Comments by "XSportSeeker" (@XSpImmaLion) on "Rick Beato"
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I guess the general argument is that playing fast is awesome, but by itself it gets tiring and boring fast for most people. It's like, it depends on context. If just speed was all that mattered, music would be pretty boring itself. xD
For most of the players I admire in the virtuoso space, the technical ability they have to play fast also shows that they can play plenty melodically and "with soul" or some other fuzzy term, so I never really got this "boring" argument.
Then again, I'm a failed guitar player myself, so the perspective is different. It's less raw impression, and more inspirational I guess? I can understand how most people are not looking for musical proficiency in the songs they listen to.
That's the whole thing about music. It's perfectly fine for people to only be looking for completely different things, like a song to dance and vibe to, or an artist that they connect better with. What I personally find exciting and fun in music might not be what others are looking for.
And to be honest, I also personally have different tastes. It's not like I only listen to shredders and virtuoso stuff too. I have more than a few technically goofy songs in my playlist. xD
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To a minor or similar degree, this has happened to all of entertainment basically.
Title of the video isn't quite accurate though... death of decade defining genre perhaps, or the idea of a musical era, but I think music genres are alive an well to this day. They just multiplied and criss-crossed a whole ton more with new given freedoms. Consequence of not necessarily needing to have one genre dominate one era.
So, you really do have far more sub genres and niches out there, and they have nowadays more chances of competing and staying around, but the most popular genres are also still around - and it seems like there are less chances of them being completely replaced by something else, since there is no genre defining era anymore.
This has upsides and downsides, but likely a new normal. I don't see newer generations going back to the old model.
And if I'm being honest... even though we may be nostalgic, and miss the days everyone was listening to the same thing, this new normal sounds more healthy to me. More chances for people to know more things, more freedom for musicians, a better overall distribution in attention and money spent, less centralized control.
What we lose is perhaps some social "glue". I kinda felt this in the past about games and movies, for instance. There were far better chances of finding people who played the same games you played, and watched the same movies you watched when the selection was plain smaller. Perhaps not as dramatic as it is for music, but still, it's just harder nowadays.
The real worry I have on this is that while it's for entertainment, that's ok. Never enjoyed centralized control of that. Now, it becomes a whole different story when it's about news, interpretation of facts, real world stories, and such.
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