Rolling Stones is the real PC Music

I saw that the Rolling Stones had won the Best Rock Album at the Grammy’s, which was pretty funny.

I actually went to the Rolling Stones’ tour last year in LA, at my old workplace the Crypto.com Arena.

The show was fun but now I’m questioning everything, because I hadn’t listened to the studio versions of the new songs.

It’s difficult to convey the strange feeling I get when listening to this track.

For one, it has a remarkable plastic sheen. The drums are programmed, edited and gated copiously, and then compressed like meat in a salami. The slap of the drums does indeed disturb me deeply.

The bass is unnatural and inorganic. The guitar, being the all-important ‘Rolling Stones’ brand identity, remains intact but in a constructed way.

The vocals are heavily autotuned. I have to say I didn’t notice it during the live show, but these guys are really old so it had to be happening there too. It’s a very weird affect.

I feel somewhat sad because I love the raw sound recordings of the old Stones and those are not hitmaker quality any longer. I also feel validated because a lot of the vocal/band music I’ve worked on approaches this plasticky veneer, which I don’t like, but I couldn’t really figure out how to improve.

Now I realize it’s just how it is and how it sounds, when you do that thing.

I remember when PC Music came out back in the day, they took the sounds of EDM, Asian Pop music and consumer aesthetics to create a unique vision and music.

But ironically you literally cannot beat or out-art the consumer aesthetics of a hyper-plasticky Rolling Stones.

The beauty is an illumination within. What is art anymore?

I am in awe that the Rolling Stones is the real PC Music.