves screamo and sucked. Why, then, is he suddenly the frickin' pope? My much younger cousin's friend, who has never been a music fan, or even mentioned music in my presence, commented on how awesome Skrillex is the other day on Facebook. In order for this boy to be into it, it must be pretty big (and all the rage at fraternity parties), but I'd only heard the name associated with korn. I looked it up, and it doesn't even look like this guy has released any actual albums; just collaborated and released a lot of internet material. I'm very out of sync with popular culture, as I've said many times, but this appears to be something big, and to me it sounds like dubstep and possibly "electroclash" (god I feel silly using all these terms) are being co-opted and milked by a douche-bag, and that that's pretty much all there is to it.

Does anybody have any constructive thoughts on this? Why is this Skrillex anomaly reaching college kids who don't listen to music? Where the hell did this come from, and should it be taken seriously? I just feel so goddamn old when I think about stuff like this.

Skrillex is trash. an emo/scene guy turned into a shitty 'brostep' (to differentiate from real dubstep) artist.

a faggot

I have a friend who's a substitute teacher at the moment and he's always telling me stories about how the high school students he subs go apeshit over skrillex. He says he gets pretty demoralized because it's apparent that these kids are really only interested in the most absurdly popular and by extension mindless stuff going on these days, ie skrillex and call of duty.

These same kids couldn't identify Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, or John Lennon in a pop culture power point my friend was giving, so there's a dose of painful irony in there as well.

Couldn't identify JOHN LENNON?

That is deeply, severely disturbing and unsettling to me. Seriously. Your friend there should take some observational data and make that shit public. That is completely and utterly absurd.

now i'm reminded that the other day i met a girl who claimed she's heard of The Beatles, but she doesn't know anything about them. the fucking Beatles. and she was PROUD of it.

"Yes! I lack knowledge!"

I don't get it. I just don't fucking get it.

"why should i even know their songs? aren't they, like, from the 60's or something?"

Yeah, every time he tells me one of those stories, I'm extremely disturbed by it haha. The english teacher he often subs for plans to retire (she was also his and mine high school english teacher) because she just can't stand how apathetic the kids have apparently become. They're also really huge Ray William Johnson fans, just to have another strike against them.

'you need to stop listening to that grandpa stuff bro. here let me turn on this awesome new dubstep song'

That isn't far from it I guess. Anything with any remote age on it is just immediately uninteresting to them I guess.

this album came to my world as a gift from the gods, to cure me from the ill mind of the brosteppers.

Count mecha's posts have officially determined my suicide date.

Oh, fuck all of you twats. How many of you went to fwd? How many of you even know what fwd was? None, except you're about to google it. I went, I got bored, I kept half an ear on it, I still find it less interesting than the ice rink riddim (go on, google it again).

I know there are some much heavier dubstep heads than me reading and they're ignoring this thread because dubstep WASN'T EXCITING 6 YEARS AGO. You're basically talking about Leo Sayer. Criticising Leo Sayer in 2012 is what my Dad does.

Skrillex is shit, but getting all high and mighty about how shit he is (and none of you mentioned that he's a massive racist, which is the only decent reason to criticise him) is just bandwagon jumping bullshit. He's shit, but kids like him, same as how you liked some utter shite at some point before you developed your oh-so-sophisticated taste in ever-so-slightly distinct horsecock, ten-a-penny shite.

Why should anyone know the Beatles? Do you know anything about Barber? Tell me about Barber.

People don't know about stuff, you know about stuff, they can probably shit on you in terms of HTML5. Stop being a massive prick.

This thread is fucking awful.

Anyone on this board making fun of Skrillex is like when people who aren't young girls make fun of Justin Bieber. They're both terrible of course, but it's not music made for us. These type of artists get so much attention because people take them seriously despite being completely innocuous.

Can I also mention that Skrillex is probably one of the easiest targets in music today and it'd probably be a better use of your time criticizing the new insanely mediocre Animal Collective songs?

