Freedom rock.
The music collection that sums up an entire generation. Or at least a wacky commercial for a generic 60s and 70s rock collection. But what will my generation's collection be dubbed in 2020? Ultimate Club Skeez? Snookie Wants Smoosh-Smoosh? Starbucks Music? Likely not DubRock. Can you picture the kids of 2020 looking back at our era? What will be our top five anthems?
My folks definitely hung out by a van in the woods and taked about 70's rock. I wonder if my pop ever took the opportunity to say "is that freedom rock, well turn it up man!" Every generation knows that their music sounds best turned up. Not that it's my generation's sound by a long shot, but Dubstep also sounds best turned way, way up.
There are times when louder and less are better.
I explored the upper limits of my low-end aftermarket car sound system as I drove across the shittier parts of Springfield, MA. I was guided by my indifferent navigator through endless side streets and obscure byways that people don't use unless they are following directions from an indifferent navigator. I had the nav. volume off, but if I hadn't, I still wouldn't have heard her say "take left at bodega. Turn right 100 yards past the newish overly manicured sliver of a park that severely contrasts the slumping homes surrounding it." But I didn't want to hear the navigators observations. I was awash in rich satisfying bass and an ever changing arrangement of drums and echoing verse.
Dubstep is my mental bandage. It is regarded as some underground sound that'll never go pop, though Britney has made some headway. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htP0MyvYTas. But it's underground for lame reasons! It's underground because hipsters don't want to share. It's underground because it's too hard for drunk college girls to dance to. It's underground because it's so different. Not because it has counter culture ideas like 60s and 70s music. They'll never try to suppress dubstep, unless dj's start lacing their sets with wikileaks samples.
Dubstep is an effects-laden summer blockbuster, a pint of ben and jerry's, reality tv. Its the audio version of a warm bed on Sunday morning. Who can think about changing the world when broad frequency bass is wet-willying you and there is a completely unique breakdown before every bar? It's A.D.D.D. J. heaven.
Our world is increasingly complicated and more transparent. Everything is exposed and amplified, let me hear you say stimulai! Dub is the comfort food. Dubstep rebels in the 20th century way by not listening, caring or doing. Not acknowledging anything but the bass. We're still turning it up, though it's more tune-out than tune-in. "I just want to dance tonight"(-D. Cook) instead of "wow, Dylans lyrics are so heavy"(-some hippy). I guess my point is that if you want to nod your head and escape the worlds troubles, dubstep really fits the bill. I have no idea where to take this blog from here...
Not that I'm about to replace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4D-hCO8Y2k&feature=related
with Blowin' In The Wind. Or do I have to?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4uoLI4NAeE
[insert dylan dub here]
