Exactly, and is she even a teenager yet? Admittedly she is Rick Beato’s daughter so nature and/or nurture probably gives her a head start in understanding what she’s listening to, but
because that is when they figure out what they like and don’t like musically. I don’t think she’s there yet. He should ask her in 5 years’ time.
Also, he said her comments were negative criticisms. They sounded like factually objective statements, but if they were things she did not like, as I say - ask her again in 5 years.
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From what I have seen of Rick Beato’s soggy YouTube sage act, he knows a lot about recording but his aged musical aesthetic shut down somewhere in the late 70s, right after the Sex Pistols and the Ramones came around. Sure, interviewing Pat Metheny is semi-interesting but its 2022 dammit! So so much has happened in music and Beato just mentally discards it all because his apex of music is probably Return to Forever and “Hotel California.” And he probably breaks out in hives when someone mentions free jazz.
Beato is a silly man.
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/looks at congress side-eyed
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As a 51-year-old music geek who just bought the latest Bandcamp release from footwork artist DJ Hank, I hope not.
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That’s middle aged. Not as cool as either young or old.
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Not really true (of course) he is a big supporter of Animals as Leaders, for example. He tends toward proggy stuff in the current scene, being a musician’s musician. The prog-metal scene is very musical and virtuosic.
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The same blog that hipped me to Hauntology also hipped me to a mindblowing all-woman punk band called Savages. My BF took me to see them, and it was an incredible experience.
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FWIW, Joanna Newsom’s 2006 album Ys had four 9+ minute songs on it and was critically lauded as a masterpiece. It didn’t sell too badly either if memory serves.
I know that at this point '06 was a lifetime ago, but long songs and full-length albums can still make an impact today if they’re marketed to the right audience.
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This is the first Hauntology song I ever heard:
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Yes. I would agree that Beato is a fan of “musician’s musicians music.” In my mind, that is definitely not a complement. For example, his list of great 80s guitarists was virtually all shredders and every single one of them sounded the same.
Yeah, that was my thought, too. For my generation, I really liked “The Chipmunks” albums of popular songs. And – checks the Internet – “Kidz Bop” is still a thing that takes current hits and autotunes them and gives them a fairly generic, kid-friendly sound.
I agree that as she gets older she’s more likely to branch out into different styles and genres. Maybe check to see how her opinion has changed when she’s 15 or 16.
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Rules?!? There are no rules! This is discussing music, which is a blood sport! /s
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On the other hand … there is a dude, singer/guitarist for an English band, that does reaction videos. He did a series on auto-tune taking a close look at what it does down to looking at wave-forms. His opinion is that it removes the subtleties that make a performance great. The slight off-key bends and misses that make up what is in fact the emotional content of the singing. It can be used with taste and restraint, but it has become a de facto standard and singers are now measured by accuracy rather than color. When you can’t tell, it is being used correctly, but that ain’t what’s happening. Give people a rule to follow and they will abandon the work of deciding for themselves. So we have singing competitions on the TV that reduce it a sport and a device that allows score-keepers to point at a “number.” We used to call it contrivance and phoniness. Now it is a style. In a generation it will be seen as the odd fixation of this generation like 8-bit music is for some around here. Nostalgic, but objectively awful.
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Were I rich enough, I’d buy the companies that manufacture autotuners and the software makers, all their stock, and every last machine in the wild that I could. I would destroy every single one I’d purchased, preferably with one of these mofos:
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I like your archival footage of Robert Smith demonstrating that the thing that makes a record great is that it spins
Absolutely agree. Cracking vocals are why I loved early U2 and Sylvian stuff, among many others. I constantly complain that various bands were great until they learned how to sing (or in some cases, play their instruments)
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