Connections: between black butts and glittery confetti (8 of 9)

Pomplamoose

Pomplamoose, just plain brilliant

Then there’s YouTube. A medium I was quite excited about at first, because I thought it would automatically connect me to liked minds. But after a year of intensive YouTube-ing, I still have the feeling I’m a lonely soul screaming in the desert. The quality of music on YouTube is generally below par. And the praise is out of proportion. Because the only people who comment on your videos are the ones that really love it, you get the feeling you’re the greatest artist in the world. Still, view counts tell a different story. I’ve seen crappy songs, and I really mean stuff that’s dull, badly written, poorly executed and horribly recorded, get the same praise as my own stuff. So far, the only thing that got me really excited was Pomplamoose. Tom Milsom is quite ok too, especially lyrically, but his production skills are substandard. And that’s it. Quite a poor harvest for a year of YouTube activity.

Maybe I’m asking for too much. I’m not satisfied until something baffles me to the core. Maybe it’s not possible for that to happen more than every once in a few years. But still, I feel it should be. There must be loads of artists in the world I have never heard of but that are capable of giving me that instant ‘Champagne Supernova’ feeling. The only problem is how to find them. How to find the gem without having to plough through all the dung. I need to find a new radio, TV, magazine.

The main reason… (ctd. tomorrow)

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3 Responses to “Connections: between black butts and glittery confetti (8 of 9)”

  1. nicole/lilyenc says on January 7th, 2010 at 3:20 am :

    what do you think of daniellesmagic on youtube? She’s not bad in terms of lyrics, but incomparable to pomplamoose if you’re talking about production…

  2. J.B. Dazen says on January 7th, 2010 at 5:15 pm :

    @nicole Didn’t know her yet :-) Sounds very nice. Hehe maybe finally this YouTube network begins to pay off ;-)

  3. Steve says on January 8th, 2010 at 5:30 am :

    I know exactly what you mean. I don’t even feel that my songs are generally that good, because I write them fast for the sole purpose of a chuckle while the audience is watching. But people tell me I’m amazing.

    I also have big ideas for my musical and a feeling, an emotion I want to portray, and it’s really daunting to get into. So I know what you mean about the need to find your muse. I’m hoping this whole blogging thing will help me with that–I have this dream that somehow, someone who knows a lot about French musette will comment and tell me what I can do to make it sound good :D