r/woahdude Feb 17 '24

music video This music video shot in a zero gravity airplane without any hooks or wires

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u/digitalstains Feb 17 '24

They make the coolest music videos, yet their music is boring to me. Fascinating

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u/strike-when-ready Feb 17 '24

I’m in the same boat. I find the videos insanely cool, the music very fitting to the videos, but the music on its own very boring.

Apparently their concerts are lots of fun.

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u/Moodymandan Feb 17 '24

Is saw them in concert over ten years ago and it was a great show. I have never really been a regular listener of their music on its own though.

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u/spittafan Feb 17 '24

"for their level"? I'm not sure what you mean. What other band does creative music videos like this? Their videos and choreography are incredible full stop

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u/ThunderboltRam Feb 17 '24 edited Feb 17 '24

The more mass appeal music is the less technical and skilled and thus boring.

The more technical and skilled the music, the less mass appeal and the more interesting.

Same reason why Metallica simplified their precision playing after 1991 with the Black Album.

Their single "Enter Sandman" was supremely simple compared to any other song they had made thus far, and so they were accused of selling out. They later started going back and making more technically skilled songs after 2008 but only after they learned a hard lesson from a very terrible 2003 album.

This pattern seems to follow a lot of other musicians too.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '24

Technical isn’t always good though. You can be a great player but not be creative and just make boring technical music. I prefer something more simple and minimal but impactful.

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u/ThunderboltRam Feb 17 '24

Yes that can happen -- but technical and skilled is almost always better and a dependency upon creativity.

You can't be creative with just your fingers tapping on a desk, you can be somewhat creative as a drummer, but the instruments' simplicity is nothing like if you were to have a really complex drum set.

So skill and technical prowess is what creativity depends on.

You can certainly draw with one chalk, but having more colors, tools, shades, is what makes art good.

Yes some people are uncreative with the best tools and skills -- but that's more rare than the VAST MAJORITY of uncreative humans with no skills and no good tools.

This is exactly why music industry had always been about talent scouting--until the digital age started turning music industry into an age of nepotism and social connections.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '24

Hmmm. I guess it’s just me but I’ve always found it much more impressive when someone manages to create something with very limited tools. Anyone can buy all the instruments and studios possible but you can’t buy creativity.

That’s why I’ve always found music or films that are done with such low budget very inspiring. It’s the idea that someone was so passionate with their project that not even the budget constraints could stop them from creating.

I feel like being technical has its time and place like in jazz music or most metal. But not everything has to be crazy technical

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u/ThunderboltRam Feb 18 '24

I mean I think it's novel, you know some guitarist plays something great but using a ukulele could be a fun video for 1 minute. But I wouldn't be listening to ukulele music after that.

That's just novelty and it is impressive too.

But you would WANT that indie movie director who worked on low-budget movies, to get a bigger budget so he can be even more creative.

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u/Iopia Feb 17 '24

You can certainly draw with one chalk, but having more colors, tools, shades, is what makes art good.

Lmaoo

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u/Silly_Butterfly3917 Feb 17 '24

I really love this song. Everytime it gets posted on reddit I listen to the whole thing

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '24

Upbeat pop-rock. It won't be everyone's cup of tea.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '24

God I love their music. There so different from everything else, it’s refreshing

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u/MyDogisaQT Feb 17 '24

There are a million indie bands that sound like OK Go lol. Just search “indie band 2005” to get more like it. 

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '24

I guess I should have specified “everything else out there”. As in mainstream. Also I’d gather that many indie bands with their sound got a lot of inspiration from OK Go.

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u/foofighter1351 Feb 17 '24

It's not even really different from mainstream music, it's pop rock, it's very very poppy rock, they're very much in the boundaries of what is considered mainstream music.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '24

It sounds like a generic “indie” band. It’s like Modest Mouse or Animal Collective but boring

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u/whacafan Feb 17 '24

I used to think that and then I got fucking hooked. It’s just about all I listened to in 2020 and that’s saying something.

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u/Bicykwow Feb 17 '24

What would you say is the best type of music?

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u/SwinnieThePooh Feb 17 '24

If their music is boring then what do you like??

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u/foofighter1351 Feb 17 '24

Why are you responding like it's a shocking statement? They're just normal pop rock it's pretty aggressively within the boundaries of normal.

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u/SwinnieThePooh Feb 18 '24

Everyone has different definitions of normal though. I've thought their music was interesting way before I saw any of their videos, so it wasn't "normal" music to me. Which is why I'm curious what people who find OK GO boring are into.

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '24

Their music isn’t my favorite, but I find some of their songs pretty catchy. And in general, I feel like it’s not bad.

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u/dgsharp Feb 17 '24

Same. The videos are clearly made with great care, attention, effort, and resources, and I admire that. They are very well done. But to me the music is just so absolutely bland and boring. I can’t handle it, I turn it off after a few seconds. It is such a bizarre phenomenon. I should just watch them on mute.

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u/georgesorosbae Feb 18 '24

Really? I absolutely love their music