song exploder and marvel vs mastery
Song Exploder is a super popular podcast and Netflix TV show (although it doesn't work as well in visual format) about how music is made.
It's a show that's built for marvel, not mastery. Which means that it teaches you how things are made, but not how to make them.
The creators of song exploder believe in the myth that there is something special about creative people and about creation. That making unique things is a result of /being/ unique. The show is not for people who want to make music themselves.
It's for people who want to marvel at the ability of other people to make music. It's for people who want to continue to believe in magic.
It is cool to hear how people construct a song. It's cool to hear the little parts that you may have noticed. It's informative. But it's not educational.
Information isn't helpful if it can't be applied. I'm not saying that everything should be useful. Or even that Song Exploder /isn't/. Only that there's a difference between that people - sometimes even the people making the thing - don't notice between useful and useless information.
Useless information is entertainment. Useful information is entertainment. The only difference is in the purpose of the information. The distance between how I did something and how you can do it too.