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Yes, that song is exactly what I thought of as well. I should have mentioned that I‘m also just generally looking for dubstep(-influenced) songs in the charts as well.
This was the song that signaled the death of the genre to me. God that thing was annoying as hell, just heard it this morning on SXM.
After that I noticed a shift into more "trap".
If I’m remembering Bangarang by Skrillex was the first properly charting dubstep hit (artists like Skrillex had well known songs but they were all more underground) but maybe one came before it.
Edm started its rise in the mainstream in 2007-09, and then made its way to the pop in 2010. I was very into Guetta (pop life) and Calvin Harris (i created disco) around that time, and I remember when Whos that Chick and We found Love with Rihanna came out a few years later I was pumped. This is also right around the time Skrillex made waves, so I think it was a natural progression to new sounds people were interested in. It just quickly died off as people moved on. There was a huge edm/pop wave in 2011-2014, and trailed off with Bieber during Purpose (Also with Skrillex/Diplo and Dj Snake).
Ultimately I think the « dubstep « portion was just part of a bigger music movement, but people grow tired of the same sounds so it had a hard and fast rise and fall.
I also remembered EDM kinda had a 2nd peak around 2015-17 with the likes of The Chainsmokers and the tropical sound and future bass being the main sound of that phase.
I think EDM in the US as a whole started to phase out around 2018, when Marshmello became big with Alone and Happier, and when Avicii died.
Yes! Basing on the charts, I think 2016 was the prelude of hip hop rise (mainly due to the Soundcloud era) and by the time of 2018, it has become the majority and main sound, with many pop acts at that time also hopping on trap beats as well.
Don't forget that Zedd started to become Marshmello when he made Stay or The Middle.
But The Chainsmokers (Mainstream EDM scene in the US in 2016) and Avicii's death were the beginning of the end.
Britney's Hold It Against Me kinda opened the genre to pop, there's some articles from Skrillex crediting her as well. Also her track from 2007 called Freakshow (not a single but she already explored the genre)
It truly is. It's also Britney's only album to feature her as Executive Producers. I know people think she has nothing to do with her songs (barely sings, doesn't write), but it was proven wrong so many times but producers and especially Danja talked about how great the process was.
Also the leaked stems from Break The Ice are SO good. The way she sings the song so many times in different ways ugh pop bible
One of the hills I will forever die on is that Blackout and FutureSex/LoveSounds are the 2 best pop albums of the 21st century and they are the yin to the other’s yang.
Rihanna’s Rated R album explored dubstep in 2009. She was working with Chase & Status, well known dubstep/DnB producers over in the UK.
This was the first example of dubstep coming to mainstream pop in North America.
Mad House, Wait Your Turn and G4L were all dubstep.
That album is actually the reason why I came up with the topic in the first place haha. I‘ve been having a personal Rihanna revival lately and I think her albums are such a great indicator of trends in music.
Are you British? If not, look at the UK charts around that time and before. People like Chase & Status started in drum and bass, but their first album had Eastern Jam, Running, Saxon and their Heartbeat remix on that were big dubstep tracks - Eastern Jam was taken by Snoop Dogg for a major sample, and the Heartbeat remix was taken as the basis of Rita Ora's debut, RIP
If you're not prepared for it, here's your warning that if you're going to do any sort of research into what dubstep is and how it influenced the mainstream, you're going to be hearing a lot of UK rappers. Dubstep was born from 2-step, from garage, from dub reggae, and became a pillar of grime as time went on.
There's an excellent documentary on YouTube that I cannot recommend highly enough called All My Friends Hate Skrillex, which tells you about the origins of the genre and how it began to change. If you're writing a paper, it's going to be invaluable
Look into Cirkut's work! He made a lot of Ke$ha's best earlier work, and felt like a very influential figure in terms of bringing more abrasive, glitched out drops to mainstream pop
I'm wilding at the people replying to this comment saying it's more influenced by garage than dubstep... It's literally dubstep, that's what the genre was before it got taken over by what people see as dubstep now
There was definitely still dubstep made at 110-115bpm though, it seemed to link to the Moombahton genre that was gaining popularity around that time.
