Comments by "David" (@stoogel) on "Rick Beato" channel.

  1. What amateurs don't understand is that they need some very expensive classic tube amps
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  2. It’s Reggaeton and it has taken over Latin music
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  3. For the English language ones it’s the hip-hopification of pop. The old "Verse-Chorus-Verse-Chorus-Bridge-Chorus” is now "Hook-Verse-Hook-Verse-Hook etc”. The beat stays the same but cuts out sometimes.
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  4. He's uncopiable because if you copy him he'll sue you for 80% of the royalties.
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  5. I don’t have any problem with SZA. She’s not really my cup of tea but I see the merit unlike the old boomers in these comments who falsely think they have some musical depth that the kids today lack. Of course most of these popular songs on Spotify are terrible
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  6.  @Renato_Cara  More people play guitar now than a decade ago. It's in a ton of pop music, especially the soul and jazz styles. Shoegaze is cool again, some artists are ripping off pop punk from 20 years ago and charting, metal has a strong fanbase... There's an audience for everything these days.
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  7. TSwift with the "royal road progression". Also Jungkook with the ubiquitous "My Boo" progression (also Just the Two of Us, LOONA had a song that used it, Polyphia did it too, etc). I think Kpop producers are fond of it. I like the sound of it but it's also being done to death.
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  8.  @cattymajiv  "I could write that", the refrain of millions who have never and will never write that.
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  9. In music there are still a lot of people who like things done the old fashioned way.
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  10.  @RedCanyonWolf  calypso
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  11. Probably best for a Jazz gig, but doing a shot or having a beer on stage is the vibe for a lot of shows in rock, metal, country, blues, etc. As long as it's not your 8th shot and you're not belligerent or too trashed to play, no one is judging there. They might if everyone in the audience is straight edge, Christian, or a child though
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  12. Somewhere in the 2000s the hits mostly became brainless “get turnt up” kind of songs. You won’t see a songwriter like Joni Mitchell on the top 10 of the Hot 100 now like you would have in 1974. Great artists are out there today, but you have to sift through a lot to find them.
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  13. If you only looked at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 for the 80s it would seem like a miserable decade
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  14. The Jack Harlow song you're hating on is a sample of Cadillac Dale - Whatever, a song from the 90s. That's where the "whips and chains" hook comes from. Honestly I don't think the vocals or lyrics in the original are as bad as Beato treats them. It's just a love song, and the world is full of silly love songs. (Speaking of McCartney, he's put out some garbage lyrics in the past himself.) As for Harlow, not a fan.
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  15. Amateurs simply don't understand this
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  16. I can't be optimistic about it anymore
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  17. "Perfect pitch" usually doesn't mean you're a human tuner calibrated to A=440, otherwise listening to music would be torture
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  18. These are his boomer bait videos. He's been made aware of all the great music being made today, there's no way he doesn't know. The "kids these days" videos just do numbers with the over 60 set so he keeps doing them. Kind of annoying to see how it encourages the boomers to do their usual ranting in the comments but they'll do it no matter what.
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  19.  @Rio_1111  Not much, that's just what it's called in rap. In pop music the hook means any catchy melody.
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  20. Wow, this Andrew Watt guy is a real hack.
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  21. "Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll" is a more direct ripoff of "Good Times" that was capitalizing on the roller disco craze
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  22. Jazz standards are simply covers of songs, or new melodies on the same chord progression which is never considered stealing. Folk songs mostly don't "belong" to any one person- composers who collected and used folk songs were drawing from their own cultures anyway (Copland, Vaughan Williams, Bartok, etc)
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  23. Rock, soul, jazz, and blues have the same thing in common with the population you're referring to.
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  24. I mean who needs Spotify, UMG, WMG, etc to generate it for you? The only barrier is paying the company that has the music generation model. People will just commission the software themselves to have endless tunes to fit their mood. Will it be interesting, creative, unique music? Not at all, but for most people something to have on in the background is enough. I'm concerned about what this will do to shared cultural experiences. Technology is already isolating us.
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  25. There's nothing wrong with Rhiannon Giddons' banjo part in the Beyonce song. Briefly hitting the sixth in a tonic major chord is fine and a lot more interesting than just playing the fifth (which is arguably more "lame"). I have my problems with that track, but her contributions aren't among them.
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  26. After 1985 the 80s charts went off a cliff in quality
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  27. It’s the circle of fifths
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  28. It's easier to pay someone off if you get caught than come up with something new I guess
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  29. Yeah that didn’t deserve to get shat on. The hook was immensely successful and this type of music exists for the chorus
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  30. Most people don't care for unique, creative music. They want something in the background, and what these new Suno and Udio tools are producing is good enough for them unfortunately.
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  31. Drummers are still hard to find. Everyone plays guitar
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  32. If they did enough acid they could
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  33. There’s a video with every number one from the beginning of the Hot 100 to 2023. Before the Beatles it was all pretty boring and full of Elvis copycats. After the Beatles it was all boring and full of Beatles copycats. The 70s charts were full of disco and the 80s charts were abominable. All the best music from then was doing album sales or underground.
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  34. Copyright exists
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  35. Those groups aren't topping the charts
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  36. I get like this, and mostly find people's interpretations are too quick. That Shosty recording by Konstantin Scherbakov is almost comically staccato. It's supposed to be the slightly detached articulation people associate with Baroque music since the piece is modeled on Bach. At some point I have to find a rendition that's acceptable and just enjoy it though.
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  37. Who told you the top Spotify songs are all that’s out there?
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  38. TEMPORARY SECRETARY TEMPORARY SECTRETARY
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  39. People are afraid to criticize the Beyonce tune now for political reasons. It really is just country-flavored pop though
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  40. Yeah it's basically a mashup disguised as a song. I used to hear Simply Red - Sunrise (2003) at my old job and it's another glorified mashup ("I Cant Go For That" - Hall & Oates with "How Long" - Ace)
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  41. I’m sure it’s easy to think that if you only look at the Spotify top 10 or the Billboard Hot 100
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  42. Dissonance rarely makes it into the poppiest of pop
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  43. I was so ready for him to crap on Idles but I was pleasantly surprised
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  44. Even more with McCartney
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  45. Yes since “Blinding Lights” the 80s sound has been back. Juno and DX7 prices are 📈
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  46. The late 80s Hot 100 was unbelievably bad. You wouldn’t think any good music was coming out then just from looking at the charts. 1985 had some good songs though.
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