How TikTok ruined Steve Lacy 

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TikTok isn't just ruining Steve Lacy, it's ruining music.

"can you say hi to my mom!?" "Can you be quiet?" THAT SHIT SENT ME FRRRR

for someone who’s been a fan of steve since 2019, it’s great to see his him be successful but it’s also hard not to feel bad for him bc ppl r just abusing one song and going to a concert knowing that one song without giving his other projects a chance and it’s sad

i can relate to this - i played a show a few nights ago and people had “play falling and go home” written on their phones. and had cups thrown at me, etc.

I think short form content as a whole has destroyed the generation's perception of art. The fashion industry, as another example, has been reduced to Instagram-able viral moments rather than the appreciation of the care and time taken to produce looks and garments that are coming down the runway. In a similar vein, music has been reduced to soundbites and trending TikTok sounds / videos rather than actual albums and actual, you know, music you listen to

personally, im not that worried about Steve’s success. he’s actually a talented and worthy artist whos been well known way before. so even if he’s now in the mainstream cuz of tik tok, bro will go down as one of the greatest of this generation.

I've been listening to him for over five years and I'm happy to see him blow up like this, but the reception has been disappointing. He deserves so much better, genuinely talented person who started out with an iPod Touch and GarageBand.

The downfall? This is a REACH. Steve is genuinely talented and will continue to do well for himself.

As a fan of Steve Lacy, I appreciate his recent behavior. He’s just setting boundaries and telling the audience what he will accept and what he won’t. It’s also part of his evolution as an artist. Wouldn’t it have been more disappointing if he had actually leaned into this new phase of success and therefore having to change his personality probably leaving us longer time fans behind?

This is beyond fucked up, I knew Steve since 2020. But didn’t get into his music until 2021, when I heard that he was dropping Gemini Rights I was excited. Safe to say not only am I pissed at how terribly Steve’s new fans are treating him, I am more pissed at the fact that he’s being known as the “Bad Habit” guy.

i hope these tik tok heads don't do the same thing to frank ocean

When I got really into Tyler the Creator, I discovered The Internet through their collars and fell in love, later finding Steve Lacy’s Dark Red through an ex boyfriend of mine. When Bad Habit rose to popularity, I listened back through his old albums and his Spotify This Is, and with this unique and wonderful of a sound, Steve Lacy deserves better. His work is a masterpiece, and TikTok threw soup on it.

“English or Spanish” 😭

good insights, the music industry is completely fucked, as are people's attention spans and ability to appreciate anything artistic outside of it's ability to create viral moments... won't be unfucked anytime soon either

Don't comment often but I was shocked that this is your first upload given how well made it was. If you can keep going and upload regularly, I'm sure you'll blow up! 🙂

As an OG fan since 2016, I was sad that he blew up because he used to be my “artist” that I wouldn’t tell people about lol. But seeing him on bigger platform makes me happy! Great to know people love his music just as much as I do. I also wanted to buy a ticket and it was sold out! 💔

Definitely not a downfall. I’ve barely found out of Steve Lacey because of his Bad Habit song which I do like a lot but after actually listening to his other music I’ve come to like other songs just as much. I also found out he’s done songs with other artists that I like and have listened to these songs he was on without realizing it like Goldlink and Vampire Weekend! Blew my mind. 🤯

The fact that I just learned he was a member of “The Internet” is mind blowing! You can’t deny his talent or creativity.

Steve is a talented guy. He’s not for the shenanigans & he’s just an artist that is serious about the craft. Loved The Internet, by the way.

I found Steve lacy in 2019 when I was a junior in hs I'm a junior in college now. I listened to dark red, then found his older songs and his collars with other artists (ravyn, Tyler, frank) and I fell in love lol. Listened to The Internet, which is a band he's in. Anyways, I love how he blew up but its annoying to see your favorite artists blow up and people not recognize them for their full talent. Plus I'm a substitute teacher so hearing middle schools sing bad habit and talk about him all day is extremely annoying LOL my inner fan has to stop from rolling my eyes. Anyways he's gonna get big so I wish Steve the best

this is a very well put together video! you’re gonna go far 💕

Steve lacy has been one of my favorite artists since his album Apollo 11. Great to see him blow up but can y’all listen to more than one song😭. It’s killing his tours and career. Tho I saw him in Atlanta and the crowd did seem to know more of the songs than other videos I’ve seen of them.

