Beato: discusses why bands are dissapearing from charts

[asbak]

Beato's all aboard the mediocrity choo-choo train.

Why?

Because his revenue stream from Google depends on it. He's a professional youtuber, youtube pays his bills. Doing youtube full time as your "career" means you have to play the Google game, accept the Google rules and values and aim to please the Google audience and not offend them, because this will impact your revenue stream.

Here you can marvel at Beato's celebration of mediocrity

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwbJrxxqDtI

"ooh"
"it's great"
"I like it",
"it's like an 80's rock song" (no it isn't, lol)

He just talks absolute nonsense most of the time looooool

[bhilmers]

I love to hate this Beato clown.

...we can learn from masters without needing uniform agreement.

I'll admit I haven't watched enough of Beato's videos to see any mastery of anything. The videos that get shared to me are the click-bait, old-man-yells-at-cloud type. As such, I can't take someone like that seriously. If you have something of value to say on YouTube, you can do it without sounding like an insufferable curmudgeon. Take Dan Worrall for instance. He's snarky and occasionally plays the YouTube game with ridiculous thumbnails, but whenever he does it's the first thing he apologizes for in the video -- and then the rest is all business. Josh from BassBuzz is another YouTuber who uses the the ridiculous click-bait nature of YouTube as comedy in his unbelievably concise, informative, and professional tutorial videos. I never have to hear these guys ramble about the good old days.

I imagine watching Beato is like going to a recipe site and having to read eight paragraphs about the author's trip to Russia before you get the ingredients for beef stroganoff.

[glowrak guy]

I never have to hear these guys ramble about the good old days.

Actually, the music catalogs of 'the good old days' are prized by savvy investors, and are gaining market share, while new music is dwindling.
See the chart just below the top of this industry insider's page:

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/crisis- ... -an-update

As for Rick's mastery, I've often seen him knocking things out precisely on either the piano or guitar as part of a video, and his knowledge of percussion recording is on par with the many famed drummers he's interviewed. And he sure can name-drop all the industry standard console and rack-gear, having worked it for decades. Probably knows far more about classical music, than anyfive of the regulars here. (Studio Dave does have a deep classical time-capsule in his brain, although he's never one to show off, but he could in a pinch )

I'm not a fan of rock/metal from '1975-2025 so of his videos in the last few years, I've seen around 10% and watch mainly for historical biographical content of stars at the end of their lifespans, and take note of the choices they made that helped along the way. And I catch the market-trends videos, in the vain hope to keep from being fully jurrassic, while choosing which cloud to take on next
Cheers

[bhilmers]

Actually, the music catalogs of 'the good old days' are prized by savvy investors, and are gaining market share, while new music is dwindling.
See the chart just below the top of this industry insider's page:

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/crisis- ... -an-update

Thanks for the link. Can you find a better source to back up your argument? This data doesn't say much and can be easily explained by acknowledging that older people are slower to adopt new technology and thus older music gradually takes a larger share as the mean age increases. Also, 18 months old is hardly "the good old days".

Furthermore, if I finally break down and buy that copy of Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors" on vinyl I've always wanted, does that mean I cherish older music over the hundreds of hours of newer music I rip from YouTube / SoundCloud / torrent sites?

[glowrak guy]

The catalogs cover decades of music, not 18 months. These stats are about art appreciation and related spending, not the uptake of technology. As societies break down, the art that they generate follows the trend, magnified to some extent by simple computer based music production for the masses. So we have to search harder for (what we consider to be) the great art, and be willing to buy it, in support of the artist. Or submit to being targeted with the spotify 'top 10'

Feeding

luminate music market

into google, the link below appears in the list, with dozens of music categories to explore. I look forward to reading some of these, as I always have far more to learn than the crowds I mingle with

https://luminatedata.com/blog/category/music/

Also, the idea that young people are deeply tech-savvy is a bit of a misnomer. Employers are finding that this savvy begins and ends at the smartphone, and 'thumb-typing' and finger-swiping' are not high on their list of job requirements. While applying common sense, having the ability to learn quickly on the job, and being able to finish tasks without constant supervision are important hiring considerations. An HR leader observing a typical gaggle of earbudded teenagers in the hiring line, swaying to the 'hits', might go into convulsions
Cheers

[glowrak guy]

hundreds of hours of newer music I rip from YouTube / SoundCloud / torrent sites?

We are all unique. I find that creating music is like having and developing a private language, to some extent, the bits, bobs, and musical phrases never heard before, perhaps despite being something akin to a, b, or c _fill-in-the-blanks. The more I work on that personal language, the more I enjoy it, and the less time I have to listen to commercial music. Aside from 'church music', there are a few songs that I play occasionally, which seem to stir the creative pot, so to speak. But they are too deepressing to be regular listening. One was even on a Beato list at one point, 'The Night We Met' from the band Lord Huron (props to them for still existing as a band! )

https://youtu.be/KtlgYxa6BMU

And a plug for one of mine, an instrumental very loosely in the same mood

https://youtu.be/HG7qiEdVGy4

Cheers