Skrillex - Discuss, Debate, Praise, Hate

LOL

So I only recently, like a month ago, found out about Skrillex. Read the posts about him on both WATMM and Twoism. So today I decided I'd check him out and see what he has to offer. I started with "scary monsters and nice sprites", and thought the music was kinda corny with that crappy high pitched vocoder'd voice. Then the bass drop came and I thought: hey, that's kinda cool sounding. so I moved on to "First of the Year". It had the exact same crappy high pitched voice cut up and virtually the same yelling leading to another bass drop. The bass drop was awesome sounding, and I thought: maybe this guy is not so bad if you can get around the crappy rest of the song. I continued to view "Rock and Roll", again with the crappy voice! What the hell is with this guy and that crappy voice. It came again in "kill everybody". this is bullshit, i thought. So I ended up just skipping past the crap and listening to the drops only. Boy that got old fast. Within half an hour to forty five minutes I was utterly unimpressed by the drops anymore. He's got some really good production skills, and is definitely talented at what he does. But good grief, he's the epitome of one trick pony. I really hope I'm wrong and he's been secretly making actual good music behind the scenes. After all, he has good taste in music declaring "Flim" as his favourite song. He may just be milking the one trick pony to get famous and rich, then once he's established as an icon, he may release something worthwhile. This is what I hope anyways.

There you have it.

  On 1/19/2012 at 1:27 AM, sneaksta303 said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlPoS9BVAAs&feature=g-all-lik&context=G260fc26FAAAAAAAAAAA

holy lol

  On 1/18/2012 at 8:34 PM, joshuatxuk said:

  On 1/18/2012 at 6:20 PM, david said:

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like him or not, he did create a signature sound that everyone else is tryin to rip off nowadays.

 

http://strikegently....eak-skrillex-5/

 

I've told friends that hearing people hype Skrillex as novel is like hearing people hype Nickelback for making "signature" grunge everybody is trying to rip off nowadays

great analogy

  On 1/19/2012 at 2:52 AM, 747Music said:

He may just be milking the one trick pony to get famous and rich, then once he's established as an icon, he may release something worthwhile. This is what I hope anyways.

There you have it.

Big fat ass bull shit. He totally sucks at producing because hes not creative, he keeps doing all the same thing in all tracks. Period. 10 years from now nobody will remember him.

except watmm

  On 1/19/2012 at 4:20 AM, Ronus said:

  On 1/19/2012 at 2:52 AM, 747Music said:

He may just be milking the one trick pony to get famous and rich, then once he's established as an icon, he may release something worthwhile. This is what I hope anyways.

There you have it.

 

Big fat ass bull shit. He totally sucks at producing because hes not creative, he keeps doing all the same thing in all tracks. Period. 10 years from now nobody will remember him.

That's likely the truth. But I was just explaining what I hope. No need to get all upset.

maybe he'll end up coming here once his popularity wanes.

I say that as a joke but if he's a genuine Aphex/IDM fan as some pre-Skrillex photos might indicate there might be a nonzero chance of that happening.

  On 1/19/2012 at 4:26 AM, cctoide said:

maybe he'll end up coming here once his popularity wanes.

 

I say that as a joke but if he's a genuine Aphex/IDM fan as some pre-Skrillex photos might indicate there might be a nonzero chance of that happening.

he's already here.

http://forum.watmm.com/user/368-sonny/

  On 1/19/2012 at 4:29 AM, oscillik said:

  On 1/19/2012 at 4:26 AM, cctoide said:

maybe he'll end up coming here once his popularity wanes.

 

I say that as a joke but if he's a genuine Aphex/IDM fan as some pre-Skrillex photos might indicate there might be a nonzero chance of that happening.

 

he's already here.

 

http://forum.watmm.com/user/368-sonny/

oh......my......goodness....gracious....

