Collier: "Bases, can you play a Pizzacato B flat? Okay, keep playing that. Which is F, C, F. Yeah, that's lovely. Play the same thing upside down. I'll show you when."
Why? What is genius about this?
Like, further video proof that Jacob Collier is just so painfully overhyped. And if there is any beauty and appeal to what is going on here, it's purely on the talent and the practice of the orchestra that he's working with, that they're able to instantaneously meet all of his silly little demands just so he can build up the plainest layer of orchestral instrumentation and sing a combination of Coldplay's "Yellow" and the Police's "Every Breath You Take".
Again, Collier's ideas and performance here stink. There's nothing novel, quirky, different, or challenging about them in any way. He's just treating an orchestra like Fruity Loops and punching in different notations as the timeline runs.
The silver lining here is that, thankfully, all these musicians were paid and hopefully had an easy day of this.
What do you think?
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