Rick Beato is Wrong About Modern Music and Lyrics, Here is Why

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  • @sca04245
    @sca04245 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

    Never in history has there been more great music at one point in time than today.

    • @rossthemusicandguitarteacher
      @rossthemusicandguitarteacher  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      You win my favorite comment award of the week. This is THE TRUTH.

    • @TtableWhey
      @TtableWhey 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I see what you did there.

    • @Youtube_2user
      @Youtube_2user 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Rick beato is mad and jea-lous and a conartist he even said himself he can't write songs he can't create. But the labels tells him to tell that he does. Many people think there are incredibly well written songs today...

  • @blissrae-ul3qk
    @blissrae-ul3qk หลายเดือนก่อน

    4:44 this is a thought I had recently that was difficult to come to grips with at first but eventually brought me a lot of comfort. I really like your videos and your curious, thoughtful approach to music and teaching and conversation. You seem like a wonderful person.

  • @jdm925
    @jdm925 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I am a boomer and love most of the classic rock from the late 60's up through the late 90's. I have tried to find new music that moves me like Punk Floyd, Led Zepplin, Rush, etc. If it is out there, I can't find it or don't know where to look for it. Maybe you can start highlighting some to make it more accessible.

    • @rossthemusicandguitarteacher
      @rossthemusicandguitarteacher  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      What a fantastic idea! I think I will try to do a weekly highlight of music I find compelling.... I think a modern group you might enjoy if you are into classic rock is these guys: th-cam.com/video/PFZvn7ZiC7g/w-d-xo.html I really love their acoustic stuff, and the lyrics really are top-rate. I was always more of a Syd Barrett fan over Pink Floyd, so my taste might not align with yours, but in terms of quality there is a lot to choose from.

    • @Joe-pb3lx
      @Joe-pb3lx 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      im 64 and im starting to like thrash metal .......it actually relaxes me.......try looking up Orbit Culture, Shaman is their album i have been listening too

    • @Nickshreds890
      @Nickshreds890 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Okey dokey ! So if you enjoy Pink Floyd and Rush, please try some modern Prog rock and prog metal bands!
      For example :
      Karnivool ! From Australia 🇦🇺 my home country . An extraordinary band ! Sound awake is a brilliant album!! They have only released a few albums. Themata, Sound Awake, Asymmetry . But please check them out!
      Leprous from Norway 🇳🇴!
      Their earlier albums are closer to progressive death metal, so I think try some of their more recent releases would be of more interest to you!
      Aphelion , Bilateral ,

  • @MrAlexsegal
    @MrAlexsegal หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I’m 64 and a fan of the Great American Songbook. But I liked the Jack Harlow lyric that Rick hated. I liked the multi-syllable rhyming; I liked the way that the rhyming emphasised the play on the word “baby”; I liked the play on the word “vanilla”; I liked the play on the word “whip”; I liked the play on the phrase “tie me down”.

    • @rossthemusicandguitarteacher
      @rossthemusicandguitarteacher  หลายเดือนก่อน

      What Mr. Beato doesn't get, is that people get to CHOOSE what they like and listen to more than ever now.... he just doesn't like the result: Which is people listening to genres he is not as interested in.

  • @Gill3D
    @Gill3D 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Everything Rick Beato said was valid because he was talking about music in the charts. I am unfamiliar with all the lyrics you cite and I find them all sub-par. Does music suck nowadays? Rick didn't argue that - he argued that modern lyrics tend to be poor. Technically, the music may be as good as it has ever been. I happen to think that modern music is in a rut which has been made by streaming services and A&R staff. Huge populations are being fed monotony based on what was recently successful in the charts. Yes, you can go and hunt out innovative bands yourself but wasn't it better in the past when television programmes curated the music for their viewers? I think so. It imposed a form of quality control.

    • @rossthemusicandguitarteacher
      @rossthemusicandguitarteacher  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Definitely a fair point. Except Ben's lyrics are heartbreaking.

    • @Youtube_2user
      @Youtube_2user 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Many songs today are incredibly well written... It's not the lyrics the main issue it's the music...rick beato said himself that he can't write songs and can't create...

  • @johntiger5
    @johntiger5 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Music should always be listened to with an open mind. But it seems some of us are destined to become like our grand parents. One day you might be talking about the young whipper snappers when you are his age. If you look at the Beatles when they first came out. All the adults were shocked at their hair. Yet The Beatles were wearing suits , and the " mop tops" hair was shorter than yours is now. Every generation does it. I wish they wouldn't. No harm, no foul. But, I get your point. PEACE.

    • @rossthemusicandguitarteacher
      @rossthemusicandguitarteacher  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Coming from a classical music background, I probably did this WORSE than my grandparents. I hated almost all modern music, and it was culturally enforced on me via the classical guitar world. I have since then opened way way up. I still have standards though haha, and soundcloud rap will never cut it for me. :) Thanks for your thoughts!

