Rick Rubin Research Paper

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It’s absolutely shocking how one man can be immensely responsible for an entire culture. It seems like, for all the music and the different kinds of sounds the world hears, hundreds of thousands of people must have had a role to play. Which is true, but there couldn’t possibly be a single common factor in it ALL. This there is, Rick Rubin, the underrated King of Sound. Rick Rubin can be considered the Steve Jobs of the music world. An effortlessly innovative creator. Rick Rubin is the type of being, who when thought of a certain calmness overrides you because of his self-glorifying, awe-inspiring genius.

Rick Rubin has been making music for over 3 decades, existing in 4 different “ages”. The 80s, the punk age. The 90s, the retro age. The 2000s, the modern age. The 2010s the new age. In each age managing to be completely contemporary to the times. His unique perspective of music allowed and continues to allow him to freely express his creativity, resulting in not only a new kind of sound for that respective “age”, but in also unintentionally shaping the coming “age”. This where his beauty lies. Not in …show more content…

So that, the analyser can then come back and state the style and “swagger” the producer contributes to the music world. This isn’t the case for Rick Rubin. For a man as extensively boundless and established as Rick Rubin, one begins to realize that “it’s deeper than that”. Great music is a by-product of a certain way with music. It is the by-product of understanding that music is individual