Mason Razavi

Professor of Jazz Guitar and Sarcasm. Praised for “Top-tier guitarmanship” - Vintage Gtr. TDS survivor. Libertarian-curious independent. Hockey guy 🦈 🇺🇸

[Mason Razavi @masonrazavi]

@BillyM2k Who else watched a few episodes of Voyage of the Mimi on one of these setups? 😂

[Mason Razavi @masonrazavi]

@wil_da_beast630 White Claw is a hell of a drug

[Mason Razavi @masonrazavi]

@AlobhaPatrick I often think that on the one hand everyone should delete social and on the other the future belongs to people consistently yapping on the internet.

[Mason Razavi @masonrazavi]

I’ve never been a parish priest, but I imagine it’s like being a jazz musician - you start off your career thinking that you’re connected to some grand purpose before realizing you’re actually a gerontologist facilitating enrichment activities for the elderly.

[Clifton Duncan @cliftonaduncan]

The real Modern Audience is a mosaic of conflicting philosophies spanning a range of ethnicities.

The fantasy "Modern Audience" in the mind of activist creatives is a range of ethnicities aligned under one philosophy (with severe punishment in store for any who deviate).

When they say something's made for a "Modern Audience" what they mean is that it's made for people they prefer to be around.

That is, themselves.

But while the people they prefer to be around reflect the thinking and experiences of a majority of their social and professional milieu, societally they reflect a minority whose vision ruins all that it touches and is thus increasingly rejected by the majority.

As the majority continues to reject this vision, the creatives poisoned by it interpret the backlash as a signal to push their vision even harder, spurring further alienation from the general public and requiring more stringent purity spirals in order to keep "allies" in line.

This is how you create institutions with no connection with the public and with declining cultural relevance, further burdened by an inability to course correct.

In some industries, it will take a generation at minimum to fix the problem.

[Mason Razavi @masonrazavi]

@pensandpoison Just awful, what a wretched worldview

[Mason Razavi @masonrazavi]

@sfmcguire79 The Canes completely shut Vegas down. Great game, iconic series.

[Mason Razavi @masonrazavi]

@FreeBlckThought If there are two camps of thought, but they're "fluid" and he won't say who is in each camp, what's the point? It's unsurprising that some people who have more intense personalities and have been more directly affected by something so totalizing are more publicly aggrieved too.

[Mason Razavi @masonrazavi]

@BrandonWarmke Someone needs to make a coffee table book of 2020-era insanity. Just a collection of tweets, posts, headlines, photos, etc. showing the policy decisions, cancellations, violence, destruction, and public derangement. It was beyond comprehension and should be documented.

[Mason Razavi @masonrazavi]

@pmarca I actually read her incredible book. Even wrote notes in the margins, like “LOL”, and “WTF”

[Mason Razavi @masonrazavi]

@pmarca Meanwhile, people were burying their dead over Zoom. There isn’t one single reason that the scales fall off my eyes, but this was a big one.

[Mason Razavi @masonrazavi]

@RobertTalisse Guitar solos are good actually!

[Mason Razavi @masonrazavi]

@Chumpychange1 @avidseries Taylor Swift is a good counterexample!But people today line up around the block for iPhones, not albums. We have constant political upheaval but no soundtrack like there was in the 60s. Music is ubiquitous and more or less free, and that has diluted its meaningfulness.

[Mason Razavi @masonrazavi]

@Chumpychange1 @avidseries What was the quote about Elvis - “a white boy who sings like a black man” - they marketed it to the masses and he became one of the first massive, mega stars who connected with younger audiences and crossed over into movies and pop culture. That was new!

[Mason Razavi @masonrazavi]

@Chumpychange1 @avidseries Social media, sure. But for example think about Elvis or the Beatles having a sound that was revolutionary in how new and innovative they were for the time. I just think we’re unlikely to replicate “newness” and cultural relevance on that scale again.

[Mason Razavi @masonrazavi]

@davereaboi Killer music from these legends. I’m a jazz musician, so I’m always glad to see people I follow for political takes here sharing jazz and art in general. It’s important to me to know the audience for art isn’t entirely liberal Facebook boomers.

[Mason Razavi @masonrazavi]

@BrandonWarmke You're probably right, but I hold out hope that post-2020 psychosis was the result of rare conditions that were especially deranging and won't be repeated, at least not verbatim.

[Mason Razavi @masonrazavi]

@Jason Buck’s is great!