Jupiter and Mars.
July 6, 2020 5:28 PM Subscribe
MiuMiu Guitargirl is a 7 year old in Nanjing. Her parents have been posting her performances to YouTube during the last few months: multi-instrumental covers, song lessons, guitar playing tips and originals.
Some of her earliest posts were I Wish You Love, Fly Me to the Moon and Moon River. I looks like musicians around the globe have time on their hands right now and have decided - to - accompany - her - performances.
Freakin' Youtube. "7-Year-Old Grandmaster destroys Magnus Carlsen!" "Watch this 5-year-old pilot land an Airbus A380 after engine flameout!"
posted by thelonius at 9:09 PM on July 6, 2020 [8 favorites]
posted by thelonius at 9:09 PM on July 6, 2020 [8 favorites]
"I wish you love" was a beautiful tropical vacation of mellotronic goodness. Thanks for posting!
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 3:16 AM on July 7, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 3:16 AM on July 7, 2020 [1 favorite]
srsly she is great......delightful and very good playing
posted by thelonius at 5:40 AM on July 7, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by thelonius at 5:40 AM on July 7, 2020 [1 favorite]
This is absolutely wonderful, I've seen MiuMiu's videos before, but none of the remixes/accompaniments, thank you for posting these! I'm biased because I've made a life working as a musician, but human beings making music really brings out the best in us. I have always believed that making music together is one of the most effectively affirming, connecting, community-building activities that human beings ever invented, and this is a beautiful demonstration of that.
This girl's simple, lovely musical offerings, accepted with open and enthusiastic hearts by other musicians, who then add to what they were given, and then offer it back to everyone again...I kind of needed this today, and didn't realize it.
(off-topic sidebar: I've long had a pet theory that the invention of mass media, especially music broadcast/recording/playback technologies, affected our ability to form communities in a fundamentally negative way. At least with music, making music together was a thoroughly ubiquitous human activity until about 100 years ago, and moving to societies of button-pushers who have music-product on demand has eliminated nearly all of the ways and spaces that we made music together in our homes and communities, and that took away one of the best ways that human beings invented to sit down and get to know one another, spend time together and have fun, without the burden of verbal discourse. People who make music together communicate in ways unique to that expressive mode, and come to know and trust one another in ways that are difficult and/or onerous to find otherwise, and well I have a lot more to fill out this idea, but the basic thing is that I think communities are much stronger when people are able to sit down and sing/play music together, in as many contexts as possible.)
posted by LooseFilter at 7:58 AM on July 7, 2020 [7 favorites]
This girl's simple, lovely musical offerings, accepted with open and enthusiastic hearts by other musicians, who then add to what they were given, and then offer it back to everyone again...I kind of needed this today, and didn't realize it.
(off-topic sidebar: I've long had a pet theory that the invention of mass media, especially music broadcast/recording/playback technologies, affected our ability to form communities in a fundamentally negative way. At least with music, making music together was a thoroughly ubiquitous human activity until about 100 years ago, and moving to societies of button-pushers who have music-product on demand has eliminated nearly all of the ways and spaces that we made music together in our homes and communities, and that took away one of the best ways that human beings invented to sit down and get to know one another, spend time together and have fun, without the burden of verbal discourse. People who make music together communicate in ways unique to that expressive mode, and come to know and trust one another in ways that are difficult and/or onerous to find otherwise, and well I have a lot more to fill out this idea, but the basic thing is that I think communities are much stronger when people are able to sit down and sing/play music together, in as many contexts as possible.)
posted by LooseFilter at 7:58 AM on July 7, 2020 [7 favorites]
I apologize if I'm dramatically misreading this, but I think the post title is racist and should be changed? It reads as making fun of the way the little girl pronounces English. Can the title be changed to something else?
posted by bowtiesarecool at 1:03 PM on July 7, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by bowtiesarecool at 1:03 PM on July 7, 2020 [1 favorite]
(FWIW, I read the thread title as delighting in a child's stumbling pronunciation because of being a small child, rather than mocking the mispronunciation of a child of any particular culture/race stumbling in a foreign language. The ways that little kids speak are cute, and hearing it sung is even more cute, especially when she's also doing something as amazing as playing and singing as well as she does.)
posted by LooseFilter at 2:40 PM on July 7, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by LooseFilter at 2:40 PM on July 7, 2020 [2 favorites]
My understanding is that she's taking English in school but has learned the songs phonetically, which astounds me. I think her articulation can’t be much improved upon and the “Jupitee and Mores” just stands out to me because it's adorable and perfect in it's own way.
That said, something was bugging me a bit before hitting post that I couldn’t nail down exactly. If it's reading badly and the mods want to change it to Jupiter and Mars that's fine by me.
posted by bonobothegreat at 10:05 PM on July 7, 2020 [2 favorites]
That said, something was bugging me a bit before hitting post that I couldn’t nail down exactly. If it's reading badly and the mods want to change it to Jupiter and Mars that's fine by me.
posted by bonobothegreat at 10:05 PM on July 7, 2020 [2 favorites]
Mod note: Sure, I've updated the title now.
posted by cortex (staff) at 10:16 PM on July 7, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by cortex (staff) at 10:16 PM on July 7, 2020 [1 favorite]
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Thanks for posting this.
posted by corey flood at 7:40 PM on July 6, 2020 [2 favorites]