It's still worth watching the video since he goes over some history and talks about the recent charts, but he does wait until the very end to explain the main reasons for the change, which are:...
It's still worth watching the video since he goes over some history and talks about the recent charts, but he does wait until the very end to explain the main reasons for the change, which are: Tastes change. Rock isn't as popular as it used to be. Music production is a lot easier/cheaper for solo artists these days, and it's a lot easier to promote yourself now. Bands are also more difficult to form, keep together and manage, and more expensive to produce for and market so labels generally prefer to sign solo artists.
It's still popular, just not as mainstream, and this is sorta defined by a few factors (imo) Execs seem to define what is 'popular rock' and what isn't. There is still some sort of indie movement...
Rock isn't as popular as it used to be.
It's still popular, just not as mainstream, and this is sorta defined by a few factors (imo)
Execs seem to define what is 'popular rock' and what isn't. There is still some sort of indie movement as there always has been but I have not seen an Indie song chart since the early 2010s. I think alot of corporate execs think that Rock peaked from the 60s to 70s, and this is probably why Classic Rock stations never play anything cool like Roxy Music.
People claiming there is a lack of monoculture, which is somewhat true given the Internet.
I think there is a current wave of rock which seems to be Indie-focused than anything else, and there are plenty of people into older classics.
Rock more or less did peak in popularity in the 70s. Rock was originally dance music, and as prog rock took over it became less danceable. Disco blew up in response, and then DJ culture exploded...
Rock more or less did peak in popularity in the 70s. Rock was originally dance music, and as prog rock took over it became less danceable. Disco blew up in response, and then DJ culture exploded in the 80s. Every modern music genre is pretty much a direct descendent of disco or hip hop, and comes from more of a place of the DJ culture spread by House and Hip Hop artists than the rock band one.
The defining features of disco are a four on the floor drum beat, off beat bass and heavy use of staccato instrumentation. House directly grew out of that, with DJs building beats with TR-909 drum machines, synths and piano and chopping up disco a capellas. This happened in parallel with Italo Disco, which used similar techniques, and eventually lead to Eurodance/Eurobeat and Techno, much of J-Pop from the last few decades, and a whole family tree of descendent genres that are all loosely called Electronic Dance Music. If there's no prominent guitar, and it has a four on the floor instead of a backbeat, it comes from the Disco lineage.
Hip hop had a similar rise over the same time, and the two have shared things back and forth, and come from the same sort of roots of DJs remixing things to create new things. You'll just find different focuses, such as looping drum breaks (either by sampling, or, as it started out, manually scratching records).
I'm not a fan of Beato's clickbait content, so I'm probably not going to watch this in its entirety... But regarding solo music production, I was looking at how underscores played live, saw April...
I'm not a fan of Beato's clickbait content, so I'm probably not going to watch this in its entirety... But regarding solo music production, I was looking at how underscores played live, saw April Grey does the whole show herself, and then realized she made a song like this by herself. It's just so easy to record or fill in live instrumental gaps nowadays and make a cool sound.
I'm past giving him the benefit of the doubt with garbage clogging my feed, but thanks. Can't blame him, sure he eats well off em, and it funds some decent interviews. Not my thing.
I'm past giving him the benefit of the doubt with garbage clogging my feed, but thanks. Can't blame him, sure he eats well off em, and it funds some decent interviews. Not my thing.
I like Rick Beato's channel but I agree that he has a lot of content that is very "youtube". I see this happen with most channels. In the beginning, you can find a channel that is very...
I like Rick Beato's channel but I agree that he has a lot of content that is very "youtube".
I see this happen with most channels.
In the beginning, you can find a channel that is very interesting. It has some nice niche and the creator is very passionate about it.
But after a while, the creator starts chasing some number of views or subscribers, or realizes that they can make real money of the channel if the aim their content for searches and make thumbnails that have their face making an expression from a Dreamworks cartoon.
In this case, Rick Beato has real interviews with respected artists. But he also has livestreams and other nonsense.
Oh I edited this to mention that he does shorts too. I hate shorts and where possible I try to hide them or use a program like FreeTube that let's you exclude them.
It's still worth watching the video since he goes over some history and talks about the recent charts, but he does wait until the very end to explain the main reasons for the change, which are: Tastes change. Rock isn't as popular as it used to be. Music production is a lot easier/cheaper for solo artists these days, and it's a lot easier to promote yourself now. Bands are also more difficult to form, keep together and manage, and more expensive to produce for and market so labels generally prefer to sign solo artists.
It's still popular, just not as mainstream, and this is sorta defined by a few factors (imo)
Execs seem to define what is 'popular rock' and what isn't. There is still some sort of indie movement as there always has been but I have not seen an Indie song chart since the early 2010s. I think alot of corporate execs think that Rock peaked from the 60s to 70s, and this is probably why Classic Rock stations never play anything cool like Roxy Music.
People claiming there is a lack of monoculture, which is somewhat true given the Internet.
I think there is a current wave of rock which seems to be Indie-focused than anything else, and there are plenty of people into older classics.
Rock more or less did peak in popularity in the 70s. Rock was originally dance music, and as prog rock took over it became less danceable. Disco blew up in response, and then DJ culture exploded in the 80s. Every modern music genre is pretty much a direct descendent of disco or hip hop, and comes from more of a place of the DJ culture spread by House and Hip Hop artists than the rock band one.
The defining features of disco are a four on the floor drum beat, off beat bass and heavy use of staccato instrumentation. House directly grew out of that, with DJs building beats with TR-909 drum machines, synths and piano and chopping up disco a capellas. This happened in parallel with Italo Disco, which used similar techniques, and eventually lead to Eurodance/Eurobeat and Techno, much of J-Pop from the last few decades, and a whole family tree of descendent genres that are all loosely called Electronic Dance Music. If there's no prominent guitar, and it has a four on the floor instead of a backbeat, it comes from the Disco lineage.
Hip hop had a similar rise over the same time, and the two have shared things back and forth, and come from the same sort of roots of DJs remixing things to create new things. You'll just find different focuses, such as looping drum breaks (either by sampling, or, as it started out, manually scratching records).
I'm not a fan of Beato's clickbait content, so I'm probably not going to watch this in its entirety... But regarding solo music production, I was looking at how underscores played live, saw April Grey does the whole show herself, and then realized she made a song like this by herself. It's just so easy to record or fill in live instrumental gaps nowadays and make a cool sound.
The content of the video is accurately represented by the title. Maybe it is a bad video but I don't understand how it is "clickbait" at all.
I'm past giving him the benefit of the doubt with garbage clogging my feed, but thanks. Can't blame him, sure he eats well off em, and it funds some decent interviews. Not my thing.
I know nothing about this creator. I just don't believe that this particular video that I watched is clickbait. That's all.
To be honest I wouldn't even call all of his content clickbait, he has nice music theory videos and interviewed people like Stewart Copeland
I like Rick Beato's channel but I agree that he has a lot of content that is very "youtube".
I see this happen with most channels.
In the beginning, you can find a channel that is very interesting. It has some nice niche and the creator is very passionate about it.
But after a while, the creator starts chasing some number of views or subscribers, or realizes that they can make real money of the channel if the aim their content for searches and make thumbnails that have their face making an expression from a Dreamworks cartoon.
In this case, Rick Beato has real interviews with respected artists. But he also has livestreams and other nonsense.
Oh I edited this to mention that he does shorts too. I hate shorts and where possible I try to hide them or use a program like FreeTube that let's you exclude them.