Submitted 6 days ago by ZephyrXero@lemmy.world to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
Being a session musician and being a ”star” are completely different. Session musicians aren’t required to sing and dance, stay fit, do interviews, sponsor products, go on tour, do press junkets.
Both session musicians and pop stars can be talented at what they do.
So as long as you completely disregard the majority of what each do… they’re basically the same thing.
No.
Session musicians are often at the top of the game from a technical standpoint. Pop stars are usually just nice looking.
I think they might not be any different than psychopaths.
Hmmm. Wrong
whaleross@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Session musicians are technical instrumentalists that excel at being able to play in many different styles as requested by the producer without letting their ego get in the way.
I don’t care much for pop music, but with age I’ve reconsidered my youthful music snobbery antagonism for pop music being “unauthentic” to instead think that they excel at being entertainers with a mass appeal and that it is not necessarily a bad thing either. Not everybody has interest in seeking out auteurs. Who am I to judge how other people bring happiness into their lives.
And I’ve realised that a lot of bands that are considered “authentic” are the day job for the band members and is that one project of many that worked out well enough to be a career.