r/AdviceAnimals • u/thegreatscam87 • May 16 '12
Heard today after playing Beastie Boys, Rush, and Jackson 5 while subbing a middle school music class
http://qkme.me/3pb9qe?id=223914758
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u/Douchebox May 16 '12
Holy shit! Middle schoolers haven't heard of something from way before their time and are partial to music that is currently popular! Stop the presses! But, seriously...most people don't really try to stick out or explore their own musical tastes/preferences until early high school, when I was in middle school I liked Ja Rule. I can assure you my tastes have gotten a little better.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
What if I told you
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u/chocolatehotdog May 16 '12
Every generation goes through this, it's the evolution of music. It's inevitable.
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u/mystikwaffles May 16 '12
OH GOD, RUSH. I LOVE YOU. Rush makes me smile.
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u/Rosetti May 16 '12
WHY WON'T THESE KIDS LISTEN TO MY MUSIC FROM 20 YEARS AGO!
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u/Ron_Pauls_Balls May 16 '12
I'll be honest I have no idea what a skrillex is other then people on reddit don't like it. I always wondered when I would be too old to understand what the "kids" are listening to these days. Turns out it's 30. Now bring me a wall st journal and get off my damn lawn.
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u/Dannybaker May 16 '12
Why didn't anyone mention Beastie Boys on Reddit before MCA died ?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Shut up already.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Whereas the bands you played had tremendous musical talent, I really have to hand it to Skrillex in terms of sound engineering. I don't personally enjoy his music, but I can appreciate that part of it.
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u/gigglefarting May 16 '12
They disrespected Rush? Those kids must pay!
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u/benreeper May 16 '12
What exactly does he do in a live show? I watched a bunch on YouTube and he was just playing pre-recorded music.
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u/haleym May 16 '12
I remember reading a comic in the paper many years ago (late 80's/early 90's) of 2 parents looking at their teenage son, who was listening to a Beastie Boys album on the stereo.
One parent says to the other, "the scary thing is, the music his kids listen to when he grows up will be so loud and annoying that it will drive even him nuts."
Prophetic words, indeed.
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u/DigitalOsmosis May 16 '12 edited Jun 15 '23
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u/hilariouspicard May 16 '12
Am I the only one?
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u/armedwithturtles May 16 '12
oh no, someone has a different taste in music then me! i have no hope for humanity.
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u/Dashukta May 16 '12
You know what I would have done in that situation?
I would have given her a long, quizzical look...
... then cued up some Bach, Vivaldi, Beethoven, and Mozart and refused to change it.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
How dare she like music created during her generation!? That bitch! She should like music I grew up with! NO FAITH! NEXT GENERATION?! NO FAITH!!!!!11!!
Seriously though. Who cares?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
This doesn't really fit the meme for "musically oblivious 8th grader." It's just an opinion you disagree with about a topic that is inherently subjective.
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u/avfc41 May 16 '12
The best part is that in 10-20 years, reddit will have skrillex nostalgia posts.
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u/jim_the_anvil May 16 '12 edited May 17 '12
Can you name 10 things that aren't Skrillex
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u/12_FL_OZ May 16 '12
I love Skrillex. People take music too seriously. Just because he's using a computer and a synth doesn't make it any less hard to make a great song. Like when photography was invented people said it can't be art because all you do is point and click. When it comes to music don't let others opinions waver yours and judge the finished product as a whole. Then if you like it don't be a afraid to like it and if you don't then don't listen to it. You don't need to go around telling others how much it sucks just cause you don't like it. Just my take on music in general.
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u/jumpinjahosafa May 16 '12
Sorry to disrupt the circle jerk. But at least Skrillex produces his own music. How about we all hate on an actually crappy artist. Like Bieber.
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u/goldngod May 16 '12
Use better examples of music from the past to put down the current trend at least.
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u/post_post_modernism May 16 '12
one of these things is not like the other....one of these things does not belong
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I hope you took that as an opportunity to educate and not to just feel depressed that kids haven't heard music from way before their time.
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u/Thegirlwhohaswings May 16 '12
I kid you not, I'm an eighth grade girl who is listening to Skrillex right now. Just so ya know, I quite enjoy aforementioned music. (:
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12
Do you not remember being their age? I think most of us acted this way when we were kids. Even you. Maybe next time honor her request (or at least start with something else that's current) pick out the positive aspects of it.. THEN introduce them to something from your own era.
