History Music / DeadMau5

* LethalChef: In one of his really, really [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oex6sjhzNM old videos]], he managed to screw up making an omelette (it somehow resulted in ''scrambled eggs''). In the 2011 Christmas Eve stream, reheating soup in a pot was considered a huge success for him ("This soup was made with magnets!"), and his caption for a picture of his [[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150561919571806&set=a.10150561918441806.375354.9980651805&type=3&theater newly-renovated kitchen]] was "the kitchen, where cooking will likely never get done". He can apparently make [[CanadaEh Kraft Dinner]], though.

* SitcomArchNemesis: Music/DavidGuetta. See CanadaEh above and TakeThat below.
* SirSwearsALot: ALL of the time. It's brought up to eleven when he gets angry or enthusiastic.

** Issuing {{Take That}}s on Music/DavidGuetta is practically a RunningGag (though it's less animosity towards the guy himself and more towards his style of producing - "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiT3_sQbq24&t=42m17s He's like a human-fucking-mashup!]]"). One such example of this case is in the CanadaEh trope above, though there are many, ''many'' other examples of this.

** This trope also applies to him when he's actually speaking. Occasionally he'll pronounce a word oddly, such as "epitome" ("epi-tohm" instead of "ee-pi-toh-mee"). Possibly related to CanadaEh below.

* CanadaEh: He's Canadian, and he really does say "Eh". His Canadian accent is much more prominent in his earlier online videos.
** And true to what the page says, he really ''does'' call Macaroni and Cheese "Kraft Dinner" and is obsessed with Tim Hortons coffee. He also pronounces "sorry" as "soarhy", even when his accent is barely there. Some stereotypes are true after all, eh?
** Also invoked when someone Tweeted to him that he "lost a fan" because he's Canadian, which he responded to with a [[http://youtu.be/ovzvSzXwFZo?t=6m45s hilariously stereotypical heavy Canadian accent]].
-->"Yeah, yeah fuckin' eh, ya hoser! Go listen to [[Music/DavidGuetta Guetta]], eh!"

-->"…well now the world knows what you think about it. go outside or somethin for a while dude."

** The original version of "My Problem" features the lyrical melody of "[[Music/DaftPunk Harder Better Faster Stronger]]", and warps the lyrics to make them insulting.

Joel Thomas Zimmerman (born January 5, 1981), better known as deadmau5 (pronounced "dead mouse") is a Canadian ElectronicMusic producer and DJ, and easily one of the most popular artists in the genre today. He is best known for songs including "Faxing Berlin", "I Remember", "Ghosts 'n' Stuff", "Strobe", "Sofi Needs a Ladder", and "Raise Your Weapon", as well as the epony[[JustForPun mau5]] [[CoolHelmet mau5head]] that he wears during live performances.

** The animations for his live shows reference Pac-Man, VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}, VideoGame/SuperMarioWorld, and VideoGame/MegaMan. Past ones have also referenced the original VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda.

** His own music is prone to being sampled by other artists - famous incidents include the Music/BlackEyedPeas's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh2giDlkc_w sampling of "You And I" in "The Time"]], Alexis Jordan sampling [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJguxZ2QTSs "Brazil (2nd Edit)" in "Happiness"]], and Nick Cannon's [[WhatAnIdiot very blatant]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLGdtRUO2dc sampling of "I Remember"]].

* NoPronunciationGuide: Is it "dead mouse" or "dead mau five"? While the former is often considered the "right" way to say it by fans (since that was the original intent of the name), the man himself doesn't care how you pronounce it, and has even said it as "dead mau five" a few times.

Joel Thomas Zimmerman (b. January 5, 1981), better known as deadmau5 (pronounced "dead mouse") is a Canadian ElectronicMusic producer and DJ, and easily one of the most popular artists in the genre today. He is best known for songs including "Faxing Berlin", "I Remember", "Ghosts 'n' Stuff", "Strobe", "Sofi Needs a Ladder", and "Raise Your Weapon", as well as the epony[[JustForPun mau5]] [[CoolHelmet mau5head]] that he wears during live performances.

