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That's really amazing! 🤯
Plenty of amazing beatboxers in Japan, but Show Go is my favourite. If you like you can easily find them on YouTube!
I stumbled upon this person in Instagram. Love what they do. Something for everyone on the platform we all loathe. One the other end, I started following some good funk drummers too. One place for gate keepers and the new. It’s not so bad once you nourish your algorithm and stop clicking on car wrecks and boobs, or whatever spikes your dopamine.
Yah the funnel is truly gone. Any pod of influence that exists now is much smaller. Also, just put me down for 'yup' after all your posts.
@JanKun i don’t think there’s more or less geniuses aka talented people now than then or vice versa. There’s more accessibility to tools as well as ways to be heard. The internet connectivity has changed the world immensely. There’s really no point in comparing.
As far as genres I guess in the 40’s there were 3 or 4 that in the next 3 to 4 decades became 15. Now, there’s much more cross genre stuff that we’re so used to hearing it seems normal. Especially since the 80’s mish mash decade. Electronic music by itself has so many sub genres that it makes me wonder there’s much sense to pay attention anymore.
As I write I realise how hard it is to get away from the musician’s perspective. I still think that today’s pop music, even if I don’t electively listen to it myself, can be clever and often is quite original.
lots to agree with this thread ) the technology driving us, the scattering of options and opinions ...
what did/do we need music for 🎶?
more outlets and possibilities for this now ...
songs strummed up by machines
sim-phonies at our fingertips
Everything you said was just an opinion, especially the sentence "And this is not just a matter of tastes or generations, the music itself became objectively shittier by every measure --- rhythm, melody, harmony, lyrics ... The melodies jump up and down at intervals that resemble children's nursery rhymes..." Then you mention Chuck Berry as part of the fertile times of great creative invention. The man wrote melodies that resemble nursery rhymes. Remember "No Particular Place To Go"? I don't mind Chuck Berry, but to consider him the beginning of a Renaissance is crazy to me. What about the blues and jazz musicians that rockers have been stealing from for years?
If, in 1938, I had been listening to something as exciting and rocking as Benny Goodman's famous live version of Louis Prima's "Sing Sing Sing", and then ten years later I turned on the radio and heard the popular songs of the day like "Maybelline" I would have thought everyone had lost their minds.
If, in the 20th century, there was a Renaissance, it happened well before the 1960s.
It's only opinion, a person keeps listening to and liking what they thought was good when they were young or else they keep an open mind and are rewarded with hearing beautiful, amazing new music all their life. It's just a choice we all make.
I understand there's no need to compare but it is a basic statistic observation. World population was 3.2 billions in 1963, 8 billions in 2023. The "potential" of talented people emerging from those 8 billions is huge. And as you mentioned, accessibility to tools:
I am Just doing the math : more people, more tools, easier access to an ever growing database of knowledge, this is a natural "exponential" evolution. I personally predict a wave of instrumental virtuosi in the coming years. You could argue that virtuosity and talent are not necessarily the same thing and you would have a valid point. So my wording was probably not right.
I personally stopped caring about sub genres. As I mentioned, a producer comes with a new kick/ hi hat pattern, boom, new subgenre, it doesn't really matter to me. And there are incredibly talented people out there. You don't need to create a new subgenre to be original. Someone with a strong identity and attitude both musically and lyrically playing in a rock or punk vibe will sound original to me even if rock and punk are not new.
But I keep this question open : with the pool of existing instruments currently at our disposal that haven't revolutionary changed since the 60s 70s, and the fact that pop music usually relies heavily on diatonic music and 4/4 is there still a room for a new genre (not subgenre) for popular music? Probably need a time machine to answer that one 😉
Rick Beato comes over as a grumpy old fart quite often.
He’s a good guitarist and his breakdown of great songs is really good, but he doesn’t seem to want to look outside of his comfort zone.
There’s a ton of really good music out there right now, as there always has been. Sometimes you have to search for it, but it’s there. Pop music has its ups and downs, but there’s never really a period when pop music is totally devoid of talent.