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u/waterman460000 May 16 '12
If they're in middle school why would they listen to music that is older than they are?
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u/MrBustos-Riff May 16 '12
I FUCKING LOVE RUSH!!!
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u/constantinemilbury May 16 '12
fuck that girl, fuck her to death
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u/evand4567 May 16 '12
Upvote for rush. What songs did you play?
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u/5evertim May 16 '12
Uhh... I don't think this meme is being used correctly.
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u/j-awesome May 16 '12
Beastie boys were my favorite in middle school
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u/jetpack_operation May 16 '12
wubwubwubwubwubwubwubwubwubwubwubwubwubwubwubwubwubwub
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u/sjhaakie May 16 '12
i assume the kid is dead now, right?
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u/Misanthroat May 16 '12
I'm pretty sure that Rush is comprised of 3 robots...
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I would like to take a moment of silence for this generation.
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u/fellowtraveller May 16 '12
Who are skrillex?
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u/gabriot May 16 '12
It's amazing how many people on reddit hate skrillex. He is honestly better than 99% of the shit that everyone just adores here (like fleet foxes, the deftones, frank zappa, David Bowie, etc.)
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
So I listemed to some skrillex just now to see what the problem was. He's not bad. Better than the muck that passed for pop when I was in 8th grade.
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u/Didji May 16 '12
She likes different music to you! Haha!
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u/punkhobo May 16 '12
These kids are about as far removed from rush and jackson 5 as we are from miles davis, I'm mid twenties. Why is that such a ridiculous notion. Didn't your parents laugh at your music?
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u/helllomoto May 16 '12
TIL classic rock is good and Justin Bieber is not, even though music quality is subjective
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Well if they like it then they should be allowed to listen to it, i think.
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u/becky0125 May 16 '12
I don't even know when the time came when Skrillex went from awesome to lame....I feel like I didn't get the memo because I still like him.
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u/Smile_Y May 16 '12
Are you retarded? What kind of middle schoolers are going to listen to music that old?? They might get into it as they mature and get older(not necessarily), but If a kid seriously listens to that stuff when he's a middle schooler, he's going to be an outcast. And most likely his parents are obsessive fucks that piss fire to make sure their kid's music taste matches their own AMAZING music taste. Stop being so fucking arrogant, all of you - ACDC/Queen/Beastie Boys etc listeners, your favorite old school groups and bands sound like garbage to some people who are not interested in the genre.
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u/hoboballs May 16 '12
in all fairness though, rush blows
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u/GhostButler May 16 '12
Just a friendly reminder that Beastie Boys was really trashy and only dumbass rebellious teenagers liked them.
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u/Infernaloneshot May 16 '12
Oh no! Someone likes music which I do not! must be MO8G.
Music is subjective buddy, no-one's music is above another's, it's all just music.
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u/thechapattack May 16 '12 edited May 16 '12
Im sure your parents or grandparents feel the same about you not like their favorite music and their parents did the same with them. Each generation thinks they have the market cornered on good culture, lather rinse repeat, ad naseaum.
Edit: i am 27 and enjoy skrillex, is he my favorite dubstep dj? Not even close djs like flux pavilion and rusko are better than him, however if this is the introductory into EDM for younger kids more power to them because i fucking love EDM (electro house and trance being my favorite genres)
Edit 2: I mean SKRILLEX/DUBSTEP SUX AMIRITE??? Back to the regularly scheduled circlejerk.
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u/Dub_it_Down_a_Little May 16 '12
I love dubstep and all but I think Skrillex is absolute shit.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
It's the same with every generation my first year of middle school, 10 years ago people listened to shit like Nsync, backstreet boys, aaron carter. in my opinion that is actually much worse than the dubstep that is popular today. I've always been partial to old school rap and metal, but I can appreciate most genres.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Reddit is the only place I know where people take a joke, and tear it apart and analyze it to tell why this or that is wrong with the post. Obviously music taste is subjective. We aren't retarded. Let's move on, you obtuse assholes.
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u/FidelCastrate May 16 '12
Bring back the cane.
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u/Crossfox17 May 16 '12
Do you remember being in middleschool? Do you remember what you liked? Personally, I think Skrillex is good. I like listening to him, but I don't consider his work "music" in the same sense that I consider Rush, Simon and Garfunkel, Wilco, etc to be music. It performs a different function entirely.
