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Dubstep DJ Doorly: "Everyone Goes Mental"

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RO: Now I've listened to you and Beardyman's recent work. I watched the music video as soon as it was up on YouTube and I literally started laughing my ass off. I don't know if everyone will get it. I got the joke. Could explain the production of that song, and the humor reflected within the music video?

D: So the song is just something that Beardyman came up with. He came up with the idea and it was just quite funny. The way he described the dubstep bassline. It's all just a bit silly really. We both like dubstep and we're both stand for what it is.

There is a lot of comedy, rubbish dubstep out there that's just a bit, well kind of annoying. So we just figured let's do a song poking fun. The video itself, I didn't have anything to do with it. I was away on tour. So that was Beardyman who did all of it.

When I came back, I thought it was hilarious. Funny enough it was one of the most aggressive things I've ever made. So I guess I showed that I can make that really loud noise just as anyone else. It was just a bit of funny really.

It's been received pretty well. Some people are overanalyzing the video a lot more than it was intended to be. It's just literally puppets in the video just messing around. One of them was a vampire. I read the YouTube comments and some people were thinking the vampire was supposed to be Skrillex and they were saying Skrillex ruined dubstep.

I was like, "what are you on about?" I had to go on YouTube and answer all these comments. I was like, "look guys stop." You try making a puppet that's a vampire that doesn't look like Skrillex a tiny bit. I mean he does have kind of a goth look. At 1:21 the vampire is trying to DJ and couldn't do it. And people were saying that was Skrillex failing at DJing.

I was just, "try to make that puppet." Really try to make that work. I just don't get it. I was such a point of debate. Some people weren't getting the main idea of the video or song. It's crazy to me what people will write on YouTube. It's just weird to see how people take a video totally out of context.

RO: I got it. I was just laughing at the tombstone that said, "R.I.P. Dubstep 2004-2012." That was pretty funny to me.

D: Haha. Yeah, I think Beardyman even said that was a joke about how people are saying it is dead now. We don't think that. Clearly we're still playing it. It was just humorous.

RO: You haven't been back to the U.S. in about six months or so. You're finally back. How does it feel to be back?

D: I just love it here. I need to move here really. But got to get everything together in England so I can move out here really. There's no hatred here. You're a positive race you Americans are. I enjoy that kind of energy.

RO: Houston is your last stop on the tour. I'm kind of interested on that one. I always feel that the last stop should always go hard. So how's this last stop going to be?

D: I tend to go hard pretty much every night. I love it. I even have a friend in Houston. I figured Houston is just a good way to finish it. I love Texas in general. I've never had a bad show in Texas.

Everyone goes mental. It's just great. Texans seem to like to party. Never once have I had bad show or experience in Dallas, Austin or Houston. I'm really looking forward to it.

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