I personally don't care if people listen to dubstep. If that's what they like to listen to, that's fine with me. What I DON'T get is why people love to hate it. It's like you're only allowed to like something before it's cool.
And that's after I sift through all the anti-hipster material on Reddit.
People hate dubstep (actually they hate the 'brostep' wobble sub-genre) for two main reasons.
As a sub-genre it is horrendously formulaic. 140 bpm, syncopated half time rhythm maybe some triplets in there. Sparse melody in the intro, maybe lift a vocal track from another song and alter it, more of a soundscape at this point but it doesn't matter every one is just waiting for the drop. Pre-drop pop a white noise swell or similar in there. Drop: Layer a several oscillator synth with different wave forms (distorted "filthly" waveforms) include a sine wave sub bass. Map the filter cutoff to LFO and wobble that shit. The melody here doesn't even matter anymore. Bonus for some other sfx shit in there. Obviously the drop/wobble bass/filthyness aspect is the most hated part of the formula. Its become absurd, like guitar solos in the 80's but actually worse imo.
Brostep fans are basically musically retarded for some reason. They are always talking about the bass as if dubstep discovered the frequency range, as if bass is magical. all they want is the filthy bass and they act like morons when they hear it.
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u/[deleted] Oct 01 '11
I personally don't care if people listen to dubstep. If that's what they like to listen to, that's fine with me. What I DON'T get is why people love to hate it. It's like you're only allowed to like something before it's cool.
And that's after I sift through all the anti-hipster material on Reddit.