Jacob Collier butchers a classic in livestream

>music has nothing to do with music theory
wtf

thsi is pretty good and the piano is sounding excellent there, its so muddy its bordering experimental. bring the shoegaze fans here. radiohead fans too should dig it a lot.

Jesus fucking Christ this is terrible. The dude is completely incapable of subtlety or containing himself. Why must he whale all around the place like some Idols contestant? Such a simple and humbling song, completely ruined.

that is literally true. Music isnt inherently tied to music theory.
Thats like saying life is based on biology. Or that you need to know biology to live life.

absolutely horrifying. He turned a song that was intentionally about a concept above human understanding into a song about how he can go over 20 notes in one syllable. On top of that, all of the improv he does sounds like he has very little actual direction, a mash of bebop and free jazz that ends up sounding, well, like trash. I had the feeling he was a meme musician, this is his first song I listened to, and it only confirmed my intuition.

sure. Jacob Collier does not know anything about music theory and he never used it in his life. You can hear it in his music.

>"But you don't even care for music, do you?"

Very apt.

So lost in his masturbatory embellishment that he doesn't even get the lyrics right.

This is the most harmonically advanced cover yet achieved, perhaps even the most advanced theoretically possible. We're witnessing history in the making, not a "butchering"

lyrics are irrelevant for music.

Yes, he's just a meme. He's so meme that in his spare time he draws Sanic pictures.