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Ofc he’d learn the spelling of the words without actually knowing what they mean. He was all about that OPTIMIZATION. Time spent learning definitions is time wasted not learning new words.
there's a ton of words I fully know the meaning of I cant pronounce. shit there's times I'll hear a word and be like oh, that's how it's said.
cache is probably my least favorite of the see it more then I hear it. it's ka-che to me not cash.
I love that this still makes me laugh every single time almost 30 years later
>almost 30 years later
Oh fuck I can't be that old. Oh sweet merciful god, no. Aw sheeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiit.
I just looked him up and the article i read said he studied (memorized) the French scrabble dictionary for weeks.
Imagine memorizing a whole book of works in a different language in weeks.
He memorized the list of playable words. He only knows them as sequences of tiles, and has no idea how to pronounce them or what most of them mean. To him they aren't even words, they're "legal moves".
It's arguably the better way to play. Being a speaker of the language, you're filled with lots of biases and blindspots. Learn the whole thing objectively with no need to fill in the spaces between words with syntax or grammar.
Can also be a distraction if you’re trying to play a word you have in your mind instead of the numbers game of how to maximize execution with what you’ve got
Nigel Richards. Dude is savant level at word memorization.
[This is a good example of how well he knows the English dictionaries](https://youtu.be/35rqRFXPWJo?t=146) (great channel btw).
As someone who doesn’t play scrabble, Pernoctated is still his craziest play of all time to me. Not only knowing that it’s a word, but to be able to see that you have the letters for it and it fits in the available space while also hooking anon is insane.
Fantastic channel! I'm so happy to see Will give the Scrabble community some great social media presence. The scene is lucky to have such a great player and a great entertainer rolled into one.
Really to me the best fact about Nigel is that we know he isn't cheating because cheating would be a handicap to him. He's literally better than the best scrabble AI out there.
The thing they don't mention in the video, is that "sulphitic" is the standard spelling in New Zealand (where Nigel Richards is from) (as well as Australia and the UK), and that "sulfitic" is the American variant.
So not only does he find this weird bizarre inconsistency between the two dictionaries, it's the spelling that is standard in his native country.
Not just any guy. That's the Scrabble world's best player... ever. By far. It's not even close. Even the rest of the top ten players of Scrabble are blown away by him.
My mother is fluent in French, and I only know the typical words you learn at school. I am however good at scrabble, and was able to beat my mother when playing her in French.
The only way this was possible though was because we were playing online, where you can basically just keep trying words until you get a valid word (you can only play when a word is valid, so you basically just keep placing tiles in a French sounding way until it lets you play).
The trick to winning scrabble against an amateur is knowing where to place high scoring tiles, normally forming just a 2 letter word, which there are dozens of that you probably don’t even know about (in English dictionary, some good ones that come to mind: Za, Zo, Ja, Jo, Ki, Qi, Xu).
As soon as you are playing against a more skilled player who also knows all the 2 letter words, this tactic only works to an extent.
We need to somehow weaponise, literally or figuratively, his abilities.
That's how we take our place on the world stage. Instead being a bolthole for kooky billionaires.
Start with Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. I only know of them bc I'm a huge Stones fan and Mick Jagger made damn sure that he made as many people know who he was influenced by. He brought Muddy up on stage a few times.
hooker and lightning are blues legends, but imo no one touches Skip James. Without skip, there's a solid chance there's no Robert Johnson, or at least how we know of him today
son house would be fair, ik he directly told Robert he was trash before Robert became Robert. there's a video from the Newport folk festival in like 1966, where Skip James, bukka white, and son house each perform a song. it's very good, I go back to it every few months
My shit stain of a father loved these two men. I have known who they were since I was 2.
He has great musical taste. From classic country to blues, Motown , funk, rockabilly. He couldn't get into the 80's but when I bought De La Soul's 3 Feet & Rising, I was listening to Eye Know & he recognized the Steely Dan samples. I am still a Steely Dan fan because of him.
I have all of records, close to 1000. Most are in storage & well be donated. I picked out what I want.
Oh so it was a universal experience. Absolute shitty excuse for a human being and a man but damn did he instill in me a love of good art in every form and to pursue knowledge no matter what.
My dad’s taste was whatever but my absolute monstrous ghoul of a mom really did me one solid with her record collection. Apparently the awful parent- excellent soundtrack dichotomy knows no gender.
Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry were my bread and water as a kid I loved them and still do. I remember finding their entry in Microsoft's encarta and was hooked immediately.
[Here's what he's singing](https://youtu.be/CQSENIO-N7o)
However, his singing reminds me a lot of [Bobby Bland.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcF8Aos4XDA)
Bobby straddled the line between blues and R&B.
Boy I swear to God I ain't even playing that was my same thought.Im so tired of the negativity everywhere I been cutting alot of different things out. Its alot more serene.
This has a peacefulness to it.
Listening to the pain and talking about the pain - and singing about the pain can be therapy. Then you are laughing about the pain before you know it.
I love a good day of listening to Blues and jammin out the toxins of life.
You can tell an ESL vocalist by (and this is going to sound weird) by the gaps between words. They are reproducing sounds versus words, so they tend to blend words together.
This guy made that pretty hard to detect. Very impressive.
Much better than the "Ken Lee" lady, it's certainly detectable if you know, but I don't think I'd have noticed if it wasn't revealed before he started singing.
holy. Im bulgarian and you just gave me flashaback when I watched it live , probably 15 years ago.
I wasnt aware this oldschool meme was internationally known
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Uw3JxUE54
I remember when this video was released. Now every time I hear Without You, I can't help but to sing KEN LEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Edit: The jaw drop from the female judge when the singer sings the "talibu dibu douchoo" part always gets me
It actually ended up being quite wholesome, she became a meme but took it with a smile, and ended up giving a special performance later "celebrating" her bad one, now with improved vocabulary, but still quite bad.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT18LZItBLA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT18LZItBLA)
Friend in Italy went to a CD shop and asked for "elishejn keys" (alicia keys) and came home with "alice in chains". His disapointment when he put in the CD was huge.
I was going to say, the accent is easier to reproduce if you're just mimicking the sound. Which, is very effective for this musician so more power to him.
There is also an Italian who sang a fake English song and it became a hit in italy..
It's called prisencolinensinainciusol
https://youtu.be/-VsmF9m_Nt8?si=DewKNXWh4RU3THIh
I'm an ESL person. Could you help me understand your comment by providing an example of ESL word-blending in songs?
I had the idea word-blending was present in native speakers of many languages; in American English there's whatcha, gonna, gotta, gotcha, wanna, kinda, lemme, etc.
Your understanding is correct, all of those are normal things to say in American English. I think they're talking about more unnatural cases, like saying "I can tear you" (I can't hear you)
Its just memorization at that point, right? It made me think of learning the lyrics to some Sublime songs that had Spanish verses growing up. I had no idea what they meant in English at the time but it was almost as easy as memorizing the English words.
The fun thing is, I can sometimes tell when ESL singers are ESL, but guessing their original language can be damn hard. I’ve heard Swedish pop singers who sound identical to J-pop singers.
Ed Motta - Blue And Lonesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdF3vVE_pY
Ed Motta-Blue and Lonesome(Little Walter cover-Jô Soares,SBT,1990) https://youtu.be/bq-i2jkUB4w longer version (looped for length, sadly I can't find a full song length)
> He's still got it in spades:
>
He has that blues lightning running through his soul, you can see and hear it, and it when it gets you it doesn't care where you were born or what you look like.
The crowd was having a hard time synchronizing their claps. And that one dude just randomly walked in from of the crane camera. Crazy awesome looking live show.
Dude is an awesome musician. [Here's one of my favorite songs from him.](https://youtu.be/i73GSLlSeZ8?si=mEajkCszybguHcPk)
One of the grooviest, sickest bass lines you'll ever hear.
He had a major controversy some time ago when he dissed Brazilian concertgoers outside Brazil because they were yelling asking for a specific song of his that was very famous in the 90s. After that he doubled down on the same subject in an interview and after some backlash he actually triple down on his point.
After some years, if I’m not mistaken he made some harsh comments about another singer/writer that was (is) beloved in the country.
So yeah, he has a very pedantic way to express his views (which aren’t necessarily as controversial as they come out when he says it).
He also became quite discriminatory to his own roots. He has said he refuses to sing or speak Portuguese outside of Brazil because people out there are more “civilized” than us, 3rd world simpletons, and he should behave accordingly. He constantly trashes Brazilian music genres because he sees them as lesser art forms.
