‘POST DUB STEP IS NOT A THING’ or ‘I used to be Classification-core’
If you’re wondering what ‘post- dub step’ is listen to James Blake or more recently ‘Cloud Boat’:
Dub Step? It doesn’t have any lazers, the rhythms are pretty straight forward, and my face wasn’t even melted a little bit.
Am I saying that it sucks? no. What I’m saying is I have a CD called ‘Chilled Out Ibiza’ that I bought in the ‘rave’ section of a Mediaplay store that is full of songs that sound just like this. You don’t see me re-recording Vanilla Ice tracks in a Busta Rhymes voice and calling it ‘Post-Racial 3rd wave Gangsta Rap’. And if you can’t come up with a name that makes sense just describe it, it sounds like the background music at METRO PARK or any other ‘chain-boutique’ (including DASH LA and DASH Miami-of ‘Chloe and Kourtney Take Miami’ fame).
Now let me ask you a question:
Do you remember Music in 2004?
Missy Elliot’s ‘Lose Control’ was burning up high school dance floors across the nation
and something special was happening in ‘The Rock World’
Dashboard Confessional had already released ‘screaming infidelities’ and bros with low self-esteem were getting girls because those guys weren’t lame anymore, they were emo. Tell all your Friends by TAKING BACK SUNDAY was the coolest thing for people over Blink 182 but not deep enough for Dashboard, and the band was really into Fight Club, so we called them ‘emo-core’. THURSDAY was riding high off their 2nd album ‘war all the time’ and ‘understanding (in a car crash)’ was a classic, but what kind of classic?-these bros were skinny and they were decidedly sad, but they yelled at you and sometimes acted ‘metal’ so emo birthed ‘screamo’. Screamo, hardcore and metal wrecked into metal core/emo-core/fashion-core (those kids wore girl’s pants and white belts and were the gayest/coolest):
There was post-hardcore, grind-core, crunk-core (Lil John was preemptively rolling in his grave for that one), mellodic-hardcore (see: Hopesfall), Post Folk, Indie-pop, posi-pop, post-pop punk (think Midtown after they broke up and got back together), 3rd wave ska was still around (less than jake), but it turned into 4th wave (catch 22 after they kicked out the horns) and there was whatever Folly called themselves (watch from :50-1:50 for a ska metal combo you weren’t expecting.)
I listened to all of those. What I’m saying Is I was pretty dumb that first half of high school and was ready to believe anything i read in a magazine (magazines were blogs before blogs existed. #history). Yet even I refuse to believe that ‘POST-DUB STEP’ is a real thing that people make and listen to.