It's so sad seeing such a great artist being ruined by TikTok. He's so underappreciated man.. Imo the best RnB artist of recent years.

I feel bad for Steve Lacy, He’s one of my favorites and one of the reasons I started picking up guitar and writing songs again, I know all his songs by heart now and it makes me feel bad that some of his “fans” don’t even know the rest of the song. Why waste your money just to hear part of one song? I’m so happy I even got the chance with how little money my family has right now to go see him when he came to Dallas, and I was relieved that everyone knew all the lyrics. I’m glad he’s successful and getting the recognition he deserves, but i’m upset that people can’t even bother listening to his other amazing songs and listening through the whole song.

The editing of this vid is so good. One of the best commentary vids ive ever watched.

Most friends I talk to never really get as invested into an individual artist’s work anymore. It’s sad. If I hear a song and I like it enough, I will listen to the full album and see how the song fits in with the other songs, and I come to love the art piece as a whole. Several of the artists I’ve listened to for years are now being affected by tiktok. They have to release remasters of their most popular songs as well as slowed or sped up versions. Yeah, they have a lot more fans now, but not everyone really experiences the rest of the said artist’s discography. Although I never lived through the time before music has become so accessible with just a click of a button, it was nice that back then, people were at least more obligated to get whole albums if a song they liked was in it and sometimes they didn’t know what to even expect. It was just like picking up a book that you had to read fully through even if you had only heard about the summary of the book or a single chapter in the book. I just feel that especially if you’re going to attend someone’s concert, you should at least listen to their latest album.

This is not a downfall. We can’t let negative energies manifest.

I've been a fan of Steve Lacy since I found "The Internet" and it sincerely crushes my heart knowing that his talent is being taken advantage of because people are being assholes. Him having to step in and seem like the bad guy is ruining his rep and he doesn't deserve that. Take a look at his TedX speech, he's clearly a very sophisticated music artist, he knows how to make moves in the industry. He's just being treated horribly. I hope this isn't where he falls off, nobody deserves that.

Thank you for this breakdown. I came to Lacy through The Internet and the work he created just on his cell phone. I tried to watch his performance on SnL and it was removed from YT so I did some searching and found this. Very helpful for those of us that follow the music but necessarily everything around it. He is so young, I hope he finds his own best path. I'll still buy the music and support how I can and I really wish him luck because there is no doubt he is talented.

The production that went into this video is kinda insane. U deserve more

I’ve liked Steve for a lil bit over a year but cmon don’t go to a concert just to listen to a 20 second clip. He deserves better.

crazy first video! well done, you clearly know what ur doing and i hope you succeed

Went to Steve Lacy's L.A. Concert and let me assure you that it was a sold out and flawless awesome show. Let the haters sit at home in their drawers behind their computers and pout. This guy has shot up to the stars, is in the top 100 on billboard and knowing him personally, is a well grounded young man. He has grown as an artist and I trust will continue to escalate. Go Steve! Steve! Steve! Steve! Steve!

your editing is literally like,, better than most youtubers who have over 100 subs. this is amazing

oh my god this a very well put together video I thought you had over a million subscribers! Keep up that great work!

the layout of this video was informative and looked very professional. I hope your channel is successful and blows up soon!

I've been listening to Steve unknowingly since 2016 and discovered his Demo in 2018. I would say I've been a fan for quite a minute and recently, it's kind of hard seeing steve now. I find it amazing the success and fame he's getting cause I feel I watched him grow but He is quite literally suffering from success. But you can't help but understand where Steve is coming from. Let's say you had a project for school on something you're passionate about. Tons of work was put into it, and when the time comes around for it to be graded, you find out that the teacher basically took a quick look at it and gave you a 100 anyway. I think thats exactly whats going on with Steve. I mean yeah, He got the "100", but it was at the cost of his work being truly appreciated. Speaking from a musicianas place myself, I would hate to have anything I put out for the world to see only memorized by the first 10 seconds. I think Steve is probably the most underrated mainstream artist. If you've read this far, Stream all his albums, you'd be suprised what you find in them if you take the time to listen to them and appreciate them for what they really are!

Really underrated content creator... Keep up that great work!

585 subs with this type of quality is insane, definitely deserve more recognition. I thought this was a VOX video at first.

