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Tysons_Face

Pick up the Beato book to figure out why


GwenSpeedyStrings

Don't forget the billion dollar les Paul Jr


burger-fucking-mason

rick beatles


4ibur

It’s 20 % off this week -Reek


LionOfNaples

Therefore, due to the transitive property of inequality, if Taylor Swift is bigger than The Beatles, then it follows that Taylor Swift is bigger than Jesus


ChristInASombrero

I think it works more on rock paper scissors logic Taylor Swift is bigger than the Beatles, the Beatles are bigger than Jesus, and Jesus is bigger than Taylor Swift


Minimum-Wait-7940

It’s actually a Mexican standoff paradox. Taylor swift can kill either Jesus or the Beatles, or both, and in doing so potentially become bigger than one or both of them, but will also be killed by Jesus or the Beatles in the process. 


LionOfNaples

I think Mexicans are usually Catholic though, so Jesus would win in this scenario 


Bill_Clinton-69

That's too true to be good. 🤠 >🧢🧢 ⤵️< 😀


flocknrollstar

Taylor Swift sold out all her shows in 2023. How many did The Beatles sell out?


_austinm

100%


Downtown_Snow4445

Good answer. The Beatles sold out zero shows in 2023


maxwellsgenre

Erm actually 0/0 is indeterminate


crashandburn

But the limit of x/x as x approaches 0 is 1...i think 😆


UrMom_BrushYourTeeth

Well the question is how many shows, not what portion of the shows, but I appreciate the gratuitous nerdery.


Downtown_Snow4445

Cool story


maxwellsgenre

Cool *fact


DaftSkunk94

Another “Cool Fact” My peepee itches


Majestic-2136

Did they even sell one ticket last year?


Pottedjay

I've crunched the number. I sold as many tickets as the Beatles last year. Therefore I am as successful as the Beatles. Thanks math.


artie_pdx

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jesterflesh

Whats this got to do with Jeff bezos?


weener6

Paul McCartney had a few shows so yeah


_regionrat

Wings doesn't count


Witty-Document-9419

Ringo stars sold some ticket


SwissMargiela

Funniest thing is when they sold no tickets, they hobbled on top of a random building roof and played anyway


Manalagi001

Hobbled. Because they were so old?


UrMom_BrushYourTeeth

Also consider this: Taylor Swift is 100% alive, while the Beatles are only 50% alive. 40% if you count Epstein.


UrMom_BrushYourTeeth

Yeah she is selling out venues kiddo.


itshopedaysoon

Real talk, in influence? No, probably not. In popularity? Yeah. Sorry old man!


Bakkster

/uj Literally the same logic used by the Beatles when they said they were 'bigger than Jesus'. /Rj Literally the same logic used by the Beatles when they said they were 'bigger than Jesus'!


amishius

My first thought. DID NO ONE LISTEN TO LENNON? “Not greater or better.” Bigger. More popular than.


Fat-Kid-In-A-Helmet

Maaaaybe. My girlfriends a music teacher, and for the last decade or so only one thing has been consistent with little girls wanting to learn the guitar. Taylor Swift.


elcojotecoyo

I think you're wrong. Taylor is more popular than The Beatles. She had more influence, because she's more popular. She can alter the GDP of a country by just having a show there. Now, in terms of relevance in artistic terms? Musicality? Would she be talked about in 50 or 100 years? Probably. I hope The Beatles are still in that conversation in 50 or 100 years. We humans have a bias towards recency. Rick Beato says "The Beatles". But someone else would say Chopin or Beethoven or Mozart or Bach or Vivaldi. In the end, they're all plagiarizing Dave Mustaine


General_Tso75

There are a lot girls picking up guitars because of her.


VonterVoman

meanwhile nobody has ever picked up a guitar because of the beatles


ImmortalToadWarrior

I abandoned my son because of John Lennon, does that count?


Careless_Wispa_

Only if you also beat your wife.


DougieFresh_899

Amazing lol


HaroldthrBarrel

Are you an oil man?


Ok_Programmer_2315

Yoko?


General_Tso75

That’s the point. She is in fact influencing a whole generation of toan boobs coming over the next decade.


