DavidMahler
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Britney will never ever hold a place similar to the Beatles. Nor will Elvis......
this is the thing about the Beatles that I've never seen acknowledged on head-fi and its about time that it is.....
this is the deal with them.....yes they were the most popular artist of their day, yes they were super commercial and yes they were marketed strategically with memorabilia and movies etc.....
BUT
They are the ONLY act of that fame to be accepted as artists and not entertainers. I've had the fortune of talking with numerous music professors, classical musicians, jazz musicians......Keith Jarrett, Anne Sophie Mutter, Alfred Brendel, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock.....adn they've all acknowledged that the Beatles artistry is on the level of a genius and in the words of Mutter "Sgt Pepper is what Beethoven would have written had he been alive in the 1960s." So while they were famous like Sinatra, Elvis, Michael Jackson, Britney Spears.......their artistry is what sets them apart, their artistic growth is what makes their impact so different from all the others.......compare a song by Elvis from 1956 to one from 1974......it's not that different, compare a song from Sinatra's first capitol album to his last it's not distinctly different, compare something from off the wall to something from Dangerous...........then compare a song from please please me to a song from rubber soul and those two songs to a song from Sgt Pepper and those three songs to a song from The White Album and those 4 songs to a song from Abbey Road.......it is that growth which makes the BEatles separate from Britney screwin Spears........It's one thing to be a true artist of experimentation, and its one thing to commercial.....they hardly ever overlap.....in the case of the Beatles they overlapped entirely.
Originally Posted by Drubbing /img/forum/go_quote.gif Wait til all the baby boomers are dead. Then maybe Britney will be the cultural watermark for the current millenium. You may all take a moment to shudder. |
Britney will never ever hold a place similar to the Beatles. Nor will Elvis......
this is the thing about the Beatles that I've never seen acknowledged on head-fi and its about time that it is.....
this is the deal with them.....yes they were the most popular artist of their day, yes they were super commercial and yes they were marketed strategically with memorabilia and movies etc.....
BUT
They are the ONLY act of that fame to be accepted as artists and not entertainers. I've had the fortune of talking with numerous music professors, classical musicians, jazz musicians......Keith Jarrett, Anne Sophie Mutter, Alfred Brendel, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock.....adn they've all acknowledged that the Beatles artistry is on the level of a genius and in the words of Mutter "Sgt Pepper is what Beethoven would have written had he been alive in the 1960s." So while they were famous like Sinatra, Elvis, Michael Jackson, Britney Spears.......their artistry is what sets them apart, their artistic growth is what makes their impact so different from all the others.......compare a song by Elvis from 1956 to one from 1974......it's not that different, compare a song from Sinatra's first capitol album to his last it's not distinctly different, compare something from off the wall to something from Dangerous...........then compare a song from please please me to a song from rubber soul and those two songs to a song from Sgt Pepper and those three songs to a song from The White Album and those 4 songs to a song from Abbey Road.......it is that growth which makes the BEatles separate from Britney screwin Spears........It's one thing to be a true artist of experimentation, and its one thing to commercial.....they hardly ever overlap.....in the case of the Beatles they overlapped entirely.