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>Paul’s not a genius This post feels like shallow, Malcolm Gladwellish, wrap-a-simple-idea-with-a-random-narrative stuff. Yes, MVPs are good. But Paul McCart
by itsoktocry 5y ago
>Paul’s not a genius
This post feels like shallow, Malcolm Gladwellish, wrap-a-simple-idea-with-a-random-narrative stuff.
Yes, MVPs are good. But Paul McCartney might be the greatest pop musician/songwriter of the 20th century. Some (most?) of his best works were performed after the Beatles. If he's not a genius, then no musician is a genius.
- JKCalhoun 5y agoAgree that Paul is a genius, not so sure I agree his best works came post-Beatles. To be sure his catalog post-Beatles is greater, if good songs are a roll of the dice then five decades vs. one is kind of loading the dice.... I'll argue that with John and his "fresh ears" Paul was able to write some of his most creative songs with the Beatles.
- teucris 5y ago> If he's not a genius, then no musician is a genius. Maybe there’s no such thing as genius. Maybe what we call genius is the synthesis of many people’s work, or luck, or both. Not to say Paul isn’t an incredible musician. Just that maybe the Beatles were genius, not any single member.
- kansface 5y ago> Some (most?) of his best works were performed after the Beatles. I imagine this is a really unpopular and/or uncommon opinion! I do not share it.
- drcongo 5y agoI can't think of a single post-Beatles McCartney song that I like.
- v-erne 5y agoHave you heard Come On to Me ? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeJLrtFY7Ds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeJLrtFY7Ds) For me this is the most Beatles like song by Paul done after Beatles.
- robotresearcher 5y ago'Maybe I'm Amazed?' is a terrific song. How about it?
- to1y 5y agoJet. Band on the run.
- micromacrofoot 5y agocheck out Temporary Secretary, in 1980 I never heard anything like it
- dlivingston 5y agoThen you haven’t looked hard enough! Junk, Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey, Too Many People, and Heart of the Country (to name a few) would have easily fit on any later Beatles record.
- formerkrogemp 5y agoA century of pop musician/songwriters and you chose Paul McCartney as the greatest? That's a pretty high bar. His singing doesn't come close to the melodic, cat-drowning sound of Bob Dylan. I'd say it's much better in fact.
- Tao332 5y agoDon't cherrypick it then. The rest of the piece explains it. He's not someone who just walks into a collaborative process with wholly self-completed works of natural brilliance. Instead, he's someone who knows how to facilitate the emergence of a genius-level chemistry between himself and another. Now you can see that he is saying that Paul is a genius, just that his true genius isn't exactly what we think it is when we talk about creative genius.
- robotresearcher 5y ago> He's not someone who just walks into a collaborative process with wholly self-completed works of natural brilliance 'Yesterday': “I woke up with a lovely tune in my head,” he told author Barry Miles for the biography Many Years From Now, which was published in 1998. “I thought, ‘That’s great, I wonder what that is?’ There was an upright piano next to me, to the right of the bed by the window. I got out of bed, sat at the piano, found G, found F sharp minor 7th – and that leads you through then to B to E minor, and finally back to E. It all leads forward logically. I liked the melody a lot but because I’d dreamed it I couldn’t believe I’d written it.” https://www.biography.com/news/paul-mccartney-the-beatles-yesterday-dream https://www.biography.com/news/paul-mccartney-the-beatles-ye...
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- Adraghast 5y ago> This post feels like shallow, Malcolm Gladwellish, wrap-a-simple-idea-with-a-random-narrative stuff. You've identified Seth Godin's entire schtick. The man is the godfather of vapid "give me your email address in exchange for a free ebook where I teach you to how to become a billionaire" hucksters and is not worthy of respect.
- jwaterhouse 5y agoIt's a long form LinkedIn shitpost.
- micromacrofoot 5y agoGodin was writing books like this before linkedin existed, a true bullshit pioneer