Former Dubstep Fan Admits It Was A Bit Much.

“At the time, I couldn’t get enough of it. But now, not that long after, I just can’t do it. I'm not sure what i was thinking back then."

Currently, Rodney Lee runs his own successful plumbing business. He has also started a young family.

A few short years ago, his passion lay elsewhere. He was completely obsessed with dubstep. In fact, he was about as big a dubstep fan as it was possible to be.

Dubstep, with its sparse, syncopated rhythmic patterns and ridiculous use of sub-bass frequencies, is actually a fair bit older than most people realise. While it gained obscene and ridiculous popularity in the late 2000s and early 2010s, it is generally understood to have emerged in the late 90s.

Rodney went completely nuts for it. He wouldn’t just dance to it at clubs. He would also blast it on his stereo at home, in the car and anywhere else he could.

Now, with the benefit of hindsight, Rodney is prepared to admit it was a bit much.

“So yeah I was chatting to one of my old mates Dennis and we started reminiscing. He whacked on some old Funtcase and Skrillex and what have you. I pretended to sort of still like it, so I didn’t feel like an old man. But yeah it was pretty much an assault on the ears. It made me feel anxious. Unpleasant. And honestly I don’t think Dennis was still into it either. He seemed like he was faking it.”

And that he was. Dennis informed us that he felt he had no choice.

“We dedicated several years to our obsession with dubstep. If I told him I wasn’t into it, we’d have to confront the fact that we had shit taste and wasted a big chuck of our lives. Nobody wants to go to a barbie and be confronted with that sort of existential crisis.”