Is Dubstep A Fad?

the fashion conscious crowd won’t like if for much longer as something new like moombahcore will take over as it’s a friendlier sound than brostep being half dutch half wobble. but I think the underground will always remain as it’s a very distinctive sound and feeling behind the deeper stuff, but brostep will go the way of hardstyle which was once a melting pot of creativity and was fairly experimental now it’s just the same patterns in every track with slightly different sounds, it’s become a formula.

Every music fad has a time limit as after a while it all sounds the same because everything influences everything else and money and fame push people further down the same road which limits their creativity.

The thing is that while I like UK dubstep as it has been and also some of it hip-hop’isch variants, the commercial dubstep that is now, is getting really old fast. Everyone that wants to make a fast buck is listening to a Skryllex song and trying to do the exact same wobble and bass-syn samples over and over again.
Then there is the crowd that is starting to mix the “usual pop-song” with a wobble and there you go… extra credit for effort. Sad really, but it was the same with all genres and it will go away again and sometimes the genre persists and has great creativity in the underground.

Dubstep won’t disappear but brostep and all the other commercial variants of it will. The mainstream is very fickle and will find something else to like. I feel like its already fading out.

longmover, post: 22342, member: 1361 wrote: yes it is a fad and a shit one as well.

also see drum and bass.

woah, woah, woah and woah 😉 Steady the Buffs, old chap, Drum & Bass a passing fad?!! Each to their own and all that but I wouldn’t say D&B has been/is a fad, not many mainstream pop releases over the years I would say, great popularity at points but never the mainstream pop takeup that Dubstep is currently having I wager.

longmover, post: 22342, member: 1361 wrote: also see drum and bass.

How dare you Sir, drum and bass it the most musical and the most versatile of any dance music genre with a rich history and healthy crossover and underground scenes…

brostep & complextro is a one hit wonder…

longmover, post: 22342, member: 1361 wrote: yes it is a fad and a shit one as well.

also see drum and bass.

DnB a fad? are u freakin kidding me….DnB was freaking MASSIVE back in the 90s…it was the goto rave music along side Hard/Psy trance….thats all you ever heard back then…Big dark warehouse…pulsing beats and no DJ to be found on a giant stage with a bazzilion lights and fireworks. Just some geeky guy in the corner of the warehouse banging out track after track. And no one knew what a single song was…they just lived for the music and the music carried them on a journey in their mind.
THAT my friend was the good times….all this Show Boat garbage DJing where its considered “okay” to do pre set mixes and jump up and down with their arms in the air, chat with people and generally do things that have nothing to do with the music. Its utter garbage.

Back to the Dubstep thing…North American Dubstep aka Brostep is a fad…and its already on its way out…The original idea to any style of music will always have a true following…Its pretty much the same with any musical Genre…Rappers like 2pac, Biggy, Snoop Dogg, Dre will always have a following 10-20-50 years from now, but artists like Lil Wayne, Young Jeezy, Chris Brown…no one will ever remember because they didnt do what they did for the love of what they did…they do it for the money…and it really shows in the music. Its the same with any musical Genre. The ones that do what they do for the passion will last…the dick riders and show boaters will eventually die off to be forever forgotten.