The Latest Top 10 Songs...SHOCKING
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2023
- In this episode I count down the Top 10 songs on the Spotify Global Top 50 Chart.
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Ever think that you're missing something by ignoring today's pop music? No, me neither.
Liberal use of the word music there.
And I really can't understand why Rick likes Billie Eilish so much. Her songs are all the same: "We are going to die in tears" - but in a whisper voice, instead of a scream.
Very little hit and way too much miss😒
@@call_me_stan5887 Probably because he only listens to them in the context of these chart reviews and in that context they are a welcome break from the trap, raggaeton, and sexually charged low effort pop music that otherwise dominates. Same thing for Olivia Rodrigo who is obviously following the exact formula of the singles from her last album.
Hahahahahahaha!!! Spot on!
I like that Rick can find good things about songs that he CLEARLY doesnt like
anybody that isnt lying can do that
not that you were doing this, but does it annoy anyone else that all the comments under these videos are just people hating on modern mainstream music? sure there's songs that aren't great in there (that's always the case for pop music) but so many people in the comments are painting modern pop music as purely bad which is discrediting all the amazingly talented artists in the mainstream
@@ericaolive no yeah I hate it too lmao, often times i just don't scroll to the comments
He always starts these videos saying the last list was terrible, but while he's going through the list he never says any of the songs are terrible.
@@ericaolive Where do you find your quality music?
Still can’t get over how quickly Rick can analyse a song…. Amazing!
I'd be interested in knowing if this is legitimately the first time he's heard these, or if he works with the song a little before recording.
@@CodyMudrack no no I know people that just hear 2 chords and can play them instantly without looking, some people just know music way too well
These songs are simple, made for simple minds.
partly due to his highly developed skills but also due the moronic boring simplicity of much of this music. I can't imagine how painful it must be for someone with such as exquisitely refined musical ear to listen to this stuff. Like a gourmet being forced to eat pureed spam .
They're pop songs, like adolescent nursery rhymes (but with inferior tunes), and easy to analyse and predict if you have a little experience.
Rick, you always balance your huge knowledge, professionalism, experience and great musical skills with a humble, curious, open-minded, and respectful attitude. Thanx for sharing this with us!!
Hardly. He complains about a cliché reggaeton beat but doesn't bat an eye at a standard kick snare pattern like the one in dance the night away. It's just a bunch of elaborate commentary that really boils down to whether or not it's the genre/style Rick has been conditioned to appreciate. Choosing criteria is a subjective process anyway, even if he were being consistent.
The thing I like about Rick is that he doesn't judge unique styles of music, it's clear he knows and appreciates all kinds of music. He's also not one of those "all modern music is trash" people, he judges everything fairly.
Bro but cmon most of it is garbage though
@@_wtfmaze_4328 But bro, c'mon ... I lived through the 50s, 60s, 70s, etc. Most of the music we had was garbage, too. For every great song or groundbreaking group there were a hundred pieces of pure crap.
@@patrickwilliams3108tell them, queen
@@patrickwilliams3108and was the crap music top 10? No
Well this is EXACTLY why I refuse to watch his videos. he is cheating himself by trying to be fair. He SHOULD be the "all modern music is trash" people instead of trying to appreciate of the noise which a dozen people working for record labels create on computers. What he should really be doing is, explaining what he likes about the songs, and how it SHOULD be improved. I am a musician with perfect pitch and I take this kind of thing highly offensive when there is another talented musician like me supporting music I find terrible.
Cruel Summer came out 4 years ago, crazy how it got back to the charts
It was released as a single
@@kaycee3986after it got into top ten
@@kaycee3986 no its not
@@swiftnstylinson yes it was. People have been begging her to release it as a single for years and she finally did it. Why argue about something a Google search away?
@@swiftnstylinsonit's promoted in radio. It's a single without a music video
Kevin Parker known as “Tame Impala” is the producer of Dua Lipa song!!! He’s an insanse producer and he also has his own discography, you should check “currents” one of his best albums for me! 😄
Dance the Night is just so well produced i cant believe it, then again it's Dua Lipa's production team
Didn’t Kevin Parker from tame impala compose it?
The 2nd Olivia Rodrigo song has a recognisable 90s grunge/alt. sound to me. And regarding the Dua Lipa song: I'm more and more convinced that pop songs always work great when they take a lot from the Disco era.... cause it's Disco, it's been working for decades and everybody loves it, even if they say they hate it.
The vocal reminded me of Evanescence
Speak for yourself.
I'm generally not a current pop music fan, but I do tend to like Dua Lipa. There is some talent behind her for sure.
i figured out why that is: it has the creep chord progression
That's what I was thinking on the Dua Lipa song - it's disco. I guess disco didn't die after all. I'm not a fan of most of today's pop music. To me, it sounds like music made by robots, for robots. This song seems to have a little life in it, which is better than I expected.