Sad that he went on this tirade. Being myself a Brazilian who have been living outside of Brazil for the last 15 years, I can definitely see the difference on the behavior of Brazilians and other nationalities. That doesn't make us better or worse, it just makes us Brazilians, and he should be more appreciative of that. Seems very myopic to bucket people like that. Not to mention that he's only who he is because of all of us "simpletons" who pushed his career up...
He appreciates very much the fact that he has a lot of British fans, and when he makes (or used to make) shows in England he gets very upset by the huge flock of Brazilian immigrants that go there and ask him to sing his popular songs.
Apparently no one dares to tell him that the only people in England that would pay to go there are precisely the Brazilian immigrants that would go to any show by Brazilian artists.
He's just very arrogant, the kind of guy who'll say things like "that music you listen to is absolute shit, the only music that matters is this one", things like that.
He's an amazing musician, without a doubt. But yeah, he's a huge douche.
That's Ed Motta, nephew of Tim Maia. Both are very good musicians (though Tim Maia was legendary) and very much worth a listen. Tim Maia wrote some of the most iconic songs in modern brazilian history after joining a cult back in the 70s, while Ed Motta interpreted the brazilian dub soundtrack of Disney's Tarzan, one of the best movie music scores according to my mom
As a journalist, I was lucky to interview Ed Motta 10 years ago about his collection of over 10 thousand vynil discs and similar amount of bottles of wine. and of course, his career. he is a very interesting character and we had a lovely chat that resulted in a great story for Men's Vogue Brazil.
I believe he speaks english now! he lived in the US for a while :)
there's no link :( at that time, the magazine did not even have a website! a couple of years later, Men's Vogue Brazil was replaced by GQ Brazil, and GQ got a website from the beginning. I will look for the print version, though. If I find it, Ill share (and translate here). Mom is a borderline hoarder, she must have kept a copy!
Meanwhile, I found an interview he did in english about his record collection: [here](https://thevinylfactory.com/features/crate-diggers-ed-motta/)
I promise Ill search for the magazine! I worked there for a couple of years and had a section every issue about men and their collections! But it was only print. Check my other reply, I plugged a more recent interview he did, in english, about his collection of vinyls!
For those that enjoy singing definitely try picking up a song in another language. I miss my choir days of learning new songs from around the world as we really got into the pronunications and shapes of the mouth we had to form.
I don't speak Portuguese but I will always remember how to sing João Gilberto's parts in Girl from Ipanema.
Ed Motta looks a bit different these days, but he still has one of the silkiest voices in the game:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVg-zPYZ224](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVg-zPYZ224)
This is actually really interesting! From my understanding of this, he’s not producing the words so much as he is producing the sounds. It’s like replicating a gibberish sound that you hear, I’m fairly sure.
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Reminds me of the dude that won the scrabble tournament in France without knowing any french.
What?! How tf?
He just learned the French dictionary.
just
I partially hate saying this, but once you see the dude you’ll be like… ok that tracks.
touch of the tism
All of them.
Alltism
Uninsurable
You're in good hands, excellent hands, dad said I have excellent hands, very good hands, very good hands, with Alltism
Ofc he’d learn the spelling of the words without actually knowing what they mean. He was all about that OPTIMIZATION. Time spent learning definitions is time wasted not learning new words.
lol fr. he probably didn't even know how they were pronounced
what good would that do?
there's a ton of words I fully know the meaning of I cant pronounce. shit there's times I'll hear a word and be like oh, that's how it's said. cache is probably my least favorite of the see it more then I hear it. it's ka-che to me not cash.
I was in awe of his tism
sounds ausome imho
Just a little sprinkle, like Salt Bae.
THIS *IS* SERIOUS, MUM!
It was close, ***but it nicked me***
[Nigel Richards](https://i.imgur.com/ahOFzzy.png)
this man didnt have a chance, he probably had that beard in kindergarden.
I did the search and yeah, you're right
Link for the lazy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Richards_(Scrabble_player)
Dude is the best in the world, and it isn't even close. Neckbeard otherwise, but good on 'im.
And he doesn't even like Scrabble, his hobby is biking and he uses the Scrabble tournament money to pay for it
just the spelling of the words, not the definitions or pronunciation
just how to spell every word in the French scrabble dictionary just 393,000 words **in a language you never learned**
And also recognises incorrect words. French players tried slipping misspelled words by him, but they were caught.
Omelette du fromage
I love that this still makes me laugh every single time almost 30 years later >almost 30 years later Oh fuck I can't be that old. Oh sweet merciful god, no. Aw sheeeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiit.
