Jonathan Courtney
speaker
3,311 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2024
last heard 25 Aug
Jonathan Courtney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They were the biggest band in the world.
It was the best-reviewed rock album.
It's always in the top 100 best albums of all time.
And then instead of doing what you would expect, which would have been making a follow-up album that was also an amazing rock album, Radiohead just were like, we don't do that anymore.
And their next album was Kid A, which barely had guitars, barely had drums, barely had vocals, barely had any normal verse chorus structure.
A lot of people were super pissed when they did this.
And
Now it's seen as a cult classic and Kid A is also now on those lists of best albums of all time.
But Radiohead, Nintendo, Valve, they keep doing that over and over again.
They keep subverting expectations.
Like Breath of the Wild, which was the big new Zelda kind of format, when that came out, people were like, there's no dungeons?
We have this big open world game and now there's no dungeons and dungeons were always the core of a Zelda game.
And Nintendo was like, yeah, we're just we're just trying to we're just we want to do something else.
And I think.
Thinking about building businesses, thinking about making art, thinking about making things and producing things, the best companies, the best bands which have the most longevity are absolutely not the ones who care about their customers most.
and obsess about their customer... Obviously care about the customer service, but they don't care and obsess about... They try to insulate themselves from what the customers want and are asking for so that they don't end up just making something that they want or...
Doing the even more stupid thing, which you saw with maybe the ending of Game of Thrones, where the showrunners were reading all the Reddit posts about what's going to happen.
And they were like, we're just going to do the opposite.
So without thinking about something better or without thinking about something special, they just did the opposite, which also nobody liked.
So I think that's a really creating something, creating something.
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