LOVE the idea of having Rick do a "50 years ago this week Top 10 analysis" ! Out of curiosity, i checked it out - week of August 18th 1973:
1. Diana Ross - Touch Me In The Morning
2. Wings - Live And Let Die
3. Stories - Brother Louie
4. Maureen McGovern - The Morning After
5. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
6. Jim Croce - Bad, Bad Leroy Brown
7. Gilbert O'Sullivan - Get Down
8. Helen Reddy - Delta Dawn
9. Charlie Daniels - Uneasy Rider
10. Chicago - Feelin' Stronger Everyday
Now, i can't say positions 4,7,8, or 9 do anything for me, but i find way more sonic, rythmic and melodic variety in those 10 songs.
Stories did several songs that were much better than “Brother Louie.”
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I love singing along to "Bad Bad Leroy Brown." >> Croce: Bad. Me: Bad. Croce: Bad. Me: Bad. Croce: Leroy Brown.
Wow, what a list! Love #8, but agree on 4, 7, and 9. And over all, I agree with your argument!
Pick any top 10 from any week between 1965 and 1990 and it will be better than any from the last ten years. They've forgotten 3 chords and the truth. It's been replaced with two notes and jibberish.
"Bad Idea Right?" Is a great tune. And that Dua Lipa song -- you can't not dance when it comes on.
Love this! I’m a 50-something musician who loves to stay up to date with modern pop. Your comments are spot on. Love how you pick out the chords so easily - since they are frequently so common. But I agree with you so much on the skilled songwriters and producers. I love a well written pop song with great production. They always make me smile. 🤩
There's actually a lot of really good music being made these days. The problem is that almost none of it shows up on hits lists.
Absolutely correct. I'm a Boomer but when I hear other Boomers saying "no music today any good" I just cringe at the ignorance. It's not hard to find tons of amazing stuff. It's just not chart stuff.
I agree 100%. It always pains me to see people (especially in the comments of these videos) saying that modern music is trash, when good music is being put out constantly. It's just harder to find, and requires some effort on the listener's part.
The average music listener is satisfied with whatever is thrown infront of him. Always has been always will be. However, it is sad that not even slightly interesting/different music makes it into the Top 10. This was different a couple of decades ago. Promotion is everything in today's music business.
@@InsanityOtter983 that's why I think finding music online is such a godsend. You get suggestions based off of your tastes and you can find stuff you thought you didn't like when you were younger. I think a lot of this music is probably geared towards a younger audience. I've tried listening and a lot of it I just can't get with. But that's part of getting old I suppose 😅
Spot on! My son turned me on to Bandcamp and I've found some great new music on there.
Dear Rick , I’m sure many of us would love you to do this same video but for random weeks from the 1970s 🙏🏻❤
Or just take a close look at the Top 100 singles from '73, '74 or '75. The iconic talent born in the '40s were mostly all at the top of their game. Progressive music was the most popular music until punk, disco and rap took off. We were spoiled by the Beatles, Zep, Floyd, Dylan, Mitchel, Hendrix, CSNY, CCR, Motown and many others setting the bar high. This music has survived and flourished. College level music students prefer music of that era more than they enjoy current pop. The pop and rap they play at my gym is ridiculous. I do like the song 'Under Water' by Rufus Du Sol. The production hooks send me into an altered state the way good 20th century music often does.
Fantastic idea!
This idea needs more upvotes! "What made this week great"
Hey that's cheating, why are you forcing it to be good? :P
I figure you would find about the same mix of 'good' and 'bad' music in any week of any era.
It's fun to hear a seasoned session musician deconstruct the current hot play list. I personally have no idea how to judge whether a song is any good - I just know if I like or don't like it. But one thing I'll say - the Dua Lipa song, "Dance the Night Away," from the Barbie movie is a genuine perfect pop song, and there are so damn few of those around anymore. That song worms its way into your brain - and stays! And you never get tired of it. That song will be around for a long time.
The way anyone judges these songs is weather they remember them afterwards. If there good you will remember the parts that stand out.
I hated Seven by Jungkook but his song Standing Next To You is a great pop song imo
I’m pretty tired of it after I heard it twice
Love this Top 10 Review series. I always mean to listen to new stuff, but never seem to get to it. Rick's insights and informed assessment is both interesting and educational, keeping me engaged on stuff I'd switch away from on my own.
There’s a good reason why songs like Olivia’s vampire come around to become a hit, even though the progression is similar to previous hits. That progression gets people in the feels. It’s like people cycle back to the same food after a while.
And the vocal. The vocal is great.
@@lalaDrlalaDr True. The vocal is no joke.
"Gets people in the feels" WTF happened to the English language
@@MrPicklededeu never heard of that phrase/saying before?
It’s same progression like in “Creep” by Radiohead
The pop charts used to be stylistically and sonically diverse. Now it feels like there's only one genre represented, and the genre is "production tricks". Take a look at a top 10 from 1983. Every song sounded like what it was - distinctive from its writing to its playing to its recorded sound. The pop charts now feel like hanging out at Walmart late at night. Some kind of soulless, post-apocalyptic, plastic nightmare.
"...soulless, post-apocalyptic, plastic nightmare"? Maybe so....but did you like 'em? lol
Not sure I but that. I’m sure you would’ve been complaining about the likes of Britney Spears and Beyoncé dominating the charts 20 years ago.
