My problem with music
It's all about enjoyment. There's no accounting for taste. I know. And I'm a fan of pop music. When The Beatles and Beach Boys are at the top of your list, you tend to go that way. You could even call them boy bands. But they're not. They mostly wrote their own stuff, played on their albums, progressed as artists, and were TREMENDOUSLY influential and innovative. And inspired, perhaps the most elusive of qualities.
I can't say any of this about the band underneath this text. My fiancee asked me to watch it on You Tube, and frankly, it's fucking appalling. The first 3 minutes are nothing but being inside an Xbox game. Then the "band" appears. Just singers, no musicians onstage. Probably no musicians at all, just ProTools or Ableton or something like that. Live singing? Doubtful, especially with all the bullshit dancing.
What a fucking crock of shit. After this, I had to listen to my favorite bands, not this shit put together by producers. MAYBE they drove by the studio and did vocals for a day. Did any of them play on the albums? Write any of the songs, ever? Did they even sing on the albums?
Even the vocal arrangements are uncreative, lots of them are unison or octave, three parts at best where there seem to be 10 people onstage.
My favorite bands are more creative when they take a dump. And I'd like to. All over this spectacle. But hey, the place is full, like a toddler's diaper.
[media=https://youtu.be/0Wmy82wRlvw]
Is this what music means to you? Are you entertained by this? It's not even live. No musicians are being paid. Is that even good dancing? I don't claim to know what that is, but it looks like they're all stimming in unison or seizing or they put mousetraps onstage or something. I guess people just like to be fooled. We have nothing in common.
Fuck those guys.
Say what you want about the latest wave of pop stars beginning roughly with Shawn Mendes and continuing with Chappell Roan, Olivia Rodrigo, even Taylor Swift. They have producers of course, but they CAN sing, play, and write. Huge difference. Ironically, they have the right stuff.
Thanks for attending my TED talk. I'm off to play my favorite bands and singer/songwriters who actually MADE music.
I can't say any of this about the band underneath this text. My fiancee asked me to watch it on You Tube, and frankly, it's fucking appalling. The first 3 minutes are nothing but being inside an Xbox game. Then the "band" appears. Just singers, no musicians onstage. Probably no musicians at all, just ProTools or Ableton or something like that. Live singing? Doubtful, especially with all the bullshit dancing.
What a fucking crock of shit. After this, I had to listen to my favorite bands, not this shit put together by producers. MAYBE they drove by the studio and did vocals for a day. Did any of them play on the albums? Write any of the songs, ever? Did they even sing on the albums?
Even the vocal arrangements are uncreative, lots of them are unison or octave, three parts at best where there seem to be 10 people onstage.
My favorite bands are more creative when they take a dump. And I'd like to. All over this spectacle. But hey, the place is full, like a toddler's diaper.
[media=https://youtu.be/0Wmy82wRlvw]
Is this what music means to you? Are you entertained by this? It's not even live. No musicians are being paid. Is that even good dancing? I don't claim to know what that is, but it looks like they're all stimming in unison or seizing or they put mousetraps onstage or something. I guess people just like to be fooled. We have nothing in common.
Fuck those guys.
Say what you want about the latest wave of pop stars beginning roughly with Shawn Mendes and continuing with Chappell Roan, Olivia Rodrigo, even Taylor Swift. They have producers of course, but they CAN sing, play, and write. Huge difference. Ironically, they have the right stuff.
Thanks for attending my TED talk. I'm off to play my favorite bands and singer/songwriters who actually MADE music.