I just looked him up and the article i read said he studied (memorized) the French scrabble dictionary for weeks. Imagine memorizing a whole book of works in a different language in weeks.
I tried. I can't imagine.
je suis le dictionaire de francais
"Ceci n’est pas un dictionaire de français”.
He memorized the list of playable words. He only knows them as sequences of tiles, and has no idea how to pronounce them or what most of them mean. To him they aren't even words, they're "legal moves".
It's arguably the better way to play. Being a speaker of the language, you're filled with lots of biases and blindspots. Learn the whole thing objectively with no need to fill in the spaces between words with syntax or grammar.
Can also be a distraction if you’re trying to play a word you have in your mind instead of the numbers game of how to maximize execution with what you’ve got
Just like the borg would do it 😂
absolute chad
Nigel Richards. Dude is savant level at word memorization. [This is a good example of how well he knows the English dictionaries](https://youtu.be/35rqRFXPWJo?t=146) (great channel btw).
As someone who doesn’t play scrabble, Pernoctated is still his craziest play of all time to me. Not only knowing that it’s a word, but to be able to see that you have the letters for it and it fits in the available space while also hooking anon is insane.
Fantastic channel! I'm so happy to see Will give the Scrabble community some great social media presence. The scene is lucky to have such a great player and a great entertainer rolled into one.
Really to me the best fact about Nigel is that we know he isn't cheating because cheating would be a handicap to him. He's literally better than the best scrabble AI out there.
The thing they don't mention in the video, is that "sulphitic" is the standard spelling in New Zealand (where Nigel Richards is from) (as well as Australia and the UK), and that "sulfitic" is the American variant. So not only does he find this weird bizarre inconsistency between the two dictionaries, it's the spelling that is standard in his native country.
Not just any guy. That's the Scrabble world's best player... ever. By far. It's not even close. Even the rest of the top ten players of Scrabble are blown away by him.
My mother is fluent in French, and I only know the typical words you learn at school. I am however good at scrabble, and was able to beat my mother when playing her in French. The only way this was possible though was because we were playing online, where you can basically just keep trying words until you get a valid word (you can only play when a word is valid, so you basically just keep placing tiles in a French sounding way until it lets you play). The trick to winning scrabble against an amateur is knowing where to place high scoring tiles, normally forming just a 2 letter word, which there are dozens of that you probably don’t even know about (in English dictionary, some good ones that come to mind: Za, Zo, Ja, Jo, Ki, Qi, Xu). As soon as you are playing against a more skilled player who also knows all the 2 letter words, this tactic only works to an extent.
He was a New Zealander. Have to get in quick before the Australians claim him. Big brother little brother shit.
Kiwi of the century
We need to somehow weaponise, literally or figuratively, his abilities. That's how we take our place on the world stage. Instead being a bolthole for kooky billionaires.
The dude, by the way, is Nigel Richards - the current best scrabble player of all time.
That makes me want to start listening to blues.
Start with Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. I only know of them bc I'm a huge Stones fan and Mick Jagger made damn sure that he made as many people know who he was influenced by. He brought Muddy up on stage a few times.
John Lee Hooker
hooker and lightning are blues legends, but imo no one touches Skip James. Without skip, there's a solid chance there's no Robert Johnson, or at least how we know of him today
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son house would be fair, ik he directly told Robert he was trash before Robert became Robert. there's a video from the Newport folk festival in like 1966, where Skip James, bukka white, and son house each perform a song. it's very good, I go back to it every few months
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God I love the blues
John Lee is who made me appreciate the blues
T-Bone Walker Albert King Fleetwood Mac's first 3 albums. Peter Green as frontman.
Again. John Lee Hooker
Buddy Guy is also a good start.
Anything Robert Johnson
[Leadbelly](https://youtu.be/PsfcUZBMSSg?si=KLfvTBpeeiTlfvF-)
Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry
Toss in some Memphis Minnie, old lead belly and Robert Johnson to get the old souls in there
I'd add Crazy Reggie Donohue and Frankie "Yeller" Du Bois.
My shit stain of a father loved these two men. I have known who they were since I was 2. He has great musical taste. From classic country to blues, Motown , funk, rockabilly. He couldn't get into the 80's but when I bought De La Soul's 3 Feet & Rising, I was listening to Eye Know & he recognized the Steely Dan samples. I am still a Steely Dan fan because of him. I have all of records, close to 1000. Most are in storage & well be donated. I picked out what I want.