If you’re willing to go as far back as the 80s for your comparison fair enough, but was most of the chart music of that period not catering to synth pop or glam rock at the time?
I think the charts is probably no more monolithic in style than it used to be, just different.
I agree with you on the one hand, on the other hand, we are probably not able to tune in to the new music like young people are able to. When the youth started to like the Beatles and the Stones in the 60's, their parents were horrified bij that music. So your comment echoes what those parents said.
I love how you phrased the last line of your comment. It's a great summary of how the vast majority of pop music over the last five years or so has been utterly dominated by the same template of samples, beats, and chords, with a heavy hip-hop/rap influence.
@@JohnPaulHare The idea this has come about in the last 5 years just isn’t true.
If anything the charts are more diverse today than they were 10 years ago.
I’d argue early 2010s was the worst time for chart music, but I think there’s been an improvement again since.
I love it when you do these videos and I always enjoy hearing new music, even when I don't like it. I'm really surprised I liked several songs on this list. I appreciate the way you break it all down, Rick. I really enjoy all of your videos.
This was an interesting watch. It feels nice to have curate a selection of songs to show somebody what’s out there and what sounds good. Thank you.
It is really quite ironic how alternative music is now more accessible than ever, yet mainstream music found a way to dominate the internet, like tv and radio back in the day.
The widespread accessibility has served to lower the bar of entry for bad stuff as well as good, unfortunately, which means that you often have to look harder for the good stuff.
@@robgrano6814 That is a very accurate observation. It creates this illusion that there is a dearth of good music, which there isn't. It is quite sad however, how internet was supposed to democratize the music industry but that never really happened.
There's so little money in the industry now due to many factors, that the big labels have to release music as safe as possible and put all the money into the marketing in hopes of any return. This should be of no concern to anyone but big label execs, because we can all listen to whatever great new niche music we want to instead without their influence. I don't see how mainstream music dominates the internet, because the internet you see is down to your algorithm and what you bring up manually. I've never heard any of these songs before.
Mainstream. Hm. I wonder why they call it that.
@@AfferbeckBeats But if is so hard to make money for the "music industry", why don't they just stop? It would help music and music lovers a lot.
I came from under my rock to see what the masses were listening to... I shall return to my rock.
what do you listen to? No hate, I'm on a mission to discover new music. its hard these days!
@@Idiotsincarsherelisten to TPAB my fav album
@@MusicSid-lk2vz Kendrick Lamar? That’s hip hop not rock but I love that album too.
@@Idiotsincarshere70s and 80s rock music and 90s rap songs
@@Idiotsincarsherebands under Sumerian records and foreign rock
That was so, so fascinating. I wish I could find more time to listen to Rick's work and I am terribly tempted to download his course bundle except that I know I would not find time to use it, and would just have something else calling to me longingly. But I am still inspired to not go for easy changes or melodies and to write as professionally as I can when I get the chance, just to do my best to raise the bar a bit. I am grateful for your work to stand up for music, Rick!
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Nice and efficient Rick.... I didn't make it past track no. 8.... man I'm glad I'm old 😂.... Bless you for doing this 🙏🏼
Ah a new episode of "Rick tries his utmost best to find something positive to say about half of these songs"
Easily among my favorite things to watch ;)
Did you find this "shocking"? I didn't.
When Rick breaks bad and goes full Robert Gilchrist on this dreck, no one will blame him. His pedigree will easily shield him from slings and arrows.
Lol you can tell he’s desperately looking for something positive to say
😂
Idk man, he always finds something to like, he really did seem to like that dua lipa song
It's great that you always try to reach for "what sounds good" instead of focusing on how extremely boring it all just ends up sounding, kudos! I definitely don't have that level of patience
Me either.
TOTALLY agree
Exactly!
Same thoughts exactly. Admirable of him to see the positives. Couple of them are quite well produced and sound good, but none are my thing. Not since Pop died way back when.
Back to the wild world of Metal for me.
Just don't discount other modern more talented rap artists Tyler the Creator has some wild new stuff that has some rap verses. Gunna is a turd to listen to
I'm not a fan of today's music but I appreciate that you're giving the songs a shot.. some songs weren't terrible..
Rick, you just showed us what’s missing from today’s pop music: guitars and real instruments!
props to olivia rodrigo for bringing them back
Ignoring synths and other tonal palettes is silly. They're all real instruments.
I think a song can survive that as long as it has a recognisable structure; ones put out by synth-heavy bands like Spandau Ballet and the Human League managed it in the early 80s.
I'm 55. I always swore I'd never be one of these old people who hate / don't know modern music. I did pretty well up until my 40s. I could still relate to my younger nieces and what they were into. But honestly, I just can't take what passes for music these days.
the good new stuff is all in Korea. Nothing in the US
I am 51 and have hated most music released in this millennium.
