Before the pandemic hit, Pat Finnerty was just another workman musician, leading his own locally beloved band in Philadelphia and taking on mercenary gigs as a sideman guitarist. Once the music industry shut down, Finnerty found himself with two valuable tools: lots and lots of time and a loathing for a semi-obscure guitarist-turned YouTuber. Thus was born his hit YouTube series, What Makes This Song Stink.
“I was like, I don’t know if anyone’s gonna watch this, but I’m gonna have a lot of fun doing them,” Finnerty says. “I know there’s millions of people that are gonna get this ’cause there’s millions of people that watch Beato and maybe 10 percent of them will know how ridiculous this man is. But it’s so niche!”
