Musical Geniuses Of The Last Decade - your choices?

[hubb]

who basically writes small segments of music that is handed to a team that assemble the soundtracks like an assembly line.

[hugh]

I wonder
how many actual geniuses are there?
Seems the term is used pretty loosely
as if there's a Rembrandt, Newton, da Vinci, Beethoven, Einstein or Plato
in every fifth basement.
I've got a sense that we might only get one or two (in anything)
every century.
Or are we including idiot savants & the focused talents of aspergers?
Does anybody personally know a real genius...
like, someone that'll radically add to human understanding through a prodigious & unique insight?

Or are we talking musos that can knock out a good tune?

I'm talking about your da Vinci, your Beethoven, your Mozart, dunno about others in the thread though. I think with musicians it is difficult to say, you need time to let their creation appreciate/depreciate and to see whether it has something inherently beautiful about it, something that helps it endure generation after generation. It is almost impossible for me to say whether any contemporary electronic artists are genius or not.
However, SD5, I am not sure I agree with your assertion about what qualifies a genius, well not entirely. Application of genius is just as important as having the quality in the first place. People like Plato, Newton, da Vinci were very much geniuses but also the product of a life that had the correct circumstances that would nurture their talents. In that sense we could say that the modern era's living standards can help to unearth a much greater percentage of these otherwise dormant geniuses. People certainly have a lot more time to focus on the things they enjoy than they did 200 years ago where most people's biggest concern was where there next meal was. Saving up enough money to buy a violin or something was just not something that the overwhelming majority could afford to think about.

[hubb]

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[SCope13]

inb4 hugh says Eyedea, Atmosphere, or Aesop Rock

[topmo3]

the weeknd

[SCope13]

the weeknd

this better be about as serious as the vortex math thread I made.

if you are in fact not joking, please please explain this

[Forum]

the weeknd

The thing with this forum, I honestly don't know if you're trolling...

[Terpit]

lol at people saying Coki

[SCope13]

Honestly there are songs by like fucking Cookie Monsta that if Coki made them people would go nuts over. If Cookie Monsta made Goblin no one would rate that tune. Sorry but true.

[Terpit]

Honestly there are songs by like fucking Cookie Monsta that if Coki made them people would go nuts over. If Cookie Monsta made Goblin no one would rate that tune. Sorry but true.

[ehbes]

The weeknd is really good IMO, but nowhere close to genius level

[noam]

Jack White - so nonchalant and squeeky

[wolf89]

Honestly there are songs by like fucking Cookie Monsta that if Coki made them people would go nuts over. If Cookie Monsta made Goblin no one would rate that tune. Sorry but true.

No

Goblin doesn't remotely sound like cookie monsta.

I think the problem here lies with you not being able to listen too deeply to stuff.

Though Coki has some absoloute shit tunes now that would be applicable to that situation Goblin is not one of them

[topmo3]

i was kind of half trolling but there's a hint of seriousness in what i said

i mean for me personally who prior to hearing the weeknd didn't rate RnB that much. i mean i liked some songs by kells or d'angelo or what have you but to me, to my knowledge he was the first to bring the whole 'alt rnb' to the table big time (i'm aware HTDW's first album was 2010) and i mean that there was introduced a whole new darker, cold and at times even sort of self-loathing aspect to the music.

then there's the whole issue that the weeknd is essentially a few very talented producers and one excellent singer, so u couldn't really thank one guy for being such a musical genius and creating the whole package. i guess it's more or less about what the music means for me, i mean for me he's a musical genius because i can listen to the mixtapes a 1000 times and still don't get bored of em

[Genevieve]

I like 'Goblin', I don't like Cookie Monsta, but people trying to dissociate Coki from brostep are fooling themselves. The differences are so minute that they're barely worth mentioning. And don't give me that sub-bass shit if 90% of the time, you hear neither music's on a system anyway.

[topmo3]

it's about the drums. i mean coki

[ultraspatial]

some of his tunes are just full on headache inducing

[Genevieve]

it's about the drums. i mean coki

So it's brostep with decent drums?

[particle-jim]

the way I see it is that Brostep is over the top to the point of being comical and cheesy whereas a lot of Coki's stuff is genuinely hard hitting (though he has made his fair share of absolute stinkers too)

[SCope13]

Honestly there are songs by like fucking Cookie Monsta that if Coki made them people would go nuts over. If Cookie Monsta made Goblin no one would rate that tune. Sorry but true.

No

Goblin doesn't remotely sound like cookie monsta.

I think the problem here lies with you not being able to listen too deeply to stuff.

Though Coki has some absoloute shit tunes now that would be applicable to that situation Goblin is not one of them

No I love Goblin, my point is that if Cookie Monsta made it no one would give a shit about it.