Same
I'm 57 and discovered @renmakesmusic. Reignited my hope for independent musicians with good lyrics and music; no auto-tune 👍🏼
I heard the exact melody of the toddler rhyme “baby baby stick your head in gravy” over and over in a hit song. Toddler level melody now passes as music
My 19 year old son works in a restaurant were they play classic rock. He told me he likes "Summer of '69" and "A Long December". I was thrilled but tried not to over react! 😆
Oh no, is counting crows already classic rock? I'm old! Was bout to happen eventually I guess
Ha! My son took me with him to the Murder Dolls and Papa Roach when he was sixteen. I took him with me to Johnny Winter's last tour in Europe, when he (son, not Johnny) was twenty-five. In 2019, son was thirty-two, we watched King Crimson together, and in this year in October we'll see The Aristocrats. That's what I call education.
My kids reckon they hate my taste in music, but every time I recommend a song to them, they like it. I tell them they are known as classics for a reason. 99.9% of these spotify top songs will disappear off anyone's rotation.
My 21 year old son’s favourite bands are Rush, Steely Dan and Pink Floyd. My 19 year old’s fave channels on Sirius radio are 80s on 8, 90s on 9, the Lithium channel and…Hair Nation. I think he even programmed Yacht Rock into the car radio.
@@nckhedsummer of ‘69 is some pretty generic stuff there! I grew up with it. Not musically very interesting if you’re holding that out as an example of great music of the past?…
Y’know, I’m no Swiftie, but the fact that Cruel Summer is maybe more than 4 years old gives me hope that something’s actually sticking with people. Everything else seems to come and go so quickly.
In truth I prefer Bananarama's Cruel Summer. Old school
That's because it's an 80s song, duh.
@@Faltor895 It’s a cover? No wonder.
@@intercyanideare you kidding me💀 no it is not. It was on her lover album its about her ex joe Alwyn, not a cover
@@BornNDie Sorry, sorry. Thank you.
The funniest part of these videos is that Rick’s small stabs of guitar add a lot of texture to these songs
There's a lot I could say here, but I believe that I can sum it all up with this: popular music has reached a point where the bar for finding anything worth praising is so low that you have to actually say how great it is to hear a guitar up front.
Yeah, the songs "Beep, Beep!" and the "Monster Mash" was pretty high-brow stuff.
. . . and let's not forget,
"Mares eat oats, and does eat oats, and little lambs eat ivy. A kid'll eat ivy too. Wouldn't you?"
I've been saying this generation thinks they deserve an award for playing a real guitar, or copying a past style badly.
@@foto21Like the veneration for that new _Barbie_ film on the grounds that it's not a remake nor sequel.
The Roadrunner song was written for television, which was considered low brow culture. No on said there was no low culture in the past. The point is there was still high culture, of which there is essentially ZERO today.@@jhandle4196
Uncanny how Rick's off-the-cuff guitar strumming / finger picking (while he's figuring out the changes) actually adds to the tune.
I liked this video very much. I have been staying away from new music for a time now as my habit is to go back and try to find new repertoire from artists I enjoy. Yes, I am old. BTW I bought your book set. It is awesome. Some of it is over my head as I am a new music student. I still am working through it in hopes I can understand things I hear or see in the future.
I am a listener, not a music maker or analyzer. What I would do to have a fraction of your knowledge. Thank you for the enlightenment!
Dua Lipa and her team don’t hide their Elton John and ABBA influences. A lot of great stuff.
Jewa liper is albanian
I really like Dua, she gets me moving and the sound is so clean. I actually like Taylor swift too she's got skills!
Kirkpatrick and Ronson nailed her productions. Quality stuff.
Dance the night sound like a jamiroquai song
Rick is living proof that everything is better with guitars, he’ll just be casually strumming to the song and I’m like “ oh it sounds not that bad” then he stops playing and the song feels a little empty
It really improved that Columbia song
Probably, because modern music has less and less guitar and more synthesizer, because you have to dedicate a lot of time to learn guitar and this generation doesn't have the intelligence or perseverance to learn how to play guitar. Before you say it, I play guitar, bass, piano, and violin for over 40 years. I'm glad I won't be around to listen to gen x explain how good this music was to their kids!
@@fiddlefaddle1absolute waffle.
I personally believe in the power of guitar and piano
It's mostly all synths and drum machine which apparentently no-one knows how to program different beats. Plus often over-produced.
it's almost sunrise where i live and i am stuck in a youtube rabbithole because i just discovered beato's ranty side... absolutely worth it
Rick, can you do a video on modern country music? The last few years it’s gotten really diverse despite the reputation it’s attained. Independent artists have grown so much, and I think they carry on the rock and roll + singer-songwriter spirit a lot of modern music lacks. Texas country is interesting too… lots of cool guitar work from Whiskey Myers, Koe Wetzel, Treaty Oak Revival, and the Turnpike Troubadours. It’s a super diverse sub genre of the country scene… some go for the honky tonk twang, some with the classic southern rock approach, and some have a wicked Seattle sound.