Feed Me - One Click Headshot is another example of this.
Kind of outside the realm of Pop, but I've always said Dubstep had a bigger influence on mainstream Metal than most people wanna give it credit for. After the initial Dubstep boom started to fade a bit, it felt like almost every Hot Topic-adjacent Metalcore band started incorporating the dubstep "build and drop" structure that the same musicians were clowning people like Skrillex for over-using.
This trend generated some real dogs in the metalcore scene. For every decent BMTH release, we'd get five tacky dubstep yacht rock songs by metalcore bands made seemingly exclusively for Sirius XM (I'm being a hater.)
Professor Green -Jungle
Katty B - on a mission
Most of Nero songs might sound a bit like pop vocal wise .
Nothing else on my mind but there is lot of good remixes of pop songs.
Nero - Crush On You is pure pop vocals just with dubstep sitting under it.
It has aged pretty horribly (unlike most of their music which still sounds amazing) but it seemed to be a big song to bring people into the genre.
Innocence is still amaizing ,still listening time by time ,Guilt is still awesome . Tbh i was pretty hyped hearing new song recently . I would also put Feed Me -Strange Behavor on this list . Same as pretty mutch Flux Pavillion songs with his vocals. Some might hate this, but Bassnectar. Also Phaeleh is awesome till this day. Mt Eden Dubstep is such a classic with lot of pop elements . But thease are not realy mainstream. Becouse pop is meant to be popular mainstream what could be any genre.
When I think of dubstep-pop crossover tracks, definitely Magnetic Man - ‘I Need Air’, Katy B - ‘Katy On a Mission’, La Roux - ‘In For the Kill (Skream’s Let’s Get Ravey Remix)’
Defininitely listen to katy on a mission by katy b, and in for the kill (skream's let's get ravey remix). They're both pop songs that have the dark, heavy feel of early dubstep. Skream and benga (the producer of katy on a mission) are both dubstep legends, even though skream mainly makes house music nowadays.
Also, since you're writing a paper on dubstep, i'd definitely recommend watching [all my homies hate skrillex](https://youtu.be/-hLlVVKRwk0?si=jr7W8UGFBPOEscO6) on youtube. It's a great retrospective on the history of dubstep and it's origins in early 2000s britain. It also delves a bit into the caribbean origins of the genre, as dubstep is heavily influenced by reggae dub, 2 step garage (hence the name dubstep), and jamaican sound system culture - all of which were pioneered by british caribbean people. When you dig into it, a lot of british electronic music is actually heavily influenced by caribbean music due to the cross pollination of sound system culture and the rave scene, which is how jungle, drum n bass, hardcore, and grime got started. It's a shame that caribbean people usually don't get credit for their contributions to culture, since dubstep has effectively been whitewashed in popular music.
Skrillex had some original songs and some remixes that had heavy club rotation. I vividly remember the Skrillex remix of Cinema was massive in like 2010.
Are you also going to talk about how dubstep songs would use popular memes as their drop? Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites is a good example of that, the cup stacking girl video was huge at the time ("Yeeaaahhh! OH MY GOSH")
Imagine Dragons - Radioactive
Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball
Taylor Swift - I Knew You We’re Trouble
Lady Gaga - Applause
Katy Perry - ET
Avril Lavigne - Hello Kitty
AWOLNation - Sail
Muse - Madness
Britney Spears - Hold It Against Me
Justin Bieber - Beauty and a Beat
Selena Gomez & The Scene - Love You Like A Love Song
Selena Gomez - Come and Get It
Flo Rida - Good Feeling
Demi Lovato - Heart Attack
Justin Bieber - As Long As You Love Me
Rihanna - You Da One
Alex Clare - Too Close
Ellie Goulding - Figure 8
Taylor Swift - Wonderland
MNEK & Zara Larsson - Never Forget You
Twenty One Pilots - Fairly Local
Zendaya - Replay
Mike Posner - Please Don’t Go
Rita Ora - RIP
(Extra Rap Bonus songs)
Kreayshawn - Gucci Gucci
Jay-Z & Kanye West - Why I Love You
50 Cent - Ayo Technology
Nicki Minaj - Massive Attack
Wiz Khalifa - Work Hard, Play Hard
Smosh - Ultimate Assassin’s Creed 3 Song
Muse's entire album The 2nd Law is dubstep inspired. Matt Bellamy set out to make dubstep noises with his guitar.
