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The
boy
bands
have
won,
and
all
the
copyists
and
the
tribute
bands
and
the
TV
talent
show
producers
have
won,
if
we
allow
our
culture
to
be
shaped
by
mimicry,
whether
it
from
lack
of
ideas
or
from
exaggerated
respect.
You
should
never
try
to
freeze
culture.
What
you
can
do
is
recycle
that
culture.
Take
your
older
brother's
hand-me-down
jacket
and
re-style
it,
re-fashion
it
to
the
point
where
it
becomes
your
own.
But
don't
just
regurgitate
creative
history,
or
hold
art
and
music
and
literature
as
fixed,
untouchable
and
kept
under
glass.
The
people
who
try
to
"guard"
any
particular
form
of
music
are,
like
the
copyists
and
manufactured
bands,
doing
it
the
worst
disservice,
because
the
only
thing
that
you
can
do
to
music
that
will
damage
it
is
not
change
it,
not
make
it
your
own.
Because
then
it
dies,
then
it's
over,
then
it's
done,
and
the
boy
bands
have
won.
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