3 songs from barbie but "im just ken" isnt there, sad. That song truly exceeded my expectations, knowing it was more like a joke, but ryan delivered it perfectly. The change in pace that occurs too, underrated asf and it's not even cause it was ryan gosling doing it
Sometimes it's just not kenough :D
It's not really a song you keep listening to although being good
I was hoping to see it too
Give it some Kenergy!! It makes me laugh every time
I'm just Ken was my favorite from the movie 😢
As a listener I don't think i'll ever truely LOVE pop , However as a musician there really is an art to how simple yet effective pop can be. its really impressive when Billie or Olivia Rodrigo are able to add subtle veriations while keeping it digestable. Honestly thought the Nikki and Ice spice track was super smart to remix the Barbie girl track into a Trap inspired beat plus the Juke break gives it extra points. Kudo's Rick new subscriber.
You should really search for and listen to 'YUI AGAIN', 'YUI LIFE', 'YUI GANBARRE'
@@twitter.comelomhycy Damn I love YUI. Listening to her song will never be a wrong choice
AMEN! @@Dismiazs
YUI is amazing
Sure thing!@@sayykii3468
Your respectfulness and genuine constructive criticism was great, +1 sub haha.
I always feel like I've heard all these songs a million times before. There's so much great music being made out there by alternative artists, rock, metal, prog that I can't keep up with all the stuff I actively want to listen to, thank goodness it doesn't seem like I'm missing out on anything interesting in the charts 🤯
I like how every song instantly sounds better when you start playing over it. Guitar is missing often in modern pop songs
That might be due to the simple fact that everything sounds better as soon as real instruments are involved, with skilled musicians playing them.
Underrated comment yo!🤘
very good observation. Less and less skilled instrument players coming out now, but there is a plethora of 4 chord producers, who put 4 generic chords and call it a day. Lol some of the melodies of the top stars are made out of just 1 or 2 notes. Thats not very musician like. Even a baby can blabber and they would make a song on it.
Would be boring if every song of every genre had guitar too
@@antonioestuardobrindis5738 I agree, and I play guitar lol
As an old guy, 67, I remind myself that I thought I hated disco when it first emerged. Now, many of those tunes have become favorites.
The worst of Disco was still INFINITELY, better than the best of the gutter trash being pumped out today. And this is where my anger knows no bounds, seeing there was a concerted effort to destroy Disco even, before it got off the ground properly, while this sickening, filth has been allowed to dominate pop music for over three decades, and anyone with a musical ear and half a brain knows it is infinitely, worse. I'll never understand human beings, never.
I’ve said many times to people that I really disliked disco when it was a thing….until rap reared its ugly head. Ya just don’t know what you’ve got ‘til it’s gone.
I know exactly what u mean, I hated The Stones, "Shattered" and turned it off every time
I heard them, now I crank it, tastes change. Like Donna Summer a lot more now too.
@@anthonygstrandwiththebandt2656 : Anthony, direct your comment to the person you are speaking to, please. If you can seriously, tell me that 70s Disco is worse than the damn, gutter trash we are being tortured with today, and everybody seems to be allowing, then you don't know music at all or have a shred of decent taste. I wish to Good God, someone would start a campaign against today's rap and hip-hop garbage, crab as they so viciously, did to Disco, back in the day. I'm longing for that to happen. Disco barely, got a decade, while this tasteless, gutter crap, as lasted for pushing 30 bloody, years now. Sure Good, God, enough is enough now. Surely.
@@ivanj.conway9919 disco just morphed into house and garage.
It's very refreshing to hear your honesty, about some of today's music!
Whenever Rick opines on the current top ten pop hits I get an image of being stuck inside a Chuck E Cheese restaurant. The noise is deafening, the kids making it are oblivious to its harshness, yet there is a loving, concerned adult attempting to bring some calm and meaning to the maddening, incessant noise. Rick, you are that Saint.
I Only managed the noise in Chuck E Cheese once!
Great analogy
I'm 5 minutes in, and all I can say so far is props to Olivia for having some music in her music.
True. You are a voice of reason on here, unlike most.
Crazy how fast Wet Leg is already influencing other artists
Facts
Not for me, but from what I’ve heard Olivia Rodrigo isn’t even that bad. Two or three songs on here were well done, which is good going imo.
It’s the guitarist guy who writes all the guitar parts. He’s a bit derivative, but has good taste. She just blathers on over the chord changes 😅
I would love to see an interview with Jack Antonoff or an analysis of some of his music, or both. He seems super open to describing his production process (including providing tracks for others to remix), and given his experience as both a performer and producer, I think he would have a lot of interesting things to share, especially having worked with so many talented people, and Rick seems to like his work when it comes up, such as Cruel Summer. At the very least he is influencing the sound of pop music quite a bit, and worth exploring that.
10:01 lmao, Rick was trying not to laugh. 😂😂😂
Nice to see some credit for the youngest BTS guy's solo project. Not an army. But I do believe these guys know how to make good pop music. And they really mix old vibes with the new stuff really well. I like this song a lot and all the solo stuff I've hear so far have
been great.