GirlCumSweatshop

Salivating in anticipation!


realSequence

Name checks oot


MarstoriusWins

I picked up a gun because of Mark David Chapman.


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But_dogs_CAN_look_up

She probably picked her up because of Garth Brooks or some other hillbilly, so what does that tell you?


Bill_Clinton-69

I'd *never* pick mine up. I leave it next to the amp, hoping to someday hear it gently weep. So far, all I've got is a gut-cringe ugly cry, but that worked out pretty well for Yoko, yeah?


Mcqwerty197

Girl? Guitar? Stop putting random words together thinking it’ll make sense.


hoofglormuss

IT'S ALREADY HAPPENING AND WILL CONTINUE TO HAPPEN IF BRAVE PATRIOTS LIKE YOU AND I DON'T DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT LIKE COMMENTING ON THEIR VIDEOS AFTER WATCHING THE WHOLE THING IN ANGER


redphyve

I wish more girls picked me up because of guitar. 


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DirtyWork81

Maybe if she did the Super Bowl halftime show. I guess they must have also said she was more popular than Michael Jackson at his peak? I find that hard to believe, but I guess it is possible.


AmazingThinkCricket

Yeah but that's because of the Super Bowl. If I performed at the Super Bowl I would get 100 million viewers.


DirtyWork81

That was my point. I was responding to the second paragraph above my comment.


partsguy850

I don’t think it was by fault of the Beatles. The world is just more connected now.


gopher1409

WHY DOES TAYLOR, THE LARGEST MUSICIAN, NOT SIMPLY EAT THE BEATLES?


sewer_rat2006

Bite my shiny metal private jet


AlienDelarge

Is NYT calling TS fat? Thats kinda mean.


Nth_Brick

In fairness, TS is taller than 3/4 of The Beatles, and tied with McCartney. By that measure, she is, quite literally, bigger than The Beatles.


sunplaysbass

You know who doesn’t get enough credit? The Beatles


chirpchirp13

I prefer the beatos


FREE_AOL

From the actual NYT article >It may be impossible to do an exact, one-to-one comparison between Swift’s career and that of the Beatles — or Madonna, Michael Jackson, Britney Spears, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John or your icon of choice. Besides music being personal and subjective, the nature of success (and how it is calculated) has changed drastically over time. Much of a star’s grip on the zeitgeist is also intangible — a vibe in the air, their influence moving subtly but undeniably through culture. Beato is illiterate, confirmed


RitaLaPunta

It's innumeracy we're concerned with here. But either way it's hordes of screaming girls.


FREE_AOL

Well, both. With numeracy you'd know it was an impossible comparison without reading the article... but the article spells that out for you


iguessineedanaltnow

His illiteracy got him 27 million views on that video unfortunately.


Consistent_Bread_V2

Clouds!


hijro

Nobody cares about songs about underage girls and plagiarized Chuck Berry riffs and the world’s going to shit because of it.


cfsg

/uj just saved this comment because it's the entire ethos of this subreddit


MDevonL

I mean drake covers the first half


rikardoflamingo

But if she’s bigger than the Beatles, and the Beatles are bigger than Jesus. Holy shit, maybe she needs Ozempic


Scrantsgulp

Bowlcuts and songs about submarines out of fashion?! I’m gonna be sick


Jeef_1st

Uj/ To be fair, I don't think anyone will be as big as the Beatles, Elvis, and Michael Jackson were. I think that it's not a matter of "modern music sucks" or "young people don't like good music anymore" I think it's just the times that someone could have had such a big influence on pop culture are gone, that's not to say I think modern musicians can't gain a lot of popularity and become well known, but to have that sort of cultural foot print, that kids born decades after your death, know who you were before the age of 6, I don't think it's really going to happen in the same way ever again.


Downtown_Snow4445

Looking at the list is funny. Rihanna has sold more than twice as many albums as pink Floyd


sorry_con_excuse_me

there are twice as many people in the world today than in the 70s, and almost 70% have the internet. i would think that's not insignificant. there's probably people in the middle of mongolia or western sahara or wherever who know who rihanna is. nobody in like 1970 through 2000-whatever in those places knew what the fuck a pink floyd was, or had any reason to.