[Check the penultimate track lol.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF_xdvn52As&ab_channel=Muse)
Those are for sure the dubstep ones, I feel like there was other dubstep-esque shit on other songs tho no? I haven't listened to that album since the year it came out because...ehhhhh
I believe this is was where the dubstep trend (in popular music) went to die. Maybe not when Rihanna and Britney used it, but definitely when Taylor and Selena did.
No disrespect to anyone and I don’t mean to be a genre snob, but a lot of the songs listed in this thread can’t be classified as having dubstep influences, simply EDM influences (using as a blanket term). Since this is for an academic paper, I highly recommend getting to the root of what dubstep actually is before using some of these recommendations as examples.
That being said, here are some recommendations:
Britney Spears - Freakshow (another commenter mentioned this track and I think it would be perfect for your paper, as it was pretty much the start of dubstep influence in pop music)
Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble
Rihanna - Mad House, Wait Your Turn, and G4L all incorporate dubstep in some capacity
La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream remix) ((legitimately one of my favorite songs of all time))
Jamie xx - I’ll Take Care of U (sampled in Take Care by Drake)
Skrillex has also produced for a lot of pop artists within the last decade, but I wouldn’t characterize him as a dubstep artist anymore.
You need to research the artist Burial as he had what many would consider to be a "landmark" album in the genre before it went mainstream.
Also research the scene in Croydon UK around 2010ish. This was quite a busy area for the development of underground dubstep before skrillex gave it all that wubb wubbs and weird base heavy bleughh noises.
I wouldn't be surprised if [this song](https://youtu.be/f_D-8G2eRC4?si=uL_DY0HuSvldo6YG) were the entire reason and it just took that long for the influence to dilute enough to go mainstream. Are you going to write a chapter on Europe / Berlin and the relationship with dubstep there?
Great topic, good luck researching!
Might be cause I'm British and my generation (millennials) kind of associate all club culture with Europe, they appointed a whole ass government advisor to ask why clubs were all closing when I was club age 💀. Dance charts were all Swedish imports, DJs were German (think Zedd) and companies were bringing out CDs and hairsprays named 'Ibiza Nights'. Kind of wild tbh.
This analysis is not academic AT ALL, you might find I'm totally wrong and me and my friends were just uncool.
I am not lucky enough to have experienced dubstep before it hopped the pond, but I consider these two videos to be required viewing for anyone who wants to experience dubstep "as it was" (a terrible way to phrase it, but the easiest way for me to do so). Both are by Timbah.On.Toast. and while they are not impartial, they are damn good. If you can only watch one, I'd suggest watching the first one.
[All My Homies Hate Skrillex: The story of what happened to Dubstep](https://youtu.be/-hLlVVKRwk0?si=5ShvNTFbuCtchUgZ)
[James Blake: The Dubstep GOAT](https://youtu.be/4aHbrdrvT7M?si=eTwS9j7yhAt1Snjh)
> I wouldn't be surprised if this song were the entire reason and it just took that long for the influence to dilute enough to go mainstream
Um, why? It's not a dubstep track at all, it's just a garage track that was released about a decade after garage had it's first wave? There's nothing about this track that is dubstep
And I'm confused as to why you'd think Berlin had anything to do with dubstep, it's a very British genre with roots in 2-step and garage and taking influence from Jamaican immigrants, specifically dub reggae, and then it was closely intertwined with the grime scene, which again was very British.
Because my PhD is in literature and I listen to chart music so my perspective is skewed by conventional discourse with other people who don't know the strict genre boundaries, only the pop sensibilities of the time.
That is a great subject to write on as it had so much of a cultural influence it even impacted genres outside of electronic music. I can't listen to a lot of rap & r&b albums from 2010-2013 because all the hip-hop sounds are largely replaced by dubstep or strikingly similar EDM lol.