  • @ovCosmic
    @ovCosmic 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    "Fell deep in love, but now we ain't speakin'
    Michael J Fox was Alex P Keaton
    When I met you, I said my name was Rich
    You look like a girl from Abercrombie and Fitch
    New Kids On The Block had a bunch of hits
    Chinese food makes me sick
    And I think it's fly when girls stop by
    For the summer, for the summer"
    - Chart topping lyrics in the 90s, and the 14th biggest summer single of all time according to Billboard

  • @leventaksakal5
    @leventaksakal5 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I totally agree. There are beatiful people out there.

    • @leventaksakal5
      @leventaksakal5 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No bad music, just tasteless enjoyers :)

  • @johnyork417
    @johnyork417 12 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Well said. I think people are fixated on the music they heard in their youth or at some juncture in life and to them that is the greatest music. It is hard to loosen up and listen to new stuff and to be open, it is a challenge. I enjoyed this video.

  • @MrAlexsegal
    @MrAlexsegal หลายเดือนก่อน

    It is worth looking at videos showing people reacting to Jack Harlow’s song. The joy the song elicits speaks for itself.

  • @TomMilleyMusic
    @TomMilleyMusic 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Honestly though I'd go further and say songs like "Smoking in the Boys Room" aren't "bad", they just serves a different purpose. Not everything needs to be a grand artistic statement, sometimes things can just be for fun or a joke. Even composers like Mozart knew this. Also most people look at music as entertainment. And just like putting on a movie or a show, sometimes you put on something "deep" and "artistic"...but other times you just put on something simple and silly to have fun or just not have to think much for a bit...and that's fine. Some songs are just "party songs"...and that's fine.
    Also I feel like in a lot of ways putting down other music is against the spirt of rock. To me, "rock" is about playing loud, playing proud, and not letting "the man" tell you how to rock. The problem is the rockers got old, and now ARE "the man" telling kids "how to rock". I think that's lame, and I say rock on. If I want my music heard, then I have to let other people's music have that chance too.

    • @rossthemusicandguitarteacher
      @rossthemusicandguitarteacher  2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I will be honest, and this is just me, but I just don't like rock or the culture behind it. So, I am very biased here. I appreciate your thoughts and feedback :)

    • @TomMilleyMusic
      @TomMilleyMusic 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@rossthemusicandguitarteacher I don't like most rock either actually, nor do I like that song. But I believe in the spirt of rock. All art is basically saying "I'm here, I exist, I have something to say"...and that's all playing loud, playing proud, and not letting the man tell you how to rock, means.

  • @skintslots
    @skintslots 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Popular music is sh@t! That doesn't mean there are not excellent musicians and bands around but it does mean that the kind of music that is promoted is mundane,childish and the same garbage as what was popular the week before. The good stuff is out there but it's not in the current charts,or it's modern equivalent.

    • @rossthemusicandguitarteacher
      @rossthemusicandguitarteacher  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      What is promoted is bread and circuses for the masses. The masses are very stupid. This is the reality of the world we live in, it always has been and always will be. AC/DC, in my opinion, is pure shallow garbage. However, people back in the day LOVED it. *shrug*

    • @skintslots
      @skintslots 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@rossthemusicandguitarteacher I am not a fan of that type of music either mate,so I hear your thoughts.

  • @AlanMcCarthyguitar
    @AlanMcCarthyguitar 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Very profound interesting talk there ,
    The art of playing an instrument is dying though

  • @seionne85
    @seionne85 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The problem as i see it is that when we think back, we usually remember the exceptional. That could be good or bad, but when it comes to entertainment we just remember the exceptionally good experiences. There has always been slop that was just produced to fill an album or collect a paycheck, we just forget about it bc it isn't memorable. Sadly it just seems like today everything revolves around profits, so if there's a kernel of truth here it's that moneyed interests are propping up the slop now more than it used to, but I'm not Even sure if that is true. It seems like the best stuff has always been indie

    • @rossthemusicandguitarteacher
      @rossthemusicandguitarteacher  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This is exactly true. The way we dig ourselves from this mess is to buy a record player, and purchase albums. Indie folks will never be rich, but their art can be supported by those that admire their work.

    • @TtableWhey
      @TtableWhey 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It ALWAYS just revolved around profits. Nobody ever started a record company to make a loss.

  • @gabrielbalogh3910
    @gabrielbalogh3910 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    THANK YOU! I had the same thought when I saw his video.

