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Did Dubstep Blow Up Because of Action Sports?

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foodisfun
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Another fucking dubstep thread GTFO I know, I know. I personally don't like it and I don't want this thread to turn into another debate about the genre. This may have been discussed in every other dubstep thread but I never read them so I'll delete this if it has been.

As the title suggests, I'm wondering if skateboarding, skiing, snowboarding, etc. videos/edits had anything to do with the rise in the popularity of dubstep. Dance music has been on the rise for the past 5 or so years without the help of sports, but I feel like NS and other "extreme sport" communities had something to do with the explosion of dubstep.

Hard to say who first realized that dubstep goes well with these sports, but once people heard it in videos I'm sure they started telling friends and exploring the music more. Maybe it isn't the primary reason for dubsteps popularity, and maybe it's just "the music of your generation," but I have a hard time thinking the action sports communities had nothing to do with it. Opinions?
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steezywannabeezy
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Marijuana is a major proponent of its popularity.
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BlakeG
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i feel so, yes
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artfullydodged
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No way. I think they merely accelerated a trend that was already on the rise.
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1337
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this is the most retarded thing i've read all day.
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.Capn.
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nahhh
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TACO-DOG.exe
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when was the last time you saw a good edit with dubstep?

never, that's when
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EricaMN.
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you can't be serious

i think you mean marihuana

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Milksteak
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gwhitey
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datdankstep
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Clebo1
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no way...

and I think the increase in E(MDMA) use has been a huge part of it.. for young adults anyway
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1337
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uhh, no. If you said E I might agree with you
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p-fo
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I didn't even read your post but I can already say no. Scene kids are responsible for the rise of dubstep more than any other single group probably. They like going to raves, rolling and listening to shitty dubstep. I know a kid who sort of went down that path. I wish I could save him.
Basically, dubstep has caught on with everyone so now it's mainstream, and even MNF decided to use shitty Skrillex-style dub in their animated display things on air.
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blatt
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I think reading this thread has caused me to lose a significant quantity of brain cells
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foodisfun
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I don't get how you're all so quick to put this down. After edits appeared with Jakwobs remix of starry eyed and Mt Edens Sierra Leone (I know fuck them blah blah) I feel like tons of kids were exposed to a new genre and started listening to it and spreading it more. I'm definitely not saying it's the only reason, but I feel like there's gotta be a connection.
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84891jnf92048
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Marijubstep
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Mr.Gaga
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Not becose of it but I think I helped, it's always used as soon as something new and fucked-up come out.

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1337
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newschoolers is like .00001% of the world population, it did not get popular because of an arguably small section of the population
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Will.T
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0.0000001% **
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foodisfun
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I'm not referring to NS alone. I don't follow many sports online anymore but I'm sure there's MTB, snowboarding, surfing, wakeboarding, rollerblading, etc. videos out there that use dubstep in them. A couple of kids see one of these videos and tell a couple of their friends who tell a couple of their friends... It's your opinion but I don't understand why you're so against the idea.
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Milksteak
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-___-Step


.0001%step
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anxju
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.00001% of the worlds population pays attention to action sports. i dont think many NSers realize just how puny the world of action sports is

think about how many of your friends have heard a dubstep song--just about all of them
now think about how many of your friends have ever watched an action sports video, much less one with dubstep

granted, a large portion of NSers live in ski heavy regions, so a considerably higher % of their friends know who follow action sports compared to a typical region. but the point is action sports are so tiny in the broader scope that there is no way it noticeably contributed to the growth of dubstep
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skier_boy26
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A bunch of dumbasses, mostly younger dumbasses, led to the popularity of dubstep. Since many of the braindead youth also partake, or want to partake, in xxxxxxtreme action sports, they may feel connected. Now that the companies involved in action sports want to appease the large bade of dubstep fans, we get more of that shit in movies and commercials. God help us all
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saxon
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I wouldn't go so far as to say action sports caused it, but like anything else in the public eye that makes use of an up and coming trend, they certainly accelerated it.
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foodisfun
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Thanks for actually giving a serious response. We're not talking about the whole world, though, and I think you're underestimating the influence of action sports. There was something like 59.6 million skiers and snowboarders last year. Granted, maybe only a quarter of those people are "freestyle" riders and pay attention to videos/edits, but there's a good amount of us out there. This is only skiing and snowboarding so you can imagine there's millions of more people who are active in other sports.

