Skrillex AMA on Reddit

When you're as smart and intelligent as me, listening to this kind of music can be very hard. My taste is so sophisticated.

why are all dese manz hatin

  On 3/8/2014 at 12:56 AM, Friendly Foil said:

When you're as smart and intelligent as me, listening to this kind of music can be very hard. My taste is so sophisticated.

Just because people can spot shitty music doesn't mean they're elitist or some shit like that. It just means they don't like shitty music.

I choose not to eat spam/canned meat. Skrillex is music's equivalent of canned meat. It's just a shitty product. Why digest that if you don't have to?

2013 was a great year for music stephen g, skrillex won 3 grammys

2013 never forget

this is a great answer

"At the end of the day it's DANCE music.. dancing is supposed to be fun. Dance music should be fun to... I don't think it's meant to be taken so seriously... it's not politics. More so than a genre, I think success has to come with being open about your personality, doing YOU and not giving a FUCK what people have to say. Those are the people who catch my attention at least. I come form hardcore and punkrock.. I came from the uncool lunch tables. I feel like there's this jock elitist mentality when it comes to dubstep in particular which is so against everything I stand for. BEING yourself, and not giving a fuck what others think. Not judging others.. For fuck sakes it's just MUSIC. stop taking it so seriously and have fun.. And if you dont like something, then just fkn forget about it! :)"

stephen g learn something

2013 - Lest we forget amaze year for music

is autechre better than skrillex .. yes .. does it matter ?

  On 3/8/2014 at 1:05 AM, Deer said:

is autechre better than skrillex .. yes .. does it matter ?

nope because we can just not listen to skrlillorx

  On 3/8/2014 at 12:56 AM, Friendly Foil said:

When you're as smart and intelligent as me, listening to this kind of music can be very hard. My taste is so sophisticated.

You are a very sophisticated mind foil. You should try to be more humble though.

fuck u guys

skrillex makes good music

you're just ignorant

hi sonny

  On 3/8/2014 at 1:15 AM, chartnok said:

fuck u guys

 

skrillex makes good music

 

you're just ignorant

Please support your statement with examples.

lol

My opinions/thoughts on Skrillex direcly correlate with my effort to be more carefree, less jaded, and focused on seeking out music I love. Life's too short to be snarky/cynical all the time, it's only nice in short bursts.

Anyway, I asked about his interest/fandom of Burzum.

Skrillex subforum pls

  On 3/8/2014 at 1:37 AM, chartnok said:

Skrillex subforum pls

psh...

CYLOB FORUM 4EVR

Great AMA honestly, props to the guy. Whatever beef I had with his stuff before is totally gone.

I still think he's a nice guy but he is seriously misinformed if he thinks the elitism from original dubstep heads comes from a "jock" mentality. it's a funny statement considering that it's jocks and bros and cool-table-kids who spam his shitty music.

  On 3/8/2014 at 1:57 AM, usagi said:

I still think he's a nice guy but he is seriously misinformed if he thinks the elitism from original dubstep heads comes from a "jock" mentality. it's a funny statement considering that it's jocks and bros and cool-table-kids who spam his shitty music.

He's probably equating needlessly pissy and angry youtube comments with bullying and cynicism and somehow that got equated to the violent and threatening attitude people associate with jocks. Early on he never seemed to recognize that a lot of dubstep fans were more angry at his obliviousness to the original scene, all of his "you're jealous" smug supporters. People were angry not just at the music but often more at the fact that the term dubstep was co-opted and the music trends pointed to "drops" and anything BUT sub-bass and sparse, dubby sounds. But you know, history is unfair, and well, the original dubstep scene moved on too. Same with emo, punk, metal, etc. Popularity and co-opting is a bitch.

