Music Origins, History, Creation, Special Musicians…
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PopeBeanie 1 year ago.
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I’m learning from what may be the best reactors now, who have obvious expertise, and experience with critiquing music. So I think they fit into this topic as much as great music videos without a critic. Anna Vaskelainen is one of the smartest I’ve discovered so far, and passionate as well. She picks up so much on just her first watching. Turn on captions for when she speaks in Finnish.
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She’s really good. I like that song a lot, too. Here, one of the masters, Rick Beato, analyzes what he says is the most complex pop song of all time. Even if you don’t know much about music theory, his expressions as he listens are good for some laughs.
It’s a song he and his band agreed to play for a wedding reception. THEN, they went about learning it. I don’t know if they really got it down pat or just approximated it, knowing that there would not likely going to be any musicologists in the wedding party.
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Very soon after The Warning formed, their secret sauce became apparent: songwriting. As good as they are as musicians, much more impressive musicians are out there and bands full of such musicians as well, who can play rings around The Warning. I can watch their Teatro Metropolitan concert over and over and never get bored because the songs are so good. And varied, which is something given their extremely limited instrumental format. While I like some songs more than others, every one is a worthwhile listen. Some of the songs I paid less attention to before are now growing on me. Breathe, for example. They write songs with passages you can sing or hum to yourself in the shower or while folding the laundry. None of the instrumentally stronger bands can do that. Songwriting.
I simply can’t understand people who don’t respond to their music. This band, for me, is what music is all about.
I’m trying to get my brother (two years younger) to give them a listen, a serious listen, but he’s one of these people, if you like something he knows something even better. (“Let’s go to XYZ Bagels, they make a great bagel” “Yeah but they can’t compare to the bagels I got in New York” and that’s without even tasting an XYZ Bagel). I sent him a link to one of their songs and his response was something like “nice,” which tells me he may not have even wanted to find time to give it a seriou s listen.
Their themes tend to be serious. Even the ones about relatioships are not the typical broken heart teen fare. They are about things any adult could relate to. Beyond that, they address social themes as well in songs like Kool Aid Kids, Error, and Disciple. Ironically, the song for which they have become most famous is their cover of Metallica’s Enter Sandman, which is just a horror-fantasy, though it was originally written in response to James Hetfields loss of a baby to crib death.,
People are so jaded and overwhelmed by Internet messaging nowadays that the hardest part is to get people (like my brother) to sit down for a serious listen to a couple of The Warning’s tunes.
BTW, when the girls recorded this song, they were just 17, 15, and 12. In other words, the youngest, Alejandra, was early Middle School age.
Their career has benefitted, of course, by not being born into a poor family (mom a dentist, dad probably a sound engineer, who owned a recording studio), so early on they had Fender guitars and (I don’t know my drums, but I’m sure it was something like Ludwigs). The excellence of the video in question no doubt benefitted from their dad’s knowledge of sound recording and probably some connections he had to the video side of things.
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