The only people worth criticizing at all are David Tennant and Alan Titchmarsh. And Paul fucking Scholes.
Otherwise it just makes you look silly

You're terrbily out of synch with music in general, so all this crap written like you want to be some lame music hack reads like a pile of shit. Go listen to fucking Vampire Weekend or Sebadoh and leave music writing to people who know what they are doing.

not knowing the Beatles is one thing. acting like you're proud of it is another. in my opinion.

but it's not such a big deal, i guess. you're right.

i know people in my age who claim to like Justin Bieber because "he got swag and bitches" and think he'll become the next Timberlake in a few years, which is absurd. granted, FutureSex was the shit, but there are no signs of Bieber making good music out of the sudden in the future, at all.

And after these shocking revelations delivered by louder, we should all gather together and reflect. Five minutes of silence, please.

:rolleyes:.

you will never change.

I don't know whether Justin Bieber sucks or not because I don't know if I have ever heard any of his records. Chances are that if I checked him out and didn't like his songs, I'd get over it very, very quickly. Why? Because getting offended by a pop star to such an extent you think they have invented the wheel and they own it makes you look like a naive moron intent on defending your own front garden from intruders while pretending that you will achieve anything other than one more gate being forced into. Besides, I have always been of the opinion that if you feel you have to constantly explain why you enjoy ANYTHING to a crowd of boring fuckers like a huge chunk of Sonic Youth's fanbase you fail to grasp anything in life. It's the sort of opinion an individual who has reached a certain degree of maturity generally has. Said degree of maturity can affect you early on in life and saves you from useless concerns like the one expressed on the first post in this thread.

I hope I cleared that up.

Threads of brilliant music discussions are generally turned as such by a group of posters in a selfless act of love for the theme they are discussing. What I find on this forum 90 % of the times is a bunch of cry babies who can't sustain the alleged emotional (and maybe physical, who knows) pain inflicted by someone who points out that perhaps Wild Flag or Polvo are a bit shit. The sons and daughters of Stephen Malkmus abandoned at the bus stop in Romford at 2:00 am on a Friday night. Did nobody teach you the basic rules that make community living work?

how does J-biebz even suck have you guys even HEARD boyfriend? pleb ass fucked bitches
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGABwm9lCIc

it's lame when people make little kids sing about girlfriends. like they have any clue what they're talking about.

nah I thought it was pretty spot on.

c o r n y.

skrillex > bill hicks

damn! the lap top on my aching belly! period pain.
wow my new discovery.



music forum discussions.
hm what makes them brilliant?
humor and knowledge exchange? most likely.
i think also when there is some undercover or not, philosophical flavours in it. vague connection to life in general or whatever.


usually they end up very quickly to fights. sorry, ego fights.
sometimes it lasts a bit before its gets to that.

basically, wherever Death Gee has been involved, they are brilliant. use the search option in the forum.

If I met a teenager who said they liked the sort of things I do i would worry for their sanity. Skrillex, blink182, slipknot, i dont care what they like musically as long as theyre not killing themselves or each other. Theyre kids fucks sake, let them listen to things you think are shit, theyre probably gonna turn out ok.

They may not just be ok, there is also a strong chance they are fine anyway. Listening to music you think is shit is most definitely not always a sign of a person who isn't interesting by any other mean. WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU PEOPLE LIVE??? WHO DO YOU KNOW? Grow the fuck up. Seriously.

think you need to read what i said again porky because that was 4 lines of abolutely nonsensical shit.

i'm sure music saved me from offing myself once.

Hahahahahahahaha!!!!!! I waz bitching about how Pandora kept pulling skillrex (mispelling intended) on fb a few months ago. I am personally not a fan.

Lmao, you haven't talked to a teenager in a very long time, have you?

... don't forget chasing hoola hoops with sticks, and pac-man video games!

:D.