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brostep

brostep

1 9.9
A type of electronic dance music with heavy bass drops and loud hard beats
  • noun
  • /ˈbroʊˌstɛp/
  • Jargon
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  • Many fans of electronic music appreciate brostep for its intense sound design and energetic beats.

Examples

  • Skrillex, brostep, and the bass music movement are pretty much the same thing... just a bit less hair and different drugs.

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  • Brostep is not the new grunge!

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  • Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me like you 'people' are doing the exact same thing with brostep/dubstep music.

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  • Interestingly, the dubstep you seem to describe is what people who listened to earlier dubstep commonly call "brostep," and was inspired by one Rusko song ("Cockney

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  • Brostep is characterized by brostep heavy bass drops and aggressive rhythms in electronic dance music.

  • The festival featured a variety of music styles, but the crowd really went wild for the brostep performances.

How Intense

brostep
  • Jargon
1 9.9
techno
41 4.4
dubstep
7 6.3
ambient
38 6.1

Surface Forms

brostep singular
brosteps plural

Morphology

brostep = bro + step (transparent) = bro + step

Formed by combining 'bro' (slang for a masculine person) and 'step' as in music-genre names (pattern visible from 'dubstep'), so the meaning (a 'bro'-oriented variant of step music) is directly recoverable.

Etymology

Brostep comes from joining bro (short for 'brother' or a young 'male friend') and dubstep, the electronic music style. It was used for a louder, more aggressive kind of dubstep that became popular in North America, so the name helps explain the music's heavy bass and party-ready, in-your-face sound.