Skrillex nominated for best new artist grammy.
Let the flaming begin. Personally I don’t much care for his music, but he seems like an alright guy.
His music’s alright, and theres no doubt that he pioneered complextro. But it still doesn’t do much for me.
That and the sheer amount of requests I get for Scary Monster’s turns me off.
Fair enough I suppose. I mean I think he’s shit but he’s got to be the hottest newcomer, right?
He is a pretty good producer, I’ll give him that. His songs have just been so overplayed that I am deathly bored of them. People give him flak cause of his DJ’ing routine (twist 1 knob, chain smoke, stage dive, win)
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To be fair to Skrillex, he didn’t asked to be nominated for a Grammy. The fact is that the nominations are shite across the board anyway.
Love him or hate him, the guy is doing really good for himself, he loves the music and you can tell he really enjoys what he does. Im happy for him and hopefully he does well for a while.
agreed.
my biggest beef w skrillex and similar sounding artists is that it kind of killed the original dubstep sound. funny thing is that is exactly what happened to drum and bass (ie clownstep).
not that there isnt still good stuff being made, but imo the amount of derivative shitty music being made is exponentially proportional to the popularity of more accessible/crossover styles.
anyways, props to the dude for being able to make a career out making electronic music…something that is increasingly harder to do these days
People have been saying that for ages and I swear there’s just as much (if not more) good dnb being made as there was before.
Also I think the beautiful dubstep scene was thrashed pretty soundly before that but eh, who know. I’m still finding some cool artists.
He must be bigger in the state than in the UK. Ive heard he makes loads of mistakes whilst performing his sets?
I wouldn’t say mistakes, I’d say he makes poor choices. I mean it’s not like he went to do something good but fucked up, he just decides to do things that are just bad. And no one gives a shit because they care about skrillex, not DJing.
Which is fair enough.
Most of his popular tracks are remixs of anthems and bangers though. I think that makes for a cache 22…
The “Candy Kids” here in the states eat his music up!
Latency pops??? Turn the wrong knob the wrong way?.. 
Then again… he does make that $$$ :eek:
respect on that. he´s a damn good producer and you´ll always recognize his sound. legit
Ew. Then again most of the time I tend to see grammys as an ugly scarlet letter. Fucking dog show ribbon…
Meh, I can’t even be bothered to argue about Skrillex. The music is alright, although I have problems seeing it as ‘Dubstep’, but his ‘housier’ tracks are quite listneable.
not that i follow the grammy’s because I dont listen to that much popular music, but who was the last EDM producer to get nominated?
i can’t think of any. the fact that my non EDM listening friends know what dubstep is, fascinates me. it’s actually succesful and has penetrated the mainstream.
no doubt
Question is… Do we want to have Skrillex and/or Brostep be “the face of EDM”?
Better than deadmau5, at least Skrillex seems to be polite.
Yeah, why not. EDM means fuck all anyway. EDM is a descriptive word for people who don’t understand anything about the subject, like ‘modern art’ or ‘foreigner’.