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The topic of the Beatles is one of those where the more you learn about it, the more uncanny and mysterious it becomes.
by blacksqr 4y ago
The topic of the Beatles is one of those where the more you learn about it, the more uncanny and mysterious it becomes.
- jleyank 4y agoYeah, but survivorship bias is a big thing as well. There are a number of "relatively uneducated folks" who generated significant catalogues: the Stones, the Who, the Kinks, ... The writers at the Brill Building generated gobs of hits and none of them were musicologists as I recall. In the case of the Beatles, they were coupled to a producer who was musically trained, had an ear for comedy and was willing with his engineers to push the technology quite hard. We don't remember or even hear about the also rans and nearly made it's, so we can't really judge how rare the Beatles talent was vs. how rare their opportunity was (and how they jumped on it). Certainly did the 10K hours of training and continually advanced. They also had the advantage of doing it first so there was (far?) less of a minimum-standard they had to exceed.
- blacksqr 4y agohttps://youtu.be/Sd4NstnaEk8 https://youtu.be/Sd4NstnaEk8 https://youtu.be/ZQS91wVdvYc https://youtu.be/ZQS91wVdvYc https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/39381 https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/39381
- blacksqr 4y agoN.B. the speaker in the first linked video was a member of the Hollies, which happened to be the second best-selling band of the 1960's in the U.K. Even he found the Beatles beyond understanding.
- blacksqr 4y agoSometimes in life the whole turns out to be greater than the sum of the parts.
- Bakary 4y agoIt's a version of the anthropic principle at work. For us to be having this conversation, the Beatles need to be uncanny