Every so often I get into what I think of as a 'musical rut'. It usually happens when I listen to way too much punk-related stuff and I'm in that barren spell between 'Call Me Maybe' and the next megahit pop choon. When this happens I tend to dip my toe into the flooded basement that is *insert popular genre here*, in this case DUBSTEP, or more accurately BROSTEP, which I'm lead to believe is fake, wack and a poor imitation of REAL DUBSTEP. So in other words, it's fun and popular I guess.
Anyway, I don't really like it either way. I've given it my best shot but as of now all I'm really into is the song Bangarang by Skrillex (aka Sonny Moore) and one Knife Party song. I have no idea if this is 'real dubstep' or not and I care less. I just think it's funny that lots of people like dance music made by the fggty singer of From First To Last.
The awkward moment when your emo teenage years happen in the public eye.
What was I talking about? Oh yes, acapella. Acapella is pretty sweet, as is beatboxing. But honestly you aren't going to listen to original artists in either genre unless you are a) old or b) on all of the drugs. So in a flip reverse of the 'take a pop song and do a heavy version of it lol aren't we funny' technique, Dario Fo have covered Skrillex using nothing but their mouths and vocal chords. DO YOU SEE WHAT THEY'RE DOING?!! TAKING DIGITALLY MADE MUSIC AND BRING IT BACK TO REAL MUSIC.
All joking and rambling aside, this is awesome. The group is talented on two levels, both in terms of being able to sing and also breaking down the clusterfuck of noise that is a Skrillex song. I also like acapella groups because you get such a weird mix of people. They are equal opportunities, you can be ugly, old or ginger, it doesn't matter! All you need is the ability to sing (and possibly some formal musical education, idk.)
00.30 - How sweet is the buildup? It's akin to the Champions League intro music
00.44 - The 'wow/waw/wubs' are so good, and check out face of the guy next to the beatboxer...
01.46 - The difficulty kicks up a notch and red hair chick throws in an 'aw yeah' dance move. So good!
02.35 - Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
I also love the 'I'm really happy to be involved but I'm holding it together in a dignified way' look of Mythbusters chap.
Late pass for me but when did this happen?! Man, if someone told the teenage me that the whiney bitch of a singer from Korn and the whinier bitch of a singer from From first to Last would work together on a dubstep influenced fggty rock song...well, firstly I would have asked wtf is dubstep and then I would have probably gotten into it. So, bullet dodged there then.
This makes sense in a twisted way, and the ironing will be delicious when both parties hop genres again. Because by the looks of it Korn are, well I don't want to say 'here to stay' for obvs reasons but they don't seem to want to die. Sonny (or Skrillex...ugh..) on the other hand has already done well off the baffling popularity that screamo had and now has a front seat on the dubstep bandwagon.
0.33 - The lads are still super awkward when not playing their open chord dread bang parts.
Another song about things not being very gooood...
1.23 - "I can't wait to rip my eyes out and look at you" - lolwat??
2.29 - Shits about to go down...big shhtyle...eh, wait, what do we do here, this is weird offtime dubstep stuff? Jump up and down and shout? I guess....
That was quite the ordeal. I'm wondering why Sonny wasn't in the video, does he have some kind of mystique in dubstep circles where they don't know that he looks like your 15 year old cousin who's going through her emily the strange phase?