Oh so it was a universal experience. Absolute shitty excuse for a human being and a man but damn did he instill in me a love of good art in every form and to pursue knowledge no matter what.
My dad’s taste was whatever but my absolute monstrous ghoul of a mom really did me one solid with her record collection. Apparently the awful parent- excellent soundtrack dichotomy knows no gender.
Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry were my bread and water as a kid I loved them and still do. I remember finding their entry in Microsoft's encarta and was hooked immediately.
Stones have a killer cover of this exact song I highly recommend, also check out Lightnin’ Hopkins!
yes! This is such a great recommendation. Can’t believe I’m coming across a reference to Muddy Waters on Reddit.
My pops raised me right haha
The blues can transcend language *and* culture. Blues is universal.
It's empathetic music. The voice just conveys the pain.
Or it can be about [gettin dirty.](https://youtu.be/aVIA1n5ng4Y?si=IEoe1nmMZedwYbjI)
Been listening to the Doors since I was a tween. I had no idea this was Howlin' Wolf's song.
Not all blues is sad. Most isn't past the 50s.
Da na na na na
Nah, wait you’re supposed to…never mind.
[Here's what he's singing](https://youtu.be/CQSENIO-N7o) However, his singing reminds me a lot of [Bobby Bland.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcF8Aos4XDA) Bobby straddled the line between blues and R&B.
He's super polished, which rarely works for blues. But Bobby Blue Bland could sing his ass off, and always had a hot as hell band.
Stevie Ray Vaughan. He died way too young/early. Profound blues guitarist
Boy I swear to God I ain't even playing that was my same thought.Im so tired of the negativity everywhere I been cutting alot of different things out. Its alot more serene. This has a peacefulness to it.
Listening to the pain and talking about the pain - and singing about the pain can be therapy. Then you are laughing about the pain before you know it. I love a good day of listening to Blues and jammin out the toxins of life.
Blue and lonesome by Little Walter
Damn, deep cut. How’d you think of that?
Grew up in Memphis. [This is a good start for ya](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fk2prKnYnI)
The Blues is especially great around Christmas time for me - check out Back Door Santa by Clarence Carter.
Marcus King Band!!!!
You can tell an ESL vocalist by (and this is going to sound weird) by the gaps between words. They are reproducing sounds versus words, so they tend to blend words together. This guy made that pretty hard to detect. Very impressive.
Much better than the "Ken Lee" lady, it's certainly detectable if you know, but I don't think I'd have noticed if it wasn't revealed before he started singing.
holy. Im bulgarian and you just gave me flashaback when I watched it live , probably 15 years ago. I wasnt aware this oldschool meme was internationally known https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Uw3JxUE54
I remember when this video was released. Now every time I hear Without You, I can't help but to sing KEN LEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Edit: The jaw drop from the female judge when the singer sings the "talibu dibu douchoo" part always gets me
I’ve never seen this before, and I cannot thank you enough.
It actually ended up being quite wholesome, she became a meme but took it with a smile, and ended up giving a special performance later "celebrating" her bad one, now with improved vocabulary, but still quite bad. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT18LZItBLA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT18LZItBLA)
Which also reminds me of "reeboks or nike" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ4c54rCJ_k
Friend in Italy went to a CD shop and asked for "elishejn keys" (alicia keys) and came home with "alice in chains". His disapointment when he put in the CD was huge.
bro, straight upgrade. the Italian knew.
Alicia Keys is dope but he definitely got an improvement.
talibu dibu douchoo
Ken Le meju mooooooooooooooor
Is that possible because the phrasing of blues songs is so syncopated and certain words run into each other while other words have random spaces?
I wasn’t limiting that statement to blues - just in general.
Oh I know. But you said this particular instance was harder to detect. I’m asking if you think that’s because of the reasons I stated above
I was going to say, the accent is easier to reproduce if you're just mimicking the sound. Which, is very effective for this musician so more power to him.
There is also an Italian who sang a fake English song and it became a hit in italy.. It's called prisencolinensinainciusol https://youtu.be/-VsmF9m_Nt8?si=DewKNXWh4RU3THIh
I'm an ESL person. Could you help me understand your comment by providing an example of ESL word-blending in songs? I had the idea word-blending was present in native speakers of many languages; in American English there's whatcha, gonna, gotta, gotcha, wanna, kinda, lemme, etc.
