Hmmm, well what i mean is - the more a wider audience lap up the shitty brostep, (i mean an audience not so much into underground music or the culture that goes with it / but more an audience into dance remixes of pop songs) - then the more the scene dies.
I'm not sure if scenes ever "die"; they just change. Sometimes we agree with that change and sometimes we don't, but I DO know that what kills a scene more certainly than anything else is if there IS no audience. People have been saying that hip hop has been dying for years now. I don't think it's going anywhere.
Because people that used to make good stuff and not care about the FAME, compromise their shit and before you know it the artists that used to be innovative are just hashing out shit that is boring, predictable and 'safe' i guess i'd say.
People still do! And I don't think it's our place to say whether a popular artist is compromising at all. Maybe Skrillex makes the music he does because that's the sound he really likes. It just so happens that there are a whole lot of other people that really like it too. I'm not saying that this is the case 100% of the time, but I like to think that artists are sincere most of the time, and it's the systems around the artists (music distributors, internet hype tunnels, etc.) that give us the impression of "insincerity."
I dont hate people for liking brostep, but like Decktonic says - it's damn annoying that the people into 'dubstep' nowadays are the kind of fuckers that dont know the difference between any types of dance music, the same people that ask for 'hip hop' when you're playing PUTS or even Wu-tang instead of Rick Ross.
I understand how annoying this gets! For people like us it's kind of hard to imagine living as though music isn't one of the more important things in our lives but honestly, other people have more important things to care about than whether tech-house is ACTUALLY tech-house or not. And even if it's a REALLY obvious difference, I don't think it's worth it to care unduly about their knowledge of lack thereof, because in the end, their fondness for a certain sound/genre/artist is still the same as ours. There's no such thing as liking a "real" anything anymore, because what "real" dubstep/hip-hop/EDM/alt-rock is doesn't exist anymore, and it hasn't for some time. Instead of getting hung up on whether their enjoyment is genuine or not, I would prefer to celebrate their enjoyment of a genre and guide them toward other, deeper cuts that they might enjoy just as much as we do. Labels are overrated, anyway.
