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Nowadays, electronic music = dubstep. True?

Nowadays, any artist who has some heavy electronic bass in a song is now classed as dubstep -- either the song or the band.

Would you agree? Muse, for example, are chided for becoming a "dubstep band" despite not really using dubstep, just fuzzy/electronic basses.

It's not even real dubstep, just this "brostep" like Skrillex.

For the record, I like dubstep and brostep and whatever it's called.

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  • ?
    Lv 7
    8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    100% agree. It's just like metal: most people think that any band that has screamed or growled vocals and has heavy guitars is metal, even if they're not.

  • Josh
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    Yes, the other day someone thought Armin van Buuren (trance) was a dubstep producer.

  • ?
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    No, I listen to all of EDM. It's just that all the subgenres are similar to one another. And dubstep is the most mainstream genre, so to most people dubstep=EDM.

  • 8 years ago

    People put broad genres on everything. Metal, pop, dubstep/techno, Rap, and more are limited genres that people slap on everything

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    no.... dubstep is different than trance or house music each one has a different beat and tempo and you can have hardcore bass-drops in the 3 of them but they are all different

  • 8 years ago

    yep, i don't listen to that kind of music but I'm saying kids now and days

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