• Skullgrid@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    The same guy who just started putting out videos of him playing VERY well crafted songs with relevant lyrics just a year ago put out FOUR RECORDS AND IS NOMINATED FOR FOUR GRAMMYS?!?!?!

    look man, he’s witty and trying to spread the good word, but folk music is hardly rocket surgery. If instead of shitposting, I turned them into poems and put them over a generic chord progression, I could record 10 albums

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      6 hours ago

      My favorite people are the ones who kick down other people’s accomplishments while simultaneously being too cool to do it themselves. Real pillars of the community, yknow? :^)

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        I am pointing out that there are ways to be productive, and that some things are easier to make lots of than others. You should not be surprised that a folk musician can make lots of albums in a year, because the process is fairly streamlined compared to other forms of music.

        Most of the times, when musicians challenge themselves to be very productive, they generally tend to aim for music like pop or folk music, because it requires less complexity.

        Would you like to claim that “it’s easier to wrote a 2 hour long symphony than a 2 minute folk song” is true?

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          The point
          You

          It’s not about what’s more “”“productive”“”" you effing shareholder. It’s not about which is more difficult. It’s about the fact this person was not only brave enough to produce music actively critical of the regime, but has done so with enough talent to gain meaningful recognition. It’s the same respect for Rage Against the Machine; the music is great, but the focus is the proliferation of the message. Any jackass can get on the internet and say whatever they want, but being able to convert those sentiments into music, publish that music, and get the level of attention Jesse has for it is the accomplishment.

          So it’s not a concerto in E minor, sure. But it pulls attention to the issues we’re facing. Listen to The Poor and tell me that message isn’t worth making cuz it’s easy. Listen to Join ICE and tell me it doesn’t matter because it’s too streamlined.

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        9 hours ago

        I have other things to do with my limited spare time, and I am trying to do that instead.

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          8 hours ago

          Yep, posting stupid comments on Lemmy is right up there with the greats who also wrote amazing and topical songs in their time and were well-regarded for it.

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            Two hours, is enough she says
            Two hours is all you should get she said
            Her feminine suggestion is there for your head
            Two hours sleep is enough she said

            Naikaku Sōri Daijin , hater of the gaijin
            Keeps friends with bats and vampires
            While she climbs the political spires,
            Passes over gently, standing on spines

            In the past many came with the voice
            If only women were given the choice
            And once they were on the ballot
            They came with the fallout

            Margaret Thatcher, notorious milk snatcher
            Took down the entire north with her
            Theresa um, ay, undecisive she May,
            And the wilting cabbage, the muss of Truss

            While I am sure that there are many women that Harden
            The places they lead like Jacinda Arden
            We haven’t had the chance to hear that adage come to pass
            As they near the ceiling made of glass

            In the past many came with the voice
            If only women were given the choice
            And once they were on the ballot
            They came with the fallout

            Do you need me to record a generic chord progression too, or are you satisfied with this adaptation of a post about Naikaku Sōri Daijin ?

            Source is from a comment on a post that was deleted about how the new female japanese PM gets by on 2 hours of sleep , and is yet another counterexample to “If women were in charge, everything would be handled so much better and with kindness” which has many more counterexamples than examples now that we’ve had some female world leaders.

            https://lemmy.world/post/38783352/20491356

            The world would be so much better with women in charge.

            The women in charge we end up with :

            (nb : I’m not saying women are incapable of power, just that assuming women would be great leaders is a stupid idea. There are examples of great/not horrid female leaders like Jacinda Ardern, but thatcher, this woman, Kirchner, theresa may, the lettuce woman are all terrible)

            PS: I’m not exactly Zeal & Ardor , so obviously this process was not as fun for me as it would be for Jesse Welles, I also spent about 10 mins to prove a point.

            Example of Zeal & Ardor’s mix of black metal and slave work songs : https://youtu.be/ZnW6DA_354c

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      8 hours ago

      WE GOT OURSELVES A POET HERE, GUYS!!! THEY CAN DO THE SAME EXACT THING JUST AS WELL, SO NOTHING TO SEE HERE OR ANYTHING:

      Sorry, go ahead and wow us because it’s so predictable and easily done as you just said…