On June 22, 2020 Stefanie Eberhardt wrote:

I agree with you!

This puts me in a tough position as a music startup business leader. Jacob Collier is considered the darling of everyone I meet which could consistute a wide "generation gap". For me, this goes to the heart of what is beautiful noise and what is ugly music. As an aside, some of the production is misleading: it is not "live" as presented and is overproduced to the point of being synthesized rather than genuine. It's as if an AI bot were writing and performing. We've all seen this before but I prefer authenticity. There's an indefinable "something" that makes music meaningful at a visceral level. As a music critic, for example, you're supposed to be able to find a way to explain if it is present in a work and thereby advise potential listeners. All I have to say at this point is "This is not _it_".