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Have you ever noticed that music sucks nowadays? Same with art. Why is this? I think it’s because every successive generation of music is inspired by the previous one (that goes for art too). However, not everyone takes the time to really learn the basics. For example 70s rock is inspired by the blues and early metal is inspired by a kind of mixture of classical and rock. Then the next generation is inspired by the previous and so on and so on, until you’re left with some bullshit like blink 182, or all american rejects.

The same thing happens with art except it’s styles that become inspiration. For example painting used to strictly represent things as photo-realistically as possible. Then came the camera and painting was freed from representation. The first thing to go was strict color, then proportion, all on the road to full blown abstraction. The early abstract artists (Picasso, Kandinsky, etc), however, all learned traditional painting first. Rooted in classical knowledge they then branched out to create something new. Even the abstract expressionists of the 50s could draw. Nowadays you have painters who would have trouble with a fucking stick figure.

This is really something that happens in any creative field. Comedians might go something like George Carlin -> Louis CK -> some joke stealing shit like Dane Cook. The point being that each successive generation becomes just a little bit more watered down than the previous one. Each successive generation knows a little bit less than the previous. I shudder to think what music is going to sound like when we have bands that are influence by blink 182. Hopefully i’ll be dead by then.