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Misteramazing Doesn't Understand Music Theory
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- Опубліковано 12 січ 2020
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Patricia, this really was a fantastic video and I’d like to thank you for making it. (Not that you need my approval or anything like that, of course). I particularly like your overarching point concerning linguistic precision. Playing fast and loose with technical terms is something I do a lot in my videos (the ambiguity in my use of “counter-melody” and “wetness,” for instance), as is creating confusion via highly ambiguous terms like “use,” which obscure the the subtleties of musical intention (whether X intended to use tonality reminiscent of metal vs. his merely happening to have to done so, as well as whether X / his producer created a piece of music vs. whether it was sampled).
Further ambiguities concerning my relation to X as an individual / his actions (which, indeed, I don’t endorse), as well as to hip hop as a whole, are extremely regrettable for me, especially as concerns your “one of the good ones” comment. Again, my own intentions as evident in the video are ambiguous and I do see this as a rhetorical failure on my part, as well as a social one. Casually mentioning such brutality (and homophobic bigotry) without clear disapproval can easily be interpreted as one’s being supportive of that brutality/bigotry, and is thus something I should’ve taken into account when the video was made.
Concerning this and all the music theory that is blatantly incorrect, please know that addenda will be added to the descriptions of my videos soon. Such addenda will cross-reference this video.
Finally, I find your interpretation of other ambiguities evident in my method of analysis interesting as well! My goal is always improvement, so I’d really like to discuss some of these issues more in depth if you have the chance. I’ll be following you on twitter shortly after I post this comment, so feel free to dm me there or shoot me an email if you prefer.
Mission accomplished
@@Patricia_Taxxon lolol
:^)
I posted this as a comment but I think I'll post it as a reply here to:
This video is really well made, but me not being well versed in music theory myself find it hard to actually know who was right, I think misteramazing did an outstanding job at editing his video and that should be mentioned and even if he was incorrect about his theoretical analysis of the song, he took a very interesting and unorthodox approach to it that made me think about music theory in a way that I haven't before and would like to look into.
Also you talked way to much shit about him, for all I know you both were some people doing a voice over to a really well edited video about music theory and at the end of the day...either of you could be right, you both talked about your opinions with %100 confidence and fully made me believe what you were saying, I suppose this just proves that you can't trust what you see/hear/read on the internet...or ever I suppose lol.
In conclusion...I don't know how wrong the music theory was that misteramzing talked about but oh boy he doesn't know how to produce music lol, that's something I do know about wow that was a train-wreck XD
but u were to mean, chill bro.
His video was a solid attempt to make a dope video about a subject he didn't understand, nothing to shame.
K.
Mmm yes, this music appears to be made out of music
best comment
This comment speaks to me in such a useless way.
Y e s
if you listen carefully you can hear notes
@cook_iiz i like noises when they are good and this is how i think you should make good noises. i've been mister amazing and this has been my ted talk
“Slick editing can distract from a lack of real content” is PragerU’s tactic as well.
overselling Prager's slickness a little lol
they're kinda powerpointy
@@LimeyLassen Preach.
@@LimeyLassen Kinda?
They're as "graphic design is my passion" as a UA-cam channel gets.
I'd disagree! What Prager does is similar but they dont use slick editing. Instead they make there vids edited like educational content. Like a crash course of PBS video
@@peytonlong2000 is that not considered editing?
am i the only one who was crying laughing at “wetness” and “rate”???? like this dude really looked at two of the knob labels on garageband and was like yes these are effects
I was so embarrassed for him
I know, how could forget about the most important effect of all, "fx level"? /s
the first time he's heard rap with "coherent lyrics with intention behind them" is in an xxxtentacion song??? has this dude never actually listened to rap before???
I mean, to be fair it might? Not everybody listens to rap.
@@TheGamerThatKills Well either he lives under a rock or he is a racist dumbass.
@@CoWinkKeyDinkInc well, we already know he's a fucking dumbass
@@CoWinkKeyDinkIncI agree on him being a dumbass, but not racist. Disliking rap lyrics is not the same as being a racist.
@x x ok
*Me, a person who also doesn’t understand music theory:* get his ass.
he misunderstood in the wrong neighborhood
I agree. It's reassuring when a video gets called out on it's BS.
@@chip95892 to the 1 and 1 to the 3, i like good pussy and i like good trees
@@muufle Hang on a minute I just thought something. Is "trees" supposed to be a euphemism for dick? If so does that make the lyrics intended to be bisexual? I don't really know what the original songs behind you reposted in the wrong neighborhood meant.
@@sparex4273 trees as in the thick forests of Vietnam. Aka, thick pubic hair on a woman.
i released this on my 20th birthday
Happy Birthday!!
Birthday happy!!!
Happy Birthday!!
Happy birthday!
happy bday, you make me feel old
"I read the lyrics and found out it was practically a poem" lmao rap is poetry
misteramazing pulled a "you're so well-spoken" on rap
And xxxtentacion, of all rappers
This was an awesome way to start off the new year for my career. Thanks again for having me, Patty. :^)
Patty's avi getting Mramazing's avi's face? That had me lol-ing.
Nice work!
Killed it 👍
Your style rocks!