I am not an expert in musicology but I do agree that using the word Renaissance is probably not the most accurate term even though I understand the intention. I would say that pop music owes a lot to a various range of musicians and composer from the end of the 19th and beginning of 20th. I don't know why but Satie comes to mind together with Ravel, Gershwin, Duke Ellington and of course bluesman like Charley Patton or Robert Johnson which I consider (maybe wrongly) as the first generation of minstrel show every being recorded.
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To grumpy I would also add lazy old fart. Which is inadmissible for a pseudo influencer with millions of subscribers. He only looks at big numbers on Spotify to make his statements. He very probably doesn't know where to look so he jumps to the conclusion that there's no interesting things happening out of his studio. And when his algorithm miraculously let him find something made by young musicians, he gently praises them first not to displease potential new subscribers and then destroy them later in one of his rants claiming for exemple that they have less merit then his generation because young people have access to YouTube tutorials to learn music. I mean huh ? I am a very happy unsubscriber for 2 months.
He reminds me of that ‘Four Yorkshiremen’ Monty Python sketch when he talks about how hard it was to be a musician back in the day.
“We had to tune to a pitchpipe!”
— Rick Beato
Those important influences like John Peel also had negative effects. He didn't like Felt, for example, and lack of his patronage stymied their career.
I've also enjoyed reading the comments about the bad aspects of the whole tribal thing among teenagers growing up in the 80s. Even things like the rivalry between Smiths fans and Cure heads. Frankly, although it was fun at the time, it all seems very foolish and childish in some ways, looking back.
Lol....
"We didn't even have pitch pipes"
You were lucky to have one! We had to tune to this old rotten piece of copper found in the garbage bin where we lived !
L> @JeffChasteen said:
Oh boy !!! Feeling pretty old right about now.
@michael_m Exactly! Rick Beato is only looking at the Billboard Top 10. He isn't looking on SoundCloud or BandCamp or any other place online where talent exists! Even so, if there isn't much creativity in the Billboard Top 10, if someone likes those songs, why should they be faulted for liking those songs? Why should a whole generation be insulted by an intolerant sack of dusty old bones who thinks he's an "influencer"? 😂
@abf Well said mate. 😎
@JanKun I unsubbed from Rick Beato earlier today, and when Youtube suggested one of his videos, I clicked "not interested". 😮💨 Honestly, he's evolved into one of the most tiresome "influencers" on Youtube, and I have no room in my life for such negativity anymore. At least he's calm about expressing his opinions.
However, I heard some of his original music, and while he's definitely talented, he's also rather bland. (Of course that's only my personal subjective opinion, not objective fact, so your mileage may vary.) I get far more fun out of listening to Minimal Techno, Trance, EDM, Lofi, Ambient, Electronica, Musique Concrete, Disco, Rock, Metal, HipHop (old school and modern), Pop (classic and modern), Jazz, "Adult Contemporary/Easy Listening", etc than listening to Rick's boring twaddle.
Oh and speaking of Rock n Roll, has Rick ever heard of Alestorm?
An amazing modern Metal band that blows his music out of the water both lyrically and musically, in my own opinion of course.
I honestly believe human creativity never stops. No generation has ‘peak art’. It’s complicated though because it needs an outlet to become a movement. The death of live venues this past decade is a definite loss for the current generation. So much music and culture has sprung from the live experience of sound systems, club PAs, indie nights, etc. The current younger generation will still find a way to create because water will flow but it might look different to what we expect.
I for one am excited to see what the youngsters come up with.
Even older than the kids who had to tune to the E at the beginning of “Eruption”!
I used to pretend to tune to a mouth harp. I saw Mick Jagger doing it before the 69 Hyde Park concert, and it just looked so damn cool.
I agree with this message.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
“It was hard work, but it made us tough and soulful. It was almost like working at
Dockery Plantation!”
😂🐃
I am aware that this adds nothing to the substance of the debate, but has anyone else noticed how poorly made this response video is? I'm decidedly not talking about the quality of the arguments, only about the presentation. Simply put, it's a crap video.
(I'm also aware that my reaction to it may simply be a sign of me getting too old 🤷)
I wouldn't say crap, maybe amateurish. I personally find it gives it a LoFi charm, and a David vs Goliath vibe.
I only watched a few mins of it, but I definitely agree with JanKun.
…and you tell that to the kids of today, and they don’t believe you…