This is one of the old posts from my old blog that I had to shut down. I'll leave it in the Archive section I'm putting together. FYI, I'm not going to pass any of my old posts when I used to really like Emily Bear (now known as Mle Bear). I wasn't really musically mature back then, but now I realize she is just another pianist kid being idolized and really not being that great at the piano as they promote her. She totally lost all my respect and admiration last year after a finding I made. I'll blog about that later when I get my blog more or less straightened out.
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I’ve decided to write an article to fill in this week’s blogging time. I’m sincerely tired of seeing people being fooled by amateur (or less than amateur) musicians being placed in a higher limelight than what they deserve based in their musical development and other professional reasons.
I used to really love Emily Bear. I even learned some of her pieces and bought all her CDs. I never could attend a concert cause there never were any near me, but my friends have. As I grew in musical knowledge, I began to understand that she really isn't that great as they say she is. Here's my honest and common sense based review of Emily Bear.
1: Next Mozart? I don't think so...
To begin with I totally hate when they promote any kid that plays the piano at the age of 3 as Mozart. He's not my fave composer, but I know a thing or two about him. To begin with he learned to play the piano at age 4, ok? Not 1, 2 or 3. Amadeus's dad saw his son had talent and that his son wanted to learn music. He never forced young Amadeus to become a musician. He nurtured what his son had. Emily basically was forced to become a piano prodigy by her mom and grandma. They have footage and pics that she started at only 1 year of age to study music. At 1 year of age, kids can't learn much and don't speak much. At one year of age, you just can't know if a kid wants to learn piano or if they have talent. Their brains are not fully hardwired yet, they are growing. Even if you formulate stuff just for them, they can't learn much. If you put a kid at the piano at age 1 to study music just cause you wanna create another "Mozart", regardless if they have talent or not, don't you think that kinda sounds like child labor? Can't you just let the kid be a kid? To me it's kinda abusive you know. At age one a kid's bones and joints are so weak and growing, why jeopardize them with your greed to create another Mozart against the weight of piano keys?
If you look at the radiography above, you can see how tender a baby's hands are. Not even when Mozart was a kid would they strain kids against nature all out of greed to forcefully become prodigies for fame and money.
Whether Emily is a prodigy, that's up to your personal opinion. To me she isn't and these are the reasons of my conclusion:
Honestly, she is good in Jazz, but not astounding in everything like Quincy says. and 40 years old is not twice her age, unless she is 20 and we are being lied about her real age. BTW, the comment about she being a "360 package" sounds kinda perverse and sexually oriented to me. Take a look at the photo below of Quincy kissing Emily's shoulder. Absolutely sick and perversive! I don't know how her parents even allow this. Here's the video if you don't believe me. Quincy Jones Kissing Emily Bear's Shoulder
Kissing her in the lips?? Looks like it to me...
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| How a girl's hands evolve from 12months to Adult |
If you look at the radiography above, you can see how tender a baby's hands are. Not even when Mozart was a kid would they strain kids against nature all out of greed to forcefully become prodigies for fame and money.
Whether Emily is a prodigy, that's up to your personal opinion. To me she isn't and these are the reasons of my conclusion:
1: She started from a REALLY young age. Way to young to even know if music was her talent. Anyone that learns anything while their brain is hard-wiring will be quite good at it.
2: She's had lots of years studying music with good tutors (like her grandma all day long on her freaking ass). Studying a lot doesn't necessarily make you a genius or give you talent. You are just a trained monkey that does something quite good cause you had good orientation. You are just TRAINED to act good.
3: She isn't that good. Now that I am more musically trained I listen to her recordings and compositions and she isn't that great. There are TONS of kids out there that do way better than her and aren't that much talked about.
4: She plays lots of watered down pieces. Like her interpretation of Mozart's piano concerto in A major. Totally watered down and packed with mistakes and it's the EASIEST of all the Mozart piano concertos. Kids of what her age was back then are already playing the original full version.
5: She lacks talent. IMHO she just doesn't have what it takes to be a classical musician. What they say on her biography that she has "the ability to seamlessly move from Classical to Jazz and Be-bop" and that "she shows as much musical prowess as pianists/composers twice her age" to me is a lie. The man who wrote this, Quincy Jones, isn't even into classical music, so his judgment is invalid.