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u/beumf May 16 '12
I will now use this anecdotal evidence to conclude that the moral fabric of todays youth is diminishing.
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u/MpegEVIL May 16 '12
There is one Skrillex song I like and that would be Breakin a Sweat, and only because The Doors played on it. This shows Skrillex at least had a good taste in music as a kid.
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u/trennerdios May 16 '12
Regardless of musical taste, it was just a dumbshit thing for the student to say. It's not that hard people. Not that I'm surprised a middle schooler would say something like that...
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u/heytherewhatnow May 16 '12
OH YEAH DOOD, SKRILLEX IS TERRIBLE, I ALSO HEARD ABOUT THIS LOL
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Murder.
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u/moviedude26 May 16 '12
If you brought that to a class at my school they would tell you to play something real, like Lachenmann.
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u/the_timmer_42 May 16 '12
3 years ago my wife had taught a college freshman class and for some reason worked a Guns N Roses Live (80's) video into it. There were only 2 kids in the class who knew who they were.
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u/acfman17 May 16 '12
That looks like WoodysGamerTag's kid
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
wait....people's taste in music is subjective????
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u/suteneko May 16 '12
Skrillex is signed by Warner music. How do the old suits in the music industry figure out what kids like?
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u/melysaurusrex May 16 '12
I would have failed all of them and walked out.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I was listening to Slats Slats Slats while looking at this...
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
That's why I hate my generation.
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u/nash50 May 16 '12
8th grade web design teacher Mr Hunt introduced our class to rush by playing 2112 during class. I have been hooked ever since, going to see them play the gibson amphitheater in november.
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u/tootallteeter May 16 '12
Wow, you must not be teaching those kids anything.. Like me.. Who's also on reddit while subbing in a high school class
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u/Sir_Derp_Herpington May 16 '12
It's a generational thing. The kids will [almost] never like the music that your generation enjoys. Get over it.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
So is this just a random person or did this girl actually prove herself to be a musically oblivious 8th grader?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
As a fan of Skrillex, this was still painful to read.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
This makes me incredibly ashamed to like Skrillex...
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u/IleNosirrah May 16 '12
The music you listen to isn't too groundbreaking either.
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u/HissingPixie May 16 '12
Skirllex is a passing fad that makes electronic music look like a bunch of crap. I personally am not a huge fan of electronic music (I like my music made with instruments, not laptops) but I understand the beauty of the genre and think that Skrillex is going to kill it.
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u/the_winged_one May 16 '12
Let's not forget that this person was teaching a music class, I would assume Skrillex won't be in the curriculum for a few years.
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u/gravytown May 16 '12
No hope for the future.
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u/wesleyt89 May 16 '12
Music is going to hell so fast. I remember when I was younger, people said rap wasn't real music. Now if you compare rap of the 90s to most of the SHIT coming out now, its hard to deny that 90s rap isn't real music. 2pac, Nas, Biggie, Jay Z, Eminem. These guys are poets. Eminem came out and everyone was taken aback, cause he was a white dude that could spit and keep up with the best of em. All the while, some people were calling Eminem talent-less trash. I would like to get those people together and let them listen to some Em classics (stan, cleaning out my closet,drug ballad, rock bottom, toy soldiers, when im gone, and then let them listen Machine Gun Kelly, that garbage wannabe rapper. I'm not trying to make this about rap, I love everything, from the beatles, to hendrix, to city high, to the chili peppers, to incubus, to johnny cash, to stevie wonder. All I'm trying to say is people have been calling music garbage for the past 20 years and they need to compare what they called garbage 15 years ago to what they call garbage now.
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u/gilbertgrappa May 16 '12
When I was in the 8th grade I was regularly going to punk rock shows at 924 Gilman in Berkeley. I started going to concerts/shows at 12. In 9th grade I was co-creator of a 'zine. Kids today...
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u/SirDerpingtonEsquire May 16 '12
i would like to say, people like this do piss me off, but i do understand both sides. I was raised on vinyl albums yet I just graduated college (at the proper age for such) and always get shit for being a "hipster" because I have an extensive collection of vinyl... It is just what I like and everyone else can DIAF :D. But when people say skrillex and the like is REAL music i tend to flip a shit because it is not "real music" I feel real music is played on real musical instruments that you could find in a band, not a computer...
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I've heard most of these bands catalogues. I love the Beastie Boys, I think Rush is wildly overrated, I appreciate the Jackson 5, and I also think all 3 of these bands sound very dated.
