Apparently, they were very popular with girls.
Those were the days. I can remember being in Jr HS and rehearsing for a music show featuring choruses from all four schools in our district. We were on the bus singing Beatles songs on our way back to our own school and our director was leading us in them. She was a pretty cool lady. LOL
How many of us owe our own beginnings as rock musicians to the Beatles?
I owe my interest in bass to Paul McCartney. But I think the time is coming relatively soon when many will say they weren't influenced by the Beatles hardly any or not at all. Being a Hendrix fan, I've already encountered people who have never heard of him.
Not to pick on TB, but that is a place where many impatient young people with little interest in history show up.
The discussions about the impact of the Beatles there reveal a surprising number of people who think they were just some old band that was nothing special. It does boggle the mind of those who lived through that era and know how much they influenced the direction of popular music.
That said, I remember that nearly 20 years ago one of my friends related overhearing a conversation between two teenagers. His ears perked when the Beatles were mentioned. The pivotal comments were these:
"...the Beatles? Who are they?
"Aw, that was McCartney's band before he formed Wings."
My friend was still reeling when he told me of that exchange.
There’s been nothing even remotely close to Beatlemania since.
Taylor didn't have the training of those six sets a night in the Hamburg red-light-district!
I also believe that the auto-tune sound has by now become de rigueur for certain types of music just like distortion belongs to rock guitar though it was initially unwanted by producers.
But I get you, Taylor is at best an ok singer. She is no Whitney or Mariah who had - no matter what you think of their image and music - one-of-kind singing ability.
I guess I'm missing something - what are the tipoffs to someone using autotune? Not sure what to listen for.
I guess I'm missing something - what are the tipoffs to someone using autotune? Not sure what to listen for.
I don't remember if it was here that I recently posted this (sorry if it's a repeat), but though I can't name one Taylor Swift song, I find this fascinating.
https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/taylor-swift-new-eddie-van-halen
Is Dave really taking a measured stance here? ;D
Seriously, with her productions the AutoTune is a stylistic means to achieve a certain sound, just like those looped computerized beats and the layered synths. That doesn’t mean I like it, it’s as samey as a Motörhead album and I can never tell her songs apart. She’s 33 now, why she insists on having her voice squeezed through a blender so she sounds like an electronically enhanced 16-year-old instead of a young grown-up woman is beyond me.
It's his bleating heart.
Dave Harrumphenheimer ...
So I guess now the conspiracy theorists are going to claim that Biden and Taylor Swift fixed the Super Bowl.