  • @The..Butterfly..Effect
    @The..Butterfly..Effect 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    So start playing good music here (old and new) - be the gatekeeper

    • @rossthemusicandguitarteacher
      @rossthemusicandguitarteacher  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I would love to highlight modern music I enjoy. But, I also don't have a problem with there being no gatekeeper, people can listen to whatever they want it doesn't bother me. I am not angry about the current state of music, I am very hopeful. But I also don't pay attention to what is popular. I think this is a great idea.

    • @The..Butterfly..Effect
      @The..Butterfly..Effect 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@rossthemusicandguitarteacher
      There are a limited number of songs that we don't know, we can hear... And usually the less good songs float to the top... that's why a gatekeeper is necessary.

  • @Nickshreds890
    @Nickshreds890 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I had no idea Rick Beato changed a legend of zelda soundtrack?! The music from the soundtracks of those games is LEGENDARY! Koji Kondo is phenomenal! I don't care what other people think! Thats insane that Rick felt he was above it . That's really disappointing!
    I totally agree with you!
    Here are some modern bands ( might be between 90's to 2000's) I enjoy if anyone is interested. I'm mainly into Prog rock and Prog metal so if you dislike that you won't like a lot of bands I enjoy . But here we go:
    Muse, Karnivool , Porcupine Tree, Ne Obliviscaris, The Contortionist, Caligulas Horse , Between the Buried and Me, Opeth, Circa survive , Soen,
    Tesseract , Animals As leaders, Intervals, Covet
    Here are some japanese artists I'm very fond of :
    L'Arc en ciel, the Gazette, Dir en grey,
    , Deluhi, 9goats Black Out, 12012, Rentrer en Soi, Mucc, SID, Kagra , Versailles, Galneryus, Unlucky Morpheus, Plastic Tree, Nemophila, D'espairs Ray, Kagerou, Duel Jewel, HYDE, X Japan, Luna Sea,
    There are soooooooo many amazing modern artists! I’ve been listening to modern Japanese rock and metal for a while now . And there is A LOT OF AMAZING music that the majority of English speaking people miss out on .
    I can't stand most modern hip hop ! I'm sorry if that offends some people, but I just prefer metal or prog or rock. I like classical and jazz and all sorts of stuff

    • @rossthemusicandguitarteacher
      @rossthemusicandguitarteacher  8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is exactly what I am talking about right here! So much cause for positivity. I am really impressed with a lot of post-rock coming out of Japan.

    • @robotmodeactivated1255
      @robotmodeactivated1255 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      youre spot on the japanese have their own 4/4 groove and they own it

  • @Heheha329
    @Heheha329 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The zelda soundtrack is amazing i dont get trying to make it more interesting.

  • @williamveramendi7738
    @williamveramendi7738 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Rick Beato picks the bands/music he listened/teached in his youth and basically what he likes mostly. He might know a lot of music theory but he does not know all good musicians even from his era or maybe it is not his taste. I agree with you Ross 100%.

  • @MenachemMoshe
    @MenachemMoshe 11 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Wonderful perspective! Well said

  • @stuartthompson3837
    @stuartthompson3837 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I listen to a lot of great new music and I am a boomer

  • @alanhaenni
    @alanhaenni 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    He didn't say modern music is pathetic. First, he's talking of lyrics, not the music, and he was talking about what is at the top of the charts/streaming.
    McDonald's is the best selling restaurant on the planet. It's not because of the quality of the food.
    BTW, Smokin in the Boys room never made the top ten, and as dumb as those lyrics are, you have to admit, they are still better the what Rick was pointing out.

    • @rossthemusicandguitarteacher
      @rossthemusicandguitarteacher  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He constantly knocks the state of music and I fully understand his argument. I used to be even more bothered by it than maybe him, but the point I am raising here is this: By opening the floodgates we get two effects. First, there is more amazing music than ever. Second, the muck rises to the top because the average person is looking for the Big Mac experience with their music. The good comes with the bad and the ball is in your court to curate your listening time.

    • @rossthemusicandguitarteacher
      @rossthemusicandguitarteacher  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And yes I will admit smoking in the boys room is better than a lot of SoundCloud rap haha 😂

    • @alanhaenni
      @alanhaenni 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Funny, as I was writing a reply, I reread your reply, and realized, you totally agree with Rick’s main point: that the muck rises to the top.
      ------
      Presenting his opinion about music and the music industry is one of the points of Rick’s channel, and he has the CV/resume to have credibility. When he does “knock” today’s music, it’s usually referring to how simple and repetitive it is compared to the time before big business hijacked the industry.
      To your points, yes there is more amazing music than ever. However, there is exponentially more bad music than ever. You ever seen those ads for DAWs that let you “create music” even if you don’t know chords?
      Same is true for all the self-published novels, over processed photography, and all the how-to TH-cam channels by people teaching topics they know very little about.
      Which queues up the idea of curating your own music. When pros were the gatekeepers, at least it filtered out the hacks. And, yes, it will also filtered out some groundbreaking talent…, BUT, it also presented me with music I wouldn’t have found on my own.
      The sad reality is that then and now, only a tiny percentage of creators make a decent living off their creations, and only a fraction of that will be successful.
      Then, it was gatekeepers artists had to get over and now it’s a mountain of garbage they have to get over.
      Then it was professionals getting paid to sift through crap, now we gotta wade through it ourselves.
      @@rossthemusicandguitarteacher

    • @rossthemusicandguitarteacher
      @rossthemusicandguitarteacher  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@alanhaenni Extremely good points here. Some food for thought, thank you for your input.

