I googled him, he’s a musician. How did he become a punctuation mark?
Well, his music is shite. PERIOD.
plus, I still think it’s just another attempt to resurrect Corey Feldman’s career.
Sounds kinda strange to me skrillex
Nope, that doesn’t work for me.
He does dubstep. If you don’t like dubstep you won’t like his music. His song Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites is one of the best-known dubstep songs. I think my son sometimes uses Skrillex as an exclamation point.
I would describe dubstep as music one might play if they were hosting a rave…for meth heads…in a lunatic asylum.
The aggressive bass drops and tempo shifts make it ideal music for…I don’t know…the soundtrack for car commercials and action movie trailers.
It has to do with what is known as hashtag rap. A lot of rappers will say a rhyme and then punctuate said rhyme with a related subject.
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2011/07/a_brief_history_of_hashtag_rap.php
I’ve seen the Skrillex thing once or twice but I don’t remember what the link was.
Korn has done a few song with him. That is how I first heard about Skrillex. (on the radio, I ain’t a Korn fan)
Never heard of it/him before. I gotta say though, I like this Skrillex video Bangarang.
Something quite amazing is this a capella versionof Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites.
That kid is a 100 kinds of awesome. His Youtube channel has a lot more of his work.
Agreed. Here’s another one I love: a remix of Pretty Lights - Finally moving (just the song, no video). Which is itself a remix of Avicii - Levels and Rappin-4’Tay - Playaz Club, with the former sampling from Etta James…
Ok, so skrillex is a musician. Hashtag rap gives us the construction of putting a random but related word at the end of a sentence. So… who put the chocolate in the peanut butter? Is there perhaps a rap song that used Skrillex as a hashtag and then people started ironically copying it, putting skrillex where he didn’t belong? (maybe deliberately wrong in a similar fashion to “teh” “pwn” and “!!!111one”?)
(Oh, and by the way, thanks to this thread, I (a 35-year-old metal/rock/showtunes/grunge/folk/alternative fan) am now listening to Skrillex while I work, and sorta digging it. Thanks, I think?)
I just saw Skrillex in concert a couple weeks ago, and regardless of what you might feel about his music on the radio/youtube/pandora or whatever seeing him live is all kinds of awesome. The bass and the beats are a completely different experience.
ETA: Thanks youtube! Here is a video not shot by me, but of the concert I went to Just imagine being there!
Wait, I’m unfamiliar with this trend. You mean people would say something like “I just had a hernia operation after injuring myself lifting a fat woman onto a sex swing, Skrillex!”?
Maybe it’s a casual term of address. I know a guy who calls everybody Mike out of habit.
I was in the produce section of the grocery store and some guy was dropping mad beets. Skrillex!
I went fishing, pulled in a few nice ones, but dropped the bass…Skrillex!
That Atari 2600 game had some nice sprites Skrillex
Taste the rainbow. Skittlex!