Why isnt his death news as big as Bowie

>>126694889 (OP)
Bowie was actually cool and good

>>126694889 (OP)
because his peak was almost 70 years ago

>>126694889 (OP)
Bowie wasn't nearly as old and no one knew he had cancer. He also just released an album.
Brian was demented and inactive.

>>126694889 (OP)
if you think he's as famous as Bowie you might need to spend some time outside

>>126694934
The album was also specifically about his death too

>>126694889 (OP)
Maybe it's just cope, but the LA protests seem to be taking the spotlight away. Even VDP seems to be posting more about LA than Brian. Politics seem to be burying everything. I feel like even Sly didn't get his just deserts either.

>>126694934
This too. Brian hasn't really been active in awhile. 2004 or 2011 seems like the last time he was REALLY in the headlines. Had he died in the 90s/2000s we would've gotten the appropriate fanfare.

>>126695141
Holy shit you are right what the fuck Sly and the Family Stone and nobody mourned.

>>126694889 (OP)
Because he wrote all his famous songs before Bowie released Space Oddity

>>126694889 (OP)
It was a different time. People were softer and cared more.

He died too old.

>>126694889 (OP)
He didn’t make a deathbed album like Bowie, Cohen, and Dilla did.

>>126694889 (OP)
Because it's bigger.

>>126694889 (OP)
Bowie was a larger than life rock god, model, movie star, and sex icon, you couldn’t NOT know who he was even if you never listened to his music. Brian Wilson is revered by music nerds but many people who would say they like The Beach Boys probably don’t even know his name, or they might know him as someone who wrote a classic album and then became an insane recluse.

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>>126694889 (OP)
Bowie was a ubiquitous icon for 45+ years at the time of his death, relatively young and had just released one of the finest albums of his career. No offense to Brian, but he hadn't done anything of note since his solo version of Smile 20 years ago, had artistically, culturally and commercially peaked 60 years ago and was known to be in declining health since he had to retire touring. He, unlike Bowie, also lived well past the average life expectancy.

>>126694889 (OP)
bowie just released a good album before his death
brian hasn't been relevant in decades

His later career would have been better if his wife Melinda didn't terminate his relationship with Andy Paley (who went to go on to do music for SpongeBob) and doom him to making basically adult contemporary music. When he bounced back with Brian Wilson Presents SMiLE and Lucky Old Sun, there was hope, but then the cowriter got charged with raping someone. After that, back to mostly soulless trash.

>>126695270
If he’d died the recluse who went insane because of smile, and never had a chance to finish it, his death would have been a huge deal. He got the chance to redeem himself plus another 20 years to live in peace. Hard to be sad about that.

>>126695293
I hadn’t heard anything about that. Old man Brian writing kids music probably would’ve been pretty great

>>126694889 (OP)
Bowie released an album that was love by critics and fans just a few days before his death and thats withpit mentioning he always tried to stay in-tune with modern music. Brian didn't have any worthwhile release after the 80s

>>126695469
>Brian didn't have any worthwhile release after the 80s
>ignoring 2000s Smile

>>126694889 (OP)
he's been lying in bed just like Brian Wilson dead for decades

It is in the music world. Normies? not really, unless they're mike love John Stamos baby boomers. I really regret not seeing Brian Wilson in 2015? it was written on /mu/ and the internet to never see The Beach Boys, and just skip straight to seeing Brian live instead.

>>126694889 (OP)
Fat schizo retard

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>>126695157
Didn’t even get a sticky

>>126695141
cope indeed, there was nothing significant happening when he died, same thing will happen when Pete Townshend will die (both forgotten 60s bands)

Israel Iran war, LA protests, major plane crash. Worst week this year so far.

wow I had no idea he was actually dead
that sucks
RIP

>>126694889 (OP)
How is this a question? Most people don't even know who Brian Wilson is. He wasn't a solo artist, the Beach Boys aren't even particularly popular (now). There's no cult of personality surrounding him. I told my parents, who both like the Beach Boys, that he died yesterday, and their immediate response was "Who's that?"You've been on mu too long

>>126694889 (OP)
maybe there's bigger news domestically and internationally. take a break from your cosplay porn and check sometime

>>126698991
He should have gotten a stick hard smashing against his ugly mug.

mainstream media loved Bowie because of his tranny phase and his interracial marriage. he was good for their social engineering agenda. Wilson? too white, too straight.

>>126694889 (OP)
He hasn't been relevant in over 50 years. People are only pretending to care about him to seem interesting or part of the sikrit club
Don't pretend the fucking Beach Boys are cool or that zoomers even know what they fuck they are

>>126699959
ya and ppl on /mu/ don't care that sly stone croaked

>>126695270
Beach boys were way bigger than bowie you retard

>>126701494
>were
Key word here. Bowie stayed in the public eye for far longer, and is a bigger personality than any one member of the Beach Boys. Bowie was all about image, which helps keep his legacy strong. No kid ever had a poster of Brian Wilson on his wall.