Brb booking you real quick
this thought process of "person says a lot of stuff I don't understand very confidently, so they must be correct" needs to be deconstrued and prevented
Nerdwriter did to youtube what Watchmen did to superheroes
How?
@@ArmyofOneandaHalf I don't know the answer to that, it's gonna need a lot of psychological and sociopolitical analysis for us to get there
@@neckpeck2738 Not really, it's just a combination of intelligence + education = being capable of critical, skeptical reasoning.
@@patavinity1262 Yes, but a college education (that being the only way to obtain proper in-depth scientific literacy, as high-school doesn't teach you how to read, interpret and contextualize studies) isn't accessible to everyone, and critical, skeptical reasoning on an individual level isn't everything. This pattern of thinking is currently shaping our political and pseudo-intellectual landscape, so one person figuring out for themselves that this way of thinking is counterproductive and leads to false knowledge isn't enough - we need to make the public aware of it and how to prevent it by using peer-reviewed social studies, explaining psychological effects, drawing forth examples, and doing all of that in a cohesive pop-science way that's easy to understand to people without a college level education, which is even more hard work that most people don't have the resources for.
if patricia doesn't use wetness and rate on her newest album i'm unsubbing
Her?
@@kpdotexe3649 Oh fuck off you transphobic piece of trash
Mathew Bouse dude literally could have just not known
@@mathewbouse1105 Oh look! another person giving the LGBTQ community a bad name.
No, officer, it wasn't murder. It was artistic self-expression.
Basically the plot of Hannibal
I guess we broke up because of artistic differences he saw himself as alive and I saw him dead!
Hey it’s the book guy
Patricia Taxxon on misteramazing, 2020
Ah, furry birb bad.
Can't laugh at joke.
So he's kinda the CinemaSins of music.
To be honest, I'd previously seen some of his videos and while none of them hit very hard the production quality seems to imply that he really believes he's put serious thought into his essays which I'm sure Cinemasins doesn't pretend to believe.
@@RevolutionaryLoser Hmmm... Good to know.
@@RevolutionaryLoser misteramazing is a great channel but I think he iether miss understand the music analysis or just use what ever he understands as his reasoning
I don't think he should be compared to a low effort Cinemasin
Lets say he really needs to invest in his future career as a video editor. The guy has talent, he just doesnt understand what he wants to talk about, but its good for him to have this passion... I guess?
Cinemasins may churn out nonstop garbage, but it's more or less all played for laughs, and doesn't even try to pretend to be a serious analyses of the cinema that's being sinned.
This is like watching the difference between the B- kid that makes his assignments look all nice and the A+ student who actually knows what he’s talking about.
You know misteramazing just went on Genius and read the annotations for the Death Grips songs and didn't attempt to analyze those songs himself.
"you just kinda have to vibrate higher to understand it" im gonna start saying that to professors when they ask me to explain shit
that reminded me of a youtuber called Solluminati (Spiritual So)
pretty sure mramazing was being sarcastic on that one lol
@@sounddealer1421 bruh i need to vibrate higher to understand what the fuck spiritual so says sometimes
You need to vibrate higher to capture the opening of the portal of this earth of 3D to one earth of 4D or 5D
Thats why vibrators make the best art appreciators!
"It was practically a poem [...] this wasn't rap as I knew it"
...what the hell does he think rap is?
$RacistStereotypes
Rap is not poetry, poetry is not rap
But both have the same idea. If you can write poetry, you can't necessarily rap and vice versa
But you will do better than most.
But I think it does a great disservice to rap to just lump it into poetry. Its it's own art, and deserves to be viewed and remembered as such.
And Mister Amazing better stay the fuck away from it. He should in fact, stay the fuck away from most things musical.
@@elvingearmasterirma7241 Poetry is a notoriously vague term. I agree that rap is a distinct art form but if you wanted to call rap poetry, you could.
@@creativebeetle The one thing that isn't vague, is the fact you cannot break rap lyrics down as you would break down poetry to study it.
As vague as poetry is, the technical methods really put it apart from rap.
@@elvingearmasterirma7241: I feel that such distinctions requires a really limited and possibly anglo-centric view of poetry, that hold literary poetry in higher regard than poetry performance. Being good in any form of poetry dosen't mean you are good in every other. But look at someone like Saul Williams, who basically got his rap-career started by putting beats to his poetry performances.
Send this to HOME’s twitter. He would probably get a kick out of this
“Effects like Wetness and Rate” hit me where it hurt
are you feeling like a butterfly inside a plane
loving the angry music teacher vibes you eminate
I like your avatar a lot
Chilli thanks i made it myself
It's like a theory prof tearing into my first year homework and I love it
Same
@@SirGrimLockSmithVIII It's actually "emanate" and it has multiple senses, including (albeit rarely) to emit or give off.
Him saying "..and sat down with an actual musician" kinda seems like an admission that he is completely out of his depth in all his other music analysis videos.
I have seen a lot of his videos he seems honest but uses what ever basics he understands for the analysis
So I don't think he is fake just lacks the full knowledge
@@kevincastro1927 that is completely fair, that's why I used the term "being out of his depth" instead of accusing him of dishonesty.
but he didn’t even sit down with a musician who seems to have a good grasp on what he’s saying....? Like idk how to explain it but this musician also seems out of his depth given that he couldn’t match the pitches very well. He would gain better insight by cross referencing his analyses with several musicians across several genres with varying understandings of music theory
It's probably just an appeal to authority so he doesn't get called out.