Great video! So glad this was on my recommended. Can't wait for more videos. 😊

How tiktok ruined music, people's attention spans, our society as a whole. Seriously, social media in its entirety has been the worst thing ever released for access by the general public.

Hey! Just wanted to say that this is a really great video! It’s short but sweet and gets straight to the point, and it’s really informational! Great video ❤

For a documentary channel this high quality I'd expect it to have way more subs ngl

Please keep releasing videos of this quality, cause you'll grow so we'll in the future

i've been a fan of steve lacy for so long and I hate that people only like him for a tiny bit of his song and only know 30 seconds of the song. He deserves to have fans that actually love his music and listen to it in general not people who just listen to a clip of the song and instantly become his biggest fan that never ever listen to his song unless they see a tiktok with the song.

Bro amazing video keep it up hugs from Portugal 🇵🇹

honestly super well put together video. good job

I loved this! Please make more I’d love to see it :)

Anyone else noticed that a lot of music coming out recently feels like it's designed to be cut into sections for TikTok? Or at the very least, has one very clippable section?

please keep making videos on music artists, they're so interesting ❤❤

solid vid with really cool visual production! transitional means of presenting your art definitely produces friction between the old and the new, the consumer and the artist.

Great video from such a small content creator, keep it up

underrated youtuber wow. High quality content for someone with 17 subs. You just got a new subscriber. This better blow up

awesome video production, especially given the size of your channel is 104 subscribers.

As a DJ, I see TikTok as both a blessing and curse to the music industry. Yes, it’s an AMAZING platform that introduces new music every second of every day, but at the same time it’s usually only 20-60 seconds of 1 song that artists are getting recognition for. The new young generation are not getting exposed to full albums, EP’s, or the old mixtape models which in turn hurts both the artist and the consumer who considers themselves a fan without even really knowing the artist’s catalog. Smh

I do agree that social media is ruining music in a way, but this change has been going on for quite a while now. It's the same with the fact that streaming platforms made albums meaningless, since everybody has their own playlist anyways. This turns albums which once where meant to be a whole, complete piece of art (meaning everything fits into a concept) into a song list where you have 3 good songs and the rest are fillers, just because so many musicians or labels just care about cash. It's like buying a painting where just the important part is worked out with colour while the rest is still the scetch. And that's why it's sad to see artists like Steve lacy that care about their music and want real recognition for their work as be disrespected like that. But tbh, cancelling concerts mid performance and storming off stage doesn't make it better, he might just be diging his own grave

Great vid! Would love to see more

What an amazing video/breakdown/perspective. Well done 👌🏾

really a top notch video. 282 subscribers, and I guess that makes me your 283rd. I think what Steve is going through is similar to the pain of being a one-hit wonder. One über-viral song really is a curse because it destroys your ability to connect with an audience on a more intimate level by exploding the size of your audience people who don't really care about anything you care about. I think this stuff applies to fame in all avenues. The most meaningful connections happen between 2 individuals. As your fame increases, the number of connections you create increases, but the meaningfulness of these new connections are much lower, so it can resulting in the average relationships or social interactions of a famous person being much worse than those of a normal person. If I were Steve Lacy, I'd stop touring as unfortunate as that is. It doesn't seem like he's able to handle the frustration of all of the non-fans. It sucks for the real fans, and also for him, but it is what it is. Not a whole lot of good solutions, other then maybe push through and weather the storm of "Bad Habits" normies, ignore them, and make more music until they get weeded out. Fame is a curse. Advice to you Highnote Productions: stay a nameless, faceless, neutral voice forever so you have an escape plan for when you inevitably blow up.

great video and i love your editing style

although I found one of steve lacy's song on tt but i've been starting to listening to quite more of his songs now

I know Steve Lacy since Dark Red, and it's so irritating seeing ppl that only know 1 of his song and pretend to be a fan, there's nothing wrong with get to know an artist through an app, but listening to only 15 seconds of the song and not knowing the artist's name is a big no no (especially if you think of yourself as a fan)

Only 38 subscribers?? This video was really high quality! Keep up the good work

Why is your voice so good, your script so good, your editing so good... You got 1 video too. It's like your smurfin on RU-vid. You about to blow up fr 🔥

i for one actually didnt know steve before tiktok but now ive heard his entire discography and he;s one of my favourite artists. my personal favourites are when i and mercury

i only just knew him 10 minutes ago with one song but if people come to my show just for 30 seconds of my song i will refuse to even go on stage. i’ll be checking out album later.

