That's about all I'm getting outta this. I feel sorry the artists you've signed. I'm sure you don't care tho. I'm forever grateful for the mau5's early support but the reality is sad. Skrillex I count meowingtons, the other cat, and whoever the fuck else listens to this shit.
Skrillex the fact that I own a record label is sad? It's a sad label. Let's have a cry. I don't tell my artists what to do. Skrillex oh burrrnnnn! We suck. No clue..
Most days I just wake up to a time line that's all skrillex this or Madonna that. So what's the problem? Why are there so many haters drinking haterade and sending it his way in a vile piss stream of social media posts? I think there are a couple reasons, and I'll dissect this objectively at first before going down subjective avenue. EDM has followed a very similar path that many niche or "underground" genres have followed before it. Anything that is good eventually makes its way into the mainstream plumbing and then right back into the toilet in most cases.
It's a curse to be too successful sometimes because that often means softening up your sound or making it more commercial to appeal to a wider audience as the genre starts to crack into pop music. Disco used to be raw and funky; then the Muppets started doing it.
Punk Rock used to fly the flag of anarchy and then Green Day came along, and even Bad Religion started making radio music. The mainstream audience by nature will dilute culture and music into a packaged good that is G rated and a sad, bland version of its former self, but it will also make you rich.
Does greed ruin a lot of music? Yes, I think it does in many cases, unfortunately. EDM is going through this crisis now; that is why so much of the mainstream dance music sounds formulaic and flimsy. It's searching for mass appeal and the lowest common denominator, and that's probably not going to change. Listen to the new Avicii album if you need proof of concept here.
Listen to the first Calvin Harris record and then listen to what he does now, not much more needs to be said. So back to Skrillex, he's without a doubt becoming a super producer and will most likely settle into that role as he gets older and even more successful. Much like Timbaland, Pharrell, Chad Hugo and Mark Ronson he's headed down the path of making pop artists sound better. Diplo has also gone this route.
I think the former fans that hate on him never really understood the big picture to begin with, they simply see one of the godfathers of cool stepping away from the indie shadows and dancing around with Justin Bieber. The same thing happened with Steve Aoki on a much bigger scale, he was the king of the hipsters and now he is despised by them.
I will admit, Justin Bieber to me is about as terrible as you can go, literally the bottom of the proverbial barrel. War crime terrible. I would have felt better about Madonna or Britney Spears as I'm used to them collaborating with cool producers and stealing their youth away, but Biebs
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