Kenai 93 Well, in the sense that a plate with a single baked bean on it is missing the full english breakfast
But it’s like, he’s not using basics he understands either since he _does not understand any basics_
It’s like aliens seeing a breakfast plate and confidently serving wood shavings cause it matches the key characteristic of being carbon, or something
Sorry for being so confrontational, I’m pretty hangry rn
The more I watch this, the more I realize he's just using a lot of big words, really fast, so that my tiny brain can't comprehend it fast enough.
good o'l me plant Unless the big words are unique from what they’re studying, nobody should listen to anyone using big words to sound smart in an essay.
it's like button mashing but with rhetoric
"You kind of have to "vibrate higher" to understand it." God, this is one of those Rick and Morty high IQ memes in reality.
I think is more of a "quirky" Death Grips reference to the song Culture Shock
how can he be so confident
he could have just said "I like resonance its a good song"
Finnnicus Look up the Dunning-Kruger effect.
Finnnicus also he just likes XXXTentacion because some of his songs sound like rock songs
Because stupid
@@nykcarnsew2238 except they don't. He likes XXX because he's too racist to like rap, yet so tasteless that he must necessarily like rap, so he compromises by picking a random rapper and claiming he's good
Wow, his smooth talking and clean editing really made me believe every word... I mean I'm very ignorant in terms of music theory or composition, but it just struck me how gullible I can be with some nice presentation.
Kinda reminds me of when I thought "The West and the Rest" was interesting book
Nasche The Lion same thing happened to me
Yeah, haha, I totally fell for it.
Someone who actually has a good understanding of a subject can usually explain it to you in a way that makes it sound easy. If something sounds smart it usually isn't.
@@crouton3455 yeah, it reminds me that I fell for Jordan Peterson because he would used a lot of intimidating terminology and had really "complex" conclusions when he wasnt saying anything lol
He actually used to make cringe compilations, guess he belongs in one too lmao
ime anyone who makes a cringe compilation deserves to be in one
If I remember correctly he also claimed that he popularized cringe compilations and that other 'cringe' channels were copying him, but I may be misremembering
@@splorgan5696 damn, the more I learn about him the more up his own ass he sounds.
tbh I remember he put more effort into those compilations than others
Do you know if they are they still up? I only ask because I'm curious about what type of "cringe" he focused on.
"synths make synth songs sound like synth songs"
"I didn't respect rap because it's dumb animal music until I heard of this one rapper who assaulted a gay man and then suddenly I just felt a connection." Is one hell of a fucking argument to put forth in a video.
Like he really just puts it out there like that, like it's one thing to say that you're not really a fan of rap or hip-hop but to just straight up call it dumb is not even a dogwhistle anymore.
Didn't assault a gay man. The gay man was staring at him undress in his cell and he warned him multiple times to stop staring. The gay guy was also in jail for rape.
I think Misteramazing's editing is absolutely fantastic, but that shouldn't get in the way of a good ol' fact check or two
Agree, he seems honest about every video but uses only the basics he knows
MapleMilk It looks like a copy of a Genius video.
It's fine editing, i'm sure he puts a lot of work, but it's not very creative.
He straight up rips off vox earworm presentation for the first vid.
@Richard Richards Yeah, that’s the video series I was thinking of, not Genius.
a minor key makes it sad I KNOW MUSIC THEORY
"d minor is the saddest key"
@@punpunpunyama9271 See I Am An Intellectual
“There’s no such thing as effects like wetness and rate” that’s because he used some VST or soft synth that had parameters labeled “wetness” and “rate” and didn’t think that they might be non-standard, or just like names that the designers gave to settings in their product.
It’s like if I used an Arturia MiniBrute (a monosynth made by Arturia) and turned up the dial labeled “Brute Factor” (which modulates a bunch of different settings to make the sound “crunchier” and more “aggressive” and only exists on that line of -Brute synths), and then went into a music store expecting to find “Brute Factor” settings on everything. Or went into a music class and treated Brute Factor like a foundational effect.
“...You’re gonna want a compressor, a distortion, an overdrive, and definitely brute factor. Brute factor is very important if you want an aggressive sound. I like to put my brute factor pedal after my wetness pedal, but before the rate pedal...”
Wet and rate are pretty standard labels that you will see on most audio effects, the problem is that they are the names of parameters and not actually effects themselves
@@user-bp1gx3qt3o when he said "rate" he probably saw rate on an LFO lol.
The way misteramazing says "a homosexual" makes my skin crawl
Im so glad I wasnt the only one who was unsettled by his tone.
That and his casual minor racism does not help.
Am I tone deaf or did it sound fine?
it sounds to me like he says it with slight disgust
@@nicocaffarilla8556 it sounds completely fine. these people here have indoctrinated themselves to see offense where none is.
The way he said it seemed fine, the real issue is that he brought it up at all and used "homosexual" instead of "gay person" or whatever, as that comes across as avoidant and distasteful.
the fake deep is strong with this one..................
For those of you who're confused about "contour": Contour is what the synthesizer company, Moog, used to call envelope generators. Misteramazing is using the term incorrectly, though.
