Brostep / Skrillex and the Forum.

[Sonika]

I'm only 13, but I'd really like to "get big" or in the very least make a living off of music. I like old dubstep and new dubstep, but honestly by the time I'm old enough to actually give my songs to a label, it'll probably be something else thats all the rage.
Point is, I dont think just making music you love will necessarily get you noticed. From my understanding, you really have to push it on people, and even then it may not be the new fresh thing, and could amount to nothing.
I try to make lots of different types of music, and I would never try to make a song that I didn't like just so I could get signed/get big. This attitude may end up with me NOT getting signed, at which point, fuck it I'll try to make a living off of DJing and make music in my free time.
Anyways what I am saying is that the whole idea that "if you make music you love you'll get noticed" is false, IMO.

Bad motivation....

What, people aren't allowed to aspire to become BIG anymore? Come on now.
I'll still be making the music that I love...popular isn't always bad

[DJDM]

I'm only 13, but I'd really like to "get big" or in the very least make a living off of music. I like old dubstep and new dubstep, but honestly by the time I'm old enough to actually give my songs to a label, it'll probably be something else thats all the rage.
Point is, I dont think just making music you love will necessarily get you noticed. From my understanding, you really have to push it on people, and even then it may not be the new fresh thing, and could amount to nothing.
I try to make lots of different types of music, and I would never try to make a song that I didn't like just so I could get signed/get big. This attitude may end up with me NOT getting signed, at which point, fuck it I'll try to make a living off of DJing and make music in my free time.
Anyways what I am saying is that the whole idea that "if you make music you love you'll get noticed" is false, IMO.

Bad motivation....

What, people aren't allowed to aspire to become BIG anymore? Come on now.
I'll still be making the music that I love...popular isn't always bad

yes, popular is almost always bad. there are a few exceptions though I guess..

[Sonika]

Yeah and it's not a sin to want to "get big"

[DJDM]

Yeah and it's not a sin to want to "get big"

yes, but its an incredibly stupid goal

[Sonika]

Yeah and it's not a sin to want to "get big"

yes, but its an incredibly stupid goal

Why?

[Mortal]

Yeah and it's not a sin to want to "get big"

yes, but its an incredibly stupid goal

Don't pump so much negativity into the kid....if his goal is to 'get big'
why the hell should he be told its a stupid idea and it wont happen.

All youre doing is placing limiting beliefs on the guy and anyone else who reads it...and limiting beliefs, create limits.
Just because it's not your goal or your idea of what people should make music for, it doesn't mean other people
aren't allowed to make it.

[kay]

Yeah and it's not a sin to want to "get big"

yes, but its an incredibly stupid goal

This is why I hate mixing with "grown-up" people. It's either:
a) Impossible to achieve anything
b) Incredibly naive to think you'll get anywhere
c) You're gonna have to "sell-out" or "lose your way" or "alienate your fam from back in the day" or something derogatory to your character

I say if you wanna get big, then go for it and put in the work. If you don't at least try then you'll never get big.

Edit: Also, need more amusing pics please.

[rogue star]

not all of us grown ups are jaded

On the real you do what you want to do. If you start listening to other people, doing what they suggest and you don't enjoy it, your selling out regardless of weather it is deemed "underground" or "commercial"

Stay true to yourself and your ideals, the rest will fall into place

[wub]

Yeah and it's not a sin to want to "get big"

yes, but its an incredibly stupid goal

No, it's not. It might be different from what you would have as a goal, but it's by no means 'stupid'.

[Sonika]

not all of us grown ups are jaded

On the real you do what you want to do. If you start listening to other people, doing what they suggest and you don't enjoy it, your selling out regardless of weather it is deemed "underground" or "commercial"

Stay true to yourself and your ideals, the rest will fall into place

That's what I intend to do - selling out is the last thing that I want to do. It's more that I would love to get big, but if I could just support myself making music then that would be the dream life for me. Even if I have to have other jobs, as long as I can make music that I like, I'll be happy.

It's more that, I think if I truly like my tunes, then some other people may like em too. I don't have incredibly obscure tastes. So if I do make music that I love, and I push it well and others love it too, then maybe I would go somewhere, and that's what I mean by wanting to get big.

But all of this is far in the future.....

[djbluedream]

not all of us grown ups are jaded

On the real you do what you want to do. If you start listening to other people, doing what they suggest and you don't enjoy it, your selling out regardless of weather it is deemed "underground" or "commercial"

Stay true to yourself and your ideals, the rest will fall into place

That's what I intend to do - selling out is the last thing that I want to do. It's more that I would love to get big, but if I could just support myself making music then that would be the dream life for me. Even if I have to have other jobs, as long as I can make music that I like, I'll be happy.

It's more that, I think if I truly like my tunes, then some other people may like em too. I don't have incredibly obscure tastes. So if I do make music that I love, and I push it well and others love it too, then maybe I would go somewhere, and that's what I mean by wanting to get big.

But all of this is far in the future.....

I agree. A load of the most famous musicians made it because they just chose not to give up by taking the risk. If we kick and scream and fight like hell, we move forward a little bit.

[Sonika]

I agree. A load of the most famous musicians made it because they just chose not to give up by taking the risk. If we kick and scream and fight like hell, we move forward a little bit.

+1.
I agree - that's how change in music occurs - correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that none of the revolutionaries got big trying to cop anyone else or doing what they thought the mainstream would like, because generally "mainstream" tastes are formulaic (not to be a hipster - but it's true).

[DJDM]

so you don't want to be mainstream, but you want to "get big"? am i missing something?

[espire]

too bad DJ's like mala, coki, youngsta,etc... sold out

hold tight the Skrill being true to the original sound

[Sonika]

so you don't want to be mainstream, but you want to "get big"? am i missing something?

Yeah. The fact that becoming a recognized and respected artist doesn't mean "going mainstream" in the sense of selling out.
Dubstep itself originally became recognized because of artists like Skream, Benga and Digital Mystikz making a new, different totally UN-mainstream sound.

Yes, it became even bigger when some artists brought it closer to the mainstream but it originally "went big" because of different and new ideas and sounds.

[Maccaveli]

So a mate just got me to listen to the previews of the new Skrillex EP on Beatport. I wasn't feeling it, and his aggy tracks are more annoying and noisy than ever, but there is one positive. Only 3 of the 7 tracks are 140bpm, and 1 of those sounds nothing like any kind of dubstep. It seems like he's almost as eager to cut his ties to dubstep as we are for him to do it, and I'm glad of that cos I personally couldn't give a fuck what he does as long as people stop automatically associating his name with dubstep.

So I guess... we're winning? Or something?

[twothirdsmajority]

[clifford_-]

what point?

if you havnt got the money for something, go out and steal it?!

[hendramarshall]

what point?

if you havnt got the money for something, go out and steal it?!

seriously what is he on abt, its hardly pirate if he is willing to give it out anyway. wonder if he would say the same thing if he was a middling producer with a small/non-existant following

edit: also, http://www.dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=229034

[Begone]

At least Lil B gave out a mediafire link for his album when he said this.