So this is still by far the most popular genre in Holland. I too have had a hardstyle period, for which I'm embarrassed, but my excuse is that I was young and ignorant back then. Can anyone tell me why this is so popular? Also, how popular is it where you live?
Weird outfits and a narrator trying to create an atmosphere, but in the end it's just a bunch of people pulling off their shirts and jumping up and down to 8 hours of the same beats and strings?
Hey, let's throw out a theorem: Hardstyle is the most repetitive genre out there.
Discuss.
enydo
Wow, that's terrible.
Scrittah
Cue the rest of the forum saying "x is is the most repetitive genre out there."
Domesticated
Why did you like it during your period? There's your answer as to why everyone else likes it.
I'm more confused about why gabba was invented in Holland, and as hardstyle, still remains there. It doesn't seem to fit at all with the country's easy nature.
Sand Leaper
Holy . Clearly Q-Dance aren't having much trouble with the recession, or someone is up to their eyeballs in debt.
I'm surprised hardstyle still retains such a level of popularity after being in the spotlight for so long. It seems like it has firmly taken over as the dutch gateway clubbing genre where gabber left off after newstyle kicked in around 2000. It's just too bad that the genre seems to be quite happy having their old gabber heroes rehashing their same old tricks from back in the day, and lacks a Patrick van Kerckhoven or DJ Promo intent on always pushing things forward.
Frenkieee
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Originally posted by Scrittah
Cue the rest of the forum saying "x is is the most repetitive genre out there."
Of course, that's inevitable. But you can't argue about the repetitiveness of hardstyle, because that's pretty high, yo :p
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Originally posted by Domesticated
Why did you like it during your period? There's your answer as to why everyone else likes it.
I'm more confused about why gabba was invented in Holland, and as hardstyle, still remains there. It doesn't seem to fit at all with the country's easy nature.
That's the thing.. looking back, I can't figure out why I listened to it. But I've also listened to happy hardcore, trance and gangster rap.. Perhaps I just needed to find myself? Is that it?
And about that easy nature.. it's not that easy, I can tell you that.
Crash
Well ever since Hardstyle Changed into "Nustyle" (dont get the hardstylers started on that one though) the cheeze level has reached to a whole new level.
I listened to alot of Hardstyle back in 2004-06 and it was fun, people had a sense of humor in it and i guess some kind of self distance. Most people knew that the music was often silly with their HUUUUGE breakdowns and that Ptang tang tang Kick drum. And yes, many of the melodies are even worse than what Basshunter Cooks up in Fruity loops.
But these days.... We get like this. They dress up like morons and had live artists "singing" and ripping off famous movie quotes.
This made me realise that they had reached another level of retarded Cheese in the music.
Edit: ING LOL (again...) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWd-Zp5hths
Lews
I laughed at how terrible all 3 of those videos were.
Trance-MB
Why the hell are you embarrassed for listening to hardstyle? I'm not even embarrassed for listing to Scooter or Ramirez in the early 90's.
Anyways, it's very popular even in the real south of our country especially with the younger ones.
Personally I don't like the distortion sound that much, after one or two tracks I have had it with that. But it's fun like gabber and what I personally listened a lot back then Happy Hardcore and Bonzai stuff.
I think hardstyle is what Happy Hardcore was back then.
It has been told in the early 90's: Hardcore will never die :)
And as long as there is Hardcore there also will be a softer version which even more people will like.
Thunderdome now is 18 years old!!! (www.thunderdome.com)
Rodri Santos
this genre has become so cheesy, back in the days was melodic groovy and energetic now is quite gay. Here in Spain is almost dead, a few parties across the country but nothing compared to Qlimax.
Holland is the EDM paradise, you have Luminosity, Energy and Qlimax in a week... this time i'll drop on Amsterdam for Luminosity but all the festivals have some names i like.
floyd741
I was expecting something way harder considering the epic feel it builds up in the beginning but I was sorely disappointed :( I mean, it's not very hard at all, is it.
hasbone
I stopped paying attention to it years ago.
Wow. Still, live string sections were only a matter of time.
Look at all those retards with their goddamn mobile phones.