To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand misteramazing. The references are extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical quantum somethingorother most of the references will go over a typical viewer's head
as an expert on m u s i c t h e o r y i agree
His cadence is also directly ripped from Nerdwriter. It’s like 1950 newscasters all speaking the same. Why can’t UA-cam channels have their own voice.
Makes me thinl of that Austin McConnell guy that just shamelessly steals other peoples styles
If you want music analysis, I suggest channels like 8-bit Music, 12 Tones, or Sideways. Their editing sure not slick as Nerdwriter, but boy, they sure knew what were they talking.
Trio Adhitiyawan I’d also suggest Adam Neely for general music analysis and Game Score Fanfare for video game specific music analysis. Both very good
This cadence is straight-up stolen from kaptainkristian, and the editing is really similar too...
@@trioadhitiyawan9912 I remember watching Sideways. Always intimidated me with how much he knew but always explained it well
I think if you're calling yourself Misteramazing your ego's writing cheques your body can't cash
Hol up
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iT's SuPpOsEd To bE iROniC
"cheques" pretty sure it's checks, dude.
@@moonenthusiast7860 Now if I woosh you, does that mean you're gonna woosh me back?
Haha nice video! I'm astonished at how convoluted Misteramazing's analysis is, it's almost like he just tried to be as complex as possible and missed all the obvious points. One thing that stuck out to me in your video though, At 02:30, I hear a Csus4 not a C minor?
I found out i hadn't played the chords exactly right in my replication so i just put the root chords on screen
getting validation from an actual theory channel is very nice though lol
@@Patricia_Taxxon I'm no musical authority but I agree with your arguments in full- the dude has complicated things to a point of insanity and doesnt seem to actually know music theory.
@@Patricia_Taxxon Makes sense! Maybe put a note in the description to ward off theory snobs like myself lol
i just wanna point out that this guy used to do "ew feminism sucks" hot take videos back in 2015-2016, so if you're wondering why he sounds so confident about this stuff despite not knowing anything. that's probably why :l
Ah yes it all makes sense
I didn’t even know that
Feminism is shit tho lollll
@Mathurin Gatté
He's probably referring to self-righteous social justice.
@Mathurin Gatté
Yes.
Honestly aside from the music theory fuckups, I think MA’s surprise and ignorance of hip hop, of even the same exact region and sub genre for an artist he made an entire video for. Like what... x came out of an entire collection of artists who are as good if not better. Like he literally thinks South Florida rap was just smoke purp and lil pump.
When you're an ignorant racist with little exposure to cultures that aren't your own, you end up saying stuff like "xxx is a real artist because he beat up a gay and isn't like all those other urban rappers".
@@JimJamTheAdmin I mean... it's definitely not as simple as x just being a "gay-basher" but go off.
@@oggie_champ2636 whatever you want, man. X was just the proof that rap still has a huge homophobia problem.
@@JimJamTheAdmin well... no. Mainly because he wasn't homophobic.
There's a difference between beating a gay person for being gay, and defending yourself against a prisoner who is trying to make you their bitch.
occultist here, nobody would ever refer to aleister crowley as "eddie"
The fuck i wouldn’t, hail eris \m/
TBH his death grips analysis was trash in general.
I didnteven know his first name was Edward but now I got a funny nickname for him
Yes, as an occultist who regards Crowley like dog poo on a boot, I definitely prefer to call him less nicer things. #LeviSquadForever
Who’s Aleister Crowley?
Misteramazing says in the beginning of Black Quarterback by Deathgrips that "He's not a Black Quarterback, he's writing *angry, paranoid poetry*" in a *pretty demeaning tone* for the musicians way of denouncing police brutality in his song, yet praises xxxtentacion for his *genuine anger* that comes out when he *beat a gay man for supposedly looking at him funny.* ...
*That's weird, man.*
I'm doing 100 calculations a second, and they're all *wrong*
the "STFU" edit at the end is too iconic. it's too good. if we look at the frequency at which you're yelling, it translates to a note that harmonizes w
Me, knowing nothing about music:
Ah, so it's like that huh? I understand everything now! (Doesn't get it at all)
And then we got punk and synthpop.
The End.
Oof Same-
Same. You made the comment so I didn't have to
Me, not knowing a damn thing about music theory:
this MISTERAMAZING character is CANCELLED for being a MUSIC CRETIN
Me, who can only kinda identify a couple notes on sheet music because my guitar teacher forced me to: wow, this amazing guy isn't really that amazing. what a fucking moron. why is he popular?
The fact that misteramazing links this in his description of the video makes me really respect him. There's nothing wrong with being wrong, there's only something wrong with not admitting when you're wrong.
In this video
Patricia Taxxon highlights the pernicious pompousness of UA-cam essayism, the words "SHUT THE FUCK UP" repeated throughout the video to create a primal, cathartic effect, both warning the audience to pay more attention to what they are watching and, on the contrary, urging them to not, in fact, shut up, to not let UA-cam experts speak out for them. You notice a contrapuntal backwards cadence in the style of Scarlatti filtered through wet noise rate accentuation subtly playing in the background to create tension and a claustrophobic antagonistic atmosphere.
"Sit back while I tell you about the one rapper whose songs have music theory and coherent lyrics."
