Smarter in Sixty Seconds: Don't Hesitate, Collaborate
– Is killer! Something you actually need to hear start to finish. It’s an instant classic. You don’t channel surf this one. I mean, you could, but you miss the story she tells: the hurt, the loss, the struggle of dealing with a broken heart from someone you’re crazy in love with who dumped you. This is not about working a single. You feel what she’s been through. We’ve all been there. No hype. She is the anti- Gaga .And there’s this great black and white shot on the album of Adele and her crew working together in a funky home studio setting. It points to something intrinsically missing in much of DIY music culture today; essential if you want to make a truly great record. It’s a very ancient human endeavor known as collaboration . As in being in the same physical space with other human beings co-creating. It’s how magic happens.
And look what happens when you put a true talent like Adele together with a studio full of equal or greater talent in all the other chairs? The producers, the musicians, the engineers? You get “21″. Isn’t that how great records used to get made? Some things will never change.
It Got Me Thinking
What does it take to create a body of work so truly outstanding that it becomes timeless, essential? Something that ricochets around the world and gets passed down through the generations to become ubiquitous? You know, that desert island record everyone’s always asking you about on Facebook ?
Yeah, that’s a bitch to try and nail down; that one record you would listen to for the rest of your life but there’s certainly no shortage of candidates that come immediately to my mind.
Is it Abbey Road ? (And yes, I left out a sizable stack of favorite blues and soul albums along with a few artists, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Jeff Beck, Chuck Berry, James Brown, Sly, Ray Charles, Aretha, Frank (Sinatra and Zappa), Ella, Dizzy, Bird, The Doors, The Who, The Stones, Cream, Van Halen, Talking Heads, Prince, Guns & Roses, Nirvana…I know. But you get the idea.
But here’s the thing. How come I can’t seem to identify even one potential candidate that was produced in the age of the Internet, after the invention of Napster, MySpace, or Facebook? The birth of DIY culture?
Sure, there have been some great internet success stories: cool artists who have utilized the technology to connect and interact with their core audiences in really unique and creative ways to build a real following and new models for a sustainable career making music. (And hey, I’m still as DIY as the next indie artist. Once upon a time, back in those halcyon Napster days, I had an indie band called Fire Ants , who had a Number One on MP3.com and got interviewed by CNN, Rolling Stone and Wired Magazine, all on a PR budget of zilch. So yes, I get it. The Internet works.
Higher Ground Stevie Wonder - News
Making her directorial debut in the new film Higher Ground, actress Vera Farmiga (Up in The Air, The Departed) has herself reached for higher ground. The title, shared by a popular Stevie Wonder song, signifies the search for one's spiritual nature,
Dix, heralded to the stage by Stevie Wonder's inspirational Higher Ground (“believers keep on believing”, etc.), lost no time reciprocating. “We are going to treat workers with respect,” he vowed, then promised to make it easier for unions to organize,
One of my absolute top contenders for that coveted desert island spot is Innervisions by Stevie Wonder. That's the one with songs like “Living For The City”, “Higher Ground,” “Too High,” “All is Fair in Love,” and “Golden Lady.
Stevie Wonder's Higher Ground came in at number 261 on the Rolling Stones 500 Greatest Songs List compiled in 2004. Coming in at number 260 were The Dells with Oh, What A Night. Quincy Jones was a vocal coach for The Dell's lead singer Johnny Carter,
The set includes original songs as well as remixes of well-loved pop classics, ranging from Bob Marley's "Redemption Song" to Stevie Wonder's "Higher Ground" and John Lennon's "Imagine." Artists hail from such diverse locales as a village in Mali to
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