As for your second point, I'll agree that not many of my friends have ever watched an action sports video, but I can bet almost all of them know somebody who has. Maybe most of them discovered dubstep through some other means, but I know many who were told about it by someone who heard it in sports videos.

I didn't mean for it to seem like I thought sports were the ONLY reason dubstep became popular, there's no denying that this sort of EDM revolution did most of the work. I just really believe the action sports communities have more power than we think, and word of mouth could have helped propel dubstep into the mainstream.
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emilyiscool
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nahhh E makes you wanna dance, have you tried dancing to dubstep? its awkward.
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Horsefacekillah
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DUB step
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Clebo1
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Well two of my housemates couldn't stand any EDM, It took one night/roll to change that.. Lol and now they listen to house/ light dub on the regular. Agree about the dancing to dubstep though.. Not easy
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THUNT836
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rise of dubstep is a direct result of the filthy hipsters. its current popularity is exactly why they no longer like it
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eheath
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Uhhhhhh.......

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saxon
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aside from ANYthing else, this song remains fucking amazing, imo
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Phil-X-
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Dubstep blew up way before it made its way into popular edits
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Thenowhereman42
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Hahahahaha not at all. Dubstep blew up because of Ketamine. That is what made it popular in the European dance scene (Where a gram of K costs about what a bump of it does here). Then it became popular in the American dance scene because the European dance scene is to our dance scene what park snowboarding is to park skiing. Then the American dance scene kind of blew up (sort of a bit before/during dupstep) because......IDK....a general lack of hope among the youth perhaps. So dubstep became mainstream and here we are. Then it got put in a bunch of action sports videos because it is what a lot of males in their late teens to early 20's listen to.
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84891jnf92048
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Lol oops
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dave44
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HAHAHAHA this is the most ridiculous attempt at pointing out a correlation i've ever seen
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coldcuts69
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this is really dumb, people shouldn't make such a big deal about dubstep, its REALLY good so just LISTEN to it.
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Lemuel
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And I feel like yes, action sports did lead to the rise in dubstep, at least from my point of view. The dubstep I heard was from a thread on NS, and then Stept used Sierra Leone. Pretty much everyone I knew who isn't a skier learned about dubstep because of that song, which it seems like it's because I showed it to a few people and then it kept on being passed along. Probably just a coincidence.
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1337
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holyshit, andyju is back?!
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anxju
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nah, this thread was just so far out there that i felt obligated to post. truth is, action sports have a very minimal influence on anything in this world

dont get me wrong though i love skiing as much as the next guy
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Drail
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dubstep and skiing don't mix, imo
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DaveM
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What made dubstep blow up was reggae, that was the influence to the earliest dubstep tracks to hit the industry.
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404404
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Get this man some beer!

"Hahahahaha not at all. Dubstep blew up because of Ketamine. That is what made it popular in the European dance scene (Where a gram of K costs about what a bump of it does here). Then it became popular in the American dance scene because the European dance scene is to our dance scene what park snowboarding is to park skiing. Then the American dance scene kind of blew up (sort of a bit before/during dupstep) because......IDK....a general lack of hope among the youth perhaps. So dubstep became mainstream and here we are. Then it got put in a bunch of action sports videos because it is what a lot of males in their late teens to early 20's listen to."

And weed has nothing to do with dubstep.
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84891jnf92048
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you know there's a quote function on newschoolers, right?
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EthanJPAskier
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boom. ketamine. boom.
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Heart
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Benji.
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yeah no
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Anathema
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i'd say it all that pop n lock, bboy dance shit. everything is all techno beats, dubstep is really just that with a bit of a twist.

thank your families for watching so you think you can dance and the x factor and all that shit. if that shit wasn't popular, the music that is associated with it wouldnt be either.
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foodisfun
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This isn't true. Maybe the music became more popular because of the shows, but the shows use the music because it's already popular.

The EDM "scene" in the US has significantly increased over the past ~5 years and I feel like it's the music of the modern day "hippie" or counter-culture. The atmosphere is undoubtedly similar; the technology and genre are all that really changed. Most major EDM festivals consist of good music, (mostly) good people, and of course drugs. Where festivals of the past had real instruments and simple stage setups, the festivals of today have cd's/flash drives/laptops/mixers and amazing technological stage displays.


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