Rick Beato is one of those guys with a passion. I appreciate his insight and perception when it comes to music, and if you watch him for any length of time, you’ll see why. I’m not a great musician, nor do I have an extensive knowledge of the catalogues of most artists or genres. I just know what I like. But Rick can break down a song for me in a way that makes it new and interesting, even if I don’t know what he’s talking about half the time.
Recently, Rick posted a video that was more insightful and profound philosophically from my view. It was called “The Greatest Song Ever Went Nowhere,” and on it, he talks about great music that he himself produced that never saw the light of day — it just sits there collecting, as he calls it, “digital dust.”
And to prove it, he plays a demo he wrote with a couple of young ladies who called themselves “Muddy Magnolias” (never hear of them), and it was actually an excellent song — but still just a demo.
The group took it to other producers and never got it exactly the way they wanted it, so there it sits, on Rick’s hard drive, unpublished. And he says he’s done hundreds of songs like this. The whole concept had me thinking of everything on which we all may be missing out — hidden gems that, for one reason or other, never see the light of day. I wonder what does that to us. Is there some dimension to life that we’re just missing — a freedom and creativity beyond that which we can imagine?
Well, yes. Yes, there is. Maybe we’re just too busy getting by to see it.
But how much is enough?