From that skrillex forum link:

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"

 

Urumi says

(2 days ago)

 

oh god , dear you don't have to apology ♥

why are you apologizing? for being yourself ?

if they can not open their mind a little bit more that's their problem and therefore your shouldnt apology.

 

I think I understand that may be a bit sad to loose fans or something because you changed .

as we change we lose friends/fans but meet new ppl .. I guess.

 

but please do not apologies because of people who have been spitting criticism because you changed. please .

they don't deserve you to apology , you're who you are and that's your life . as long as you're confident and you enjoy your life . there's nothing to apolgy about.

 

For me Sonny Moore and Skrillex remain the same guy ."

Is that Sup?

  On 1/19/2012 at 4:37 AM, 747Music said:

  On 1/19/2012 at 4:29 AM, oscillik said:

  On 1/19/2012 at 4:26 AM, cctoide said:

maybe he'll end up coming here once his popularity wanes.

 

I say that as a joke but if he's a genuine Aphex/IDM fan as some pre-Skrillex photos might indicate there might be a nonzero chance of that happening.

 

he's already here.

 

http://forum.watmm.com/user/368-sonny/

 

 

oh......my......goodness....gracious....

I don't think that's him.

  On 1/19/2012 at 1:48 PM, Gocab said:

  On 1/19/2012 at 4:37 AM, 747Music said:

  On 1/19/2012 at 4:29 AM, oscillik said:

  On 1/19/2012 at 4:26 AM, cctoide said:

maybe he'll end up coming here once his popularity wanes.

 

I say that as a joke but if he's a genuine Aphex/IDM fan as some pre-Skrillex photos might indicate there might be a nonzero chance of that happening.

 

he's already here.

 

http://forum.watmm.com/user/368-sonny/

 

 

oh......my......goodness....gracious....

I don't think that's him.

it is.

If so......

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In Topic: Eyeglasses

 

 

07 January 2012 - 06:29 PM

i need eyeglasses. i think...

lol?

  On 1/19/2012 at 1:25 AM, Velazquez said:

  On 1/19/2012 at 12:45 AM, YO303 said:

100 percent sure this guy is a cutter.

 

I'm going to agree. Not sure what a cutter is though.

LOL

  On 1/19/2012 at 2:52 AM, 747Music said:

So I only recently, like a month ago, found out about Skrillex. Read the posts about him on both WATMM and Twoism. So today I decided I'd check him out and see what he has to offer. I started with "scary monsters and nice sprites", and thought the music was kinda corny with that crappy high pitched vocoder'd voice. Then the bass drop came and I thought: hey, that's kinda cool sounding. so I moved on to "First of the Year". It had the exact same crappy high pitched voice cut up and virtually the same yelling leading to another bass drop. The bass drop was awesome sounding, and I thought: maybe this guy is not so bad if you can get around the crappy rest of the song. I continued to view "Rock and Roll", again with the crappy voice! What the hell is with this guy and that crappy voice. It came again in "kill everybody". this is bullshit, i thought. So I ended up just skipping past the crap and listening to the drops only. Boy that got old fast. Within half an hour to forty five minutes I was utterly unimpressed by the drops anymore. He's got some really good production skills, and is definitely talented at what he does. But good grief, he's the epitome of one trick pony. I really hope I'm wrong and he's been secretly making actual good music behind the scenes. After all, he has good taste in music declaring "Flim" as his favourite song. He may just be milking the one trick pony to get famous and rich, then once he's established as an icon, he may release something worthwhile. This is what I hope anyways.

 

There you have it.

This will fill you in...

