Skrillex gets nominated for 5 Grammy’s, then does a funny dance!!
If you didn't already hear the breaking news, Skrillex was nominated for 5 Grammy's on November 30th, 2011 at the official Grammy nomination ceremony. The biggest nomination of all is the Best New Artist category, which puts him against the likes of The Band Perry, Bon Iver, Nicki Minaj, and J. Cole. This is a huge turning point for EDM, and is a big deal for all electronic music producers across all genres.
There's no doubt in anyone's mind that Skrillex is the fastest growing producer in EDM history, and It just goes to show how EDM is taking over- check out this really good, kind of long article about how "Electronic Music Moved the Masses in 2011".
There are some other producers nominated for Grammys, which is dope as well. Deadmau5, Swedish House Mafia, David Guetta and others figure in the list, check the full list at the Grammy's site here. So, does this mean dubstep is going mainstream?
These are the 5 awards Skrillex received Grammy nominations for :
- Best New Artist
- Best Dance Recording (Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites)
- Best Dance/Electronica Album (Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites)
- Best Remixed Recording, Non-Classical (Cinema Skrillex Remix)
- Best Short Form Music Video (First of the Year)
Once Skrillex realized was nominated he started doing this funny dance! Everyone laughed at his seizure-sh dance moves and it was kind of an awkward moment.. But everyone stills loves him (or hates him for that matter) because he makes banging tunes. thanks r/electronicmusic for the gif 
So what do you think? Do you think this nomination is good for EDM, or do you think that Skrillex getting Nominated for 5 Grammys is going to continue to bring Dubstep and EDM to the mainstream, and turn it into some poppy, over done, over marketed, over produced garbage?
Listen and Download some Skrillex below
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SKrillex - Voltage (Unreleased) | Free Download (320 Kbps)
Skrillex - Kyoto ft Sirah (unreleased) | Free Download (320 Kbps RIP)
Skrillex in Session - BBC Radio 1 20 min mix 11/16/2011 | Free Download (320 Kbps)
Skrillex - Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites (50 million youtube views)
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Did you see the smooth transition between the backwards-bouncing and the headbanging?
Skrillex definetly knows how to have a seizure with style!
As awesome as this is for Sonny Moore, I really don’t feel too keen on the thought of dubstep being mainstream. I knew it was bound to happen but DAMN it feels too soon. I knew as soon as I saw First of the Year on the new beavis and butthead that it was all downhill. Last week I saw a North Face clothing ad with Above and Beyond by Bassnectar. Anyone else feel this way?
Yeah I feel you 100 percent. I don’t want to be a hipster or anything but I feel like dubstep is MY music its like my signature Im a devoted fan and listened to it for a long time. When I see people screaming about how filthy scary monsters is on their ipod headphones and immideatly call themselves dubstep fans. I get a irky feeling, I’m not to worried about it becoming main stream though, just like hip-hop, the genre’s pretty much mainstream “fuck a bitch, smoke a blunt” crap but people still make great 80s style true hip hop you just have to know were to find it.
Just my 2 cents
Sorry for crappy spelling and grammar.
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Ya I agree with you K-Haven, I have mixed emotions about this. It seems to be the demise of every genre when it becomes saturated by the mainstream, and this years Grammy’s seems to be one step closer in that direction. Nonetheless, I will love EDM forever. There has never been a shortage of good music, you just have to search for it in the underground. Skrillex def deserves that award tho.
Hey I’m in that GIF somewhere! Global Dance Festival at the Red Rocks in Colorado =] . I’m famous!
not to sure if skrillex deserves this, there are millions of producers out there who go unrecognized with more talent than sonny. people seem to forget he was already famous being an emo kid in from first to last before he began making edm