Q dance is going to be touring in America

[DJ Night Raver]

im still not excited about it lol

[wanderer]

The hardstyle scene in america is begging for more

If you listen to the hardstyle coming out in the US/Canada you'll notice not a lot of it is incredibly poppy. All of the popstyle like wildstylez, brennan heart, etc, is european. If anything I'd say a lot of the N american stuff coming out these days is sounding more and more like the stuff coming out of italy.

A lot of American Hardstyle fans are still envying the days of early nustyle, since they searched for Hardstyle to escape from Pop House.

Most of my friends who like hardstyle prefer the harder shit....

[TR1Light]

Q-Dance, finally!

[TR1Light]

Honestly, I'm pretty positive hardstyle will never be in the American mainstream. Most people won't understand the intros or the breaks, that, and a lot of tracks have poetry and narration, which most people just won't understand. Because of that, I have no fear of the genre selling out.

[Snugens]

I wonder what's left that Americans can do to hardstyle.

[BeatConductor]

I wonder what's left that Americans can do to hardstyle.

I think that we will be able to bring some diversity back to it. I know i said in a earlier comment that we would muck it up here, but i think i was wrong. Only hardcore hardstyle fans are gonna go. Well, mostly true fans, still have those kids that go to raves to get fucked up. That's a given here though. I digress. Most people that i've shown hardstyle to prefer the older tracks. [Pre "Nu-style" (I consider nu-style basically any track that has dongs for mid-intro and climax)]. They always say, these songs are so much better than the other ones you play, they are just BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG. I have to say i mostly agree with them. Though the average listener can't really detect the subtle differences in all the dongs nowadays. I do agree that all these new tracks are just some 64 beat bang and screech mid intro with some sort of predictable drop climax thing with kicks pitching all over the place. All so boring.

TL;DR I think america will add some diversity to the hardstyle scene which REALLY needs some spicing up.

[Reverse Ghost]

I wonder what's left that Americans can do to hardstyle.

I think that we will be able to bring some diversity back to it. I know i said in a earlier comment that we would muck it up here, but i think i was wrong. Only hardcore hardstyle fans are gonna go. Well, mostly true fans, still have those kids that go to raves to get fucked up. That's a given here though. I digress. Most people that i've shown hardstyle to prefer the older tracks. [Pre "Nu-style" (I consider nu-style basically any track that has dongs for mid-intro and climax)]. They always say, these songs are so much better than the other ones you play, they are just BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG. I have to say i mostly agree with them. Though the average listener can't really detect the subtle differences in all the dongs nowadays. I do agree that all these new tracks are just some 64 beat bang and screech mid intro with some sort of predictable drop climax thing with kicks pitching all over the place. All so boring.

TL;DR I think america will add some diversity to the hardstyle scene which REALLY needs some spicing up.

Or it'll just go nowhere and people will blame our country for Hardstyle's pussification as if the Dutch artists aren't able to do that on their own.

[Statical]

and a lot of tracks have poetry and narration

Idk what kind of hardstyle you are listening to because there are almost no lyrics in mine

I'd actually take the flip side and say Americans are more accustomed to lots of vocals/lyrics, minute long buildups, and frequent breaks. It's having a 150bpm kick pattern last for longer than a few seconds that seems to blow people's minds in my experience. That or the fact that a hardstyle kick can take up the entire frequency spectrum and sound good even playing by itself. It's all about the individual sounds, timbre > texture.

[BeatConductor]

and a lot of tracks have poetry and narration

Idk what kind of hardstyle you are listening to because there are almost no lyrics in mine

I'd actually take the flip side and say Americans are more accustomed to lots of vocals/lyrics, minute long buildups, and frequent breaks. It's having a 150bpm kick pattern last for longer than a few seconds that seems to blow people's minds in my experience. That or the fact that a hardstyle kick can take up the entire frequency spectrum and sound good even playing by itself. It's all about the individual sounds, timbre > texture.

Very much this. Most people in america listen to music for ONLY lyrics. Which i ludicrous imo. Music is about the music, not vocals, which most all vocals sound extremely similar, being in "common meter".

[Reverse Ghost]

and a lot of tracks have poetry and narration

Idk what kind of hardstyle you are listening to because there are almost no lyrics in mine

I'd actually take the flip side and say Americans are more accustomed to lots of vocals/lyrics, minute long buildups, and frequent breaks. It's having a 150bpm kick pattern last for longer than a few seconds that seems to blow people's minds in my experience. That or the fact that a hardstyle kick can take up the entire frequency spectrum and sound good even playing by itself. It's all about the individual sounds, timbre > texture.

Very much this. Most people in america listen to music for ONLY lyrics. Which i ludicrous imo. Music is about the music, not vocals, which most all vocals sound extremely similar, being in "common meter".

tfw some people tell me what I listen to isn't music because it doesn't have "words."