I think you missed out on a huge amount of frustration and anger, but also renewed appreciation for good electronic music. I heard brostep for the first time, while drunk, on a crappy boombox at a new year's party just over a year ago. My friends sister (a huge Skrillex fan now, even got his haircut) was like "oh hey do you like this!?" (she knew I liked dubstep...she didn't know we had different taste) and I was like "oh yeah totally" then made farty beatbox noises until for about a good minute. I had no idea that Skrillex (and Excision, Nero, Datsik, Bassix, Wub Zomby, Steppenwub, Mt Eden, etc) would become "dubstep" and the genre would become the most epic meme of 2011, to the level "emo" achieved years ago. This new year's I heard briefly brostep and laughed it off. It's shit, but I don't care. I haven't fully embraced the liberating feeling of not caring about the grand fact that a lot of people are fucking idiots. As far as well-known producers go, I think only James Blake has really been resentful of the brostep popularity, probably because so many douchey fans attended his US festival gigs (I saw drunk high school aged bros waiting for drops in his set at ACL). Skream and Rusko aren't critical of its popularity but also don't get it. Everyone else has moved on to laughing at it. Also, my first experience with Skrillex stemmed from the Britney Spears thread...he did an interview with MTV as "the most prominent dubstep producer" to ask his opinion of her "dubstep" track. I despise him from the get go for his arrogant attitude, now I just don't care. I think he doesn't get it (i.e. reverts to valid criticism as "haters") but I don't hate him. A year ago I would of wanted him to visit Croydon and get stabbed. Now I rather him serve as a perpetual meme. Also, I don't want him to be a brostep martyr.

  On 1/19/2012 at 2:52 PM, oscillik said:

  On 1/19/2012 at 1:48 PM, Gocab said:

  On 1/19/2012 at 4:37 AM, 747Music said:

  On 1/19/2012 at 4:29 AM, oscillik said:

  On 1/19/2012 at 4:26 AM, cctoide said:

maybe he'll end up coming here once his popularity wanes.

 

I say that as a joke but if he's a genuine Aphex/IDM fan as some pre-Skrillex photos might indicate there might be a nonzero chance of that happening.

 

he's already here.

 

http://forum.watmm.com/user/368-sonny/

 

 

oh......my......goodness....gracious....

I don't think that's him.

 

it is.

nah, too many BoC posts, not enough threads about pretty Aphex Twin tracks

this needs to be reposted in case some poeple haven't seen it

  On 1/19/2012 at 2:52 PM, oscillik said:

  On 1/19/2012 at 1:48 PM, Gocab said:

  On 1/19/2012 at 4:37 AM, 747Music said:

  On 1/19/2012 at 4:29 AM, oscillik said:

  On 1/19/2012 at 4:26 AM, cctoide said:

maybe he'll end up coming here once his popularity wanes.

 

I say that as a joke but if he's a genuine Aphex/IDM fan as some pre-Skrillex photos might indicate there might be a nonzero chance of that happening.

 

he's already here.

 

http://forum.watmm.com/user/368-sonny/

 

 

oh......my......goodness....gracious....

I don't think that's him.

 

it is.

the skrillex is coming from inside the house

edit: heh, the climax of cock ver10 hit right as I finished typing that and I realized it's probably one of the closest things to a bass drop RDJ has done

Clearly, his intelligence isn't capable of processing RDJ's music.

  On 1/19/2012 at 6:30 PM, GORDO said:

this needs to be reposted in case some poeple haven't seen it

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkzBqKTideM

ahahaha

the bass is so fittingly blown out

  On 1/19/2012 at 6:30 PM, GORDO said:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkzBqKTideM

So that's essentially the equivalent of if I made a fan video for VHS Head where me and a guy I've clearly sucked off one point huffed markers and spastically danced around to TROG, and then later in my life I became the dude who broke Juke to mainstream America by adding trance synths and autotune to it.

^ Oh my, that video is something special. I wonder who the other guy is? Probably the guy who leaked it...

I think there's a couple of other ones, I'm pretty confident there's a come to daddy video with lots of shouting and gayness.

Skrillex has blatantly had a nose job.

It's so he can smell what the drop is cookin

  On 1/20/2012 at 5:11 PM, Cryptowen said:

It's so he can smell what the drop is cookin

fucking lol

^RLOL

that needs to kickstart a "subtle .jpeg photoshop" thread, holy fucking lol