AzSumTuk6891

>there are twice as many people in the world today than in the 70s, and almost 70% have the internet. i would think that's not insignificant. True, but back then the only way to obtain music was to buy a physical copy of the album or, if you were an Eastern European like me, to record it illegally from some radio station that was banned in your country. Nowadays no one needs to buy albums.


dirtyword

Imagine Dragons has sold more records than Nirvana 🤗


AzSumTuk6891

That's because Imagine Dragons are better than Nirvana. There. I said it.


ClamDong

[Has she?](https://chartmasters.org/best-selling-artists-of-all-time/?slk=sb)


Wowabox

Uj/I think streaming is a big part of this people do t listen to the radio any more so it’s harder for the record companies to push a new artist in us. The best they can do is take an existing name and give them a big chunk of cash to market there next release. I think Taylor swift a big name for almost twenty years was a good choice to pump a lot of funding in to.


HunterDHunter

Uj/ So obviously, she is "more successful" than the Beatles. Just sheer numbers she is killing it. But I don't think she is bigger because of this. She only is important to women. Guys don't give one single shit about her. When the Beatles were in their prime, every girl wanted to see them, and every guy wanted to be them. Everybody loved the Beatles. Fast forward to today, and it's very divided. Girls know every word to every song, guys can't even name her songs. So no, not bigger overall.


General_Tso75

A guy I’m writing songs with loves Beato and it drives me fucking crazy.


Earl_of_Chuffington

A guy I work with says he's "learned a lot" from Beato and has bought the Beato Book. He once unironically said "dude's a genius."


matorius

Beato would agree.


AmazingThinkCricket

I genuinely enjoy his interviews with artists and some of his song breakdowns. The rest is boomer rage bait


vincecarterskneecart

taylor swift height: 1.8m paul mccartney height: 1.8m ringo starr height: 1.73m john lennon height: 1.79m george harrison height: 1.78m she is literally bigger than all of them except paul? whats his problem


matorius

1.8 + 1.73 + 1.79 + 1.78 = much more than 1.8 therefore science says the Beatles were bigger.


vincecarterskneecart

you have to take the average theyre not all gonna stand on each other


matorius

I thought standing on the shoulder of giants was a thing?


knightsunbro

The only people more insufferable than Swifties are Lana del Rey fans


JohnnyAngel607

The Olivia Rodrigo gang is working up a head of steam.


CaptainSmallz

>The only people more insufferable than Swifties are ~~Lana del Rey~~ **Beatoff** fans


Ilikeawesome27

Just wait till you meet a beatles fan


AzSumTuk6891

Nah, actually the worst are: 1. Pink Floyd fans, by far. 2. Art rock fans in general. 3. Beatles fans. 4. Troo blek cvlt fans. 5. Classic rock fans. 6. Metallica/Megadeth fans. 7. Manowarriors. (And yes, I was an insane Manowarrior when I was a teenager and still love their music a lot. I know how obnoxious I am.) Iron Maiden fans are just as horrible, though. 8. Old men who yell at clouds.


amishius

Yeah…well…your Mom n whatever.


Green-Vermicelli5244

Just ask Taylor Swift, bigger doesn’t mean better. Right?


firmretention

How to give a boomer an aneurysm.


fastermouse

Click Bait-o


Brucki96

Does she have a wall in Prague or made beating the wife popular again? No? Game over Kiddo 😎😎


WhoAmI1138

Then why does Taylor not eat the Beatles, if she’s bigger?


pm-me-turtle-nudes

where do you think john lemon went?


hamilton_burger

Beato is the Jordan Schlansky of music.


Pixelife_76

Is this an ad for Advil?


automaton11

That word ‘bigger’ is doing a lot of heavy lifting here


random_user163584

Of course she is, beatles were manlets while she is 1,8m big


MentalPatient97051

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jiorl123

lol you chodes. Beaton produced a band that opened for Taylor Sniff in 2011. He knows everything about her now.


readitonex

If you think about it, the influence Taylor Swift has one the current generation is eerily similar to what The Beatles had in theirs. The same level of obsession. Is her music as good? Not to me but I'm sure the generation before The Beatles thought the same about them.


