I love this spicy take on Rick Rubin from Jacob Collier:
“Rick says things like ‘art is only pure if it’s made for only art’s sake’. Absolutely false.”
Thank you for saying it out loud! I hate collaborating with people when they get all precious and start spouting this nonsense. Rick’s cool AF, but his ideas on creativity are nothing more than fun theories. They aren’t rules at all, they don’t apply to every project, and you can definitely ignore them. https://musictech.com/news/music/jacob-collier-rick-rubin-disagree-creativity/ #MusicProduction
@fadersolo@elsemusic I don’t. Whether he’s wrong or right, Mr. Collier made a rookie mistake and gave a writer an opportunity to transform the interview into a catfight between successful people.
(As a side note Mr. Rubin’s definition of pure art seems reasonable, but ultimately the question being begged is that pure art has intrinsic value for being pure, whatever that would mean.)
No one is wrong here. Mr. Rubin has a world view with which he functions successfully as does Mr. Collier.
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