Cameron Moody - exceptional musical talent

[GerateWohl 4,326]

Anyway, I would vote for Moody getting the scoring assignment for any of the next live action Star Wars shows. Then it could only get better.

[Docteur Qui 1,544]

I know Cameron and he's a wonderful young man, highly driven and with a lot of talent and a bright career ahead of him. I'll echo what others have said and say that the most exciting thing about his music is where it will take him next as he develops his own style. Not many people can emulate Williams with such precision, and certainly not at his age, so he can only go up from here. 

 

Thankfully the posts here are somewhat civil so far, but please keep in mind that he's a young person and a human being. Despite peoples' thoughts on the whole "next John Williams" thing he didn't draw that comparison himself.

 

Can't wait to see what he does next. The fact he worked on Nope is a sign that he's working with good people and well on his way to success.

 

[Bellosh 3,383]

1 hour ago, Docteur Qui said:

 Thankfully the posts here are somewhat civil so far, but please keep in mind that he's a young person and a human being. Despite peoples' thoughts on the whole "next John Williams" thing he didn't draw that comparison himself.

 

 

I mean the dude that made this thread didn't really think that all through. Already seen a couple good spirited, lighthearted moody jokes here. The dude went overzealous.

 

It's kind of a shame because Moody is obviously gifted as heck.  But you don't really do the dude a service coming into a JWfan forum, make a comment about JW dying and also say he talks like Williams. It's like what are you doing?

 

Also I don't believe there are next versions of someone so great. Regardless of how great any young composer turns out to be.

 

But all that said, Moody is on my radar to listen to!

 

[michael_grig 464]

2 hours ago, Bellosh said:

say he talks like Williams

What is the problem with this?

[p0llux 392]

In the basketball world in the late 90s, a teenage Kobe Bryant came onto the scene and was hailed the "next MJ" because he played the same position as Michael Jordan. Kobe ended up imitating MJ a lot. His moves, his mannerisms, and to a degree, his successes. Ultimately however, Kobe was most definitely NOT the next MJ. He was the first Kobe Bryant that borrowed heavily from MJ. In the basketball world, to even be mentioned in the same sentence as MJ is a great compliment. To be hailed as the next MJ is an even greater compliment, because it means you potentially have all the gifts and talent of the GOAT but none of the successes...yet.

 

So to proclaim Cameron Moody as the next JW isn't an insult to JW. It is simply a great compliment for a young composer. However, it's important to know your audience. In a JWfan forum, proclaiming anybody as the next JW is near sacrilegious because that is the culture in here. We are all hardcore fans. We don't like the idea there's someone else out there that could replace JW. Some would even say we worship JW like a god, which is extreme but not out of the realm of possibility. 

 

That said, I really enjoyed Moody's music so far. In some of what I've heard, he's nailed the Williams mannerisms quite well, intentional or not. He is quite a talent. I hope he becomes the first Cameron Moody that borrowed from JW.

 

[michael_grig 464]

Thank you for this beautiful argument, @p0llux!

 

As others have said, Moody is a great admirer of Williams, so I'm sure he'd be delighted to hear a sentence like that. Of course it can put great pressure on someone to have a great future predicted. But he's almost certainly not reading this at all, since he's not on the forum as far as I know.

 

We've already been given one John Williams, so it's all good already.

And JW's work will last forever. If you are not that interested in the great work of others, you can stay with Williams, there should be enough to discover and perceive.

[artguy360 1,843]

I really enjoy Cameron Moody's music and his appreciation for JW is self-evident. I hope he gets more work and more prominent work soon. 

[Bellosh 3,383]

1 hour ago, Michael Grigorowitsch said:

What is the problem with this?

 

It just came off weird to me is all as a comparison. But you know I think I'm just misreading you.

 

You're good dude. 

[Jules 59]

Yeah it goes without saying, but some people in this thread need to lighten the hell up. 

[Luke Skywalker 1,792]

I feel so bad about Giacchino….hailed as the next john williams yet life treated him so badly. Just look at his career…. 
 

if only he had been a little bit more successful….nowadays he would be scoring every single f*cking film out there….

 

sarcasm mode off 😜

[Schilkeman 955]

I've just checked out some of his stuff. I don't know...it's extremely derivative, but most notable composers went through a derivative phase. Hopefully he gets enough work to create his own voice, because there is some talent there. In the current state of Hollywood, and the film scores that are in vogue, I'm not sure he will. At least he sounds like he composes by ear, and not midi playback. I don't know if JNH or Giacchino compose by computer, but the muddiness of their orchestration and repetitiveness of their rhythms lead me to believe they do. 

 

Like I said, I think it will come down to practice and the amount of work he gets. JW spent years writing for weekly radio and tv shows before really hitting it big with feature films. And even then it took him almost another decade to really come into his own voice, by then in his forties. They don't really score tv shows anymore. I think in a different world we could've had this same conversation about Joel McNeely twenty years ago, and that hasn't really worked out either. 

[Yavar Moradi 2,585]

15 minutes ago, Schilkeman said:

Like I said, I think it will come down to practice and the amount of work he gets. JW spent years writing for weekly radio and tv shows before really hitting it big with feature films.

 

Do you mean JG? I wasn't aware of (m)any radio scores by JW. Can you point me towards some?

 

Yavar

[Schilkeman 955]

Sorry, I thought the General Electric Theater and Kraft Mystery Theater were radio programs, but I guess not. But still, a lot of T.V. stuff.

[Yavar Moradi 2,585]

3 hours ago, Schilkeman said:

Sorry, I thought the General Electric Theater and Kraft Mystery Theater were radio programs, but I guess not. But still, a lot of T.V. stuff.

 

Absolutely! I know that both Goldsmith and Herrmann did a lot of CBS radio scoring I just didn't recall Williams doing any.

 

Yavar

[artguy360 1,843]

Cameron Moody released a new video on YouTube. World premiere of a piece called "Celebrate the Arts". Pretty fun. Very JW-like, some nice string passages. 

 

 

[JNHFan2000 2,943]

I like it, it's very much like Williams.

To the point that some sections sound like they are Harry Potter, Home Alone, Jurassic Park & Indiana Jones 4