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Jasmic
What the actual f is going on in this shout box? If you don’t like his stuff piss off and listen to your own shit, why the hell do you get off on putting something else down? Talk about jumping on a bandwagon. I hear it’s pretty cool to hate on Coldplay as well, why don’t you comment on their page as well.
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Sharla_999
STOP HAVING OPINONS ONLY CIRCLE JERKING IS PERMITTED. I AM AN HONEST INTELLECTUAL
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Sharla_999
I HATE SUBJECTIVITY. I HATE FREEDOM OF SPEECH. ONLY SLOBBING ON JACOB'S NUTS IS ALLOWED
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wesleexiao
> talks about not putting someone else down > immediately shit talks someone else's music
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avantish
Because the emperor is butt ass naked and some of us are capable of seeing it for what it is. It sounds like AI generated music made to sum up every popular style since the 60s without any original thought or personality of his own. As a person he seems really nice though. It's the over-the-top & undeserved accolades and especially his arrogant and sycophantic fans that rub some people the wrong way. Myself included.
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Jasmic
I don't disagree with that, my point was why do people feel the need to be so nasty in the comments about a musician they don't like? I get he isn't for everyone, for the same reason, it would be boring if we all liked the same thing. I cannot stand a lot of music, but I don't feel the need to find the stuff I hate and leave comments about how bad it is or how rubbish the musician is.
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avantish
I hear what you're saying but personally it's not hateful at all, it's just part of the game. As i said Collier seems like THE nicest guy. We're all just very passionate about music and we all have different ways of expressing that. Collier seems to attract very extreme polar reactions so he must be doing something right now that i think about it!
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gbass62
Musical GENIUS. The greatest musical mind of our generation. Have you heard him do acapella flintstones?!?! He plays every instrument. You can tell because the cover is him with all the instruments he plays. The album is called In My Room and its him standing in HIS room with all his instruments. So talented. I wish he would do more acapella theme songs but maybe something less repressed and more smutty like catdog or cowchicken my god this guy fucking sucks
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backstreet_boy_
Jacob is living in his own universe and I'm just grateful to be a part of it.
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Jurasdiction
collier has always clicked for me idk and vol 4 has some hits. yeah, his features may sometimes carry his songs over him but he also picked those features knowing they would improve the song beyond him which for me is a pro move. i love his single choices, his vibe, and his music and i will be staying tuned
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DrBaritBeatz
Nettspend could make each Djesse volume but Jacob Collier could never make 2024 Freestyle
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Sanity_Theorist
Honestly still want to vibe with him more than I do, it just seems like Djesse kinda amplified the more excessive tendencies compared to In My Room. Doesn't take being a music theory nerd to vibe with him, I just wish he'd rely less on features/vocal gimmicks and return to some of the more bedroom projects. They strike me as more personal and easier to connect with. Many seem to want to hate Jacob for reasons I do not understand, he just wants to make happy sounding prog pop and I actually see a future where the Djesse tracks turn out a bit less 'sterile' and more worldbeat, like A Rock Somewhere did.
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Sanity_Theorist
If worldbeat has negative connotations nowadays I'll change the term used, I'm going off of the term people used in the 1980s for people that fused cultures with respect like Peter Gabriel...I love the idea of international music and it seems to be the end goal of Djesse
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whitehandlesyuh
icl ive listened to like 3 of songs and so far all the features carry his songs, although his voice is extremely distinct and sooo deep he has potential dont get me wrong, perhaps his music will grow on me idk
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versionJBT
I feel like I just ate the world's fanciest, most expensive bread. I mean sure, the ingredients and the cooking techniques were of the highest quality. But it's still just bread.
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sylviahealt
our children will listen and treat to this guy as we feel and think about Bob Dylan or other musicians
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stoleshortsword
musician for music nerds but like, the adam neely kind, not the fantano kind
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Jasmic
I’ve been wandering for a while how relevant last.fm is and how accurate the listening stats are and now I am convinced. Last.fm is dying. Why? look at Jacobs YouTube stats and compare them to last.fm. Nearly 37 million views on YouTube compared to a measly half a million scrabbles here. Also most artists most recent releases have far lower listen counts in comparison to earlier releases.
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mthrndr
Having scoured the internet for opinions, as you do when you're bored and you want to be peeved instead, I honestly don't get the viewpoint of people who say that his music is cold and soulless when the majority of it is so joyous and exuberant. Even the more melancholic songs have a restless sweetness to them. Just because his music is slightly left-field in its complexity, it doesn't mean that all you can do with it as a listener is dissect it. It's cheerful, happy, energizing music, wonderful stuff without even getting into the creativity and theory of it. I'm left wondering what it is that is actually, covertly being addressed in the complaints about soullessness. Maybe some people want to hear him do Somber, Serious, Minimalist, Adult People Music. Anyway, what I'm getting at, !TLDR, is that you've done yourself and Jacob a disservice if you didn't try bopping around the house with his music turned up loud. Alternatively, see him live if you can.
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ClassicManiac
What an utterly pointless comment. "Your taste is wrong, mine is right!" Enjoy the hell out of him, no judgement or opinion of other people should stop you from it. I, however, count myself to those who cannot enjoy his music purely because it sound so artificial and robotic that I find myself craving for some audible element of genuine humanness. You may happily disagree and bop around the house though.
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chargeMultiple
Artificial and robotic? Really?! It seems like you ve never listened to a single song of his.
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Ziiox
I don't think it's just the internet. I've heard similar comments from jazz musicians. I think the idea is that while he has a great handle on harmonic complexity, it's like he loses the forest for the trees which reduces the emotional impact of the music. It's not because of the joyfulness, Stevie Wonder's music is joyful but nobody considers it "soulless" so that has nothing to do with it. But Collier I think begins with the idea and then tries to compose music based on that, rather than composing out of emotional necessity... may be why Collier's funk music lacks the "funk" (aka sexiness/desire what have you). Just an idea
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mthrndr
I get it, but I'm not convinced. I still think that had he not built an image of himself as a theory savant from the get go, and had he just released his albums without much social media presence, then this black&white reading of his music as soulless wouldn't be as popular as it is. While he takes influence from Stevie Wonder and the likes, he's so far past the point of not being in the same stylistic bracket as Stevie (or anyone like him), that comparing them and saying that one sounds soulless comes about as well thought-out as comparing Iron Maiden and Meshuggah and saying that latter sounds soulless compared to the former. In other words, aren't we doing ourselves a disservice, intellectually and artistically, by not meeting art halfway? Aren't we being a bit ossified in our tastes when we interpret Jacob as soulless? What in his music registers as not having come from emotional necessity? I'm not sure if I've presented my argument clearly. Let me know what you think if you want.
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Ziiox
Well Meshuggah is soulless but I'm pretty sure their main goal in making music is not to be emotionally expressive. But Collier is in that weird place where it seems like that *is* his goal of making music. I think the difference I'm pointing to is that you can tell that everything Meshuggah does is intentionally there, it serves a purpose for their overall artistic (if not emotional vision). But Collier seems to throw in bells & whistles just because he can -- it doesn't seem to serve an overall function of expressing emotion/feeling, just theory. That said, I think he would have even less attention without presenting as (being) a savant, since the recorded versions of his music, from what I've heard, are somewhat tasteless... I think the live versions of his songs are much better. They tend to be more stripped back and reduce his songs to their bare essentials. A lot of virtuoso's have this problem, esp. instrumentalists. That said, he's just starting out and has a lot of time left
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