Florence and The Machine YouTube comments: a case study.
Today I'm going with Florence + The Machine - Dog Days Are Over.
I'm going with the comments of Tuesday, November 9, 2010. You might wanna check for more recent comments. Anyway, fire up the song and keep on reading for my take on the comments.
A lot of the comments are talking about movies: slumdog millionaire, eat pray love, covert affairs (tv series). So this tells me they relate this song to entertainment who moved them somehow. I checked and wikipedia says they're not on slumdog millionaire, but that they're featured in a commercial in eat pray love. Couldn't figure out if they're on covert affairs or not.
I really thing good stuff is very hard to come across. Finding really good music is almost like meeting your future spouse. Relatively good music are like short affairs or random club makeouts: enjoy them for a bit then move on.
The video has but 1 dislike, and most of the comments are about how awesome the song is, how awesome it makes them feel or how great the singer's voice is. There's an interesting episode with a seemingly random user trolling about and then disappearing.
Focusing on the girl's voice is not bad, but it still a disservice to the energy of the song. This song is not technically complicated, nor does music have to be complicated. The simple stuff from which sounds are made doesn't care about technical virtuoso or just plain joy. The latter is the case here: dog days are over. A simple phrase very loaded with meaning. Multiple conversing significances. I love her voice, and even then what I love about it is no beautiful tonality or technique. The good of it is the unwavering rawness.
Can't demand too much of YouTube comments.
I'm going with the comments of Tuesday, November 9, 2010. You might wanna check for more recent comments. Anyway, fire up the song and keep on reading for my take on the comments.
A lot of the comments are talking about movies: slumdog millionaire, eat pray love, covert affairs (tv series). So this tells me they relate this song to entertainment who moved them somehow. I checked and wikipedia says they're not on slumdog millionaire, but that they're featured in a commercial in eat pray love. Couldn't figure out if they're on covert affairs or not.
I really thing good stuff is very hard to come across. Finding really good music is almost like meeting your future spouse. Relatively good music are like short affairs or random club makeouts: enjoy them for a bit then move on.
The video has but 1 dislike, and most of the comments are about how awesome the song is, how awesome it makes them feel or how great the singer's voice is. There's an interesting episode with a seemingly random user trolling about and then disappearing.
Focusing on the girl's voice is not bad, but it still a disservice to the energy of the song. This song is not technically complicated, nor does music have to be complicated. The simple stuff from which sounds are made doesn't care about technical virtuoso or just plain joy. The latter is the case here: dog days are over. A simple phrase very loaded with meaning. Multiple conversing significances. I love her voice, and even then what I love about it is no beautiful tonality or technique. The good of it is the unwavering rawness.
Can't demand too much of YouTube comments.
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