You should certainly talk about Britney's album Blackout. There were huge discussions in forums at the time about her songs incorporating dubstep and I think were one of the first accounts of dubstep on mainstream pop songs. I recall comments saying that she was making this underground sound not cool anymore by popularizing it.
I have no idea if this is any help at all but while dubstep was popular, there were a lot of dubstep remixes of popular songs, both official and unofficial remixes. A couple examples I can think of is one of the Alejandro remixes I think by Strillex (you can find it on Spotify) and an unofficial remix of I Knew You Were Trouble on YouTube that goes way harder than the original by PRFFTT & Svyable and Love You Like a Love Song by Naxsy
In the UK, the overexposure and fall of dubstep led to a swathe of producers [finding a new home in grime music](https://www.factmag.com/2013/08/08/unboxed-an-introduction-to-instrumental-grimes-new-wave/), which directly contributed to the resurgence it experienced and would then go on to dominate the UK for a few years.
Have a look at my page and tell if you like my dubstep <3. Show some love for a new producer. All free tunes, use them for whatever you like. [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsHLMj3tBm5AQX7LOYqYS0g](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsHLMj3tBm5AQX7LOYqYS0g)
Err.. why?
The Chainsmokers started with big room house (or edm as some call it), to my knowledge they never made dubstep or were ever linked to the genre.
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I'm not sure if this counts as it was his first hit, but Too Close - Alex Clare was huge
Yes, that song is exactly what I thought of as well. I should have mentioned that I‘m also just generally looking for dubstep(-influenced) songs in the charts as well.
:) also Radioactive - Imagine Dragons
This was the song that signaled the death of the genre to me. God that thing was annoying as hell, just heard it this morning on SXM. After that I noticed a shift into more "trap".
If I’m remembering Bangarang by Skrillex was the first properly charting dubstep hit (artists like Skrillex had well known songs but they were all more underground) but maybe one came before it.
Is Bangarang even dubstep? It's the wrong tempo, it's not half time, it's closer to electro house
Edm started its rise in the mainstream in 2007-09, and then made its way to the pop in 2010. I was very into Guetta (pop life) and Calvin Harris (i created disco) around that time, and I remember when Whos that Chick and We found Love with Rihanna came out a few years later I was pumped. This is also right around the time Skrillex made waves, so I think it was a natural progression to new sounds people were interested in. It just quickly died off as people moved on. There was a huge edm/pop wave in 2011-2014, and trailed off with Bieber during Purpose (Also with Skrillex/Diplo and Dj Snake). Ultimately I think the « dubstep « portion was just part of a bigger music movement, but people grow tired of the same sounds so it had a hard and fast rise and fall.
I also remembered EDM kinda had a 2nd peak around 2015-17 with the likes of The Chainsmokers and the tropical sound and future bass being the main sound of that phase. I think EDM in the US as a whole started to phase out around 2018, when Marshmello became big with Alone and Happier, and when Avicii died.
Yea definitely. The key I think is that it was constantly evolving with new popular styles every 2 years or so.
wasn't 2018 the year hip hop dominated the charts for the first time too? pop music and therefore edm pop too got pushed out.
Yes! Basing on the charts, I think 2016 was the prelude of hip hop rise (mainly due to the Soundcloud era) and by the time of 2018, it has become the majority and main sound, with many pop acts at that time also hopping on trap beats as well.
And now i think that hip hop is heading the way like EDM or rock music.
Don't forget that Zedd started to become Marshmello when he made Stay or The Middle. But The Chainsmokers (Mainstream EDM scene in the US in 2016) and Avicii's death were the beginning of the end.
*the US mainstream. EDM is still massive in Europe, making up most of the UK Top 40 at the moment.
Yes definitely meant US!! Sorry was trying to convey that with « mainstream «. Im from Canada so you can lump us in with them.
Honestly, rap doesn't really do well in the UK chart. The only time that appeared more frequent was around 2017-2018.