The rest? Ghetto and no music theory LMFAOOOOO.
@a guy XXXTENTACION, Kendrick Lamar, J. Cole, Little Simz, Kilo Kish, Vince Staples, Earl Sweatshirt, Mick Jenkins, Denzel Curry, Childish Gambino, MF DOOM, Aesop Rock, Fukkit, noname, Angel Haze, Smino, Jpeg Mafia, Tyler the Creator, Mac Miller, Isaiah Rashad, J.I.D., Ski Mask the Slump God, if you say that rap is boring or generic you've only been listening to the the garbage on the radio.
There's mountains of quality rap music that covers a variety of tones and topics out there waiting to be discovered, and that doesn't even scrape the surface of small fries like myself (Kig V2 (yes, a shameless self-plug, lol)).
DJ DiZKOMFT and Loyle Carner
a guy Don't use your identity as if it were a shield against criticism. (Btw, this is how shocked I am a fan of chudtube is using idpol in exactly the way chuds bitch about idpol: 😐)
a guy you haven't heard enough rap. There's a ton of rap songs that focuses on internal struggles, family ties, financial issues, societal views, etc. And if you haven't heard it, you're not doing your research. It's literally one search away.
I can't believe how Mister Amazing tried to "justify" the beating of a gay man as angsty. It's like if I kill a dog and use the blood to make an impressionist painting and have people say that it's full of emotion.
when did he do that? any proof?
nvm i thiought this video wasnt r=talking about the video later on here, just his bad take on the vaporwave song
it's at like the 20 minute mark or something, maybe earlier. he beat the shit out of a dude in prison and misteramazing's like "yeah he had a ton of angst and stuff"
6 I’m commenting on the video at 19:21, watch the whole thing and you’ll understand my comment.
It's like when the guy from Birdman gets raving reviews for attempting to commit suicide on stage but unironically.
Remember, this dude was making cringe compilations before this; now he is the cringe compilation :/
The channel icon jumping around, rolling by for a quick comment, looking down on her piano and hitting other channel icons like a bumper car is hillarious! Good job on the editing!
Hehehe thank you
Misteramazing saying XXXDEADWOMANBEATER is different from other rappers "despite the ghetto production" is such a tell. He might as well said, "Smart music?! Made by a bbbbbbBLACK PERSON!????!!"
the dog whistle was ear splitting lmao
tpab would annihilate this man
That video is so fucking dumb
That whole video is the "I'm fourteen and I like listening to music" copypasta with extra words
No it's *you* who's projecting. He didn't say anything like that.
Wait, "The song doesn't utilize something really complex like classical music?" I'm sorry, what music theory class did he take? What classical music did he play? Because in the classes I was in, we were playing in Bach's toolbox for all of Theory 1 and most of Theory 2. And Bach composed a lot of great stuff, but theoretically, it's mostly not complex. The chord progressions are extremely predictable, everything is in simple, neat triads, and it's extremely rare to have any nice crunchy dissonance that doesn't immediately resolve.
Sure, there's some classical music that is much less accessible (from a theoretical analysis perspective), but the average person when you talk about "Classical" is going to think of Bach and Mozart and Beethoven, not Schoenberg and Bartok. Sure, arpeggiation happens in Despacito and Mario, but you know where else you'll find arpeggiation? ALL OVER THE PLACE IN CLASSICAL.
Sorry, I have strong feelings about people who make classical music sound harder than it is. It's not just for fancy people who can afford to spend time and money getting private lessons. Classical music, like all music, Is For Everyone.
I lack the knowledge to agree with the specifics of what you say, but I surely agree with the sentiment.
He's trying (poorly) to reference that classical music doesn't rely on the chorus/verse/bridge structure of modern music.
It has nothing to do with complexity and it's very silly.
A few months ago I took my mom to a classical opra for her birthday, she gose nuts for that stuff.
While I don't know opra al that well, or music, or Italian (the singing was in Italian) for that, I do know story structure and oh boy do I have a story for you guys.
If you read the summary of The Troubadour, you may think that it sounds eather like a tagedy for the ages, or a telenovela, it even has a long lost brother plot point.
Also a lot of the action isn't people singing and dancing when something importent happens, but about how they feel about a thing that happened off stage and only some importent things happening on stage. What I'm trying to say that it's a lot of sing (or tell if you will) and mabye show.
Or in other words the story is anime as fuck.
Edit: I forgot to say, that I got the gist of the story because there was a promt that translated the songs. Also I found it annoying that the prompt wasn't lower so I can see the stage and the prompt at the same time.
Isn't one of the defining things about classical it's simplicity compared to earlier baroque music? Pretty sure I read that in a music theory book.
@@jasonfenton8250 For the record, I'm using "classical" in the colloquial sense, referring to Western music, composed to be performed (as opposed to all the music that was never formally transcribed or performed), from before 1900-ish. If you're (correctly) thinking of classical as the era between Baroque and Romantic, then yep, you're absolutely correct!
