About a year ago I stumbled onto these “reaction videos’ And found them very interesting: young urban blacks being blown away by the stuff I listened to back in the mid ‘60’s. The first two I saw were reactions to the Righteous Brothers: ‘Unchained Melody’ and ‘You’ve Lost That Lovin Feelin’. Good music will always find an audience.
yeah but i think a lot of these folks are doing it for clicks and likes on youtube- There’s so many of those “So and so listens to metal for the first time” videos on there now that it just seems like a gimmick now to get views and likes-
I enjoy the “reaction videos” too. Seeing a younger generation explore music history is eye opening for them. Much of what they’re fed today is purely manufactured garbage, crap written by teams of ‘music writers’ to be ‘sung’ by people that can’t sing or play instruments - it isn’t real talent.
Black men that have been brought up on rap & hip-hop see actual talent, where people wrote amazing songs with harmony, melody, meaningful lyrics, and could also play actual instruments. It blows their minds.
Remove singing, harmony, melody, and instruments - what are you left with? Rap...yet many think rappers are ‘super talented’ because that is what they’re told. No wonder so many believe they can become rappers and become rich. Fools gold.