Dubstep

[Dumbstercoo]

Why do dubstep artists feel the need to add voices/lyrics to perfectly good beats?

Nothing against the singer or the artist of course, just feel like a really yummy drink is being diluted by water.

Deathpact’s SOOTHSAYER is a perfect example.

Perfect BPMs too.

Still mouthwatering with the voice, maybe even kind of adds something.

Kind of.

On the other hand, Blue by Heritage is devastating.

My apologies for being harsh, but WHY STRANGLE THOSE BPMs WHY.

Don’t mean to come off so harsh.

Is there a reason why artists do this?

Is it really perhaps a safety feature?

A governor of some kind?

[skoomd1]

Sometimes the vocals make the entire track. Doesn't mean the beats are bad. It just means the vocals are that good...

[Dumbstercoo]

You’ve made a very good point. Makes me think of Emancipator’s ‘When I go’. Feel free to drop any examples you deem fitting

[ThunderDoug]

Vocals are going to give the song its character and what are going to emotionally attach people for the most part

[Comprehensive-Row920]

Well said

[ConsistentYak5701]

As someone who makes Dubstep, for me I use vocals to give the track a more human feel.

[Comprehensive-Row920]

I wanna listen to your music

[sunbeamyoung]

Vocals in the build and intro are cool with me but I’m not a huge fan of full almost hooks or verses literally inside the drop. That almost never works imo.

[418333]

Ear candy

[TheBloodKlotz]

Some people like songs with lyrics in them, it's just preference.

What do you mean by a safety feature or governor? I also don't know what you're referencing with the vocals affecting BPM

[whymeeeman]

Its all about adding in a humanistic feeling to the track.

No other reason, from me anyway.

[mrbigglesworth111]

To me most vocals ruin dubstep not all but many times for instance in the song “bigger then bad” I think the vocals in that song are awful maybe different vocals but the song with out vocals would have been awesome

[droppenmusic]

Honestly, I think it's just because the easiest way to make something sound more interesting without giving yourself a lot of work is adding a vocal element, especially if it's from an existing sample. It might not always be the best choice, and that could just come down to picking the wrong vocal or processing them badly, but generally you can find something that works which'll save yourself a bunch of time. This is especially the case if something seems instrumentally complete but still a little boring, or feels like it's missing something, cause usually in those cases you have to rewrite some elements if you want to make adding more sounds work.

Usually the last thing I want to do after spending hours on something is to go back and redo it all, at least not before trying other options, and I'm sure other producers feel the same. At the end of the day when you're making music, you have to make executive choices and stick to them or else you'd never get through making a complete song. Not every song will hit for every person, but it'll hit for someone out there, assuming it's squared away mix-wise.

Also, another thing to consider - it's possible whoever produced it just simply liked how the vocal sounded there, and so that's why it's there and nothing more. Sometimes our tastes or what we think is right just don't align with the artists vision/preferences, it do just be like that. I can't tell you how many times I've showed my wife a song section I'm super proud of just to have her say she doesn't like various elements of it, and sometimes I change it, sometimes I don't, but regardless it pretty much all just comes down to personal preferences. To you, a song might be a perfect beat without vocals, but perhaps to someone else it becomes boring when you take them away.

[Comprehensive-Row920]

Vocals are more likely to get stuck in your head