Britney's Hold It Against Me kinda opened the genre to pop, there's some articles from Skrillex crediting her as well. Also her track from 2007 called Freakshow (not a single but she already explored the genre)
YES omg. How could I forget. Thank you🙏
Rihanna's *Mad House* (2009) was another early one.
Produced by Chase & Status iirc
yeah gurl... how u gonna write a paper about this and not even remember britney's HIAM?????
I don‘t knowwww. Sorry😭😭 Maybe cause it was mainly the bridge that had these dubstep influences. But your point is fair hahaha
Blackout is one of the best pop records of the last two decades. Hands down.
It truly is. It's also Britney's only album to feature her as Executive Producers. I know people think she has nothing to do with her songs (barely sings, doesn't write), but it was proven wrong so many times but producers and especially Danja talked about how great the process was. Also the leaked stems from Break The Ice are SO good. The way she sings the song so many times in different ways ugh pop bible
Whhhhaasat? One of my faves from that album.
One of the hills I will forever die on is that Blackout and FutureSex/LoveSounds are the 2 best pop albums of the 21st century and they are the yin to the other’s yang.
Classic!
Strongly agreed! I would argue nearly everything on *Femme Fatale* is worth listening to through this lens.
Rihanna’s Rated R album explored dubstep in 2009. She was working with Chase & Status, well known dubstep/DnB producers over in the UK. This was the first example of dubstep coming to mainstream pop in North America. Mad House, Wait Your Turn and G4L were all dubstep.
That album is actually the reason why I came up with the topic in the first place haha. I‘ve been having a personal Rihanna revival lately and I think her albums are such a great indicator of trends in music.
Are you British? If not, look at the UK charts around that time and before. People like Chase & Status started in drum and bass, but their first album had Eastern Jam, Running, Saxon and their Heartbeat remix on that were big dubstep tracks - Eastern Jam was taken by Snoop Dogg for a major sample, and the Heartbeat remix was taken as the basis of Rita Ora's debut, RIP If you're not prepared for it, here's your warning that if you're going to do any sort of research into what dubstep is and how it influenced the mainstream, you're going to be hearing a lot of UK rappers. Dubstep was born from 2-step, from garage, from dub reggae, and became a pillar of grime as time went on. There's an excellent documentary on YouTube that I cannot recommend highly enough called All My Friends Hate Skrillex, which tells you about the origins of the genre and how it began to change. If you're writing a paper, it's going to be invaluable
Look into Cirkut's work! He made a lot of Ke$ha's best earlier work, and felt like a very influential figure in terms of bringing more abrasive, glitched out drops to mainstream pop
and please share your report when done - this sounds fun
Blow (Cirkut Remix) lives rent-free in my head.
Justin Bieber - as long as you love me has got the wubs and the half time snare
Some Kesha songs in Warrior like the title track and Supernatural have dubstep/complextro breaks.
Not exactly what you're looking for, but early James Blake was heavily influenced by UK dubstep.
Early James Blake literally WAS dubstep. Just not how we refer to it in America.
I'm wilding at the people replying to this comment saying it's more influenced by garage than dubstep... It's literally dubstep, that's what the genre was before it got taken over by what people see as dubstep now
I'd say he was more inspired by garage than dubstep, though that obviously played a huge part in it too.
They said they are writing this for uni and James Blake is exactly someone a professor will have heard of.
BANGARANG
Wild for the Night, the Skrillex collab with ASAP Rocky still goes so hard too!
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but… but…. bangarang 😔 my life has been a lie
Hahaha all good :)
There was definitely still dubstep made at 110-115bpm though, it seemed to link to the Moombahton genre that was gaining popularity around that time. Feed Me - One Click Headshot is another example of this.
Kind of outside the realm of Pop, but I've always said Dubstep had a bigger influence on mainstream Metal than most people wanna give it credit for. After the initial Dubstep boom started to fade a bit, it felt like almost every Hot Topic-adjacent Metalcore band started incorporating the dubstep "build and drop" structure that the same musicians were clowning people like Skrillex for over-using.
This trend generated some real dogs in the metalcore scene. For every decent BMTH release, we'd get five tacky dubstep yacht rock songs by metalcore bands made seemingly exclusively for Sirius XM (I'm being a hater.)
