The RICO BLANCO Genius Project

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When I was browsing for a certain video, i saw this video in youtube and I was intrigued so I opened it. The documentary was about exposing Rico Blanco's ideas of his compositions and the beats of his songs.

Description:
The Genius Project is focused on the one person that is often tagged as "Musical Genius" by the mass media. The one person that doesnt refute this title. And the one person that time and again, exercised his amazing ability to combine foreign songs into one grand masterpiece of a song. This artist can produce songs in an instant, and each song can be considered as an OPM hit that can rival foreign songs simply because it sounds like a foreign song. Where does this creative artistry come from? This is the subject of our critique/commentary/documentary.

These videos will prove that his style is "NOT" Plagiarism, Piracy or Stealing. Its something else completely different, concealed within the veil of a genius mind.

But that veil is lifted when an essential clue popped out of nowhere. That clue takes the form an ad jingle for Close-up toothpaste. Sona Mohapatra's song:"Paas Aao Na". This song is popular in both India and Southeast Asia. But Unilever Phils decided that Philippines need an english version of the song.

So they hired Rico Banco to edit Mohapatra's song and made a HYBRID song out of it. And this song-writing process gave clarity as to why lahat ng ginagawa ni Rico na songs ay parang tunog pang-international.

Being influenced by a song and being based on a song are two different things.
Being influenced is being compelled, prompted and inspired to create a song.
Being based is using another song's measure, beat, concept, idea, lyrics, timing, progression etc, and juxtoposing these elements to create something new.

The documentary has three parts...


YouTube - The RICO BLANCO Genius Project PART 1: THE MAKING OF A GENIUS


YouTube - The RICO BLANCO Genius Project PART 2: HYBRID SONGS OF THE UNIVERSE


YouTube - RICO BLANCO's Source of Ideas. REVEALED!!!: Genius Project PART 3


YouTube - RICO BLANCO Songwriting SECRETS EXPOSED: 214

What are your opinions about this one?

[z3robeLow]

no doubt he's one hell of a musician... when maya started he didn't really know much with guitars.. perf taught him.. also he is a self proclaimed number 1 fan of ely.. so it goes..

[kenites]

Hala..Tnx for sharing the videos. Although I'm not familiar sa tanan kanta ni Rico pero base sa docu klaro kaayo ang uban nya songs rip-off or hybrid from other songs.

[pinakurat]

mayng pagka research bro.. thats why rico can always get a major label for his very commercial composition and music..

[scilab]

Hala..Tnx for sharing the videos. Although I'm not familiar sa tanan kanta ni Rico pero base sa docu klaro kaayo ang uban nya songs rip-off or hybrid from other songs.

mao lage na daun.. basta musikat gani kay daotan daun sa mga nangasuya.. normal ra man na sa music industry naay parepareha pero di jud pareha.. ky tungod naa man xa lain2x nga musical influences... anyway, if iya jud nang gi copy, why didn't anyone or any recording company/label sue him.. nangasuya ra jud ang naghimo aning documentary kunohay...

[nilbud]

balik2 ra usually iya tune mga brod

[Eiso]

idol kaau nako ang neon lights by rico blanco

YouTube - [HD] Rico Blanco - Neon Lights

[mr_bungle]

yeahhhh...naa juy grabi na pag rip-off with some riffs of some famous foreign acts.but hey,you have to give the man credit.i think he even mentioned in interviews na he has gotten inspiration from almost everywhere na.go figure.

[Hammer_and_Sickle]

ok ra mn iyang style, na mag-sagul2x ug kanta, sa akong pagka-hebaw dili siya ganahan ug tawagon ug genius, katong one time naa siya sa NU107 ingun siya dili daw siyaw ganahan tawagon ana,
by the way, wala nako ge-tiwas ang cheap na documnetary, kasag kaayo siya oi, kasag ,kasag,kasag, alimango,alimango dili patas

[nilbud]

maau mo compose but sahay balik2 ang tuno