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Originally Posted by opendoor
Yeah, I just don't really care about musical proficiency on its own; it's a means to an end. There are lots of very talented guitar players playing terrible music at jam nights in local pubs or in cover bands, but that doesn't mean I want to listen to them. And the most successful musicians I know who have made a living for 15-20 years strictly off their music aren't the most skilled musicians I know.
It's like thinking that someone who can paint the most photorealistic portrait is going to create the best art. That's never true. Being able to play an instrument well is the easy part; there are lots of good musicians. But only a few people can actually create great art, and what tools they use aren't really all that important to me.
But I guess everyone's different. Some people like Yngwie Malmsteen and Steve Vai more than someone like Bob Dylan or Kurt Cobain. I'll never understand that, but those people exist.
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Totally agree with this.
I find that really talented musicians (in terms of technical proficiency and outright skill in their instrument of choice) along with who hold that stuff in high regard, have some of the
worst taste in music possible. A lot of that stuff is incredibly boring, sacrificing imagination and heart for precision and technical achievement.
I don’t know, I just don’t find that kind of art interesting at all. It’s always funny when people use “well they aren’t even talented musicians” or “they only use power chords” or whatever. Maybe, but they’re better, more interesting artists despite that, so your priorities are dumb.
Taking it back to film, it’s like thinking Avengers or Avatar are great. They’re boring. They’re very good technical achievements and they hit all the notes a movie is “supposed” to hit, so that’s nice, but they don’t really do anything exciting when it comes to film as an art form. There are rare talents that combine both, but it’s rare. Robert Eggers is probably one of the best examples. The technical proficiency and detail of his films is on a level people probably don’t even come close to realizing, but he’s using that to do something we don’t really see anymore and doing something exciting from an art perspective. Lighthouse is probably his best achievement in terms of that balance, but you could argue that both Northman and the Witch are pretty boring because he can also get too caught up in technical achievements.