Bronies have a thriving music scene

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Bronies represent a thriving subculture. They have conventions around the world, movies produced by Q, and, mountains of sweet tunes. Like trotstep, which is just dubstep, but about My Little Pony.

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Links:
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Intro (Alex S. Glitch Remix):    • Видео  
Bronies on News 2013:    • Видео  
Andrew W.K. - Party Hard:    • Andrew W.K. - Party Hard  
I'll Fly Higher (Acoustic) - Live In London (Feat. Bejoty):    • Видео  
Becoming Popular - Full MLP Cover by MandoPony:    • Видео  
Loyalty - original MLP music by AcousticBrony & MandoPony:    • Loyalty - original MLP music by AcousticBr...  
Hey Ocean! - Too Soon:    • Hey Ocean! - Too Soon  
Eurobeat Brony - Discord (The Living Tombstone Remix):    • Eurobeat Brony - Discord (The Living Tombs...  
Bronyfied - Brony Metal Medley:    • Bronyfied - Brony Metal Medley  
Secret Metal - Clopper:    • Secret Metal - Clopper  
[REVENGE SONG] The Clopper (ft. Big Fat Brian):    • [REVENGE SONG] The Clopper (ft. Big Fat Br...  
Let's Go and Meet the Bronies:    • Видео  

Bronies -- adult male fans of My Little Pony and specifically the show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic -- represent a thriving subculture. They have conventions around the world, movies produced by Q, and, mountains of sweet tunes. Like trotstep, which is just dubstep, but about My Little Pony.

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is the creation of former Powerpuff Girls director Lauren Faust. The fourth generation of Pony television-tie-ins, it debuted in fall 2010 on the Hasbro-owned Hub network. Targeted at girls aged 2 to 11, it's fun and bright and positive and feminine. And dudes love it.

Bronies are an oft-derided culture of grown-ass men who enjoy a cartoon about magical ponies. Let's get this out of the way -- bronies, you do you. Andrew WK has written about brony culture and spoken at brony cons.

A fan of Pinkie Pie, the "most party of the ponies," he crucially notes "It's amazing that a cartoon show about small horses can teach us how to be real men." But he doesn't have any brony songs yet.

AcousticBrony are two bronies from the UK. Like many My Little Pony musical enthusiasts, they started with covers of songs from the show -- a gateway drug that Friendship is Magic songwriter Daniel Ingram encourages, because he seems like a super nice guy.

That comment came from a MandoPony video. MandoPony might be even more popular than AcousticBrony -- their collaboration track, "Loyalty," a reference to the popular Rainbow Dash character, is kind of a certified brony hit, like if Coheed and Cambria sang about cartoon ponies.

It's worth noting that Rainbow Dash is actually voiced by Ashleigh Ball, vocalist for Hey Ocean, in case you were looking for a way to tie Vancouver indie rock into this whole thing.

Trotstep. It's part of the remix culture that permeates My Little Pony and any modern internet fandom. But with a funnier name.

Discord is the evil former ruled of Equestria, where Friendship is Magic takes place. He's voiced by John de Lancie, who produced a movie about brony fandom. And he is the inspiration for this song by Eurobeat Brony.

Want to hear a metal version of that? Don't worry. My boy Bronyfield's got you with his Brony Metal Medley.

How fun and harmless is all this? Totally fun and harmless. A lot of the general queasiness around bronies stems from the belief that it's all kind of pervy. Which it isn't. Unless you're a clopper.

Cloppers are the sexy ones, making sure that the internet's unwritten Rule 34 is abided by --if it exists, there is porn for it. And if there is porn for it, there is music for it.

Still gross. Let's go for the big finish with Q singing about hipster bronies. Keep it positive.

So what's your take? If you're not a brony, could you ever listen to brony music? Archie V, a Russian brony DJ, just joined Kontor Records, the same label as Tiesto. Bronies, did I miss the best brony artist? Let us know in the comments, and subscribe. And that's how Equestria was made.