Honestly, she is good in Jazz, but not astounding in everything like Quincy says. and 40 years old is not twice her age, unless she is 20 and we are being lied about her real age. BTW, the comment about she being a "360 package" sounds kinda perverse and sexually oriented to me. Take a look at the photo below of Quincy kissing Emily's shoulder. Absolutely sick and perversive! I don't know how her parents even allow this. Here's the video if you don't believe me. Quincy Jones Kissing Emily Bear's Shoulder
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| This just don't look right. Absolutely disgusting! |
Kissing her in the lips?? Looks like it to me...
BTW:I don't think Emily gets "Invited" to all the music festivals and concerts she gives. Her manager fixes her to where she's gonna go, not that everything is by invitations.
2: Over 1000 Compositions? I don't think so...
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| Baby Mozart's were more complex and melodic |
They used to say on her website that she is was great that by the time she was 7 she had composed over 1000 compositions from the time she was under 1 year of age. That she was better than all other other composers of history. Not even Mozart, Beethoven, Hayden or even Chopin did compose all of that in all their lifetime. Only Bach in my notion, but it took him 50+ years. It was clearly a lie, and a lot of people were complaining about it on the web. To fix it, they now toned it down to say that she started composing when she was 4 and by the time she was 8 she composed 350 pieces. On Ellen they said she started at age 3, so WTF Bear family? MAKE UP YOUR MIND on what you are gonna say cause your daughter's reputability is already getting muddy with this!
3: Too Childish and just plain Stupid
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| When you run out of ideas so you try to impress everyone by playing the piano with mittens. #Stupid #MleBear |
4: Just Doesn't Have Enough Talent
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| They are running out of ideas to hide that she just lacks talent |
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| Her parents are just not right in the head. |
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| In my opinion this is borderline with child pornography... |
Besides, her website looks like a prostitution services catalog.
OMG, ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING! I would never have thought to see this coming from an adult such as Quincy!
ReplyDeleteIt's doubtless he's onto her sexually. What I saw on the video is so alarming and filthy. Completely frightening and she was only 13, 14?
ReplyDeleteThey dont accept criticism from anyone. I made a facebook page to publish articles about them, and because I mentioned their real religion they reported it as abusive to facebook. What's wrong with saying what religion you are? These people are mentally deranged. I write some criticism on a forum site, and they contact the administrator to have my post torn down and then I receive a threat that if I continue writing about them, they would take care of me. They don't respect our country's liberty of speech and freedom of press. Not my fault that they continue with their ideals from their communist immigrant family
ReplyDeleteWow, that's so sad Artemus. I didn't know Emily Bear's family were communists!
DeleteAll I can say is Thank God. Thank God I am not the only person who doesn't like Emily Bear's music. Her music is so... samey, if you know what I mean. It's just so forgettable. Her jazz is cliched as hell, and her "classical" is new age shit. Yet people drool all over her and practically worship her as a god. I posted my opinion on a composition of hers on Youtube and got some of THE harshest replies I've ever seen on Youtube. Like Artemus said, they don't accept criticism. They are so wrapped up in complete WORSHIP for Emily Bear that they can't even accept the fact that there are people who don't like her music.
ReplyDeleteAnd I thought I was the only one who doesn't like Emily Bear's music. If you write even one sentence criticising her on Youtube, you will have hell to pay. And the other blog about her compositions being composed by her grandmother really opened my eyes, what a fraud.
ReplyDelete...and, if it were your child receiving all the attention/money, none of you would have anything to say.
ReplyDeleteAs for freedom of speech, there are limitations and a point at which it becomes slander.
Criticize what she plays and how she plays it. Exactly which "greats" (Mozart, Frederich Chopin, Ludwig van Beethoven, etc.) simply replayed another "greats" music. I'm guessing none of them; that's what makes them "greats". They innovate and create.
I'm also guessing that most, if not all, the people commenting here as well as the original author of the article don't have any kids. Forcing a child at 1, 2 or even 3 to train for something simply doesn't happen. Not because I don't think it happens as a society, but mostly because children of that age simply have a mind of their own. There is a reason why people call it "The Terrible Twos". Just think about it. What would a person/parent have to do to "FORCE" a two-year-old to do something like training on a piano. Good luck making them sit at a piano for hours a day, learning the cryptic language of music and translating that to beautiful music then somehow convincing the child they should glowingly smile and talk about it like she just tried ice-cream for the first time. Truly, if all this were possible, don't you think there would be many more children at that age who could achieve the same feats.
Clearly, according to some, prodigies are everywhere and easy to "train".
Would someone please sit their child down and force them to learn about global warming, the energy crisis, medicine and so forth. We could have all the issues this world faces resolved within the next decade.