Okay, I confess: I’m sitting here with my morning coffee wiping tears from my eyes watching Ultimate Male Adele Covers on YouTube.
It’s a video collage of young male singers performing their versions of Adele’s song, Someone Like You. The video features eight of them, each singing the song’s big, luscious chorus.
What we see in watching this same riff over and over again is not monotony but indeed the opposite: the precious individuality of each interpretation.
It reminds me something Ken Wilber once said, “we liberate by limiting.”
But what really breaks my heart is the sheer beauty of each voice and performance, all self-generated by these young men who are unknown in mainstream media, not signed to any record company, not necessarily good looking, living in Podunk Wherever, but who have these Stradivarius gifts.
With today’s emergent media technology they are able to give their gifts, and if they’re good they find their audience. The video has been seen by over 30,000 viewers. And some of the young singers featured have followers in the hundreds of thousands. Gone are the days when a singer had to be anointed by Clive Davis, Dick Clark or Ed Sullivan.
We are in a golden age of creative human expression, and it’s just getting better…
Hi Jeff, I was going through my mail and was unsubscribing from many newsletters, but I couldn´t throw this one away. I have now some new favourite male singers.
I too am loving the amount of potential in this era !
jeff, i hope the chickadees enjoy having you in the nest,
and that the golden age of human expression, lets make sure it brings to an end of the worst of our behaviours,to get better than the self destructs , and featured as wars..
There better ways to spend time money and taxes.Better ways to use humane resourcefullness and creativity.
time to move on from playing out greek tragedies after 2000 years of historic evolution,
its most certainly time for better than blow ups and blows. Or Summits which seem to achieve not a lot, but cost an arm and a leg.
its time to put somethings to bed and draw the cover ups and prepare the burial.and last rites.
Thank you for bringing these young men into my life this morning, Jeff. Thank God for the myriad of precious individualities that are ‘out there’ everywhere in Podunk, Earth.