My guess is that you are going to make the point that it's not necessary to be original, with regards to the harmony and melody. That pretty much everything has been done in that regard, and the creativity is now in the production and execution. Thom Yorke famously declared the melody dead and that rhythm is now king, and he's right. I listened to several minutes of a Boris breja track earlier and realised it hadn't changed chord, and that chord didn't even have a third in it. And yet it was a great track full of tension and release and surprises and familiarity. So the real creativity is in taking ideas and developing them throughout a track, keeping it fresh and yet rooted in the familiar original idea.
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You don’t need to make a video every week. You’ve done enough already and we’ll take whatever we can get…… (seriously your videos are really good. No need to sacrifice quality for quantity)
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On the topic of originality there’s a lot of stigma towards producers who use common splice loops which I really don’t understand. Take Let’s Go by Jaden Bojsen, he used the synth/lead which is a loop on splice and people criticise the song for being lazy/ unoriginal because the main element of the track is a splice loop. The loops are there to be used and if anything the fact that he made the loop work and made a successful track out of it is credit to him as a producer, seeing the potential in the sample.
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There's the perspective that every idea is derivative. I tend to lean towards that but not in the sense that there's "nothing original." I think originality comes from an artist combining their own, unique influences without fundamentally altering it for mass appeal. A unique, careful, curated blend of influences that are suited to the artist is the first half. That takes some level of experience and taste. The second half is the execution, bringing those influences together into something different and not quite alike any other material. Novelty alone isn't original, I don't think (or maybe I'm mixing originality with creativity here. Not sure if you would draw a distinction between those terms.). I feel like there's a final aesthetic consensus step to it. Anyone can have a lot of ideas that are different. Not everyone can be original.
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FWIW originality is much less important to me than groove, rhythm and space. Dance music is endlessly inventing and disrupting formulae - as is most music. Setting originality as a goal is unnecessary and can be self defeating.
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I was going to ask chat gpt for the answer but then I thought that wouldn't be very original and with ai now im seeing more and more chord and melody generating plugins is part of the problem andwhere alot of people get samples from now is another problem if we all drink from the same pool its all going to taste the same , also maybe electronic music in particular in the beginning to be making music took more equipment that most people didn't have and then get it pressed to vinyl it generally had to be of a certain standard, where as now anyone with a laptop can be putting music out within weeks of starting, id say the amount of talent and the amount of originality is the same as always its just in a bigger sea of mediocre
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Bthelick
Apologies guys I'm not going finish a video this weekend, rant on originality got out of hand 🤣
Let me know your thoughts on the subject I'll try to get them into the video ❤️
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