Carry On My Wayward Son - Excellent Piano Cover

[Moonglow]

 

 

[Adan]

Nice playing and musically it's fine as a memorized piece, but I can't for a moment put aside the deliberate  click-bait aspects of it.

[MathOfInsects]

Same. Of course there was nothing wrong with watching her play the tune. I just found it all very..."Let me see how many old guys I can get who are going to say there is nothing wrong with watching me play this tune."

[Doerfler]

She has a very successful YouTube channel, one of her videos has over 10 million click-baits  views. 

[Moonglow]

That's a lot of old guys. 😉

[allan_evett]

11 hours ago, Doerfler said:

She has a very successful YouTube channel, one of her videos has over 10 million click-baits  views. 

 

And she's done an impressive job of marketing: A Patreon page, links to merchandise, etc.  The YT page is strong; I'll check out more performances there over the next few days.  Apparently there are scores of some of the arrangements, those it appears one needs to subscribe to her Patreon site to access those.  

[Morrissey]

Do you think in the videos she is playing along to a pre-recorded track (presumably of herself playing)?  I don't see microphones to record the piano.  

[MAJUSCULE]

11 minutes ago, Morrissey said:

Do you think in the videos she is playing along to a pre-recorded track (presumably of herself playing)?  I don't see microphones to record the piano.  

100%.

[MathOfInsects]

With only one camera, it's virtually certain she is playing along to a track, since there are crossfades in the shots but not in the music. 

As for the number of subscribers/views...yes, no one has ever gone poor overestimating the willingness of aging Boomers to spend money getting to hear music that without that money, would have gone the way of doo-wop. Multiply that by the eye-candy factor and the inherent misogyny of the, Hey, who would think a hot female could play like that,* and you have yourself a gold mine.

For better or worse.

*In fact, I'd go farther and say that if it were an old male, age-appropriate to the music, we'd be mocking his camera-mugging, faux sincerity, and overwrought touch.

[ProfD]

Admittedly, I'm not 1 of the old guys who clicked on the link above. 

 

First, I'm familiar with the Kansas tune but have no desire to hear it covered.🤣

 

More importantly, understanding the nature of the entertainment business, as brotha @MathOfInsects outlined above, it makes perfect sense to target a certain demographic.

 

I don't know anything about this young lady but who needs a band and/or live music when YouTube can be monetized in such a way. 😎

[pinkfloydcramer]

I thought it was very good. Checked out a couple of other videos and it seemed unlikely she was getting that sound out of a red Privia in her lap in the middle of a field, so who knows, may be a Susan Boyle type character who actually did the playing. Still, I'm rooting that it was her.

 

Sangah Noona is my YT favorite for that kind of thing, the playing seems more improv'd and she can go the slinky jazz direction when she wants, too. Very talented. VK (Goes Wild) does some great stuff too, esp. her Tool covers. YT rock piano covers are on my radar since that's a portion of what I do solo, without the benefit of a youthful, sexy appearance of course.

 

 

[Bobbo Fett]

Does my heart good to a see myself and other men of culture gather in this way.....

[TommyRude]

I was completely focused on the playing and the keyboards, not looking at anything else.  Nope.. nothin

[Old No7]

2 hours ago, TommyRude said:

I was completely focused on the playing and the keyboards, not looking at anything else.  Nope.. nothin

 

Well, then you won't enjoy watching any of the piano videos posted by Lola Astanova.

 

My favorite at the moment, I will admit... 😉

 

Old No7 

[Adan]

As another one who often plays from the classic rock catalogue on solo piano gigs, I will say these arrangements are not uninteresting.  For my taste, it's too dry and technical, more aggressive than soulful, so not my cup of tea musically.  But I definitely get something from listening to the arrangements.

 

I personally find the videos completely devoid of prurient interest.  From my perspective, trying that hard to be sexy risks not being sexy at all, and these videos come up with a big Zero in that department.  Over-engineered, over-stylized, and overwrought.  But apparently there are millions who disagree with me about that.

[KuruPrionz]

I made it for about 30 seconds but then I've always disliked Kansas in general and that song in particular although Dust In The Wind is worse. 

 

She is pretty though. 

 

[TommyRude]

5 hours ago, Adan said:

 From my perspective, trying that hard to be sexy risks not being sexy at all, and these videos come up with a big Zero in that department. 

Agree 1,000%  

 

Just to confirm, I'm going to review it again. 

[Spider76]

While aknowledging that the "hot chick in sexy dress playing covers on YT" is a widespread trend (not just on piano, on all instruments really) and like it or not, it's likely here to stay, I found this somehow related article very interesting:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/apr/19/fashion-fabrics-and-fishtails-why-we-need-to-talk-about-what-female-classical-performers-wear

[re Pete]

I once read that Yuja Wang commented on her dress that some places sell audience tickets up front on the right side of the piano not able to see the keys faster than on the left, being able to see the keys. She thought it funny though. I'm sure they just have bad hearing in right ear. 

Personally, whatever it takes to sell tickets to keep the music going. Her playing and memory is unreal. She's playing all of Rach's concertos and Paganini variations this season. I also read she was to open Carnegie halls season after covid shutdown with seats going for 10k a piece.   

[igirl]

There are some video edits so likely synced at least in spots.  Regardless of that there were still some clams.

 

Meanwhile I thought she was going to fall off the chair. the whole time teetering on the front 2" of it.

[MathOfInsects]

It's like the soft-porn of classic-rock performance videos. You can tell she's doing "something," just maybe not entirely the thing it is supposed to look like she's doing. And from all the most flattering camera angles.

Her mugging is hilarious.

There is definitely a range of "hot chicks in sexy dresses" out there now in classical circles (and "young hunky dudes who would otherwise be playing beach volleyball"). It's been a thing in the last 15 or 20 years as orchestras struggle to keep people interested in a fading and arcane art form. In lots of cases, they are serious musicians who can't help that they turned out hot, and might as well use all the tools at their disposal. More power to them. In others, it can seem like the "hot" came first, with the music basically being what the "talent" portion of the Miss America contest is--"look how surprising it is that this hot person can do a regular-person thing, and by the way that will be $30 paid to me for showing you her."

I guess it's all commodification of one kind or another, but for whatever reason the latter scenario feels grosser.


 

[ProfD]

Thankfully, most music still sells sight unseen otherwise a whole lot of artists and musicians would be trouble.😁😎

 

 

[Iconoclast]

She didn't put belly makeup on because she wanted you to NOT look.

[BluMunk]

There definitely is a degree of skill involved in that performance . . . but to my ears, it was imminently boring. The tempo was slow and draggy, syncopations lacked energy, there was no aggressive rock feel at all, no dynamic variation from section to section as well as between melody and "accompaniment".

 

[TommyRude]

On 4/20/2022 at 11:15 AM, MathOfInsects said:

I guess it's all commodification of one kind or another, but for whatever reason the latter scenario feels grosser.

Agree 1,000%  

 

Just to confirm, I'm going to review it again.