"Dubstep" goes Eurovision...

[magma]

Slovenia going for it too, it seems.

I will be watching as per usual. Love me a bit of Eurovision.

[outbound]

was alright until it went full modestep

I have to agree, the intro part isn't too bad... but then the 'drop'

[test_recordings]

Still probably the best Eurovision entry ever

[magma]

^^ incorrect.



Or Bucks Fizz.

Or the French bloke with the pointy hat a few years ago.

[hugh]

lol, and this ladies and gents, is what has finally become of the genre. This is exactly what we have been moaning about and fighting against for the past 4/5 years. This is exactly the sort of shit that is realised when people like Plastician berate us for being protective of the genre.
Well fuck you Plastician. Do you see what you have done? Baldy fucking tnuc.

[magma]

lol, and this ladies and gents, is what has finally become of the genre. This is exactly what we have been moaning about and fighting against for the past 4/5 years. This is exactly the sort of shit that is realised when people like Plastician berate us for being protective of the genre.
Well fuck you Plastician. Do you see what you have done? Baldy fucking tnuc.

Meh... surely those of us that got into Dubstep more than 6 or 7 years ago got into it because we check for groundbreaking styles; if you expected to be excited by the same genre nearly a decade later, you're doing it wrong - just about anyone making "Dubstep" at the moment is lacking in a fair bit of imagination... the 'sound' is more than due an outing at Eurovision; it was on X Factor years ago!

All this is like Bob Dylan fans getting upset because someone played an acoustic guitar and harmonica on Eurovision; we don't own 140bpm. We never have.

[CreamLord]

Is Eurovision like big in the Europe that isn't England?

[magma]

Is Eurovision like big in the Europe that isn't England?

I think we're actually one of the few that sees it as a joke, tbh... some of them go HARD for it.

[Pedro Sánchez]

Not watched it since Wogan stopped commenting it.

[particle-jim]

Wogan was the fucking boss when it came to Eurovision!

[magma]

Yeah, it'll never be the same again... I watched his last year the day after a Bangface... my friend and I had been sitting in my living room since 6am cracking into leftover powders and pills so by the time Eurovision came on we were in a bit of a pickle; I'm not sure I've ever found anything as funny as him commenting on a Swedish act taking his shirt off.

[CreamLord]

Is Eurovision like big in the Europe that isn't England?

I think we're actually one of the few that sees it as a joke, tbh... some of them go HARD for it.

Oh Europe

[alphacat]

lol, and this ladies and gents, is what has finally become of the genre. This is exactly what we have been moaning about and fighting against for the past 4/5 years. This is exactly the sort of shit that is realised when people like Plastician berate us for being protective of the genre.
Well fuck you Plastician. Do you see what you have done? Baldy fucking tnuc.

Meh... surely those of us that got into Dubstep more than 6 or 7 years ago got into it because we check for groundbreaking styles; if you expected to be excited by the same genre nearly a decade later, you're doing it wrong - just about anyone making "Dubstep" at the moment is lacking in a fair bit of imagination... the 'sound' is more than due an outing at Eurovision; it was on X Factor years ago!

All this is like Bob Dylan fans getting upset because someone played an acoustic guitar and harmonica on Eurovision; we don't own 140bpm. We never have.

And I think we turned the corner on this a long time ago.

The difference is simply that back then most of us had to make it up as we went along and it was based on consensus ideas/aesthetics. Now it's based on presets and samplepacks in the hands of people who have no idea what informed the original aesthetic.

[bass_culture]

lol, and this ladies and gents, is what has finally become of the genre. This is exactly what we have been moaning about and fighting against for the past 4/5 years. This is exactly the sort of shit that is realised when people like Plastician berate us for being protective of the genre.
Well fuck you Plastician. Do you see what you have done? Baldy fucking tnuc.

Meh... surely those of us that got into Dubstep more than 6 or 7 years ago got into it because we check for groundbreaking styles; if you expected to be excited by the same genre nearly a decade later, you're doing it wrong - just about anyone making "Dubstep" at the moment is lacking in a fair bit of imagination... the 'sound' is more than due an outing at Eurovision; it was on X Factor years ago!

All this is like Bob Dylan fans getting upset because someone played an acoustic guitar and harmonica on Eurovision; we don't own 140bpm. We never have.

And I think we turned the corner on this a long time ago.

The difference is simply that back then most of us had to make it up as we went along and it was based on consensus ideas/aesthetics. Now it's based on presets and samplepacks in the hands of people who have no idea what informed the original aesthetic.

[skimpi]

Wonga was the fucking boss when it came to Eurovision!

Yeah I read it as that first go

tune sounds a bit jersey club during the intro lol

[CreamLord]

Yeah Denmark

[ThomasEll]

The video makes it look like they were trying to be Die Antwoord, but toned down enough that people wouldn't think that they were completely mental.

Track had potential in the first 50 seconds but the drop killed it.

[bouncingfish]

It's not just that one, half of those tunes had terrible little "drops" in them. We're not talking any nice sounds here, these were horrible bitcrushed yois, modern talking etc.
Laughed so hard

[thekuku]

Is Eurovision like big in the Europe that isn't England?

Just as big as any soap opera I think... Most watch it for teh lulz

[bouncingfish]

Is Eurovision like big in the Europe that isn't England?

I think we're actually one of the few that sees it as a joke, tbh... some of them go HARD for it.

100+ million people watch it and sick amounts of money are spent on it... England went hard this year (Bonnie Tyler!), most countries do, and yet the audience laughs at it.
Even though it was in my country, I just laughed at most of the entries, and I think everyone did. Some of the tunes are so terrible it's hard to take any of them seriously.