A Canadian ElectronicMusic producer and icon, deadmau5 (pronounced "dead mouse") is easily one of the most popular electronic artists today. Getting his professional start in 2006 when he released his first full album, ''Get Scraped'', he is best known for the songs "Faxing Berlin", "I Remember", "Ghosts 'n' Stuff", "Strobe", "Sofi Needs a Ladder", and "Raise Your Weapon", as well as for wearing his epony[[JustForPun mau5]] [[CoolHelmet mau5head]] during live performances.

His stage name comes from an incident in which he found a [[TitleDrop dead mouse]] in his computer while replacing his video card - on the IRC channel he frequented, he became known as "that dead mouse guy" after recounting the incident, and decided to change his username to "deadmau5" as a joke. The name is spelled as it is because of the character limit for names on certain IRC servers (you can only fit eight and "deadmouse" is nine), [[Letters2Numbers with the "5" as the "s" on the end]] because [[RuleOfCool it's cool]].

Real name Joel Thomas Zimmerman, he was born on January 5, 1981, and raised in Niagara Falls, Ontario (though he considers his current city of residence, UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}, his hometown). As a child, he had a hobby of tearing apart household electronics to figure out how they worked, which carried over to his later fascination with electronic music production - as opposed to solely using plugins and software to make his sounds (which he derisively calls "laptop music"), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D26U26fFojw he uses huge racks of analog modular CV equipment]] to produce them.

After dropping out of high school, doing many odd jobs over the years (including being contracted for an IT job for two years using only his own self-taught computer programming skills), and starting a design business on the side, all while producing music in his free time as a hobby, he found himself being paid to do music for advertising until he got discovered by DJ Chris Lake. This and the appearance of his first hit as deadmau5, "Faxing Berlin", on Pete Tong's radio show led to him being signed onto Ultra Records, later creating his own label, mau5trap, and thus becoming a hit electronic artist doing music full-time.

While known for his music and his mau5head image, he is also known for being one of the [[JustForFun/OneOfUs nerdiest musicians]] to ever exist, being extremely open with his fans, and causing controversy, usually by speaking what is ''exactly'' on his mind, PR and sugarcoating be damned. These, combined with his [[ClusterFBomb constant cursing]], his [[{{Troll}} sense of humor]], his [[IJustWantToBeNormal personal problems]], and the tendency for people to take anything he says out of context, result in a rather ''interesting'' individual.

!!Tropes Related to deadmau5:

** The phrase "go to bed", usually used by fans as a response against one of his trolling attempts, was championed by him as a response to any hate Tweets he got about his outburst at Music/{{Madonna}}.

** Fun fact: attempting to steal his hat will result in an epic takedown from the mau5 himself. [[https://twitter.com/lornmurray/status/215190016253624322/photo/1 Case in point]]. [[CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass He put the guy in the hospital.]]

---> "HEY, frickin' douchebag! Hey Ed Hardly, go fuck yourself, you fucking idiot! Take your ''Series/JerseyShore'' and get the fuck out of the door!"
* BigEater: Implied by several of his Tweets and Facebook posts. Best part is, the guy is still insanely thin.

--> "seriously, i giveth not a fucking single FUCK for slating on Music/{{Madonna}} for reaching an entirely NEW level of idiocy ... i can appriciate her meteoric career, and all good deeds done, but [[WhatTheHellHero WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT]]? That's your big contribution to EDM? Thats your big message to ultra attendies? hipsterspeak for looking for drugs? [[ClusterFBomb fuck off you fucking IDIOT. fuck.]]"
** Also used in one of his [=Halcyon441=] songs, "How To Flame"

** "Creep" was allegedly inspired by ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}''.

A Canadian ElectronicMusic producer and icon, deadmau5 (pronounced "dead mouse") is easily one of the most popular electronic artists today. Getting his professional start in 2006 when he released his first full album, ''Get Scraped'', he is best known for the songs "Faxing Berlin", "I Remember", "Ghosts 'n' Stuff", "Strobe", "Sofi Needs a Ladder", and "Raise Your Weapon", as well as for wearing his epony[[JustForPun mau5]] [[NiceHat mau5head]] during live performances.