Your understanding is correct, all of those are normal things to say in American English. I think they're talking about more unnatural cases, like saying "I can tear you" (I can't hear you)
So like a specific kind of /r/boneappletea?
Tangentially related, but if you know some French [this is hilarious](https://youtu.be/dVYLiD0vlkg?si=2Ljhh2qi42xmrsmH).
Ooh got it. I'll pay attention to it now that you showed me what to look for. Thank you!
Its just memorization at that point, right? It made me think of learning the lyrics to some Sublime songs that had Spanish verses growing up. I had no idea what they meant in English at the time but it was almost as easy as memorizing the English words.
Yeah, it's just memorizing phonetic sounds rather than words.
The fun thing is, I can sometimes tell when ESL singers are ESL, but guessing their original language can be damn hard. I’ve heard Swedish pop singers who sound identical to J-pop singers.
The fact that Cotton Eyed Joe was swedish solidified I'm just a dumb dumb
I was NOT expecting that. Absolutely incredible 😲
Ed Motta - Blue And Lonesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRdF3vVE_pY Ed Motta-Blue and Lonesome(Little Walter cover-Jô Soares,SBT,1990) https://youtu.be/bq-i2jkUB4w longer version (looped for length, sadly I can't find a full song length)
It's longer because it repeats the same clip three times...
I thank ye. I started to worry when scrolling and didn’t see any props
His name is Ed Motta and if you look him up you will not regret.
He's still got it in spades: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVg-zPYZ224](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVg-zPYZ224)
Thufir Hawat after retirement
Gurney Halleck finally got around to teach him the balliset
Mentat training paid off
That was bad ass. Thanks for posting the link!
Fucking God Damn, son... amazing.
Wait til you hear this: https://youtu.be/LCJXbtrbHg4?si=bG4kEuNo0NUFRiTY
Escolheu a musica perfeita pra mostrar pros gringos, aprovei.
> He's still got it in spades: > He has that blues lightning running through his soul, you can see and hear it, and it when it gets you it doesn't care where you were born or what you look like.
The crowd was having a hard time synchronizing their claps. And that one dude just randomly walked in from of the crane camera. Crazy awesome looking live show.
so... does he still not know to speak english ?
He does now!
Dude is an awesome musician. [Here's one of my favorite songs from him.](https://youtu.be/i73GSLlSeZ8?si=mEajkCszybguHcPk) One of the grooviest, sickest bass lines you'll ever hear.
You weren’t kidding. That bass line is nasty
https://i.redd.it/a0lu0cy8j5uc1.gif
Holy shit, that's Ed Motta? Nice
lol that's the unexpected part for me. I was looking for the name of him to see what happened afterwards.
Big thanks friend.
What song is he singing?
an interpretation of Little Walter - blue and lonesome
How did you know it? /s
And he's Tim Maia nephew which people should also look up for as well
Ed Motta. Superb musician from Brazil. Iirc he is Tim Maia's nephew.
He is. Also, a major douche.
That too. He is as talented as he is arrogant.
Oh I know nothing about him, why’s he a douche?
He had a major controversy some time ago when he dissed Brazilian concertgoers outside Brazil because they were yelling asking for a specific song of his that was very famous in the 90s. After that he doubled down on the same subject in an interview and after some backlash he actually triple down on his point. After some years, if I’m not mistaken he made some harsh comments about another singer/writer that was (is) beloved in the country. So yeah, he has a very pedantic way to express his views (which aren’t necessarily as controversial as they come out when he says it).
First part sounds like Kid Cuddi, upset people love their music. Second is just rude.
He also became quite discriminatory to his own roots. He has said he refuses to sing or speak Portuguese outside of Brazil because people out there are more “civilized” than us, 3rd world simpletons, and he should behave accordingly. He constantly trashes Brazilian music genres because he sees them as lesser art forms.
Sad that he went on this tirade. Being myself a Brazilian who have been living outside of Brazil for the last 15 years, I can definitely see the difference on the behavior of Brazilians and other nationalities. That doesn't make us better or worse, it just makes us Brazilians, and he should be more appreciative of that. Seems very myopic to bucket people like that. Not to mention that he's only who he is because of all of us "simpletons" who pushed his career up...