It throws me off any time someone starts talking about how a particular song "feels" with this assumption that it "feels" exactly that same way for everyone. Just a very, very brief effort at actually understanding music as a human phenomenon should reveal enough differences in interpretation to make it apparent that we're dealing with something that requires a more nuanced approach. Instead of trying to further explain what I mean, I'm just going to say "Nickelback".
all the music stuff aside, the running gag of misteramazing's outro being shouted at by your voice angrily screaming "SHUT THE FUCK UP" made me giggle every time it happened
good vibeo, much recommend :-D
It’s like video essay parody except he’s being entirely sincere
The "wetness and rate" part especially has that vibe
virgin mrdisappointing vs stacy patricia
omg you translated the gender of the meme i love you
ElPseudocrítico
ACKtually, they just added a little extra bit of gender on top or below or something and there’s like a battling of genders in your head.
You just don’t understand gender theory. Or something.
@@draevonmay7704 wtf are you talking about
ElPseudocrítico
Did you watch the video? At all? Clearly referencing the shitty analysis of HOME and how they arranged chords.
@@unblorbosyourshows9635 Chad and Virgin are called Stacy and Becky when women. There is a really cool subreddit where they are all friends with eachother despite their differences and people make fanart lol
I'm so dumb i thought "resonance" was a musical term for like half the video, and not the name of the song..
misteramazing’s video utterly bamboozled me into thinking music theory wasn’t something i could even begin to understand, despite my musical background. it goes to show how much presentation alone can give the impression of competence. thanks for correcting this.
How could MisterAmazing not know that JocelynFlores was sampled? X has most of his instrumentals sampled like how does he NOT KNOW THIS AAAA
he seems like the sort of person who thinks Hurt was written by Johnny Cash
samples? what are those? all musicians make completely original pieces!!!1 /s
yeah, he seems to do it a ton, such as the Get Got sample as well
Like 95% of people in the music industry lol
This is an incredibly cathartic video. When I first tried to watch his video on Resonance, I was excited to see a serious analysis of a song I really enjoy, but was horrified at the seamingly random assortment of music theory buzzwords compiled in that video. Thank you for this.
I know this was uploaded 3 years ago, but I find myself constantly coming back to this video because of how smoothly you dismantle the blatant nonsense about resonance and also touch on some more of the guy's unhinged takes, this paired with the snazzy editing makes for a brilliant video. Love it and I'd love to see more.
i honestly wanna see the like to dislike ratio.
This reminds me of someone who fell asleep in music theory class and had to bs their thesis
Bruh this analysis is literally the way I write during tests
The world runs on bullshit. Most celebrities and actors are untrained, most doctors had hangovers in med school, newscasters don't actually know anything about the subjects they speak about. UA-camrs that don't stick to the one subject on which they might be an expert cannot be trusted.
"seventh chords are actually two keys played in tandem" is certainly a new one o.O
Yeeeah. He’s not wrooooong. A major 7th chord has a major triad and a minor triad that share both the third and the fifth. BUT NO ONE WOULD EVER SAY IT LIKE THAT.
You would think the words " this doesn't sound like home" should've cause some alarm bells to go off in Mister Amazing head.
- Mentions xxxtentacion's metal influence using reaches into metal music theory on the song "Slipknot"
- Doesn't mention the ACTUAL metal band Slipknot being SAMPLED on his song "Off the Wall!"
if only he was a fan of the subjectively superior xxxtentacion music which he deems irrelevant compared to X's sadboi shit
Why did he steal Nerd Writer’s cadence
They all speak like nerd writer. The world of video essays is a wasteland
God, Nerdwriter made youtube so much worse with creating that format for video essays
@@C19J99 Meh, there are women essayists who don't get to use the cadence/style, adding some variety. Sarah Z does some great media/social media analysis with her own style, though she doesn't feature the editing seen in a lot of essays.
Can you steal a cadence?
@@allyli1718 I watch Sarah Z. She's good. My comment was hyperbolic, I think most video essays are hot garbage but of course there's good stuff
Look at Me samples Mala - Changes, a 2006 dubstep tune, a genre that has its roots in jamaican soundsystem culture being brought to london, and absolutely nothing to do with metal lol.
ubersyanyde I didn't know that was a Mala sample! I really like his work.
ubersyanyde nice lain pfp
24:26 wait did this man really analyzed a seatbelt
lol i remember watching that HOME analysis long time ago and now im surprised i haven't caught on all the plain bs (im not a music expert by any stretch but his chords were so obviously wrong now that you pointed it out lol)
however i think u missed major lul milking potential on the xxxtentacion part when mr amazing went in depth in comparing 'look at me!' to a completely unrelated metal song to trace it's influence, since the instrumental track is actaully a super obvious edit of 'changes' by mala (which is UK dubstep).
(as a super minor and a bit nosey nitpick regarding 15:20, FM synthesis in simple operator configurations like 1:1 and 1:2 does actually produce saw and square waves, so even if mr amazing had no idea what he's talking about he wasn't technically super wrong :P).
its like someone saw the vox christmas chord thing and just made a whole youtube channel out of that sort of analysis
Oh wow. This misteramazing person is really. making a mountain of a molehill. the basics of music theory are not what they're describing. oof. this hurts. if you just make something slick, people will watch anything.
anactualjoke I bet if somebody showed him Jacob Collier his head would explode. I mean if a AbMaj is *that* crazy
@@kaingates yeah holy shit
Guy should really invest in a video editing career
I love how he'll just throw in terms like "triad," or "arpeggio" and act like these basic ass concepts are actually high level music theory.
