I think for the Beatles bc of the age of their music and how much they’ve been referenced by artists they influenced looking back their stuff doesn’t seem as impressive bc we have the benefit of hind sight and we’ve heard other artists take their ideas and run with it
Like if you consumed a bunch of high fantasy media without ever reading Tolkien and went back to it you’d be like “this shit is derivative and cliche af” lol
I think for the Beatles bc of the age of their music and how much they’ve been referenced by artists they influenced looking back their stuff doesn’t seem as impressive bc we have the benefit of hind sight and we’ve heard other artists take their ideas and run with it
Like if you consumed a bunch of high fantasy media without ever reading Tolkien and went back to it you’d be like “this shit is derivative and cliche af” lol