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This is not "tasteful / expensive" vs "cheap / tacky". This is about paint-by-numbers vs painting free-form, from your own imagination, or playing Guitar Hero v
by MrBuddyCasino 6y ago
This is not "tasteful / expensive" vs "cheap / tacky". This is about paint-by-numbers vs painting free-form, from your own imagination, or playing Guitar Hero vs actually learning to play the guitar, and maybe writing a song.
It doesn't matter if the result meets other people's standards, it just matters that the template wasn't already carved out by someone else.
I picked my examples because I like them, just substitute them for something cheaper / less impressive, but self-made, if that is what you're getting hung up about.
- hesdeadjim 6y agoYou’re a fool if you think any form of “unique” creative expression isn’t just a variation on something that has come before. Let’s say you go and write an original guitar song. Your musical tastes have programmed you to copy what you have enjoyed in the past. Does that devalue your accomplishment, not in the slightest! Similarly, someone gets into blinging out their computer by copying what others have done, perhaps they find their unique voice doing so, maybe not. Maybe, like learning one of your favorite songs on an instrument, it’s just fucking fun and that is good enough.