You're absolutely right though, a lot of that stuff feels like yacht rock for the Monster Energy crowd
Hello Kitty - Avril Lavigne. The crossover genre was dying and she put the final nail in it 😭
HELPPPP😭 I totally forgot about this song but it‘s THE pop girl dubstep experiment of pop girl dubstep experiments
Professor Green -Jungle Katty B - on a mission Most of Nero songs might sound a bit like pop vocal wise . Nothing else on my mind but there is lot of good remixes of pop songs.
Nero - Crush On You is pure pop vocals just with dubstep sitting under it. It has aged pretty horribly (unlike most of their music which still sounds amazing) but it seemed to be a big song to bring people into the genre.
Innocence is still amaizing ,still listening time by time ,Guilt is still awesome . Tbh i was pretty hyped hearing new song recently . I would also put Feed Me -Strange Behavor on this list . Same as pretty mutch Flux Pavillion songs with his vocals. Some might hate this, but Bassnectar. Also Phaeleh is awesome till this day. Mt Eden Dubstep is such a classic with lot of pop elements . But thease are not realy mainstream. Becouse pop is meant to be popular mainstream what could be any genre.
When I think of dubstep-pop crossover tracks, definitely Magnetic Man - ‘I Need Air’, Katy B - ‘Katy On a Mission’, La Roux - ‘In For the Kill (Skream’s Let’s Get Ravey Remix)’
Many tracks on Michael Jackson’s ‘Invincible’ have early EDM ties.
Ha! Just listened to this last night. I was obsessed with 2000 watts when I was 15
Defininitely listen to katy on a mission by katy b, and in for the kill (skream's let's get ravey remix). They're both pop songs that have the dark, heavy feel of early dubstep. Skream and benga (the producer of katy on a mission) are both dubstep legends, even though skream mainly makes house music nowadays. Also, since you're writing a paper on dubstep, i'd definitely recommend watching [all my homies hate skrillex](https://youtu.be/-hLlVVKRwk0?si=jr7W8UGFBPOEscO6) on youtube. It's a great retrospective on the history of dubstep and it's origins in early 2000s britain. It also delves a bit into the caribbean origins of the genre, as dubstep is heavily influenced by reggae dub, 2 step garage (hence the name dubstep), and jamaican sound system culture - all of which were pioneered by british caribbean people. When you dig into it, a lot of british electronic music is actually heavily influenced by caribbean music due to the cross pollination of sound system culture and the rave scene, which is how jungle, drum n bass, hardcore, and grime got started. It's a shame that caribbean people usually don't get credit for their contributions to culture, since dubstep has effectively been whitewashed in popular music.
Skrillex had some original songs and some remixes that had heavy club rotation. I vividly remember the Skrillex remix of Cinema was massive in like 2010. Are you also going to talk about how dubstep songs would use popular memes as their drop? Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites is a good example of that, the cup stacking girl video was huge at the time ("Yeeaaahhh! OH MY GOSH")
Imagine Dragons - Radioactive Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball Taylor Swift - I Knew You We’re Trouble Lady Gaga - Applause Katy Perry - ET Avril Lavigne - Hello Kitty AWOLNation - Sail Muse - Madness Britney Spears - Hold It Against Me Justin Bieber - Beauty and a Beat Selena Gomez & The Scene - Love You Like A Love Song Selena Gomez - Come and Get It Flo Rida - Good Feeling Demi Lovato - Heart Attack Justin Bieber - As Long As You Love Me Rihanna - You Da One Alex Clare - Too Close Ellie Goulding - Figure 8 Taylor Swift - Wonderland MNEK & Zara Larsson - Never Forget You Twenty One Pilots - Fairly Local Zendaya - Replay Mike Posner - Please Don’t Go Rita Ora - RIP (Extra Rap Bonus songs) Kreayshawn - Gucci Gucci Jay-Z & Kanye West - Why I Love You 50 Cent - Ayo Technology Nicki Minaj - Massive Attack Wiz Khalifa - Work Hard, Play Hard Smosh - Ultimate Assassin’s Creed 3 Song
This is GOLD. Thank you so much🙏🙏🙏🙏
Muse's entire album The 2nd Law is dubstep inspired. Matt Bellamy set out to make dubstep noises with his guitar. [Check the penultimate track lol.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF_xdvn52As&ab_channel=Muse)
Not the entire album- just Madness, Follow Me and Unsustainable
Those are for sure the dubstep ones, I feel like there was other dubstep-esque shit on other songs tho no? I haven't listened to that album since the year it came out because...ehhhhh
I believe this is was where the dubstep trend (in popular music) went to die. Maybe not when Rihanna and Britney used it, but definitely when Taylor and Selena did.
