Skrillex Explains Why He Worked With Justin Bieber

In an interview with Rolling Stone, Skrillex explained why he decided to work with Justin Bieber. Here are highlights:

On Deadman5's claims that he was used as tool by Bieber: "If he was a real friend, he would come to me and be like, "Yo, you shouldn't be working for Justin Bieber," rather than blowing it up all over the Internet and going out of his way to make people feel wrong for making a choice in their life. And I would say to him, "I enjoy working with Justin Bieber!" I'm a fan of his voice. And if you're a producer and you get an opportunity to work with someone who's the biggest artist in the world – for better or for worse – what would you say? Would you say no?"

On which hip-hop producers he enjoys: "Timbaland is still one of my favorite producers ever, with his drums. He inspired me growing up. And the diversity of the people who he's worked with, from fuckin' Björk to Justin Timberlake, and even that record from what's his name, from Audioslave."

On what it would take to get him to get excited about a rock act now: "Music's gotta be dangerous, and that's what I feel like rock has lacked. The most dangerous music right now is electronic music and hip-hop. The best artists take limited resources and create the most out of them, and that's what people are doing with computers and samplers. It's like, "We don't have enough money to get a whole studio and a whole band, so we just do the shit ourselves in our bedrooms." But the kids are going to inevitably start punk bands again. It's going to happen."

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