* NiceHat:
** The giant helmets he wears, called "mau5head"s. He has several of them, including an LED one that serves as an ExpressiveMask.
** The baseball caps he ''always'' wears could qualify, too.

* LargeHam: He normally already has a little of this in his personality (and it really comes out when he's drunk), but he brings it UpToEleven when he's performing or on camera. [[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150208292111806&set=a.10150208285616806.311444.9980651805&type=3&theater For]] [[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150208294766806&set=a.10150208285616806.311444.9980651805&type=3&theater example]].

* SirSwearsALot: ALL of the time. It's brought UpToEleven when he gets angry or enthusiastic.
* SophisticatedAsHell: His [[ClusterFBomb constant cussing]] combined with his large vocabulary often results in this. It's taken UpToEleven when he's talking equipment and computers, because in those cases his cursing is mixed with tech jargon, resulting in gems such as "fucking modular oscillation".

--> "HEY, frickin' douchebag! Hey Ed Hardly, go fuck yourself, you fucking idiot! Take your ''Series/JerseyShore'' and get the fuck out of the door!"

* {{Mondegreen}}: In the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y8pmWokh4I deadmau5 - o2 wireless festival intro]]" video, some of the lyrics are {{Mondegreen}}ed to mau5-related ones.

** The concept art for his upcoming graphic novel is often full of them, but [[http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150374596361806&set=a.100357766805.100899.9980651805&type=3&theater this image]] of his tank takes the cake. For one, it's very clearly a souped-up [[Anime/GhostInTheShellStandAloneComplex Tachikoma]]. Others have noted similarities to ''VideoGame/StarCraft'' and ''ComicBook/TankGirl''.

** One of his upcoming songs is titled "Literature/TheVeldt", and has lyrics that explicitly reference the story.
*** Not to mention the [[{{Limbo}} video's]] [[http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/59/a3/1340749219_6780_dead7.jpg aesthetic]].

* {{Dystopia}}: Some themes of this can be found in the WordSaladLyrics of "Professional Griefers", what with lines of "[[MagicVersusScience We got machines but the kids got Jesus]]", "[[GodIsDead God can't hear you,]] [[BigBrotherIsWatching they will fight you]], [[RobotMe Watch them build a friend just like you]]", and "Carbon-lacing, spent-shell casing, [[OrwellianEditor photographs that I'm erasing]]" to name a few.

->''"So am I living a dream? Or enduring a nightmare? I still can't decide... because the last thing I want, or anyone else wants, is to just fade out into obscurity over a period of time and then end up shit on by the people who are near me now. That's why i have "fail" tattooed on the inside of my wrist... has a very profound meaning to me. Well, this is the short of it... another day approaches, and the pressure is more prevalent then it was the other day... I'm trying my best."''

* EarlyBirdCameo: The opening synth line for "Ryleh's Lament" first appeared in the 2010 video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqMKelSpgNM my cat hates my fans]]".
** An early version of Failbait can be heard in an old video, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX1pWJMVlE4 here's what i think.]]"

* FadingIntoTheNextSong: From ''For Lack of a Better Name'', "FML" fades into "Moar Ghosts 'n' Stuff".

** "[[http://soundcloud.com/fuckmylife/deadmau5-failbait-ft-cypres Failbait]]" is a ''hip-hop'' song featuring Music/CypressHill.