@@frogglesmash you see, every chord is just a major triad with extra sprinkles on top to make it M E L A N C H O L I C
He sounds like someone who just learned a little bit of music theory, except he's acting like he's an expert
i remember when i first watched mr amazing's resonance video; everyone in the comments was confused (including the people who know music theory). I felt something was off and I'm glad you clarified; thanks. Also Biodegradable did a STELLAR job.
Maybe that's why it keeps getting recommended to me. Confused, misinformed engagement is still engagement.
I don't know anything about music but doesn't it just sound nostalgic because all synth sounds nostalgic?
also gated reverb drum
just put reverb drum in everything, instant vaporwave
what bothers me is that he hardly mentions the instrumentation when that’s the only thing carrying the nostalgia. the chords are pretty much irrelevant
the ending of "highest in the room" by travis scott does not sound nostalgic at all
Yes. It's the 80s-style sounds that make it sound nostalgic.
Obviously there are certain harmonic cliches that are related to a certain era (for example a lot of 50s pop music was either based on the 12-bar blues progression or the "doo wop changes" that is I vi IV V, and a lot of 2000s pop music was based on the "Axis of Awesome progression" I V vi IV), so you can find certain trends from a specific era. Maybe if he had shown some 80s songs that use a similar collection of chords, it would have been more convincing.
Not all synth sounds are nostalgic. Modern EDM is made on the same synths as vaporwave/chillwave, but the programming is completely different. (Harsher sounds are often used in modern EDM and techno). The chords and arpeggios in 'Resonance' are *part* of the reason for that early eighties vibe, but another factor that doesn't seem to have been mentioned in either video is that the song has no high end. Almost all the frequencies above 16kHz have been rolled off, which creates the feeling that you're listening to a worn-out old tape cassette (almost like it's underwater), rather than something recorded and released this century. Despite being produced on a digital computer, it's distinctly low fidelity.
Would people really do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?
I mean some do
Tl;dw MrAmazing is that guy who shows up at the party wearing a Radiohead shirt and holding his guitar.
I wanted to add another comment coming from a different angle: misteramazing is obviously like 17 years old right? I understand that not all teenagers are this arrogant (Patricia has many great videos that display tact and wisdom made when she was a teenager), but misteramazing’s videos have that “I learnt how to edit but haven’t read any books” teenage sheen to them. The musician friend he brings in is also clearly, like, fifteen. The musician friends’ hands look so soft and the person is making their voice sound deeper than it is because they’re trying to project more authority than their normal speaking voice would convey. Again, not all teenagers are like this most of y’all are awesome, there’s just this unique youthful arrogance smell to misteramazing’s works which pervades them.
Thanks taxxon. We need more video essays. My brain is so large and wrinkled. Deliver more content.
24:45 that made me irrationally upset, the Takyon-Guillotine mistake. Not only because it's there, but also because he hearted a comment saying "what if it's intended to throw us off, similar to Death Grips", like, uhhhhhhhh what
as a musicologist, i love everything about this video :D i dont really get this fetishism and at the same time lack of understanding of harmony analysis and music theory. music theory often comes after the fact of a style of music emerging. it establishes the "rules" of the music, after it has already been made.
PS: I would consider the flat second to be the typical most dissonate intervall that can be played in "western" music. that beat did even use the tritone as a passing tone smh....
_"that beat did even use the tritone as a passing tone smh"_
Lol. Yeah, at first I didn't even hear the tritone because it didn't get any emphasis. His analysis is the definition of looking at random things at surface level and coming up with really deep interpretations of their meaning (and completely missing the point). To people who don't understand what he's talking about, it sounds really profound and smart, and that's probably why he also does it.
X NEVER HIT HIS GIRL SHE ADMITTED TO THAT . why do people not understand that
Another bizarre thing I noticed in the first video you dig into is that he frames at least one apparent 6/9 chord as a 13 despite context making it obvious what it is. But then again, this man also ignores the F in the bass of the transcription he's discussing, so I probably can't expect him to name tensions correctly.
That said, the rambling exegesis about Crowley was what really threw me. Like, the thing about Death Grips is, they make a lot of weird asides in songs which are clearly more broadly about something else as part of their embrace of the stream of consciousness, and while pointing out that there is a line in a song about police brutality apparently referencing Crowley's Book of the Law is interesting and adds further nuance to an already intriguing song, hyperfocusing on individual lines when the song as a whole is saying something a lot clearer is missing the forest for the trees.
(Also, "abracadabra" is a corruption of an Aramaic paper charm inscription for exorcising demons which literally translates to "disappear like this word." The Abraxas connection is ultimately specious even if it is relevant when discussing Crowleyian occultism.)
when mr amazing said "ghetto" like that... and said that xoxotentacruel was ~so unlike other rap~ for having MUSIC THEORY and REAL EMOTIONS... i was like f i n i s h h i m
People who don't show the slightest respect towards rap shouldn't critique it. Smh he's so stupid
The dude quotes the black person he was sitting with by saying the N-word and deepening his voice
But why so mad a the rapper? the guy did some bad stuff maybe but the beatles beat woman 2.. and Martin Luther King cheated on his wife multiple times, so eveb people that we look up to do/did wrong stuff. He was also just 21 years old, not saying it was good what he did but people should not be so harsh about it.
