Shatter Me

On its face, I think incorporating violin into electronic music can work. However, I think the mistake here for me is making the violin solely a bombastic lead instrument throughout every song. It’s all peak and no valley, all flash and very little subtlety, if you catch my drift. A lot of these songs could benefit from more well written and layered violin accompaniments - like the more mellow arrangements on the track Night Vision. Let the violin slowly build up the mood around the electronics, making the sound more expansive. As it is, a lot of this record plays kind of like a Joe Satriani record: An impressive display of technical prowess with songs that end up feeling mostly indistinguishable from each other because they are all built for the purpose of showcasing the talent of the artist, rather than being well written and engaging.

I hardly ever heard something as uninteresting as Shatter Me by Lindsey Stirling. I suppose she is technically a good violin player, but what an slick, clean and commercial sounding piece of music this is. Music made by humans (not by AI) and still without a soul.

Christ alive

This is so good!

This is fun violin action like you'd hear on America's Got Talent or something

I liked one track, but overall it had the feeling of a virtuosic instrumentalist playing over a $10 MIDI loop pack

I remembered how revolutionary Stirling’s sound seemed when it first appeared on the scene, but the early 2010s were a musical eon ago. The violin-playing is exceptional, which is a shame given the electronic elements have aged about as well as milk left in direct sunlight and sound incredibly dated. The sterile production doesn’t help either, only reinforcing the divide between Stirling’s exciting string performance and the lackluster EDM accompaniment. A great idea at the time, but not one with staying power.

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No idea how it got as popular as it got 1, but I respect it

Would be an interesting idea if it weren't the same thing every time of violin over shitty EDM music. It never felt in harmony and just like those shitty mash-ups. Add some dynamics to this and make the instruments speak to each other and you got something interesting. Instead this just sounds like the most over produced AI slop you could imagine. My personal rating: 2/5 My rating relative to the list: 2/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No

Suno AI generate cool dubstep album featuring violins, make it epic, female vocals

Violín pop. Casi todo instrumental. Está bien para tenerlo de fondo. Un 4, venga.

Kind of cool to focus on a modern interpretation of a featured classical instrument, but it needed more vocals, and not numetal.

Lindsey Stirling doing in 2014 what Vanessa Mae was doing twenty years before. It's OK - yeah, pretty OK. But I can't help but feel that she was trying more for concert material than a pure album of music.

Rating: 6/10 Best songs: Mirror haus

Me gusta que esta lista sea tan ecléctica.

I’m glad this was on here. A friend talked about her after seeing her as an opening act for someone. Sounded interesting but I just never got around to listening to it. I liked parts and didn’t like others.

Wow geez I haven't thought about Lindsey Stirling in a very long time. One of the most delightful side-effects of the 2010s dubstep craze was that a type of music that was previously mostly associated with DJs on uppers suddenly gained traction with steamers, E-Sports producers and other associated computer nerd subcultures, creating a window for absolutely buckwild fusions like this to thrive & proliferate. It's hard to overstate how big this and her previous album were in certain circles (gamer girls) when they came out. I don't stand by it enough to call what I'm feeling "nostalgia" exactly, but this really takes me back to an extremely specific part of my college years, which I gotta imagine is how people 10-15 years older than me feel about a lot of emo and pop-punk. The production on this one sounds super dated, but it honestly wouldn't surprise me if 8 years from now the wheel keeps turning and there's renewed interest in something like this

Odd vibe on this one, the very slick and processed violin delivered in this electronica setting with strong dubstep/trap-ish elements. The whole of the composition put me in mind of the kind of music you might find in a high-production value, fairly mainstream anime. I didn't hate it by any means but it had it had an overly produced pop flavor that buried the main event, the violin, somewhat for me.

Talented violin playing, but much of this album was all blurred together and it was hard to feel anything specific about the formulaic approach to the music. One of these songs performed live might wow… but an album full of these on a recording became repetitive and a bit boring. There were more interesting moments like Roundtable Rival the struggled to stand out, but they didn’t rise high enough to shake the feeling that the underlying music felt pretty sterile.

I like violin music but I didn't care for this at all. Reminded me of Mannheim Steamroller or Trans-Siberian Orchestra or some such soulless bullshit. 2 stars.

This was different, became a bit repetitive after a few songs though.

The best songs where the ones she was a background player in. No doubt talented but every song was just like the last. We are Giants was by far the best track.

This is what happens when a theater kid gets too big a budget. It's just sooooo over the top. Fake depth. Fake drama where there is none. When their are lyrics, I feel embarrassed FOR them. Everything is so clean it sounds fake. This came out pre AI but it sounds like slop. Did we train AI ON this?