Normies don't care about legitimate music geniuses who changed the art form like Brian Wilson, they only care about talentless pretty faces like Bowie who rip off people and troon out.

Brian has been functionally dead since the 90s

>>126701494
Yeah, "were"
This isn't the 60s you retarded boomer. By the time Wilson died no one cared about that lame barbershop boomer band

IDK I think when McCartney and Dylan die it'll be a pretty big deal.

>>126701647
Can't wait honestly
Just knowing they're gone will be a nice

>>126701647
Their musical legacy is quite a bit bigger than the Beach Boys and they still actively tour and perform and have stayed a lot more in touch with contemporary artists than Brian did.

idk Hendrix and Cobain died in their prime and if you look at most contemporary reports of their deaths it wasn't really flattering coverage more like "dum junkie rock star degenerate dies no big loss."

>>126701647
PM will be the biggest music death since MJ, maybe bigger because he's a Beatle

>>126701494
>Beach boys were way bigger than bowie
meds right now

>>126694889 (OP)
Bum bum bum bum bum bum bum bum

It is. In fact I think it's even bigger. Everyone is calling him the genius of the 20th Century.

>>126701647
Jimmy Page, Iggy Pop, Neil Young, Ozzy Osbourne, those'll be big news too

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>>126701773
And Mick Jagger and Keith Richards

>>126701773
David Gilmour

>>126694889 (OP)
All due respect but the Beach Boys are pretty niche outside the early bubblegum pop stuff

IDK man when Anita Bryant kicked it it was just a couple of aging boomer faggots going "Press S to spit."

The Beach Boys mostly thanks to Mike turned into a corny oldies act during the Reagan years and gave up on the contemporary world.

as others said many of Brian's contemporaries have still actively toured or otherwise remained involved with modern day culture (even if in the case of Roger Waters and Neil Young it would have been better if they didn't). him not so much.

>>126701562
No one ever had a Beach Boys poster on their wall period.

>>126701997
it's kind of like all those 50s housewife pop singers like Doris Day. Didn't get much press when they died because meh not a big loss for music.

>>126701632
no one cared about them after '66 except niche hipsters

>>126694889 (OP)
The media is more anti-white men now. See how RYM only dedicated the front page to him for a single day

>>126697806
>I really regret not seeing Brian Wilson in 2015?
nah you didn't miss seeing a braindead zombie onstage tapping at a keyboard as he stares off into space

>>126701785
Keef will live to 100 just to spite everyone

>>126701685
You're full of shit. Hendrix was the biggest and highest paid musician in the world at the time of his death

This bullshit. They just had some session musicians playing and they slapped his face on the cover and made it look like he did anything more than pose for the photo.

brian dying is like joe biden dying, it was long expected and overdue

>>126702194
Wait he died?

>>126702200
he will by the end of the year

>>126702033
Of course. The average person probably can't even name one member, let alone know what he looked like. Whereas Bowie has countless iconic looks such as Aladdin Sane, Heroes, Labyrinth etc.

they unfortunately never really escaped the early '60s artistically

>>126702307
I think they tried to stay 'with it' for a good while in the late 60s and 70s, but perhaps the band name itself was just too intrinsically tied to their early surf & cars & girls themes. And this was made worse when Capitol pumped out greatest hits records, which sold far better than new BBs albums but helped cement them as a nostalgia act.

He's surfing with his bro's in heaven now.

>>126701771
>It is. In fact I think it's even bigger.

>>126701494
The Beach Boys were bigger than Bowie, they aren't anymore. And Brian Wilson on his own was never bigger than him.

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>>126687642
Bowie didn’t even invent shoegaze baka

>>126694889 (OP)
Nobody cares about this guy

>>126704387
>look mom I posted it again

>>126694889 (OP)
Bowie was way more in the public eye. he absolutely adored the limelight. rest in peace to both these legends <3

i thought he'd died decades ago

>>126694889 (OP)
Bowie had a more charisma and cross generational appeal thanks to his movie career. The Beach Boys were kind of faceless to everyone except people who were really into the Beach Boys.

he seemed to be such an innocent and sweet soul.

like a bumbling retard that is also obviously incredibly smart and artistic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JMdw__a77A

one of the most pure things ever captured on camera

>>126702479
blame that on Mike for refusing to let 61-65 go. "nah, we gotta keep remaking '409' for the rest of forever. try anything new? are you nuts?"