Thraed of Skrillex

late to this, and the "serious thoughts" portion of this thread seems to have run its course for the moment, but this music is a hell of a lot of fun, and i'm having a hard time seeing why it might be so bad and hated. thought i'm probably too old to really gi and will never be a serious fan, when i'm in the proper frame of mind, i like the joyfully anthemic melodies, the choppy adhd comedy and the ridiculous heavy metal bass drops equally.

diamonddave85 on "scary monsters and nice sprites":

...those are mall metal breakdown beats! just imagine those beats being played with a double-bass drum and the wobble bass being a chuggachugga guitar riff and you have a straight up screamo breakdown.

otm. first thing i thought when i heard the big bass in "cinema" was "o shit, that's a metal guitar part!" a lot of this does seem filtered through a nu metal/screamo sensibility, but it's way more generous and inviting than most of that stuff. skrillex's best move, imo, is that he jettisons the angsty, narcissistic ear punishment that so much teen rebel noise trades in, whether rock or electronic, while managing to retain the supercharged, jumparound intensity.

there's a lot of grousing upthread by people who fw this part but not that one. when it comes to tracks like "cinema" and "rock n roll", i like each element on its own but love the way they support one another. suspense gathers behind the sunny melodies when you know that mosh bass is about to wobble down and wreck the room, and the poptones are all the more lovely when they glisten back up out of a heap of broken speakers.

can's see why anybody who ever dug the prodigy, the chemical brothers or primal scream would have trouble clearing a bit of aesthetic space for skrillex.

Because we're old now

Prodigy maybe, but I don't see anything Skrillex is doing to be on par with the Chems or Primal Scream, both of whom have done way more than just Dig or XTRMNTR. I mean all the "big beat" Chems stuff amounts to like 6-7 tracks

he might be more talented than Crystal Method, lol

he's more talented than crystal method

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-M90iCenK4&feature=related

Crystal Method owns wtf

today must be opposite day!

Who is "river"

i'm just a semi-lurker, chill

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2012/01/27/arts/27SKRILLEX1_SPAN/JPSKRILLEX1-articleLarge.jpg

funk doesn't work

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/417367_340151512673501_100000359659538_1139016_1532823759_n.jpg

He's gonna think about skrillex every time he takes a crap.

btw neo's a great club, been open since something like '79.

Listening to this for the first time. Weirdly like Owl City's goth brother.

Or like, a Skrillex seal of approval on that blowjob. Some poor woman doesn't know what's lurking for her under those basketball shorts.

@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®

that is amazing.

I retract any half-hearted defense of him I've ever made.

Maybe he has worked with or collaborated with individuals who are able to drop this word and he's just sitting there being sad

then again, maybe those people were members of korn

maybe he means he wants to employ the "ESTE ES NIGGAAAAA" sample right before a drop

fun to watch the bloatification of skrillex

@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®

Wow. He is ten times the moron I assumed he was.

yeah, regret trying to say nice things about him itt

fuck a skillix

Crystal Method owns wtf
― river, Monday, January 23, 2012

@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®

^This statement sums up the warped grasp of racism that my generation (and younger) has.

Who cares about history or other people's feelings? I as a white person need to say the "N" word badly.

*roll eyes*

http://sht.tl/nBoS

John Justen and Fluffy Bear Will Drink It

http://www.rollingstone.com/random-notes-2012/saved-by-the-bell-0675041

damn mr belding got fat

the n-word tweet is from april but did it just make news this week?

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.