u/Suspicious_Coast_888

Even from the thumbnail of his most recent video, it’s clear he’s just becoming another Rick Beato - a disgruntled musician turned YouTuber who just makes sensationalized claims about how YouTube and the Music industry is dead (which is isn’t). The old Davie504 just seems to have gone away after the “YouTube is shutting my channel down” video.

Listen, I hate false copyright claims as much as the next guy, but it’s not worth ditching your entire personality (i.e. the very thing that made you great) just to complain. I don’t need another guy who complains about trending topics like the Giacomo Turra scandal or AI. The old Davie504 brought fun and energy to the YouTube Music community. Now he’s just becoming everyone else - a sad, petty man who is fed up with the industry. I understand if he wants to be honest, but there’s a difference between mere honesty and flat out cynicism. False copyright claims does not necessarily equal Youtube terminating your channel. To even make that claim is ridiculous in my eyes.

If you wish to ridicule me, go ahead. But please don’t respond with “If you don’t like him, don’t watch him.” If you want to defend him, do better than that.

Seriously, I hate that name. “Flub drum” literally means a drum that you suck at. Who thought that would be a good name?

I’d specifically like to know three things:

1. What did you think about it?
2. Is Rami Malek a good Freddie?
3. Did you like Anything? Literally anything. Even if you hate something, there has to be that one silver lining.

I feel like there needs to be a de aging technology in these films because otherwise, someone who is 30 shouldn’t be playing a guy who’s 19.

1: How do they sound?
2: If they can play works like La Mer and Mahler 4 without a conductor, is the conductor necessary?

And please don’t respond with the “I wouldn’t” cop-out answer. If that’s your answer, then don’t comment. I am looking for serious answers.

Amadeus is a great film, but 50% of its plot revolves around anecdotes that didn’t happen. Of course, the reason this was done was because it needed to be a compelling drama. Actually, I recently listened to a podcast done by Thomas Goss (Orchestration Online) called Composers on Camera, where he reveals that though Shaffer’s play is based on Pushkin’s drama, it not only borrows from the Legend of Cane and Abel, but also intersperses several historical facts along it’s plot.

When I heard this, suddenly my understanding of the film changed. I now realized that the film which I had initially perceived as being a sensationalized distortion of Mozart’s life is actually a vast improvement over the thing it was based off of.

So what I’m trying to ask is that how far can we push this? I am aware that just presenting a checklist of the person’s greatest hits is boring, but what about the other direction? At what point does a film, in an effort to create juicy drama, end up just lying about someone’s life?

Between the two highest grossing music biopics out there (and the two that apparently equally suck), which do you prefer and why? Is there anything that redeems the films?

Edit: Yes, every single person including myself knows that Michael Jackson beat it (pun intended) with some minors. That’s not what I’m talking about. I am referring to the films and if they are any good. So please stop with the “I’m not watching Michael because he let the waterworks loose” comments. If you don’t want to see it because his estate is choosing to portray him in the best sense, fine.

Serious answers only!

So who was actually in the wrong? It’s either Gould because “You can’t announce that you hate an interpretation in public” or “Bernstein was right - Gould’s interpretation sucks”.

Whose side do you choose?