OK, but ive been saying, I would join ice. I just need to know where to sign up.
HOLE-YYYY SHIIIIIET! The same guy who just started putting out videos of him playing VERY well crafted songs with relevant lyrics just a year ago put out FOUR RECORDS AND IS NOMINATED FOR FOUR GRAMMYS?!?!?!
Serious fucking congrats to you, Jesse. Doing the Lord’s work and killing it. Amazing song choice for Colbert.
The same guy who just started putting out videos of him playing VERY well crafted songs with relevant lyrics just a year ago put out FOUR RECORDS AND IS NOMINATED FOR FOUR GRAMMYS?!?!?!
look man, he’s witty and trying to spread the good word, but folk music is hardly rocket surgery. If instead of shitposting, I turned them into poems and put them over a generic chord progression, I could record 10 albums
My favorite people are the ones who kick down other people’s accomplishments while simultaneously being too cool to do it themselves. Real pillars of the community, yknow? :^)
I am pointing out that there are ways to be productive, and that some things are easier to make lots of than others. You should not be surprised that a folk musician can make lots of albums in a year, because the process is fairly streamlined compared to other forms of music.
Most of the times, when musicians challenge themselves to be very productive, they generally tend to aim for music like pop or folk music, because it requires less complexity.
Would you like to claim that “it’s easier to wrote a 2 hour long symphony than a 2 minute folk song” is true?
The point
YouIt’s not about what’s more “”“productive”“”" you effing shareholder. It’s not about which is more difficult. It’s about the fact this person was not only brave enough to produce music actively critical of the regime, but has done so with enough talent to gain meaningful recognition. It’s the same respect for Rage Against the Machine; the music is great, but the focus is the proliferation of the message. Any jackass can get on the internet and say whatever they want, but being able to convert those sentiments into music, publish that music, and get the level of attention Jesse has for it is the accomplishment.
So it’s not a concerto in E minor, sure. But it pulls attention to the issues we’re facing. Listen to The Poor and tell me that message isn’t worth making cuz it’s easy. Listen to Join ICE and tell me it doesn’t matter because it’s too streamlined.
WE GOT OURSELVES A POET HERE, GUYS!!! THEY CAN DO THE SAME EXACT THING JUST AS WELL, SO NOTHING TO SEE HERE OR ANYTHING:
Sorry, go ahead and wow us because it’s so predictable and easily done as you just said…
Goddamn am I here for protest folk music. 10/10 Pete Seeger would approve