I also think he's smart enough to know many of his fans are idiots, jocks, and bros as well, but that's a dilemma for any popular musician, especially in the DJ/EDM scene. ​That's why I didn't warm up to him for ages: his fans. It's a huge undertaking to call that out as a musician and few artists do. Reminds me of that story when Tool invited Bill Hicks on stage at a huge outdoor show, and to their amusement, he mocked their entire crowd by asking them to look for his contact lenses. Skrillex won't do that. At least not now. He's a nice kids. That said, he has yelled at crowds for using their fucking phones though and that's encouraging.

too bad Lube Saibot wasn't hammering away on that AMA about how people ghost-write for Skrillex (aka he's not a real 'producer' like many celeb djs of his ilk)

  On 3/8/2014 at 2:24 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

too bad Lube Saibot wasn't hammering away on that AMA about how people ghost-write for Skrillex (aka he's not a real 'producer' like many celeb djs of his ilk)

Any truth to that you think?

  On 3/7/2014 at 11:20 PM, Audioblysk said:

"Are you an amalgamation of multiple producers work being played off as your own so you can make money for the collaborative effort and be a front-man for the mid-west to mosh to?"

 

and

 

"If you're going to fake what you're performing why not have like 30 thousand dollars worth of modular gear and vintage compressors to twiddle wildly as a beat drops. Why just an unplugged DJ mixer?"

fucking Christ lol

  On 3/8/2014 at 2:11 AM, joshuatx said:

 

  On 3/8/2014 at 1:57 AM, usagi said:

 

I still think he's a nice guy but he is seriously misinformed if he thinks the elitism from original dubstep heads comes from a "jock" mentality. it's a funny statement considering that it's jocks and bros and cool-table-kids who spam his shitty music.

He's probably equating needlessly pissy and angry youtube comments with bullying and cynicism and somehow that got equated to the violent and threatening attitude people associate with jocks. Early on he never seemed to recognize that a lot of dubstep fans were more angry at his obliviousness to the original scene, all of his "you're jealous" smug supporters. People were angry not just at the music but often more at the fact that the term dubstep was co-opted and the music trends pointed to "drops" and anything BUT sub-bass and sparse, dubby sounds. But you know, history is unfair, and well, the original dubstep scene moved on too. Same with emo, punk, metal, etc. Popularity and co-opting is a bitch.

 

I also think he's smart enough to know many of his fans are idiots, jocks, and bros as well, but that's a dilemma for any popular musician, especially in the DJ/EDM scene. ​That's why I didn't warm up to him for ages: his fans. It's a huge undertaking to call that out as a musician and few artists do. Reminds me of that story when Tool invited Bill Hicks on stage at a huge outdoor show, and to their amusement, he mocked their entire crowd by asking them to look for his contact lenses. Skrillex won't do that. At least not now. He's a nice kids. That said, he has yelled at crowds for using their fucking phones though and that's encouraging.

please write a book josh. your posts always stop me in my tracks. sweet cheeks.

  On 3/8/2014 at 2:25 AM, StephenG said:

 

  On 3/8/2014 at 2:24 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

too bad Lube Saibot wasn't hammering away on that AMA about how people ghost-write for Skrillex (aka he's not a real 'producer' like many celeb djs of his ilk)

 

Any truth to that you think?

 

absolutely, it's pretty well known a lot of the highest paid DJs have other people producing their work.

  On 3/8/2014 at 2:55 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

 

  On 3/8/2014 at 2:25 AM, StephenG said:

 

  On 3/8/2014 at 2:24 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

too bad Lube Saibot wasn't hammering away on that AMA about how people ghost-write for Skrillex (aka he's not a real 'producer' like many celeb djs of his ilk)

 

Any truth to that you think?

 

absolutely, it's pretty well known a lot of the highest paid DJs have other people producing their work.

 

I remember hearing that about sasha in the late 90s.

Seems like a good reason to hate on the guy if he has no artistic integrity and has other people making his tunes. =/

Someone should hit him with that Rambo story about being ghost produced by Excision and Spor.