“Remember the point of it … You’re not doing this to get famous, you’re not doing this to make it about yourself,” Bradlee said about hopeful YouTubers. “That was a pretty stressful experience.”īradlee said he hopes to influence the next generation of YouTube talent. “The more people that were involved in the project, the more kind of personalities to manage, the more difficult questions there were to be answered by the project,” Bradlee admitted. I remember checking the next day and seeing this whole list of comments and wondering, ‘How did people find my video?’ And I found that Neil Gaiman, the writer, had tweeted it to all of his followers, and within a day, it had, you know, 10,000 views.”Īs of January 2019, the video has been watched more than 80,798 times, and Gaiman continues to be a supporter to this day, most recently tweeting about Bradlee’s own book, “ Outside the Jukebox: How I Turned My Vintage Music Obsession into My Dream Gig. “I uploaded a video on YouTube of me doing this funny mashup thing I used to do as a kid of taking modern-day songs and playing them as a ragtime, and it went viral.
He got the idea for PMJ while jamming with friends in his small basement apartment in Queens.
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The pianist and arranger is the creator of PostModern Jukebox, commonly known as PMJ, a music collective featuring a rotating cast of musicians who play modern pop songs in retro styles, including jazz, Motown, swing, ragtime, and other genres.īradlee, 37, moved from New Jersey to NYC in 2010 with a bare-bones plan to be a professional musician and no steady job. Scott Bradlee has turned ragtime into riches, and it all started with a YouTube upload.
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