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Originally Posted by Magnum PEI
Meh, Yngwie Malmsteen would sell more records than the Beatles if all that stuff mattered. You can find tons of amazing musicians on youtube. At certain point you have to write meaningful creative songs and IMO I don't think he ever did that. The closest was When Doves Cry.
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So you are basically arguing that musicianship, composition, arrangement, instrumentation don't matter. I guess you have no idea what the word music actually means then. Mozart and Bach didn't write a single meaningful lyric either.
You said yourself you are only familiar with his 80s hits. That's about 1% of his total musical output in his career. I appreciate the amazing individual musicians on Youtube more than the Beatles or Mariah Carey or Kanye West or anybody else who is proficient at selling records. If your measure of musical success is how many records they sold, or how the words they wrote sold to the mass audience, I don't know what else to say.