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"are youre referring to the one sentence that i already fixed?"



no, and I read the review after that was already fixed.



i have an interview soon so i have to go but if you really care that much, I'll give you a detailed (but civil) analysis of why this review is worthless when I get back.

"psycho analyze"

lol'd

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i have an interview soon so i have to go but if you really care that much, I'll give you a detailed (but civil) analysis of why this review is worthless when I get back.

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but quickly, before i leave, the most glaring issue for me is that you repeatedly (in the review and in the comments) mention that is it a "one-song EP" with a bunch of remixes, and act like that is notable. if you knew anything about electronic music, you would know that this sort of release (an original, remixed by some other producers) is very common, and not worth mentioning as a determent to the success of the album. plus, you seem to not understand the nature of remixes, when you complain that the same vocal sample is used in all the songs. well yeah, they're all remixed of the same song, so the same sounds will pop up on every track. again, not surprising, or even worth mentioning.

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id say theyre worth mentioning, since of course it's a huge aspect of the EP and the samples do take up a lot of play time. and not once in my review did i say it was surprising, but since the EP has one real song and six remixes i do think that "minor detail" to you is definitely worth mentioning for someone who knows nothing about it.

Condescending prick? Oh, I see. If someone like OhamaStylee94 (a contributor!) say you wrote a pretty good review without backing it up, that is nice. Ha! Good luck.

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well yeah because he actually has credibility. you have none.



plus judging by your own reviews you're not one who should be criticizing other people's writing, just saying.

The original version of this song honestly kicks ass. It's the remixes that are utter trash.

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the original is the most tolerable, i just know skrillex could do much better.

Eh, I don't know about that. The track seems right up his alley...

The original one is easily top 10 worst songs I've heard in my life

Bob Marley is spinning in his grave

I gotta agree with that. The original song makes me really sad.

Rude boi bass rush up da place, anyone? ANYONE?!

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lol sorry man, nothing he does can top first of the year for me.

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"id say theyre worth mentioning, since of course it's a huge aspect of the EP and the samples do

take up a lot of play time. and not once in my review did i say it was surprising, but since the EP

has one real song and six remixes i do think that "minor detail" to you is definitely worth

mentioning for someone who knows nothing about it."



--- but see it's not worth mentioning at all, and this is what you fail to grasp because you

aren't well-versed in electronic music (which is fine by the way, you just maybe shouldn't review

it, at least not as assertively as you did here). it would be like me reviewing an indie-rock EP

and spending a significant amount of time explaining that this is not a full-length album, and

contains mainly tracks that were cut from the group's previous LP. it's not necessary, ever.

mention it in passing, but only so the potentially unknowledgeable reader is aware of the the make-

up of the release you're reviewing.

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in terms of a more thourough crituque, i honestly can't be bothered, but I will pick out some of the most glaring issues I had with it, then I'm sorry but I'm not going to carry on with this because I

a. don't particularly like/care about Skrillex

b. don't particularly like/care about you (sorry, just being up front)



but I said I would so here's a couple of the biggest problems.



-right from the get-go, you make it very clear that your knowledge of "dubstep" is very narrow, limited, and recently acquired. this line is enough to make anyone who knows anything about real dubstep stop reading immediately: "He is most famous for his commercial success with dubstep, a style that differentiates itself from other electronic subgenres by focusing less on the ‘bleeps’ and more on the ‘wubs,' for lack of better terminology"

"for lack of better terminology"? No, there is better terminology, you just don't know what it is. "Sub-bass" is what people call the 'wubs' but most brostep (or whatever you want to call it) doesn't use sub-bass at all, but uses mid-frequency tones that sound like power tools. That's a key difference between popular American dubstep and actual dubstep, mainly coming from the UK, and at the very minimum, I would think that someone should be aware of this distinction before attempting to review something within the scene.



-"a combination of dubstep and reggae, as if they weren’t bad enough on their own. "

again, even a minimal amount of knowledge in this are would be helpful. dubstep and reggae cannot be "combined" per se as the roots of the genre owe very much to the reggae and dub sound. A dubstep song can emphasize this influence more or less, but it cannot be "combined" with reggae. That's like combining pop-punk with punk, it doesn't compute.



-"Now he’s left releasing EPs like this to squeeze every bit of profit he can out of his dying profession before he slowly fades into obscurity."

ummm what? DJing is a dying profession? do you live in Yemen? also, Skrillex is fading into obscurity? please tell me I don't need to explain why this is ridiculous.

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your actual writing is not terrible, but it's just desperately clear that you have no idea what you are talking about. again, it's fine that your knowledge in this area is limited, i know fuck all about death metal. but if I'm going to review it, I make sure I do enough research, and approach the review in a way that my limited knowledge does not encroachon the effectiveness of the review.



another thing is that, while I don't unanimously dismiss first person reviews, it is distracting in this case, especially in the last paragraph.



one last thing: " it would be that it’s not entirely Skrillex’s fault in that technically he only had input on one song, but the sole fact that he would release such an abomination to the world "

try to avoid statement like "he released an abomination to the world" as it really hurts your impartial stance, which is meant to be noticeable for music reviews, except in very special circumstances.



I hope this satisfies my initial claim that I would critique this more thoroughly. The review isn't terribly written, and I'm sure you have the potential to write good reviews, but this is not one. Honestly, I'm guessing half of your 'pos' votes are from people who saw the 1/5, went "lol Skrillex" in their head, and didn't bother reading.



reply to this in length if you want to, but I'm respectfully telling you now that I am done here. I hope I was more helpful than I was cruel. Peace.

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"in terms of a more thourough crituque, i honestly can't be bothered"



lol yeah right

tldr bottom line insur can't write reevuws

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sounds like you took everything i said at 100% face value and have absolutely no sense of - well, common sense in general.



the 'bleeps' and 'wubs' was describing the sounds obviously, i didnt want to get into too much detail about the technical aspects of dubstep since people who are reading the review surely know what it sounds like.



your dubstep and reggae combination argument makes absolutely no sense, mainly because the difference between dubstep and reggae is far greater than the difference between pop-punk and punk, even by the names alone.



and i never said DJing was a dying profession, i was referring to skrillex's career in general. and i said 'before' he fades into obscurity, obviously implying that he isn't obscure at the moment but probably will be in the near future if he continues down this path.



maybe you should read a bit more thoroughly before you make ridiculous "critiques" like that and making up substance-less arguments for the sake of arguing.



plus, yeah im no dubstep/electronic expert, but the review is about the content of the EP, not a history lesson about the origin of a genre. i listened to the music and wrote a review about it. knowledge of the genre itself should have very little to do with it (unless it gravely affects the review, which you have made clear that it doesn't).