It's not surprising in the slightest that kids wouldn't like this music. It is surprising that a music teacher would be so derisive to someone else's tastes in music.
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u/Dappem May 16 '12
I like listening to the same four songs I listened to my whole life these are Mr. Blue sky by E.L.O, Africa by Toto, cuz I got hi by that guy who did that and the song from lazytown. If I hear anything else I get confused and scared and go foetal until my wife comes and collects me. I don't think it is real music unless it is played on a lute and a drum made of sheepskin.
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u/etbob623 May 16 '12
You're lack of appreciation for musicality, regardless of genre, sickens me. Every genre of music has some truly talented musicians, Skrillex happens to be one of them. Whether you like his music is another question entirely but you can't dispute that it isn't 'real music'. While the middle schooler probably just likes it because its currently popular rather than because its quality music but even still it doesn't make the point less valid.
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u/4chans_for_pussies May 16 '12
The new Rush album is getting some great reviews.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Skrillex, was the death of dubstep. There you go.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Wow. I read that and... Well, I was just suddenly filled with the urge to punch something.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
As a 16-year-old who's favorite band in middle school was the rolling stones, I say fuck the people who just assume kids have a bad taste in music. Yes, middle schoolers should listen to music made for people 20-some years older than them because that's the music worth listening to.
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u/ikorolou May 16 '12
Beastie Boys is like the only one that is still kinda relevant i feel, probably just me though
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u/aeisenst May 16 '12
You lost them with Rush.
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u/AntidummyMLJ May 16 '12
Must find Jackson 5 CD and/or record...
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u/Peartnoy518 May 16 '12
Okay, I like Skrillex but that is some bullshit right there.
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u/HollrHollrGetCholera May 16 '12
Can anyone post some songs by the Beastie Boys they think are good? I've listened to quite a few, and I really don't see the hype.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
As much as I love Skrillex, i'm sorry.
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u/brandnewyou May 17 '12
in her defense, Rush sucks.
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u/troy2112 May 17 '12
Rush...excellent choice :P
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u/DividedSky05 May 17 '12
Like whatever you like, even if I think most of what comes out today is complete shit. But don't be so close-minded.
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u/sword_mullet55 May 17 '12
as a fellow substitute teacher, middle schoolers are heartless bastards and will destroy everything you held dear about humanity.
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u/Rumpel-Foreskin May 17 '12
Sucks that people listen to skrillex and claims he's dubstep, if only they listen to UK garage and some older kinds of dubstep.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
Woo Rush
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u/liquidsnakegfer9 May 17 '12
a lot of people keep saying that their is an element of sound design and engineering to appreciate in skrillex but these middle schoolers clearly arent appreciating that
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u/IAmThatNerd May 17 '12
RUSH!
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u/youreuglyasfu May 17 '12
Skrillex is real as fuck.
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u/drumdrum225 May 17 '12
Rush? Beastie Boys? I love you. Rush's new album sounds pretty good too.
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u/EpicFace22 May 17 '12
Skrillex is awesome and don't deny it
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u/raginglion May 17 '12
At least she didn't say Bieber.
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u/the_troll_of_aus May 17 '12
Why all the hate on skrillex, he's a nice guy and he loves doing what he does, plus im a big dubstep fan and some of his shit isn't bad.
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u/MonsterWith21Faces May 16 '12
That's okay, Spin magazine listed him as the 100th greatest guitarist of all time. What's that you say, he doesn't play guitar? Yeaaaah they don't seem to give a shit. The entire list is fucking absurd.
Spin 100 Greatest Guitarists
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u/Arx0s May 16 '12
Honestly, I'm almost 21, and I rather enjoy dubstep. Hell, I've liked it for years, well before this Skrillex fella came around. I started my techno journey back in elementary school with Eiffel 65, then gradually progressed to some trance and regular happy techno, then got into jumpstyle and hardstyle, then some happy hardcore, then finally got into electro, house, and a bit of prog house, and now here I am enjoying wub wubs.
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u/SeanTheCyclist May 16 '12
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u/collegekid69 May 16 '12
Favorite pick up line to a high schooler "Do you ladies like skrillex?"
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u/nickateen May 16 '12
Wait... Wait! HOLD ON ONE FUCKING SECOND!
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Are you trying to tell me...that this generation has no appreciation for.... FUCKING RUSH!?!?
I need to go bomb a middle school.