Thraed of Skrillex

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.

moka i think you just cracked the da vinci code of popular music

those halloweens past when EVERYONE was dressed like Moby

u have to have the look, and the sound, and the moxie

think abt it

burial would be skrillex in america now if he looked like an emo tween instead of a 'bloke'

thats completely false btw just continuing the lols

blokestep vs halloweenstep

it's, why him? there's thousands of dubstep artists right now that sound pretty much the same

but most of them aren't as good at writing the big cheesy pop hooks that go inbetween the 'sick drops'

scrillex got famous because his music is used for all the youtubed noscope vids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b92tVQld5J8&feature=related

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyTFx2QxIwU&feature=related

Moka is perfectly correct and what he is saying is obvious about pop music, in fact it is so obvious that I feel like everyone is saying "duh" to themselves then trolling him on here for fun? Though, yes, you have to also have compelling or slightly memorable music as well.

moka is female fyi

Sorry!

Apologies, Moka.

Nah don't worry. And yes they're trolling me but I'm also not very good at expressing myself. It's pop music 101.

It's a little bit image, but I would guess that a fair number of people passing on Skrillex music have no idea what the dude looks like. I mean, the "lol american electronic music" comparison is The Crystal Method and definitely no one remembers what those dudes look like.

Other acts of that stature who have done well in the US? Well, arguably, the reason this dude has done so well this time around is due to the fact pop music is definitely well into this type of sound -- notable pop artists have remixes in this style, and electro-ridden crap is huge with popular music either having acid squelches in their songs or remixes, dudes like LMFAO making a pop success of it, or people who sound like eurovision stars gaining prominence in the US pop charts.

So you have a bass music undercurrent that Skrillex isn't completely divorced from, the idea of "dubstep" (whether it relates to the original version or not) being a genre with some traction, especially among post-breakbeat and crap dnb US people, and pop music being into electro sounds culminating in popular acclaim for this dude who pretty much typifies the young person coming up with pretty shallow stuff.

idk, I'm cynical

moka i am not trolling when i say this thread may be of some use:

is it brostep?

imo there's something intrinsic to skrillex's music that is appealing to lots of people that has very little to do w/ his image

yeah def is very zeitgeisty

Moka: a generation of kids grew up playing video games and listening to mall-punk/nu-metal/screamo, then went off to college and discovered club drugs. Skrillex is playing to that (apparently massive) crowd.

Video games : check, Nu-metal: check, club drugs: I plead the fifth.

But yeah, that's pretty much where I was at when I started listening to dubstep in 2005.

That being said I flat out can't dance to brostep anymore and I am just tired of all this bullshit.

Kids will be kids, there's nothing to "get" about Skrillex' music. crut otm .