Couldn't agree more with all of this and best believe that when they come out of military service, I'm going to be one of the millions lining up for tickets for their comeback tour
Yess I like their solo projects. They each bring different things on the table
I'm looking forward to listening to V's new album and more new songs by jungkook
I agree! Same with their amazing ability to make pop so is their ability to make hip hop and other genres. Their producers and the members themselves are truely geniuses and can get amazing results in every genere. Fuck some of my favorite bts songs are their rnb, pop-rock and hiphop songs while it not even being their main genre.
I like how Rick tries desperately to find something good in each song, God bless him. 😁😁😁
It's kinda painful to watch till the end :(
painful to watch, dreadful to listen to monotune pop songs these days.
Rick finds something kind to say about each song- because he is a gentleman.
Or he enjoys the songs for what they are. Pop music charts have always been a mishmash of drivel and good songs.
Vampire!!
Love the channel , as rod Serling would say, case in point… I’m a child of the 60s and grew up in deep purple Led Zeppelin Beatles etc . Most of the memories I have of great songs are just cherry picked favorites - not all jammed into a top 10?at a given point . One of my favorite channels is yesterday’s papers covering top 10’sof the 60s and 70s . Talk about a load of crap :) there are some real dogs in there man .
Hey Rick, always love when you do these and find it interesting. I'm not generally a fan of what's at the top of the charts, but I confidently love a well-crafted pop hook. Btw, not that you'd know but #1 was by Jung Kook (pronounced with a J sound and the word Cook), he's the youngest member of BTS but I don't think any of them co-wrote this song.
I watch Rick do these videos to see him effortlessly pick up the chord progressions. I watch them for his positive attitude finding good things to talk about. I watch them to cry how far we have fallen musically since the seventies.
For just about all of these songs, it ain't a stretch.
Yeah but by song five he has that look on his face
Terrible
The fall is not just musically.
I think its a safe bet he's worked out the chord progressions ahead of time.
I like that Olivia Rodrigo is still pop-rocking, Lipa is pop-discoing and Taylor is pop-poppin' while the reggaeton guys are eating each other's dinner rehashing the same tunes over and over. Girls are keeping the dream alive.
I'd never heard reggaeton before, but its reputation isn't good, and I can hear that that reputation is deserved.
Ikrrr
Hmm I feel the same for those girls too 🤔
Don't forget about Billie !
If you want some more interesting reggaeton, check out rosalia, even though reggaeton is NOT her thing
Love the Billie Ellish critique. It was like "One and Done", " Say no more". LOL. You go Rick! Seriously, keep going, music needs all the qualified critics it can get.
Rick, do you ever do reviews from virtually unknown artists? I’d love to see a video like that.
Rick gives every song a chance and shows respect, even for the least of them.
🎶☝🤓🎸🎶
and we love him for that!
@@dan2326 I think it's his weakness. Why does trash deserve respect? There are too many crap songs and life is literally too short to analyse them all.
The way pop music evolved/devolved over the last 60 years is truly phenomenal.
It defies logic and purely befuddles me how we got to artists like Gunna. 🤷♂️
It really isn't phenomenal, this happens to everything that capitalism touches. Music is today a commodity to be produced fast and sold fast. Creativity is stifled in the name of profits.
@@DonHaka that's one of the dumbest comments I've read today, no, the dumbest.
Capitalism is free market. People buy what they want to buy.
You might be referring to crony capitalism, mercantilism, fascism, socialism, or communism.
In all those systems there is central planning and control.
Currently the world is being controlled by oligarchs who own most everything and punish smaller companies that step outside (ie free market).
Blackrock, State Street and Vanguard own around 85% of the world and push terrible destructive ESG policies of the communist Democrat party.
That's not free market capitalism.
Yet somehow the capitalists music industry produced amazing music for roughly a century. I don't think it's capitalism, I think it's the internet. Artists need the music industry less and less.
Artists recording themselves and promoting themselves on social media depend on capitalist principles to make a living.
We've dumbed down our education system, so it's no surprise that the music followed.
Yeah... they all seem to be nervous, anxious, and fairly ignorant.
Седой, но - молодой.
Крутой и душевный.
Это наш Рик.
Здоровья и благоденствия!
I love your way of thiinkk, its so open and you know when its a good production,
That "Vampire" song by Olivia Rodrigo is mostly interesting in its development over the full course of the song - it takes an almost rock-operatic turn. I think it's more original and unexpected than the 1st part conveys. That's what makes it kind of surprising.
That's nice. As someone who frequently listens to 20-minute prog ballads, developement within a piece of music is one of the aspects I highly value.
Yes I was like no fast forward!! The beginning is the most generic part of the song
Agree. The progression is what makes it a great song.
@@latinmusic473 It's just "Creep" repackaged.
For sure! And Rick mentions about the Barbie World song how people say it’s all about the lyrics, and here it definitely is. I love the comparison of a toxic relationship as vampiric. And it has a cool gothic atmosphere.
The worst part is not how bad the songs are, but rather that millions of people are listening to them 🤦🏻♂️
You don’t need talent anymore
Most people have very poor musical taste. The fact that Coldplay alone have sold millions of records tells you that.
Music is subjective tbf
Are they? Or do they just promote it like they are? Ever heard of streaming farms?
