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?