  • @danharrell2098
    @danharrell2098 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    No Puke intended, but you have to compare apples to apples. Beato used songs that are "the most popular" to listners today measured by total downloads as examples of crappy lyrics. And he did in fact use beautifully arranged real classics by comparison. The simple fact is, however, he could have used a few million song lyrics to compare to the crap that's out today. So using the Spotify or other download metric, we have to go elsewhere to draw the comparison. The cave people of the last two generations bought plastic things called CD's and before that LP's and before the 45 Singles! While in the early 70's Brownsville Station had a cool hit with Smokin in the Boys Room. It was not a mover and shaker. Sadly, yes. I was alive then and remember hearing the song on something we called Radio. I would also proffer that bands like Kiss, the Sex Pistols and Iggy Pop would fall generally into this category (no offense to any of these artists). Your example would be one of a few hundred generally popular at one time or another songs the lyrics of which were sophomoric. But... Brownsville Station was largely a one hit wonder with that song. Even with that you can tell that it's a song that revolves around high school not Adult Life. The raw violence, graphic sex descriptions and flat out hatred of women described in most pop songs over the last 15 years is astounding as much as they are terribly both musically and lyrically speaking. Beato indirectly hints at times when art forms that were practiced (music in this case) were designed to elevate in one form or another. Today it's mostly the opposite. You have to understand the structure before you can tear it down.

    • @rossthemusicandguitarteacher
      @rossthemusicandguitarteacher  4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hard to argue with that

    • @PFB1994
      @PFB1994 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I have to disagree. Jimi Hendrix 'Hey Joe' was about murdering a woman. Neil Young had 'Down by the River' about murdering a woman. There was tons and tons of sex descriptions and women as sex objects in Disco and Hair Metal among other genres that were vastly popular. 'What's your Name' by Lynyrd Skynrd, 'We're an American Band' by Grand Funk - are just glorifying having sex with different groupies from town to town.
      Maybe I misunderstood lyrics I heard back then, but I'm pretty sure 'Whole Lotta Love' by Led Zeppelin is about sex - I mean what did Robert Plant mean by "I'm gonna give you every inch of my love"?
      What are some of the Katy Perry, Adele, Lady Gaga, Dua Lipa and Talor Swift hit songs from the last 15 years that you feel glorify hatred of women?

  • @Hey-i3v
    @Hey-i3v 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    He literally gives false information. And his opinion is so forceful it’s hard to even talk about the truth is some of topics because he just wants to be right about all of it. Anyways

  • @Wozniak_15
    @Wozniak_15 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I follow u n him too
    Well, im also a youngster
    Yet i agree with Rick
    Today's music just sucks in every aspect, lyrically musically.
    U can't find a single song thats worth learning on the guitar or piano. All the songs are boring monotonous. Reality!
    Tell me a song of today that wud last more than 2 years?
    So, i keep learning old songs from 60s-2000s era.

    • @rossthemusicandguitarteacher
      @rossthemusicandguitarteacher  5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If you say so.... Learn Playing God or something, not my cup of tea but not boring at all

    • @Youtube_2user
      @Youtube_2user 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Rick beato is a conartist. The main issue nowadays is the music but many songs are incredibly well written...

  • @lovannie
    @lovannie 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Rick Beato’s theory is about mainstream music. It is bad music, always quantized and pitched.

    • @rossthemusicandguitarteacher
      @rossthemusicandguitarteacher  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I get that and I have standards too but I still think there is a big group of people that complain about it too much. There is so much good music out there, not enough time to even bother with bad music. Live and let live.

  • @lenafelipe
    @lenafelipe หลายเดือนก่อน

    Excellent!!

  • @chimorivamps6559
    @chimorivamps6559 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I agree with you 👍👍👍

  • @autofocus4556
    @autofocus4556 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    He clearly just does it for views these days.

  • @Davidson-y4g
    @Davidson-y4g 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Music is bad because you guys let everyone pirate & stream you. But you are essentially a youtuber, just like Rick, so you will not address it, TH-cam is the biggest streaming culprit.