@@venox314 Yah I agree. He didn't even get to experience adulthood. Imagine dying before you're old enough to go to a bar smh. Also it is Martin lol (happy MLK day btw)
@@sounddealer1421 Exactly, atleast you agree😂 Edit:i didn't even know it was mlk day it just came to mind lmao
Misteramazing used to be a cringe compilation channel if any of you didnt know, lol.
Still is
@@jehscee tru
I don't feel like i'm "going home." I feel like i'm being dragged against my will through an office complex to see the dentist.
MisterAmazing sounds like n edgy "i'm not like the other boys" teenager on 2008 4chan
fluffy_tail doesn’t help he used to be known for cringe comps and leafy-style commentary videos
Me listening to Misteramazing analyze Death Grips: This is art because it makes me want to die.
Wait what, did he actually-
Um. I kind of want to watch it, but I dont think id be able to survive
damn bro x caused multiple hate crimes. that was so deep
damn bro when he beaten a gay man to near death i felt that
damn bro we need more beats
G_Boy I would beat a gay man if he touched me too🥶
Yukiher senpai the problem was, he wasn’t even touched
as a fan of death grips, how THE FUCK did he think Ride wearing a seatbelt was anything deep. what about THE FUCKING BACKGROUND OF THE VIDEO THAT IS LITERAL FUCKING STATIC
"Depending on the part of Wikipedia you look at" RESEARCH EVERYONE
Anyone remember when MisterAmazing exclusively made cringe compilations ?
"there are loads of embellishments and two chords playing at the same time the whole time"
"this song doesn't do anything complex like classical music"
For anyone not understanding what I'm trying to say, having a few very complex chords is not less complex than having many simple chords. It's just complexity in a different direction
"But it did not slap..."
I am fucking stealing this for a sample drop so hard
yo i didn't understand most of it but go off girl
>girl
@@daveholland6293 To be fair his icon is a girl
@@sansaraee to be fair patricia is a girl
@@skele3310 nope
@@akillen77 damn, how can i respond to that. except that yeah, she is. facts don't care about your feelings, bucko.
I would say that to convince people of anything is slick editing, a tight script and to talk with conviction like you know what it is you are saying. If you do it in smooth voice and don't seem aggresive then it's a instant win. People like aggresive attitudes only if the thing/person you are aggresive to is "bad", extra points if the person being aggresive is a man.
Also Happy Birthday!
Calm smooth confidence can win anyone over honestly
@@alexisflores6678 Unfortunately.
You mean like this video?
@@daveholland6293 yes but this video is musically accurate. I'm saying this as a musician
First of all, as much as I agree with you on these points you brought up for X, in terms of the sampling and that he did some shitty things he did or how violent he was.
But, that doesn't mean there wasn't a reason for every one of them. But the thing I disagree with is the fact that the whole context of the clip of him "Beating up" the gay guy in prison was that the guy kept staring at him when he was naked whilst taking a shower. AFTER being warned not to, EVEN going so far to warn the cops, if he did some bullshit to him "he'd beat his ass" was what he told the cops, to which they agreed to and allowed him to stay in that cell with him, whilst no one else in the prison or ward wanted him to be in their cell.
The guy regardless of being gay, straight or whatever he'd consider himself to be on the spectrum was clearly dangerous like he'd done shit to where no one wanted him in their cell. So giving this bs nonsense about "OH HE BEAT UP A GAY GUY" like who cares? he's in prison for a fucking reason, it doesn't matter what he did, what if he was a murderer? what then? are you still gonna defend him and be like "Oh but he was an LGBT member!"
That's such a shitty way to just write shit off as "Oh he's crazy" or "he was abusive/a Monster".
either you say your point about what Misteramazing did wrong in terms of analyzing his music and move on or you don't go on fucking side comments about people that you don't give 2 shits about and never will but saying it regardless, cause you know you'll get brownie points by pandering to that side.
As an FYI hip hop has never been a happy go lucky place. Most of their music/lyrics come from a bad place or a place of hurt. X isn't the first one to do the things he has and or has not done, Nor will he be the last. Just look back in the 1990s of Hip Hop, where people would beat others up because they were repping either the east side or west side. You can also fucking point out all the shitty things R&B people have done too, Look at R. Kelly. Look at artists like Prince or Elvis who were fucked up on drugs half the time and being idolized by teens, you celebrate these "Great People/Artists" but you neglect to bring the point up that they did shitty things as well.
Point is, Don't talk about people you know little to nothing about. Don't matter who it is. Especially when you bring a really shitty argument to the table.
I prefer you just sat there and explained to me why Misteramazing was wrong rather than listening to your 2 cents on why this artist was a piece of shit. There is no way for me to say this without sounding like I'm Dick riding the guy but whatever, dismiss all my points if you want and chalk it up to "Haters".
John lennon beat his wife
People are hypocritical when it comes to that homophobic statement. That “gay guy” is probably still in jail today for God knows what. He could’ve potentially had been a child molester or something worse. But people overlook that and put the blame on X because that guy was “gay”
26:33 We finally found the guy who analyzes lyrics on Rapgenius