is an amazingly good observation by Adam’s mother in this video which also applies to how jazz has been taught in recent years and how new musicians/vocalists are learning to create music.
Don’t let the title fool you, it’s a means to this really cool observation of music in general. And I couldn’t agree more.
That “feel” that seems missing in so much new music….this could be the answer (not auto tune, Adam’s mom).
ehh i thought that this video showed that in most cases the changes made by autotune are pretty subtle. i’m kind of opposed to it on an integrity level but if you played the autotuned version to someone with no warning i’m pretty sure most people wouldn’t know the diff.
I was more interested in what his mom has to say about new musicians hearing “perfectly mixed” music Vs more life music with errors and all. Etc. Found it fascinating.
On the auto tune front, this is something that drives me nuts but on another front. Remasters etc especially the likes of what Apple does. I hear those differences and it drives me nuts when it’s not the original.
That said, the whole world of digital music is missing giant portions of sound in the tracks Vs the original. Thank you Fraunhofer Institute for developing the mp3 format and eliminating all that apparently unnecessary “noise” from the world’s music.
More than autotune, I think we lost a lot by software, where you go in and aline all the beats to the click, and lose the natural syncopation and rhythms players had. But that’s another discussion.
I do think most music is meh. I think that is always true, we look at past eras fondly because we remember the good songs and forget the meh ones which cluttered the radio of the day.
That being said, I think Western music is in a rut. Looking at other regions of the world there is a vibrancy and experimentation we are lacking.
It’s not only western music. It’s western culture. Just look at movies. Reboots, superhero flicks and movies with #10 in their title. Books, with piles of self-help books from religious charlatans like Jordan Peterson to old army veterans being best sellers, etc. etc. … “Play it safe” is the core mantra of all media studios out there in the Anglosphere atm. .
The availability of gear makes it easy for anyone to start and as such there’re a lot of talented people who make great music. However, for every talented person there’re 30 generic, cookie-cutter “musicians” who bring nothing personal or new.
So, it seems that it’s actually harder to find a good music out there. At least for me.
I agree and disagree. popular music is very formulaic but it always has been. I find the trend of female singers needing to be model beautiful annoying. OTOH, as someone pointed out, diversity in music is much more common now. it’s cool to be into ancient throat belching from botswana or whatever.
I love Janis, but she was damaging her voice with bad foundation. Like Miley Cyrus did.
Taylor is an average singer, but what she does really well is take parts of her life and make catchy songs about it. She’s really an exceptional song writer, for all I don’t like her style. Respect to Taylor.
My humble opinion as a non-professional musician is that pop music sucks. Then again, I have never really listened to it. And its great we have all these neat tools for creating music and practicing, but I cannot stand the “perfect” auto-tuned songs with quanticized drums and 50 post-recording effects. It sounds so fake and plastic. I like the imperfections in older music. I liked hearing different mixes. And I loved hearing music live.
Its really a sad state of affairs when people have been on almost two years without hearing any live music. “Listening” to “perfect” music gets boring and doesn’t move the soul.
Edit: As an example, I like to compare the freshman album of the Royal Blood duo, with its gritty and imperfect darkened tone with the plastic, overproduced disco-shit they did on their latest album. Yeah, the band has “matured” and “rounded out their sound”, but the new album simply doesn’t DO anything for me. Their first one really spoke to me because all the grittiness and darkness
Broadway!!! It’s all remakes of movies for goodness sake, WTF…you are so correct @wellbi En masse we like our media like we like our food, Applebee’s-ified.
This is why I despise the en masses.