repoman wrote:I think the internet has been a paradigm shift in terms of creativity.
The good stuff, the really creative stuff is not created from influences, its created in a vacuum where the artist can curl up in his head and come up with stuff that is unique and individual.
I think creativity exists to fill a void and in a sense there are no voids any more because its all filled up readily with media/information/entertainment from the internet.
I don't know if his point that nothing interesting exists anymore because people are afraid of taking risks. In fact, I think it would be much much easier to take risks these days because no one makes any money anymore doing this kind of thing. Maybe in the 90s you could do this and live in a hovel and eat baloney sandwiches every day, you can't do that these days. A risk would have to have some possible negative fallout...doesn't seem realistic that people are inhibited because someone gives them a thumb down on their youtube music video that has 200 views. I do kind of agree that there isn't much interesting stuff out there anymore. This might be the old man yelling at clouds/everything was better in the past cliche or it might be something different. The internet is something I think has far more impact on people than things like TV, Radio.
Fucking clouds they mock us so
One I have with the "nowness" is that questions are to easy to get the "right" answer like WHATFUZZPEDLEDOIUSEGETTHISSOND??????????
and how you play his like this... yes I know you could say yeah well all those shitty guitar videos where all over the 80's and 90's... not really, you had to buy or borrow the things and they were mostly very lame.. so up until youtube you still had to do more of your own thinking.. but.. is that a bad thing? anyone with a brain can take info and then apply it in their own way and come up with new things. Actually what I see as the problem is the opposite, too much nostalgia and being suck in the good ol days in rock music is killing it and turning it into what classical, jazz and blues is to a lot of people, stale and overly tradition bound... and no it isn't like I am hearing anything really new that I think is interesting... but that is more because most things sound like stuff I have already heard.. I'm sure there will be something really new but it will have to break though a lot of preconceptions, best of luck to you all.