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Taylor Momsen picks a Beatles masterpiece on Rick Beato

Her perfect-song answer joins David Kollar's unusual guitar textures and Steel Beans' three-instrument performances in a nine-upload week.

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Rick Beato Story of October 28, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Taylor Momsen on what is a perfect song #taylormomsen #thebeatles

Rick Beato asks for a perfect song, and Taylor Momsen barely needs a pause: "I mean, 'A Day in the Life' I think is a perfect song." The Pretty Reckless singer then moves from the composition to a recording puzzle: why do Beatles records sound so good decades later?

Beato points to the combination of songs, producer and studios. Momsen has a shorter description: "A unicorn." Their exchange was the week's most-watched new upload, reaching roughly 576,000 views. In the comments, listeners offer alternative Beatles picks, recall first hearing the song and single out its ending.

Elsewhere, the week's music-making gets considerably less conventional. In "I've Never Seen The Guitar Played Like This," Slovak guitarist David Kollar demonstrates how unusual playing techniques and digital manipulation create otherworldly textures. It's the new upload with the strongest daily momentum, while an older Josh Homme guitar-tuning Short draws the most daily views across the channel.

Then Jeremy DeBardi, better known as Steel Beans, arrives with two amplifiers, a guitar, a drum kit, plastic plants and fake heads. His interview includes three performances and an explanation of the philosophy behind playing three instruments at once. Desmond Child supplies a different kind of craft lesson, tracing melody, production and the importance of a single syllable in a lyric.

The channel added 10,000 subscribers over seven days and collected about 12 million views, the largest weekly total among its nearby music-commentary peers. Daily viewing is nevertheless running at roughly half its usual level. Alongside the new interviews, Sheryl Crow's rendition of Neil Young's "Old Man" remains one of Beato's busiest uploads.

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What viewers say

I remember hearing it for the first time as a kid in like 84. I was into heavy metal and not much of a Beatles fan, but that song did something to me no other song has. it was like stepping into the pages of a story book.
@joho0See it on YouTube
Rain is the perfect Beatles song to me
@unskilledlabor1See it on YouTube
i would agree with “a day in the life” being the perfect song!
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The Beatles were truly a one-off cosmic event. Everything came together at just the right time. I think about this often.
@JohnGauge790See it on YouTube
“In my life” brings on so many emotions in one song. Love it.
@mpc1388See it on YouTube
And it's amazing how Pauls part of Day in the Life was just something he had lying around and didn't know what to with it. Fits in perfectly.
@jackstraw0223See it on YouTube
Her choice is hard to argue against
@paullees5705See it on YouTube
This song never fails to bring a tear to my eye. I love it.
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