The Messengers are a grim band - loosey-goosey enough that even Mia enjoys them - existing primarily to reinforce Seb’s savior narrative. Seb detests Keith’s band, and his artistic ethics, but joins the group anyhow, selling out for $1,000 a week and a cut of the ticket and merchandise revenue, playing some demon digital keyboard with red keys that makes noise like a cartoon bug zapper.
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Looking backward, not forward, is prized - anyone who advocates change is mocked. In leaning so hard on Seb’s jazz classicism as a proxy for unvarnished artistic truth, “La La Land” ends up having very little respect for jazz as a living art form. Chazelle can’t entertain that complexity - the Messengers are nothing but a straw band. There are plenty of modern-day innovators making music conscious of jazz history while looking forward for inspiration (see Kamasi Washington, Steve Lehman).
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