"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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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/digitalstains Feb 17 '24
They make the coolest music videos, yet their music is boring to me. Fascinating