Nebula link for any Nebula subscribers: https://nebula.tv/videos/adam-neely-the-ethics-of-fake-guitar I thought this video was fantastic. It uses the specific context of some ongoing controversy...
I thought this video was fantastic. It uses the specific context of some ongoing controversy in the social media rock/guitar sphere about “faking” guitar performance videos as a launch point for opening a discussion about viewing genre through the lens of “core values”. I think about musical genre a lot — I studied music information retrieval and started my career at online music streaming services — but this is the first time I've heard someone express this specific framing of it, and I'm finding it very engaging.
I'm actually finding myself relating it to this video from Marcel Ardans: Spotify Has a Fake Bluegrass Problem. This is using the word “fake” in a very different way from Adam’s video — Marcel means “music that is labelled as bluegrass, but doesn’t actually belong in that genre”. He mostly uses aesthetic qualities to define bluegrass (i.e., instrumentation, harmony, etc.), but his discussion of those qualities, especially when they are not perfectly exemplified by a given song, I think provides some interesting insight into the “core values” of bluegrass.
Anyway, I know this is a long video, but I hope some folks watch it and find it interesting! I haven’t really found any meaningful discussion of it online anywhere, and every time it gets posted, I find folks basically just reacting to the title, clearly having not watched the actual video.
Nebula link for any Nebula subscribers: https://nebula.tv/videos/adam-neely-the-ethics-of-fake-guitar
I thought this video was fantastic. It uses the specific context of some ongoing controversy in the social media rock/guitar sphere about “faking” guitar performance videos as a launch point for opening a discussion about viewing genre through the lens of “core values”. I think about musical genre a lot — I studied music information retrieval and started my career at online music streaming services — but this is the first time I've heard someone express this specific framing of it, and I'm finding it very engaging.
I'm actually finding myself relating it to this video from Marcel Ardans: Spotify Has a Fake Bluegrass Problem. This is using the word “fake” in a very different way from Adam’s video — Marcel means “music that is labelled as bluegrass, but doesn’t actually belong in that genre”. He mostly uses aesthetic qualities to define bluegrass (i.e., instrumentation, harmony, etc.), but his discussion of those qualities, especially when they are not perfectly exemplified by a given song, I think provides some interesting insight into the “core values” of bluegrass.
Anyway, I know this is a long video, but I hope some folks watch it and find it interesting! I haven’t really found any meaningful discussion of it online anywhere, and every time it gets posted, I find folks basically just reacting to the title, clearly having not watched the actual video.