This isn't just Steve Lacy. Disrespectful fans nabbing up tickets for other concerts as a way to clout chase or be Hypebeasts is a phenomenon other artists are encountering. Some of the biggest Kpop acts are attracting haters to their concerts. It's such a weird world we are in compared to not even ten years ago.

Your first video niceee

This is the reason why people are gatekeeping musics/artists.

Man just started and suddenly just because a couple people don’t sing at his concert it’s his downfall

I feel like getting popular from tiktok can have 1 of 2 effects. You can get a “fanbase” of people who only like you to fit in, or you can have your own personal army that will defend you at all costs

I've been listening to Steve since Apollo XXI which was 2019 I've loved his music ever since there's not a single song that I don't love, im so happy to see him achieved the goal of being a successful music artist and I really feel bad for him

This Chanel is going places 9.5/10 need more of this🔥

As a musician, it's a fear of mine that this will happen to one of my songs lmao, having a song that I put my heart into be ignored except for a 20s clip just seems devastating

been listening to steve since aprrox 2014/15. he definitely isnt having a downfall considering the continued rise in his success. tiktok is just ruining music altogether. people only make dead beat tiktok viral songs instead of actual good albums

I think your going to be very successful hehe! you earned a sub I just needed to point out how well made this is?!?!

Wait this your first upload? This is fire what, def earned a sub, hope you'll blow up.

The problem with TikTok songs is everybody just knows like two lines of the song

You can’t talk about Gemini Rights without mentioning Foushee, another RCA artist who took off on TikTok and helped him write half of the album, including Bad Habits. She’s been on tour with him, and together they represent how TikTok merely a vehicle for artists to use to get where they want to be. They’re experimental, creative, and now the world can enjoy their art

I mean I get it I guess but at the end of the day he’s selling out shows AND still has his core fan base. Although there’s a hype train right now it will eventually die down and that’s when his core base can go see him.

Yo never seen this channel But great video Great takes

This is such a well-made video! Can't believe it's your first upload, felt like something from an already established youtube with hundreds of thousands of subs.

He definitely deserves better 😢

oh my fucking god you are SO UNDERRATED, you should have 1Mil by now with that skill in making videos...

Saw him in 2017 at his first concert, it was mad crazy. He was so shy!!

Only thing I can agree on Steve Lacy with is when he said "don't throw no shit on my fucking stage"

I watched this kid grow up, he's the brother of Vege Lacy she's my ex-girlfriend. His whole family are musically sound and all of them are talented.

Love this, keep it up

2:28 Oh my God, it's the silent performer sketch from I Think You Should Leave come to life.

What are the songs do you use in the background? Great video btw

Used to be one of his fans wayy back then stopped recently because of his attitude of people not knowing his lyrics. Kinda pissed me off and just didn't sit right with me the fact he threw a fit just because people didn't know the lyrics to his songs which I understand sucks but sometimes you gotta realize that they gave you the fame and instead of being pissed just appreciate that your song had an impact. It came off to me that he just seemed ungrateful or rude for people not knowing all of songs meanwhile other small artists would be grateful even if a small clip of their music would go viral but it's wtv for me now.

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This is so sad to see I think that going to a concert is most enjoyable when you know little about the artist so you can hear the different songs that make and fall even more in love with their music Sadly not a lot of people are like that

The man is having the most financial success he's ever had in his life. He's in no way shape or form going through his downfall. Chances are he was tired or frustrated with the success from the song. But this whole narrative of songs being ruined by TikTok is absurd as most musicians look for exposure or recognition and if anything, TikTok has helped them achieve it. Just because you're one of the "few" who listens to an artist doesn't mean they've been "ruined" by TikTok because everyone knows who they are now. Be happy you're seeing them succeed and seeing their art spread and get the recognition they deserve. Stop gatekeeping songs or artists as they aren't yours and you aren't them. Put your ego aside and enjoy music.

i dont care if people call him a tiktok artist his stuff is still good

I felt so bad when they only sang the tiktok lyrics.

21 subscribers huh. Well 22 now but BRUH THIS IS SO UNDERRATED

"downfall" bro he literally just made a number 1 hit. Whether they know the words or not, it's definitely not his downfall

Something similar happened to Radiohead, where people come for one song, and it pisses of the artist