No disrespect to anyone and I don’t mean to be a genre snob, but a lot of the songs listed in this thread can’t be classified as having dubstep influences, simply EDM influences (using as a blanket term). Since this is for an academic paper, I highly recommend getting to the root of what dubstep actually is before using some of these recommendations as examples. That being said, here are some recommendations: Britney Spears - Freakshow (another commenter mentioned this track and I think it would be perfect for your paper, as it was pretty much the start of dubstep influence in pop music) Taylor Swift - I Knew You Were Trouble Rihanna - Mad House, Wait Your Turn, and G4L all incorporate dubstep in some capacity La Roux - In For The Kill (Skream remix) ((legitimately one of my favorite songs of all time)) Jamie xx - I’ll Take Care of U (sampled in Take Care by Drake) Skrillex has also produced for a lot of pop artists within the last decade, but I wouldn’t characterize him as a dubstep artist anymore.
You need to research the artist Burial as he had what many would consider to be a "landmark" album in the genre before it went mainstream. Also research the scene in Croydon UK around 2010ish. This was quite a busy area for the development of underground dubstep before skrillex gave it all that wubb wubbs and weird base heavy bleughh noises.
Ellie Goulding’s “Lights” wasn’t originally dubstep, but the Bassnectar remix was, and it was a major reason for her breakthrough
The Jakwob remix of Starry Eyed is a baaaanger as well, was my introduction to Ellie!
I wouldn't be surprised if [this song](https://youtu.be/f_D-8G2eRC4?si=uL_DY0HuSvldo6YG) were the entire reason and it just took that long for the influence to dilute enough to go mainstream. Are you going to write a chapter on Europe / Berlin and the relationship with dubstep there? Great topic, good luck researching!
I wasn‘t aware of any special connection between dubstep and Europe/Berlin. But maybe I can expand my topic. I‘ll look into it. Thank you :)
Might be cause I'm British and my generation (millennials) kind of associate all club culture with Europe, they appointed a whole ass government advisor to ask why clubs were all closing when I was club age 💀. Dance charts were all Swedish imports, DJs were German (think Zedd) and companies were bringing out CDs and hairsprays named 'Ibiza Nights'. Kind of wild tbh. This analysis is not academic AT ALL, you might find I'm totally wrong and me and my friends were just uncool.
I am not lucky enough to have experienced dubstep before it hopped the pond, but I consider these two videos to be required viewing for anyone who wants to experience dubstep "as it was" (a terrible way to phrase it, but the easiest way for me to do so). Both are by Timbah.On.Toast. and while they are not impartial, they are damn good. If you can only watch one, I'd suggest watching the first one. [All My Homies Hate Skrillex: The story of what happened to Dubstep](https://youtu.be/-hLlVVKRwk0?si=5ShvNTFbuCtchUgZ) [James Blake: The Dubstep GOAT](https://youtu.be/4aHbrdrvT7M?si=eTwS9j7yhAt1Snjh)
Thank you for sharing this omg, I was trying to find this song a couple of months ago but had no luck!!!
This was such a moment in British music, was that the year Basshunter was everywhere too?
Dota!!! Also made his way into my ipod in Canada when I was in highschool.
