letsgetbent:

“For a few years now, I have come to a conclusion regarding the music that I have loved forever: Rock N Roll MUST be destroyed. Killed, in order to preserve it and its spirit. I can’t be the only one who has thought this. Or that there was no need for a Gremlins 3-D.

Maybe now is the perfect time, given that anarchy is being co-opted for a surrealist ad-campaign. Maybe it’ll make more sense. Maybe the idea is now as trendy as the entity I am trying to repossess ownership from. Maybe I am a liar, a foolish punk rocker. Maybe my bitching is trendier than everything.

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This actually made me think a lot. I mean, when it comes to movies, books, tv, or really any other kind of media, I am constantly the person bitching about remakes and reboots. It’s about the worst kind of second-handing possible. At least, when there’s no added value, nothing that justifies its existence beyond a profit margin. I am a firm believer in working with the medium. The things you can do in film are not the things you can do with words, and they should never be treated as the same because they aren’t, and doing so cheapens both. 

But I’ve never applied that same reasoning to music. And by most admitted counts, music is cyclical. I mean, again, most art is. You find inspiration by other’s who are doing what you want to do, and it’s only natural that a little bit of them carries through. I don’t know, I guess I just don’t interact with music in that way. It’s an understood for me. I’m not a musician, and I don’t think I ever will be. I kind of prefer it that way. It stays magical. Maybe it’s because of my dance background, but to me, music is what everything else moves to. Art, culture, life… it all reflects the music it was made to, and the life I want to have, that determines what kind of music I want to listen to. 

It reminds me of the “creative destruction” idea in economics. That technological advancements are necessary in progressing as a society and as a species, but that in creating new enterprises, it destroys old ones. (Like how “retweet” just replaced “cassette tape” in the Oxford Dictionary). But again, I’ve never thought about how that applies to music, or even art in general. At the most obvious, bands breaking up give way to new bands that are generally also amazing. If King Khan and BBQ hadn’t split, would there be a King Khan and the Shrines? But after that, I just don’t know. 

(Source: letsgetbent)