Presenter and music critic Regis Tadeu is known for not mincing words when talking about any subject – and it would be no different when analyzing the current music scene.
In an interview on the show The Wikimetal Happy Hour, Tadeu observed how commercial success has changed nowadays, being more based on streaming and number of hits. “Because nobody buys records anymore, except for me, you [Nando Machado], and a handful of other people, nobody wants to know about LPs or CDs,” he criticized. “You take this new generation of feeble-minded people and show them a CD, and they can't understand why a song needs to be on physical media when it can be in the cloud.”
In Regis Tadeu's view, the volume of likes, shares, and views is not necessarily linked to success and a solid fan base. "An artist can have two million views on their video, but [most] of those people went there just to laugh," he pointed out.
Asked if there is an artistic crisis in Brazil, the music critic went straight to the point, dividing national artists between Brazilian popular music, including MPB, rock and jazz, and "Brazilian popular music," which would be the mainstream, "formed by those country music duos who have never ridden a horse in their lives, except when riding a carousel," and a funk music geared towards pop, far from the roots of the style. "They make a very shameless pop," he said, citing names like Anitta, Ludmilla and Pabllo Vittar .
Watch the clip below or see the full conversation here .
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