WoW Moviewatch: WoW Meets Dubstep

by Michael Gray Feb 3rd 2012 at 12:00PM

I hear there's this dubstep music all the kids are into nowadays. Being an old man of questionable taste, I phoned some of the local teenagers for a primer. Their advice was to "listen for the drop." I kept listening for the drop, but I couldn't really hear it.

Nonetheless, WoPairs created WoW Meets Dubstep as a way of bringing this newfangled music into good old Azeroth. I don't really know if it was successful, since I kept waiting for the bass line to stop gently weeping.

If you have trouble making sense of this video, don't worry. It's meant to be random, I'm told.

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

Tenorman Feb 3rd 2012 12:14PM

I r disappoint... The actual dubstep was meh at best, but when I see WoW Meets Dubstep, I expect to hear the main theme to something like Call to Arms or Karazhan, and then the dubstep drop into the remixed theme.

QM Feb 3rd 2012 12:28PM

Very ehhhhhhh.........................

Beat was good, far too short though. Freakin' BElfs are not only overused, but in this video creepy as all hell, especially with the focus on pixellated bosom.

I'll take Mr. Voletron over this any day (Example, the Stormwind Theme Remix'd: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-Bs6-XwiPs&feature=plcp&context=C3bb1eaaUDOEgsToPDskJ5Vg1tCJnr8jYJlSQkQBPW )

Jorges Feb 3rd 2012 12:37PM

I liked the music, but what the heck was that video? O.o I think I'll have to research about this dubstep thing to understand it.

keith Feb 3rd 2012 3:14PM

"I think I'll have to research about this dubstep thing to understand it."

My first thought, as well... So I go to trusty Google and type "wtf is" and, what do you know?! "wtf is dubstep" is the first suggestion Google gives me!

Mayorga Feb 3rd 2012 12:58PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELdlYXaX8CY

Dubstep you say? That and much more. Epic.

Antti Feb 3rd 2012 1:12PM

This already has occurred.
It's every arenajunkies video ever made

RetPallyJil Feb 3rd 2012 1:17PM

Ah, "random." That wonderful blanket term for "couldn't be bothered."

Jeremy Feb 3rd 2012 1:33PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmCe3fg7B4w < That is dubstep, also it helps if you play this on a speaker system with drop in my linked video is at 20 seconds, the drop in the video on this article is at 40 seconds.

Without a speaker system with a subwoofer dubstep sounds like crap, most headsets are unable to hit the levels good dubstep is meant to be at

Peebers Feb 13th 2012 3:50AM

damn. thanks mans.

bethontheharbor Feb 3rd 2012 1:54PM

I guess I'm a dinosaur waaay past my time as that music sucks. The video portion was well like a bad wow acid trip created by freddy krueger.

Micheal Feb 3rd 2012 2:04PM

Kill it! Kill it with fire!

Revynn Feb 3rd 2012 2:10PM

If you can't tell where the drop is, then they didn't do it right. A good drop should be like getting hit in the face with the bass line.

It's harder to define what "dubstep" is lately because it's kind of split into two schools. The older form of dubstep is mostly signified by what I like to call "wobble-bass" where the bass line . . . well, wobbles. Wobwobwobwob-wob-wob-wob-wobwobwob. The newer form of dubstep drops the wobble-bass for really heavily distorted bass lines and crazy noises, screeches and just kind of a musical chaos. At times the newer style can sound less like music and more like a monster trying to eat your face off . . . and that's awesome.

Here's a pretty awesome Dubba Johnny song called, appropriately, "A Brief Introduction on Dubstep".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJzfTZlEl40

As for this particular selection in the video . . . meh. It's not terrible for the genre (since I know a lot of people -HATE- dubstep) but it's certainly not a particularly shining example, either. And from what I saw of the video (listening at work so I caught bits and pieces) it really just felt like they were trying waaaaay too hard to be edgy and trippy. The focus on Belf boobies was creepy and there really wasn't any substance to it. It was just crazy lights and trippy effects.

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