I think it's a safe bet that 2012 is not going to be the year I come to my senses and embrace dubstep. I once heard Yngwie Malmsteen say it was impossible to take musical influence from Jimi Hendrix because Hendrix didn't create music, he just made sounds. Well if you can say that about Hendrix then you can say it a thousand times over for dubstep.
It seems that giving it the usual "it sounds like what a stroke might feel like" summary is needless because the people that like it already seem to accept this. I think they agree that yes, it does sound like somebody throwing pots and pans down an escalator but they like it anyway. I think it wouldn't be out of place at all in an off-shore detention centre in which terror suspects were alternately water-boarded and kept in solitary confinement.
There are exceptions to every rule however—except this one, maybe—and there is one of these songs I can stand to listen to without feeling the urge to confess to assassinating JFK or whatever else it would take to make it stop. I can't see it being the first of many though.