* RearrangeTheSong: He frequently uploads ([[MissingEpisode and deletes]]) [=WIPs=] all over the place, some of which end up becoming officially released under new titles after substantial tweaking. Some examples include:
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26DbQcrmAWo Old Ghosts]]", a song that would after ten or so revisions become "Ghosts 'n' Stuff".
** "Aural Psynapse" is actually a re-edit of a song that he made ''in 2001'' under his old [=Halcyon441=] name, also titled "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufyx6Yqy2CM Aural Psynapse]]". Not only are the synth lines similar, but the background effects used in the song (which are especially obvious right at the beginning) later showed up in "Strobe" and "[=HR8938=] Cephei".
** "Strobe" is actually two previously existing songs put together, one of which being "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJdvdq697ts Then We Stood Still]]".
** Like "Strobe", "Fn Pig" combines "Get in the Cart, Pig" with what ended up being an entirely different song. Several uploads on his soundcloud show him toying with different ways of continuing the massive "Cart" introduction, with the original upload ending in what sounds like 90s rave.
** "Brazil" was originally much more [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2jBI_eixvU chill and meditative]]. It's completely unrecognizable from "Brazil (2nd Edit)."
** ''W:/2016ALBUM/'' contains several tracks that are reworkings of tracks that Joel uploaded to his Soundcloud. One example of this is "Let Go", which was in its most original form known as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWwSFAe1onw "aassddff"]].
** An example of this where both songs have been officially released comes with [[SdrawkcabName "ebortS"]], which first appears as a moody but hard-hitting [[TrapMusic trap beat]]... and then fades in the intro to "Strobe".

* TrademarkFavoriteFood: His love for Coca-Cola is very well-known. It's to the point that he's stated that he turned down a ''six-figure deal'' from Pepsi because he drinks Coke.
* {{Troll}}ing: His signature brand of humor. Examples include posting on Facebook that his agent has been fired during a venue mishap (without actually firing the guy), and Tweeting that he supposedly lost his demo Playstation Vita in a cab a day or so after he got it from Sony just to see how much trouble he would (theoretically) get into. Not to mention all the times he has fed the trolls on Twitter and Facebook just for sheer lulz.

** Even his management is in on it, though - one instance was when his manager texted him about how the Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto who signed his arm was just a stand in...while he was getting said signature tattooed into his arm. [[HilarityEnsues Hilarity ensued]].

** His {{Dubstep}} demos on [=SoundCloud=] have [[SarcasmMode creative titles]] such as "[[BuffySpeak Dub5tepthingie2]]".

A Canadian ElectronicMusic producer and icon, deadmau5 (pronounced "dead mouse") is easily one of the most popular electronic artists today. Getting his professional start in 2006 when he released his first full album, ''Get Scraped'', he is best known for the songs "Faxing Berlin", "I Remember", "Ghosts 'n' Stuff", "Strobe", "Sofi Needs a Ladder", and "Raise Your Weapon", as well as for wearing his epony[[JustForPun mau5]] [[NiceHat mau5head]] during live performances. His stage name comes from an incident in which he found a [[TitleDrop dead mouse]] in his computer while replacing his video card - on the IRC channel he frequented, he became known as "that dead mouse guy" after recounting the incident, and decided to change his username to "deadmau5" as a joke. The name is spelled as it is because of the character limit for names on certain IRC servers (you can only fit eight and "deadmouse" is nine), [[Letters2Numbers with the "5" as the "s" on the end]] because [[RuleOfCool it's cool]].

Real name Joel Thomas Zimmerman, he was born on January 5, 1981, and raised in Niagara Falls, Ontario (though he considers his current city of residence, UsefulNotes/{{Toronto}}, his hometown). As a child, he had a hobby of tearing apart household electronics to figure out how they worked, which carried over to his later fascination with electronic music production - as opposed to solely using plugins and software to make his sounds (which he derisively calls "laptop music"), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D26U26fFojw he uses huge racks of analog modular CV equipment]] to produce them. After dropping out of high school, doing many odd jobs over the years (including being contracted for an IT job for two years using only his own self-taught computer programming skills), and starting a design business on the side, all while producing music in his free time as a hobby, he found himself being paid to do music for advertising until he got discovered by DJ Chris Lake. This and the appearance of his first hit as deadmau5, "Faxing Berlin", on Pete Tong's radio show led to him being signed onto Ultra Records, later creating his own label, mau5trap, and thus becoming a hit electronic artist doing music full-time.