'Perfect Music Is Boring', Says The Black Keys' Patrick Carney
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Written by Elliott Batte
Patrick Carney, drummer of Ohio-based rockers The Black Keys, has claimed that people have ‘lost their ear’ for raw, rough music – and that too many people are creating ‘boring’ songs which sound like they could be ‘played in an elevator’.
Speaking to Jam, the sticksman made it clear that he thought ‘perfect music’ – stuff which is “perfectly sequenced, perfectly written and perfectly performed by machines” – was ‘boring’, and that him and his Black Keys partner Dan Auerbach simply try to have fun when in the studio, rather than spend ages trying to make everything absolutely flawless.
“Perfect music is boring music – that's the kind of stuff they play in an elevator,” he told the site. “I think people are losing an ear for [raw music]. I think everybody has it but you've got to exercise it. When you turn on the radio it's all kind of perfectly sequenced, perfectly written, perfectly performed by machines.
“It's hard not to listen to The Who and really understand these are wild men going crazy or Led Zeppelin – these are human beings that play that, it's all hard to kind of put that in perspective. We just try to make music what we love to make and have fun.”
Meanwhile, the band has previously said that Rock N’ Roll isn’t dead – and that the success of the Foo Fighters proved it.
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