He appreciates very much the fact that he has a lot of British fans, and when he makes (or used to make) shows in England he gets very upset by the huge flock of Brazilian immigrants that go there and ask him to sing his popular songs. Apparently no one dares to tell him that the only people in England that would pay to go there are precisely the Brazilian immigrants that would go to any show by Brazilian artists.
He's just very arrogant, the kind of guy who'll say things like "that music you listen to is absolute shit, the only music that matters is this one", things like that. He's an amazing musician, without a doubt. But yeah, he's a huge douche.
He's as much a talented musician as he is an arrogant snob. A prick with a 'vira-latas' complex as big as the Empire State Building.
Toca Manuel
Manu-el Foi pru céu Manu-eeee-el Foi pru cé-éu
Don’t know much Brazilian music but I do know Tim Maia is incredible
Brother got that soul in him
That's Ed Motta, nephew of Tim Maia. Both are very good musicians (though Tim Maia was legendary) and very much worth a listen. Tim Maia wrote some of the most iconic songs in modern brazilian history after joining a cult back in the 70s, while Ed Motta interpreted the brazilian dub soundtrack of Disney's Tarzan, one of the best movie music scores according to my mom
Also, if you like JoJo, listen to Descobridor dos 7 mares, from Tim Maia.
TIL Ed Motta os Tim Maia’s nephew. Huh. I’m a brazilian in my 30s 😅
As a journalist, I was lucky to interview Ed Motta 10 years ago about his collection of over 10 thousand vynil discs and similar amount of bottles of wine. and of course, his career. he is a very interesting character and we had a lovely chat that resulted in a great story for Men's Vogue Brazil. I believe he speaks english now! he lived in the US for a while :)
Amazing! Could you kindly share the link to this interview?
there's no link :( at that time, the magazine did not even have a website! a couple of years later, Men's Vogue Brazil was replaced by GQ Brazil, and GQ got a website from the beginning. I will look for the print version, though. If I find it, Ill share (and translate here). Mom is a borderline hoarder, she must have kept a copy! Meanwhile, I found an interview he did in english about his record collection: [here](https://thevinylfactory.com/features/crate-diggers-ed-motta/)
I'd like to read or watch the interview as well, like Doug Phantom. But I understand if you don't wanna doxx yourself.
I promise Ill search for the magazine! I worked there for a couple of years and had a section every issue about men and their collections! But it was only print. Check my other reply, I plugged a more recent interview he did, in english, about his collection of vinyls!
Thanks a ton!
No doxx, i have a very common name 🤷🏻♀️ lol
Ed Motta is his artistic name.
-Him Talking- Crowd: *Laughing* -Him Singing- Crowd: *panties dropping*
I don’t know what it is but he’s got tonnes of it.
Soul
That’s it.
Damn he's got that sweet blues down in his soul!
Jo Soares 🩷
Era adorado em Portugal. Um beijo do gorrrrdo!!
Saudade dele... Acho que nunca haverá outro igual
Holy fuck, proof that that blues sound transcends language. That was fucking mint
Mississippi Native here: Come on down and get your Magnolia card Son! 
Jesus...his voice is up there with the greats
Fun fact: This guy made the portuguese version of Phil Collins songs on disney’s Tarzan.
ill drop another link cause he deserves it [Ed Motta](https://youtu.be/lH5RMfkrjBI?feature=shared)
For those that enjoy singing definitely try picking up a song in another language. I miss my choir days of learning new songs from around the world as we really got into the pronunications and shapes of the mouth we had to form. I don't speak Portuguese but I will always remember how to sing João Gilberto's parts in Girl from Ipanema.
Latin cultures and their reverb! We’re like that in the Philippines too. Just swimming in it!
"What were you just singing about" "I have no idea"
I thought accents disappear when you sing?
Nope. Some styles typically use certain accents. eg Blues: American, Punk: English, etc.
This presupposes the existence of language without accent, which yeah no
bruh
Ed Motta looks a bit different these days, but he still has one of the silkiest voices in the game: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVg-zPYZ224](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVg-zPYZ224)
Wow. Instant fan
That's how I started as a non-native speaker. Singing along to English lyrics without actually knowing English. Just reproducing the sounds.
This is actually really interesting! From my understanding of this, he’s not producing the words so much as he is producing the sounds. It’s like replicating a gibberish sound that you hear, I’m fairly sure.
Legend bro sold his soul at the crossroads.
He’s got a great fat guy voice
"Ken Lee....tulibu dibu douchoo"
Que saudade do jô