[yxlx]

I am very interested in this subject but I was unable to finish watching these videos. The background music is incredibly distracting. I have a name for that kind of music, I call it Silicon Valley Music because it is the kind of music used in a lot of startup product videos. The narrator voice style is also pretty much the same that is used in those. I wanted to like these videos but I did not feel that they had any value what so ever. With all of these kinds of videos, I feel like the producers want the audience to feel bliss or learning but that they never actually deliver on that so instead it seems insincere and underhanded.

[metafunctor]

These are great videos, and the content itself is, in my opinion, pretty good.

It seems to me these have been narrated by a professional. The narrator's voice is pleasant and pronunciation clear, but it seems he doesn't really know what he's talking about.

I would prefer the voice of an actual subject matter expert; they would be able to better convey which parts are actually key concepts, and which parts are just intermediary math. Now it feels like everything is equally important, when it's clearly just some intermediary math to get you to the actually interesting part that follows.

I agree that the continuous music is distracting. The quick fix is to fade the music away for the content. It would be fine to leave in for the beginning, end, and transitions.

[maroonblazer]

I'm confused by your comment. You seem to be saying two different things:

1) The music and choice of narrator is getting in the way of the (presumably valuable) content.

2) The content itself, regardless of the choice of narrator or whether or not there's music behind it, is not useful.

If it's the latter then why complain about the former?

[cLeEOGPw]

People feel discomfort while listening to these videos because they feel like they are being persuaded by a weak young man to believe things he himself does not believe. This is caused by:

1. High pitch voice. Either it is modulated or not, the voice informs us that a person we are listening to is low social status, therefore subconsciously we assign lesser significance to anything he says.

2. Infomercial-like intonation. Guy may be professional narrator, and his intonation is like you would find in advertisements where someone tries to sell you something really worthless. So people again subconsciously tend to "categorize" this kind of information as unwanted and are used to filtering it out. The effect is strengthened by the choice of music.

3. The narrator clearly has no understanding (or gives that impression) about the subject he is told to talk about. This is subconsciously felt by people through his intonation and the way to put emphasis on random words, and that also translates to two things: again reminds us of infomercials (meaningless talking to occupy time) and malicious persuasion - he wants me to believe in something he does not believe (actually does not understand).

This all adds up to our brain signaling something is wrong, therefore complaints. There is more to education than content.

[zhkirill]

A lot of Kickstarter campaigns are using that kind of music too.

[anysz]

yes music needs to part ways from otherwise interesting video