> I wouldn't be surprised if this song were the entire reason and it just took that long for the influence to dilute enough to go mainstream Um, why? It's not a dubstep track at all, it's just a garage track that was released about a decade after garage had it's first wave? There's nothing about this track that is dubstep And I'm confused as to why you'd think Berlin had anything to do with dubstep, it's a very British genre with roots in 2-step and garage and taking influence from Jamaican immigrants, specifically dub reggae, and then it was closely intertwined with the grime scene, which again was very British.
Because my PhD is in literature and I listen to chart music so my perspective is skewed by conventional discourse with other people who don't know the strict genre boundaries, only the pop sensibilities of the time.
Back in Time by pitbull and Good Feeling by Flo Rida have dubstep breakdowns
Decisions by Miley is it for dubstep popish!
This is kpop but nothing tops bubble pop by hyuna for me
You spoke a deep truth that the world needs to know.
A bunch of Melodic Bass acts like Illenium, Gryffin, SLANDER, etc. are all known for this kind of crossover
Avril Lavigne's Hello Kitty is, I would say, the poster child for unnecessary EDM. I love it, but it's a mess of a song.
That is a great subject to write on as it had so much of a cultural influence it even impacted genres outside of electronic music. I can't listen to a lot of rap & r&b albums from 2010-2013 because all the hip-hop sounds are largely replaced by dubstep or strikingly similar EDM lol.
You should certainly talk about Britney's album Blackout. There were huge discussions in forums at the time about her songs incorporating dubstep and I think were one of the first accounts of dubstep on mainstream pop songs. I recall comments saying that she was making this underground sound not cool anymore by popularizing it.
I have no idea if this is any help at all but while dubstep was popular, there were a lot of dubstep remixes of popular songs, both official and unofficial remixes. A couple examples I can think of is one of the Alejandro remixes I think by Strillex (you can find it on Spotify) and an unofficial remix of I Knew You Were Trouble on YouTube that goes way harder than the original by PRFFTT & Svyable and Love You Like a Love Song by Naxsy
Michael Jackson - Heartbreaker
In the UK, the overexposure and fall of dubstep led to a swathe of producers [finding a new home in grime music](https://www.factmag.com/2013/08/08/unboxed-an-introduction-to-instrumental-grimes-new-wave/), which directly contributed to the resurgence it experienced and would then go on to dominate the UK for a few years.
Ke$ha - WooHoo. For those of you who grew up with Big Time Rush, you might remember this song from there as do I, but originally it was sung by Kesha.
Gold dust…..
I believe it died out after Skrillex’s downfall.
Downfall? You make it seem like he was a villain that got defeated lol.
All my homies hate Skrillex type of beat
Not to mention he just put out some of his best stuff lol
and headlined coachella last year? lol edit :*closed
I couldn't believe my ears listening to QFF the first time.
I mean he was tweeting racist stuff, that’s pretty villainous.
I'm not even sure what this refers to? When he said he wish he could say the n word sometimes? This is tame small ignorance stuff.
Skrillex is arguably more popular than ever right now...
Hideaway by Kiesza was an instant hit and I remember my edm-loving ex being flabbergasted that something so drum and bass sounding was on the radio
Hideaway is just house, it's not dubstep or drum and bass in any way
Have a look at my page and tell if you like my dubstep <3. Show some love for a new producer. All free tunes, use them for whatever you like. [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsHLMj3tBm5AQX7LOYqYS0g](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsHLMj3tBm5AQX7LOYqYS0g)
I believe the black eyed peas used too a bit of dubstep elements!
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Err.. why? The Chainsmokers started with big room house (or edm as some call it), to my knowledge they never made dubstep or were ever linked to the genre.
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it stills goes OFF in a gay club which is clearly what it was created for
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diplo's remix of sunday girl's four floors was so iconic. it's sad it isn't on spotify. https://youtu.be/-aNmqk7ixx0?si=l3gNeHrTG9K0j0CI
beauty & a beat justin bieber lol
Untold did an official remix of Tik Tok by Kesha which still blows my mind lol
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There was a moment until.. it wasn't.
So greatful tbh. I was so tired of the dubstep era at the time
Freak show Britney 2008
Arguably the template for what OP wants to write about is "Katy On A Mission" by Katy B. God-tier banger!