Are todays "musicians" just lazy or talentless
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I had a site meeting earlier today, and I convinced our Project Manager to drive there and back as I couldn't be arsed and could chill out in the passenger seat.
Anyway.
He's 29 and has his radio tuned to BBC R1 (by contrast, I'm rapidly approaching 50 (
) and listen to BBC R3), and at one point a tune by a guy called Shawn Mendes was played called "Senorita". I thought it was rather good, and earlier managed to find the guitar tab for it. For a current song, it's pretty good if you fiddle around with the basic chords and shows that there is still some good stuff - musically - in the charts.
If anyone is interested, I played:-
Am7 / C6 / Fmaj7 / Em7b5 / G
Anyway.
He's 29 and has his radio tuned to BBC R1 (by contrast, I'm rapidly approaching 50 (
) and listen to BBC R3), and at one point a tune by a guy called Shawn Mendes was played called "Senorita". I thought it was rather good, and earlier managed to find the guitar tab for it. For a current song, it's pretty good if you fiddle around with the basic chords and shows that there is still some good stuff - musically - in the charts.If anyone is interested, I played:-
Am7 / C6 / Fmaj7 / Em7b5 / G
Simes205 said:
If we stray away from chart pop music then there’s lots going on.
https://youtu.be/L_XJ_s5IsQc
Pick it up from 4mins and witness one of the greatest keys solo and player.
Check out Jacob Collier too
Our own 2 time Grammy winner
https://youtu.be/4mudDt2v41c
There are other threads about these guys.
Not lazy or boring!
Thanks for those links.https://youtu.be/L_XJ_s5IsQc
Pick it up from 4mins and witness one of the greatest keys solo and player.
Check out Jacob Collier too
Our own 2 time Grammy winner
https://youtu.be/4mudDt2v41c
There are other threads about these guys.
Not lazy or boring!
Edited by Simes205 on Tuesday 27th August 20:37
Neither are really what I'd normally consider "my kind of music" although the older I get, the less I'm sure what is my kind of music as I'm listening to a much wider range now than when younger (I'm a little north of 50 these days).
Used to be into heavy metal then indie stuff during the 80's and 90's, but more recently got into blues (as learning the harmonica), and some newer bands that have already been mentioned - The National, Vampire Weekend, Band of Horses, Bon Iver etc, as well as some unusual ones I've come across from buying CDs that I don't know from charity shops - Icecream Hands, Eels, Hootie and the Blowfish, Lene Marlin, Flaming Lips etc..
What is clear though in those videos linked above is that both are quite exceptional pieces of work with some amazingly talented musicians, and I really enjoyed them.
In terms of this thread, I think that the stuff played on "normal" Radio and in the "charts" or whatever they are called these days, is very un-inspiring, however, as has been said by several people on here, there is now a much much wider range of music available to us, it just takes a bit of effort and time finding it, although plenty of ideas have already been posted to get people (e.g. the OP) started.
The thing is though, apps like Spotify, and even to an extent YouTube can turn up interesting performers that you may not know, based on other stuff you've been listening to. It's always worth playing a track or 2 from those suggested, as if you spend a bit of time listening, you end up going down no end of rabbit-holes and coming across all sorts of music.
...anyway, as I said, thanks for those links above!
(...heads off to disappear down the Snarky Puppy rabbit hole for a while..... ).
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Thanks for those links.
(...heads off to disappear down the Snarky Puppy rabbit hole for a while..... ).
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Some of Snarky Puppy’s output can take a while. There’s a couple of albums with singers featured.
Here’s a few easier tracks for you
https://youtu.be/1MP3zbggO3A
https://youtu.be/eZBlRkF0-to
https://youtu.be/EgtGmmA4y0w
Thanks for those links.
(...heads off to disappear down the Snarky Puppy rabbit hole for a while..... ).
[/quote]
Some of Snarky Puppy’s output can take a while. There’s a couple of albums with singers featured.
Here’s a few easier tracks for you
https://youtu.be/1MP3zbggO3A
https://youtu.be/eZBlRkF0-to
https://youtu.be/EgtGmmA4y0w
Fastchas said:
I was in the Slug & Lettue in Harborne, B'ham last Saturday for a friends leaving do.
The music was awful. Seemed to be a lot of 'You're my w
e, yeah you like it' black rappers singing about their girlfriends. A lot of the younger people were 'dancing' but looked very awkward moving to the music.
It has to be the worst period for 'music' ever.
Black rappers... as opposed to white rappers ‘singing’ about the exact same stuff? PistonHeads = old farts unite.The music was awful. Seemed to be a lot of 'You're my w
e, yeah you like it' black rappers singing about their girlfriends. A lot of the younger people were 'dancing' but looked very awkward moving to the music. It has to be the worst period for 'music' ever.
IS this talentless & lazy? 32 year old vocalist, daughter of a jazz drummer, voice like silk, won't ever trouble the charts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHHaG-RuidM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHHaG-RuidM
banjowilly said:
IS this talentless & lazy? 32 year old vocalist, daughter of a jazz drummer, voice like silk, won't ever trouble the charts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHHaG-RuidM
She won't sound like that live. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHHaG-RuidM
Just briefly listened to a few of her tracks. It's not an easy listen.
cherryowen said:
Agreed
Mary Spender is far easier on both the eye and ear
Of the three of us, only I have seen her perform live, so it's off the chart weird that you would agree she couldn't repeat it live with someone who hasn't when someone who has rebuts the suggestion. Mary Spender is far easier on both the eye and ear
What an artist looks like has f
k all to do with anything & bringing it onto proceedings is indicative of a certain way of thinking & moreover, Mary Spender isn't a remotely comparable artist. Some very entrenched attitudes on here.banjowilly said:
I can hear a big difference between the studio recording and live performances of other tracks posted on YouTube.Each to their own, but I couldn't listen to her for long. I find the shrieking annoying.
I've got a very wide taste in music and usually I can understand why artists I don't like do well. Equally I can see why Hannah has a very niche following.
Edited by Driver101 on Monday 9th September 10:11
banjowilly said:
Of the three of us, only I have seen her perform live, so it's off the chart weird that you would agree she couldn't repeat it live with someone who hasn't when someone who has rebuts the suggestion.
What an artist looks like has fk all to do with anything & bringing it onto proceedings is indicative of a certain way of thinking & moreover, Mary Spender isn't a remotely comparable artist. Some very entrenched attitudes on here.
Why are you getting so upset and taking things personally? What an artist looks like has f
k all to do with anything & bringing it onto proceedings is indicative of a certain way of thinking & moreover, Mary Spender isn't a remotely comparable artist. Some very entrenched attitudes on here.
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