@@tylerhackner9731 it most certainly is, it's just very dissappointing for anyone who knows just a tiny little bit about music and can pick up on the nuances
St. Vincent was a collaborator on Cruel Summer
St. Vincent is underrated
Your guitar playing makes these songs sound so much better 👍
I like how you can explain things amateurs like myself may feel but lack the experience and vocabulary to put into words
"BAD IDEA RIGHT?" by Olivia Rodrigo seems very inspired by Wet Leg
Thank you!! I've been looking for a comment like this. Totally pulling so much from Wet Leg.
Exactly
the opening riff sounds like the hone depot song💀
I'd really like to see Rick reacting to Eurovision songs...i'm sure that'll blow his mind
Great evaluations! Agreed on just about all of them. Points you make are great too. One can do yet another hackneyed progression though, IF done with good style and by using inversions, and breaking up the instruments so they are greater than the sum of their parts. Problem with the boring songs, they just use ONE instrument playing the chords and no interesting arrangement on the chords.
Steven Stills (For What Its Worth, Suite: Judy Blue Eye's, Bluebird etc.) said that when he was writing songs in the 60's, he was consciously trying to write a song that would last 50 years. I don't think modern songwriters can say that.
Modern songwriters don't believe there will be anyone around to hear it in fifty years.
Today's songwriters are just about the money
Fifty days, maybe, but in most cases about fifty minutes . . .
People's attention span isn't even 50 seconds these days.
Most pop artists don’t write their own music, and the songwriters don’t get any real recognition so theres no incentive to write a song that will stand the test of time.
Listening to this makes me feel blessed that I grew up with Van Halen, Aerosmith, Frampton, Skynyrd, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Gary Wright
Absolutely.
And the tubes, Roxy music, steely Dan Zappa, rush, yes, genesis, utopia, the ramones, television, bowie, weather report, return to forever, DiMeola. all on the same radio station. them was the days
Anything between 1966 and 1998.
I'm on that bandwagon with you brother! Being in my '60s I'm just too old for this new stuff... I hover in the '70s, slight '80s, and smooth jazz. I have enough of a musical buffet to eat from but I'll never have to find another new tune in my life....😕 (Broadcast DJ radio career spanned over 40 years)
Classics. I gotta rush out and buy the singles.
Great analysis as usual
@TaylorAlisonSwift-is4fo not long enough, I wish I knew Rick back when I started
I dig watching you break down what is going on with a song. Always fascinating. Your take on pop songs makes me think of this podcast I listen to: Pop songs your boyfriends too stupid to know about on Mixcloud. Always eclectic and they have turned me on to some really interesting bands. I do love that the internet has given the artists the ability to build a following based on their creativity, which I think puts them in a position to make a record without to much interference from a label, or better yet to fund their own record and control the direction of the band, for better or worse.
Would be great to have a section where you show multiple songs that are almost identical side by side, just to prove how pop music keeps repeating itself
Rick had done videos about that a few years ago.
So many of the hip hop songs seem to have the same lyrical rhythm… blah blah blah blahblahblahblah… blah blah blah blahblahblahblah
@@WhereIsPancakesHousetell you aren’t a fan of rap without saying you aren’t a fan of rap lol
@@blitz1904 ha ha. I actually like some older stuff.
he just did
You are extremely tolerant and a very nice man, RICK!
Hats off to you!👍😉🙏
Hey Rick, enjoy your videos. Would be interested to hear your take on Wolf Alice. In your spare time of course!
i like your content, good stuff.
I love that Rick stays positive. It’s really helpful for me to learn about music and empathise as to what is engaging about modern music
It's hard for me to get into modern music, because so much of it just sounds terrible to my ears. Especially mumble rap. But yeah, he stays positive even in the face of that crap.
@@jukeboxmetallica1376 they arent considered mainstream music tho
Yeah but finding the two positive attributes of feces while ignoring all the obvious hazards... it isn’t honest.
@@robinfox4440Its not that its terrible its just that you havent learned to like stuff yet thats ouside of your comfort zone
@@justsomejusstsome8994 it is that it's terrible
Back in the '80s, Frank Zappa included as liner notes on his YOU ARE WHAST YOU IS double-album an essay entitled something like "The Nation That Chose Cheese" -- about how the Top 10 radio playlists were chosen via the lowest common denominator of clueless, tasteless adolescents. Or something like that -- it's been about 40 years since I read it. I'm wondering how blistering Zappa's opinions would be regarding today's Top 10 playlist of songs. Rick Beato goes out of his way to try to find SOMETHING nice to say about each song, but we can all tell he's not really that impressed with even the moderately less sucky tracks he reviewed here.
All the tracks weren't bad
People have been saying the same thing since the dawn of time. They threw cabbage at Stravinsky. They have said it about every kind of music. The clickbait title of this is unfortunate.
@@PartyClearerturn off the autotune and you'll have silence. Which is a LOT better than the vast majority of current noise..... the silence that is!
@@thegreatelfinkoyes they were
@@PartyClearerare you really comparing the songs in this video to Stravinsky?
