I’ve been told by many people that our generation has no originality and stealing ideas from the past to create style and art, that we lack innovation. I think this is total shit, I have to agree that our generation is the most resourceful, inspirations coming from previous decades and fades. But have we not gone and pushed the boundaries? Isn’t art about expression and interpretation? Isn’t all art inspired?
We can look at this years greatest innovative success; Lady Gaga. Now I haven’t been a fan of her recently mainly for her domination of the airwaves, and every other media outlet. And for some reason I just got really fedup with her, when in fact I had purchased the album when I first heard “just dance” back in May of 08′. But I give her props for pushing the boundaries and creating something that has never been done. She is consistently giving us music we’ve never heard, and video’s we’ve never seen, even fashions we’ve never dreamed of. Or has it been done before? There is no doubt that Gaga has been inspired, among the likes of Madonna, Queen, Michael, David Bowie. Regardless, this isn’t about Miss Gaga, every great music to top the charts has been inspired and influenced. Be it MJ influenced by Little Richard, Diana Ross, Bee Gees, or Elvis knowing every single Hank Snow song, or even Madonna praising the works of Karen Carpenter, and The Supremes to helping create her musical styling. One of my favourite musicians of all time; Leadbelly has provided material (which had been adapted for previous sources) for the likes of Abba, Van Morrison, The White Stripes, The Rolling Stones, Led Zepplin and countless other artists.For fuck sakes, every single musician and artist has been inspired or influenced.
Just like anything else in our society, and music specifically has been developed. Music was not created the way it sounds today. It started with the basics, from literally carving instruments out of bones, to the slow development of tune and the cultivation of songs. These expansions developed slowly, and after thousands of years we have music today.
What I’m getting at is every generation has their claim to fame. We may not be creating a piece of art that you are not able to redirect to a previous time. Alas that is only because you have not been alive forever, ergo you aren’t aware of every creation, every song, every lyrics, every sound, every image that may have influenced these works that we are ’stealing’ from. We take what we know, and we transform. I believe we will be known as the generation that reinvents. We are taking music, art, fashion, and recreating it. Interpreting and transforming it, while praising those who made the arts what they are today.
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