genres. pfft.

you know why the beatles were so awesome in the second half of their career? because every new piece they created defined a new genre. even the pieces that weren't really influential exist in their own space, just waiting to spawn something.

this has never really been replicated. not at that level, anyways. but it's not like it's impossible to replicate. sure, they had unlimited resources, and it helps. but we're in a technological space now where virtually anybody has possibilities that far exceed what they had, if you're willing to use technology to sub in for the orchestras. anybody can plug a moog into a vsti, and there's forty years of new synths to plug in on top of it.

if there's one thing i could say i aspire to, i think it's that. i don't want to exist in a genre. it helps with marketing, sure, to package something that fits a set of cliches. but fuck that. i want every piece i write to define a new genre, to exist in a unique space.

i hope i've been moderately successful at this. at the least, it's what i think the narrative ought to be, one day. "blender rock". sure, but it's out of the necessity to box something i don't want to box.

the most interesting genres are the ones that don't exist yet.

if you can create ONE genre nowadays, you're considered brilliant. but this is a contradiction relative to what we have in front of us. the task of a creative mind in this endless array of creative possibilities must be to take advantage of it. i'm not going on a marxist rant about contradictions in capitalism.

but, a record like sgt. peppers that spawns a dozen genres is just unheard of. that's what a younger set of ears is going to hear: how absurdly diverse those records are. it's like almost outside the realm of what they're expected to even contemplate.