Just echoing a few other comments I've seen on here, but I like the way Rick always tries to find positive things to say about these songs, even if he has to wade through a sea of mediocre sameness to find them.
I don't know music theory at all, I'm all ear player always have been on bass and guitar, I'm considering picking up your product for ear training, you're the only one I trust on this subject
I know i'm gonna sound old...but i'm glad i experienced the nineties in music and festivals.
I would favor the 60s and70s.
Me to but honestly anyone who grew up in the rock era from 65-95 we had the best pop rock I will take any of those years over the modern CRAP garbage they play. I will gladly take Jefferson Airplane on top of a NYC building live show over any of todays bullcrap.
I know I’m gonna sound older, but I’m so glad I was born in the 60s, experienced music in the 70s, and went to my 1st (of thousands) rock concert in 1980… 👍
Rick's accompaniment is often better than the actual song 👍🎵🎶🤩
God, I love Rick’s channel. Obsessed 🤩. I feel totally vindicated in my love of Rock and all music w/ real musicianship 😅… (and yay Dua Lipa 😂. Knew I liked her for a reason)
I have been following like the same three bands and the leaders of those bands other bands for years it's safe and it keeps me from crying
It may not get views but I’d love to see Rick do this with top ten lists from every decade. Every year even.
Yep it'd be good to do a quick rundown of the equivalent week in 70's , 80's and 90's . There was still some garbage back then, lets face it , but the general standard was much higher.
I would definitely view that!
Brilliant idea. Like a random year e.g. 1983, August 25th.
Please do this @rickbeato !
Rick, you made EVERY song sound 1000% better just by adding a couple of guitar licks.
Great content nick
luv it rick, fresh air
That new guitar is beautiful!
I love how Rick instantly makes even the crappy songs 200x better just by adding his guitar track by ear
True
It’s still crappy music
@@DS77831 for sure, there is no saving it. Rick’s such a stand up guy, I love this channel so much.
@@DS77831 most of them, yeah.
idk dua lipa's song sounded much worse with the guitar lmao
I'd love to hear these songs live without the overproduction...or maybe not. Great analysis and love this channel.
Jungkook is the tip of the arrow for Kpop in English speaking artist. But in general, ignoring KPop is one of the biggest blind spots in American and British pop music. Why are wevso insular? If you want huge artists and huge songs only and focus on charts alone, where are you going for innovation? Korean bands can make old genres new and mix them freely. Their production is outstanding. The songwriting is as well. Yes, lots of KPop is boy bands, pretty girl groups and high level complicated choreography. Being good looking doesn’t rule you out as talented and looks only get you up the first step. I was so disillusioned with contemporary rock/pop/indie genres that I stopped looking for something great. When I first found KPop and bands like SHINee a legendary act whose every member is also a successful solo artist , BTS - particularly Suga’s stuff as A’gust D - Riize, Mammamoo, it literally brought my life a lot more of everything positive. There’s debate about how the Korean music industry will expand into the U.S. But these guys sell out huge arenas, have powerful fan bases, and are all watching Jungkook as he tests the waters with American lyrics. These artists are simply extraordinarily vigorous, inventive, hard working and generous to their fans. How provincial have we become?
I agree. Don’t call me by Shinee will always be so complicated to break down as someone who’s been playing instruments. I think it’s a perfect pop song that gives the most unexpected twists. The first note of the chorus was so surprising, I love it.
I love seeing kpop get it’s credit 👏
THIS PARAGRAPH WAS EVERYTHING. I agree so many are missing out because of these preconceived notions and toxic expectations.
100% slept on
Almost all Kpop music I have heard sounds like an AI generated song based on random American music from the 2010’s lol
at 4:30 watching you pick up on the chords and the groove is why I've kept watching your channel for years. The knowlegede, the talent, the ability to cut to the core of songs. perfection!
My music interests started with my first time hearing Highway to Hell at a birthday party in 6th grade.
Over time my music tastes have greatly expanded first to the heaviest of metal I could find. But then something happened. I found that my favorite music had similar features to other genres. Slowly I discovered classical, country, Motown, pop, rap/hip hop, etc.
Most recently I have been really enjoying Jazz. I’ve really been going down the rabbit hole so to speak. I see so much creativity and excellence in some of those works.
Every time I go to the top 10 songs my expectations for some reason are that I’m going to encounter excellence, and then I am just absolutely demolished when I find out that we get the same reggaeton beat over and over and over again.
Ladies and gentlemen, please do yourselves a favor. Go spend a few minutes and look up Sidney Bechet and Lester Young.
Video game music has been big for quite some time, I think. I'm a Gen Xer, now closer to my forties than to my thirties. I was a metalhead in my early adulthood, but nowadays, I find myself listening to synth music and video game music. Many are new, some from my early childhood games.
This series should be called "What makes Rick Beato great" and be about how he is always able to show some kind of appreciation, give insight about contemporary mainstream music and have something positive to say about the cringiest global Spotify charts.
Sometimes I think it could also be called 'Rick Beato figures out your hit song in under 4 bars'
Yes!
I think the reaction "Oh, a guitar!", summs it up nicely.😂