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Inspired by a post that popped on lemmy world today about Weird Al it got me thinking. I listed out a bunch of names but the one that I think fits the most would probably be Surfan Stevens. Who do you all think?

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[-] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Alpine Universe is pretty damn good, I thought it was a band until I looked them up on Instagram and found out it was one dude that multi-tracks his voice and plays multiple instruments. I watched a few of his production videos and was amazed.

[-] RustyOperator@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

Everyone, if everyone could live the lives they want to without starving.

[-] BodePlotHole@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The fact that Miles Davis or Duke Ellington haven't shown up yet makes me question the musical diversity of Lemmy.

[-] TheSpermWhale@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe someone like John Oliva

[-] Uranium3006@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Freddy Mercury and David Bowie are up there in that podium.

[-] OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

To Mozart? I think Tony Ann fits that bill. He's not super well known yet, but he's on his way there.

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago

Louis Cole has a great understanding of music structure and plays around with it very well

[-] Resol@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Incredible Polo

[-] PP_BOY_@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Well, Mozart was a composer, so I don't know what parallels you're drawing from to compare hin to Weird Al or Surfan [sic] Stevens. If we're talking strictly in terms of best living musicians, Joanna Newsom is probably the best songwriter of the past fifty years, and in my opinion, the second place isn't even close.

[-] brygphilomena@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Jack Antonoff has some incredible talent. He's written and produced a lot of iconic pop music.

[-] Sarmyth@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Justin Timberlake has dropped hit after hit for almost 30 years and hasn't had any real controversies along the way.

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[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago

No planet on which Sufjan Stevens is a Mozart.

Uncontroversial:

Radiohead

David Bowie

Daft punk

Controversial:

Kanye

Terrible person, but then again that wasn't the question.

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