Home > Creative Content > Music “You hear these guys competing for the worst take?” says musicologist Rick Beato, whose channel has 5.6 million subscribers and over 6 billion views YouTube musicologist Rick Beato, the internet’s music professor, furiously shredded the New York Times music critics “ 30 Greatest Living American Songwriters ” list – a creation that irked him so deeply he posted a second video this week attacking the “pretentious, cork-Sniffing, smug people” who made it. Beato, the