Thraed of Skrillex

I dunno. I just saw it this week.

i looked up the original tweet when you c+p'd it here and could have sworn it only had like 10 retweets-- it has over 300 now.

Yeah, I think it kind of snuck under the radar at the time.

@Skrillex Skrillex
I wish I was aloud to use the n word sometimes (in a non racist way of course)
26 Apr via Twitter for BlackBerry®

maybe if you do a track with NIGGA?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDIjcw0qELg

crut already made that joke xp

so he did!

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/deadmau5-pranks-skrillex-by-wearing-his-cellphone

"YO BRO IMMA GET U REAL GOOD LOL HURR HURR HURR"

"LAWL O MAN, BRO GOT ME SO GOOD HURR HURR LOL"

has he had an operation or does he actively choose to have his hair cut like a wanker?

that haircut is in style for better or worse. also see the guitarist for Krallice: http://i.imgur.com/JNpHe.jpg

i saw a dude with that haircut standing around smoking a cigarette last week and felt genuinely for a tiny moment, 'what is skrillex doing here'.

and i don't even know a fucking thing about him except for that picture of him freaking out.

I thought the N word tweet was from a parody account @Skrilllex (with three L's)

or maybe his real account used to be called that. I saw it get RT'd the first time around but thought it was fake.

http://girlsthatlooklikeskrillex.tumblr.com/

man i saw a girl on the train yesterday who could've conned her way to fame by claiming she was skrillex

i prefer:

http://lesbianswholooklikejustinbieber.tumblr.com/

Is he famous for his looks or because he was the one who consolidated that annoying wooble wooble dubstep sound? All this music sounds like a preset now. I had no idea he was that famous, thought he was recluded to blog fame.

hint: he is not famous for his looks

he was nominated for a grammy last week

invented sick drops iirc

hint: he is not famous for his looks

― illuminati girl (J0rdan S.)

I know it's an awful look but it helps to relate to his audience. The music has little to none personality so you have to trust the way he looks to know it must be your thing if you're into the industrial-goth-angst crowd. If he dressed like a guido the only thing that would change would be his audience, the music would remain mostly the same.

hey moka people love his music

his music is ok, it's his hair that's fucking horrible

his "look" isn't really distinctive tho, moka

his hair is ridiculous and he wears big glasses but the only reason ppl use him as a touchstone for those things is bcuz he's famous for his music

Yes I suppose they do, but that's not what I'm arguing... it's, why him? there's thousands of dubstep artists right now that sound pretty much the same. It's hard to differentiate them by sound so I'm thinking this guy is branding himself better than the others. The look and personality you portray are more important than music itself. He's a pop icon now, no? Anyone following the popscene more than 10 minutes can tell it's more about style than content.

Although to be perfectly honest I haven't been following the scene so maybe he was in fact a pioneer of sorts and the others are copycats of him.

moka this shit isnt that hard

I've only noticed how much of a preset it is since on hypem's popular tracks there's always at least 3 or 4 remixes that use this sound.

If you login today per example there's some guys called Nero, Flux Pavillion, Skrillex and Datsik on the top 20 and maybe I'm becoming old but if you played them to me without knowing who they are I'd think they're all the same guy.

Those are all Aphex Twin side projects iirc

those other guys are popular for their music too and no one knows what they look like

I mean, Skrillex's distinctive look helps with his branding and all that, but he became famous, first and formost, for his music. I knew his music for like a year before I ever saw a picture of him.

although I did have rather bemused reaction upon finding out: is it brostep?

You are right, I'm overthinking it. I was just honestly surprised to see he won 3 grammys and all the hype surrounding him when I had no idea he was that popular outside the blogosphere. You rarely see electronic artists get this famous in the US. He just sounded very cheesy and generic to me, but that never stopped Coldplay from becoming world-famous.

You rarely see electronic artists get this famous in the US.

Did you enjoy your three-year nap?

http://i.imgur.com/NNuUZ.jpg

C'mon Tiesto became famous in the US like a decade after Europe. Even Latinamerica got Tiesto before the states.

Turned on the radio lately? Not a lot of singer-songwriter solo guitarist types on pop radio.

yeah, tiesto is a bad example for the reasons moka said. however,

http://afromonk.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Deadmau5.jpg

deadmau5 just reinforces what I said before. The way the artist looks helps his fame more than the way he sounds. At least in usa.

Moka, you are just digging yourself a deeper hole here.

The halloween theory... There's a corelation here: If you can dress as them in Halloween and people get who you are, your chances of becoming famous increases. That's one of the reasons why artists like say Moby, Deadmau5 and Skrillex are more succesful than their peers.

That is absolutely ridiculous.

Populism is absolutely ridiculous.

How many pop icons with an unassuming image can you think of?

as opposed as

The halloween theory...

Think about it, it's pretty cool. Before propelling yourself into pop stardom you have to think "would people dress like my alter ego in halloween?".

Would Skrillex be less famous if his alias were Sonny Moore and he looked like this?:

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_loc8raubVG1qf0dk7.jpg

That is not a good Hallowen costume.