Perez Hilton recently noted Britney will collaborate with Yorkshire dubstep producer Rusko.
It took ten years for the latest underground music to go mainstream in the US. Boy was that slow to catch on. The wobbly bass music once born as dubstep became an aesthetic parody several years ago. With its subsequent, sluggish normalization, it’s now finally ripe for US corporatization. Despite the memetic acceleration under network culture, it took a remarkably long time. Really, is the “underground” that hard to map? I doubt it. Chock it up to populist tastes.
Depressingly, a lack of fresh ideas in contemporary electronic dance music leaves us with little headroom as a not-so-recent innovation has yet again become subsumed in the name of profit. It’s ironic in an age where we’d expect new or hybrid formats to emerge with increasing frequency that it takes this long for a fad to catch on without a new one to emerge.
If it cheers you up, try playing this and this at the same time, though it would only be EBM all over again.