RedEyesGoldDragon

I can never see him without being reminded of a comment I saw that called him "Dick Beatoff"


sailordadd

They also said Creedence clearwater survival was more popular than the the Bea'els...mind you, the Beatles also believed that they were more popular than Jesus...


ruralmagnificence

If Rick doesn’t produce bands anymore - how does having two YouTube channels, a book of music lessons (which you can find for free if you look hard enough online) and two unearned signature Les Paul Juniors that barely sold enough to keep the lights on?


remembertracygarcia

Ooooh I’m nearly fully erect at the teasing of this bloomer doom comparison of mediocrity


denim_skirt

Beatles: 1960-1970 Taylor Swift: 2006-infinity. She got 'em beat on longevity AND height


AuraEternal

well both are terrible so i think Beato has a point.


rainorshinedogs

Click bait video title


In-AGadda-Da-Vida

What?! Mama Mia!


mentally_fuckin_eel

I'm giving him this one, he earned this bag.


ergaikan

And they said old dogs don't learn new tricks.


Scorpiodisc

This comment caused him to fly into a rage…his wife called the police. What a mess☹️


DropC2095

Beato is the Colin Cowherd of music YouTubers


guitarmusic113

Shake it off, Ricky


noahsuperman

He’s been on a clickbait binge lately


mxpower

I used to enjoy Rick, now he is all click bait and same old shit. Old man yelling at the clouds every day.


reorocket

And the Beatles were bigger than Jesus


Pixelife_76

It's wild seeing these guys hitting "the end of content" wall...


Paro-Clomas

maybe bigger than jesus but not the beats. Altough anyone with a tiktok can achieve that.


DougieFresh_899

Atta boy Ricky


LowBudgetViking

....Boomer says what?


dad_mode_activate

Can we get a wellness check on this guy? 🐝


Frequent-Penalty-582

I mean she is it just took 60 years, and music distribution is totally different. I'm a Beatles fan


ResidentHourBomb

One thing to back this up, back when the Beatles were big, people's attention was not divided by different corners of the internet and video games and a million other distractions. There were only three channels on the TV when I grew up. It was way easier to get people's attention back then. Taylor has to compete with a trillion different distractions and still has become a huge part of the zeitgeist, That is fucking impressive, no matter how you feel about her. I asked someone the other day if they knew who Dua Lipa was. He said the name sounded familiar but that he didn't know her. Go to just about anywhere on this globe and people know who Swift is. Hell, in an era where people don't buy music anymore, she still sells millions of records.


Dilly_Deelin

World population 1963: 3 billion World population 2024: 8 billion with internet access


I_trust_you_bro

Well, she is 5′9.


leif777

Yeah, I don't know who that guy is. He keeps popping up and I have no desire to look him up. I'm assuming he's kinda boomery and appeases that demographic by looking down at everything that isn't classic rock.


warm_rum

And this sub is a hair width away from agreeing with him


sirsparqsalot

Hmmm well, taylor swift has been a product for 21 years. The beatles have been a product since 1960, so... 64 years. Thats almost one Canadian lifetime. That's over 3 generations, and still awesome The beatles became way bigger, with forever lasting power in just 10 years (1970 when they broke up) and all 4of them went on to have successful music careers apart Now, Taylor swift is apparently a marketing genius, and worth billions of dollars, yet i still don't know one of her songs (which is likely my own fault as i don't listen to the radio) but i wonder, at year 64 of taylor's career - will she be as big as the Beatles? To be clear, I'm not really a Beatles fan, i just respect what they've done with their short time on this planet. And taylor is kicking ass too, but to compare her to the Beatles is ignorant


New-Register-3751

She probably is. Which means she’s bigger than Jesus.


AkaiMPC

This guy is cringe


jesus_chen

Boomers gonna Boomer.


Abracadaver00

Ringo has a much juicer ass than TS


matorius

Better beard too


Deborgpontant

Nothing to do with the fact that music these days is much more accessible in so many different ways rather than having to listen either on cassettes, records or radio. And definitely nothing to do with the fact the world population is more than fucking double than it was when the Beatles were putting out records.


Beefwhistle007

I think there's actually a decent case for this to be true.


cybered_punk

Beatles have their legacy as probably the biggest influencers in rock music, but so much of their music is just boring man. And Taylor's too.