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Emre
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Funny Pictures/Vids etc relating to the Harder Styles

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Whatever, meanwhile i’m having fun almost every weekend with thousands of others going wild to zaagkicks, piepkicks and uptempo while the internet is full of sweaty neckbeards criticizing them behind their screen :rofl:

I hope you all realize all the bashing is coming from an extremely vocal minority, zaag/piep = bad is not
some universal opinion. Come here and see for yourself, every act with zaagkicks is playing for filled stages, same for uptempo, uptempo area’s are getting bigger every year and still way too overcrowded. Dual Damage came out of nowhere, played 3 times at Intents. Always crowded. Gezellige Uptempo at Intents was impossible to even attend, except if you were standing in the front from the start because it had 10x more visitors than the Boombox could handle and 80% of the crowd had to stand on the path leading to the stage instead of the stage itself. You’d stand so far away that you could barely hear the music.

Lastly, why are people so mad that effort doesn’t necessarily equal success? Most rich people aren’t the hardest workers. Luck plays a role for every succesful person. 99% of jobs don’t have a healthy ‘effort vs reward’ ratio (by which I mean, you gotta work yourself to death physically and mentally to barely be able to buy food to support yourself and your family). When people escape the modern slavery system by being good at creating / following trends and being good at marketing, they have my endless respect.

Don’t work harder, work smarter.

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Post by wikiminaj »

I was trolling around :P

I don't like it myself but I respect people's taste, I mean I listen to Unicorn on Ketamine and GPF so it's not like I can really talk about zaagkicks :+
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Emre wrote: 18 Jun 2023, 16:25 It’s just always the guys making a completely niche underground genre that only a few thousand people on this planet listen to that have to bash on acts that make a hyped up sound and fill stages every weekend :rofl:

The salt is just way too much, keep making your obscure genre and don’t bitch on acts that are LOGICALLY more popular because they make more accessible stuff.
I hope we're not discussing whether someone has the right to voice a negative opinion about ongoing trends that obviously spike controversy in and out of internet lol. I know that plenty of people still like them, FINE. People who love pieps and zaags aren't mentally subhuman just for the sake of liking them OF COURSE. These are more popular and accessible for "ordinary" (not meant in a negative way, again) listeners than industrial hardcore ever will be, FINE. Does this mean it causes inner frustration for less popular artists? Hell no, why should? If you understand that music is not always about the profit motive, maybe you'll get that an artist simply saying out loud "uptempo/piepkicks/zaagkicks are shit" is not necessarily about craving for attention to buy some of their merch or some shit.

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I know what you mean with it doesn’t HAVE to be about attention or being salty, but his post sounded exactly like such a post that you’re describing to me.

It could indeed be a (bad) 1 april take tho, so i rest my case :+

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Popularity doesn't indicate valididation of an opinion. If anything, being more underground makes an opinion more valid because those producers are making music for themselves, and not to appeal to a drugged up crowd. McDonalds is popular here in the US, therefore it's fine to consume on a regular basis :+

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Sorry, but your second sentence is pure elitism imo. There are probably more popular mainstream artists that, besides making mainstream music, genuinely like their own music / the genre they make than you think.

And if the creators of zaag & piepkicks weren’t into that kind of music - which is pretty impossible imo because.. imagine not liking piep & zaagkicks and making them anyways for money.. I mean.. if they wanted to make a genre that they don’t like just for money, surely they would’ve chosen a more comfortable sound to make than fucking zaagkicks lmao. I do like them myself, but you get the point.

Moral of the story.. I’m sure a pretty big part of the acts that make mainstream music, asides from having to make money to live from, do it for themselves just as much as any mega underground producer. They just have a different taste.

Damn if I wanted easy money the last thing I do is live a hella hectic lifestyle flying and djing around the globe, making music, dealing with all the mental breakdowns from such a lifestyle all within a genre/sound that I do not even stand behind :+

Of course they’re in it for the music.

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That's nice but it still sounds like crap. Fact.

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:+

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Post by Trantix »

Emre wrote: 18 Jun 2023, 14:33 Who?

Salty guy who is just mad that others come up with ideas that make them popular while he will never be super popular because he WILLINGLY chose to produce a pretty niche, obscure music style?

People never fail to amaze me lmfao

I’d rather listen to hours of piep/zaagkicks than listen to his garbage industrial shit for a minute.
Dude I think you took this post way too much to heart. This is a guy who jokes around. Like he literally has two songs with Embrionyc called "Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz" and "Aufmerksamkeitsdefizithyperaktivitätsstörung". I don't know what these mean, but he had said for the first one he was surprised there was no track called that (obviously a joke) and I imagine the 2nd song was more or less a follow up since it's in the same style. He also has a video with Embrionyc where they played a music box on a Vinyl. He messes and jokes around, there's nothing wrong with that.

But regardless, I don't understand your comment. Why do you assume he's salty? You said it yourself that he chose to produce obscure music. I would bet he isn't salty about it all. And because he experiments with kicks a lot, I wouldn't be surprised if he appreciates zaag/piep kicks to some degree. But what is the problem with making a joke about something more popular anyways? People do it all the time without actually being salty about what they're joking about.

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Trantix

His post didn’t come off as a joke to me, hence why I was triggered, but he already replied and I apologized lol. Can’t deny that every time something is popular, there will always be artists bashing those who found a trendy formula though..

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