{"id":7656,"date":"2020-04-03T11:52:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T00:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mag.atomicmusic.space\/?p=7656"},"modified":"2021-07-01T22:57:13","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T11:57:13","slug":"create-something-ffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radio.atomicmusic.space\/index.php\/2020\/04\/03\/create-something-ffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Create something FFS!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What a world we are living in atm\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The world is slowly getting sick\u2026 Those who aren\u2019t getting sick are locked up in their rooms spraying hand sanitiser surrounded by a fort of toilet paper\u2026 The pm is yelling at us like our dad just caught us having a dart behind the shed before school and for some reason, social media is firing up over mis-information spread by people who watched one too many youtube videos about influenza ignoring the facts being handed to you on a plate\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This isn\u2019t the worst thing though\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australia has been stripped of its arts industry and has left hundreds of thousands of creatives to fend for themselves on Australia\u2019s welfare system\u2026 (seriously\u2026 good luck with that!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We all know what is going on in the world with CoVID19 so I am not going to dive into this with yet another post about it BUT it is highlighting something that has been going on for an extremely long time and demonstrating that it is a problem that is getting worse. That is the mindless following of trends and the stripping of creation\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take for example\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TikTok is a pop-culture platform that has a bunch of tween\u2019s (and a scary amount creepy dad\u2019s) doing random dances and actions to music or sound-bites applied in the background\u2026 When the user\u2019s video takes off, someone put\u2019s \u201c#challenge\u201d at the bottom and a few hundred thousand people do the exact same thing essentially covering the previous person\u2019s actions in the hope they to, can get a few hundred thousand juicy likes and shares\u2026 People everywhere are flocking to this platform to copy other peoples work in the hope to get \u201cTik-Tok Famous\u201d and it is generating a generation of people copying other peoples actions in order to gain popularity\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now\u2026 This isn\u2019t a new concept. It has actually been happening in music since the dawn of time. Musicians develop their skills playing other artists music, sometimes form a band with there friends who like the same music and play a few gig\u2019s at a pub smashing out the same 20-30 songs everyone hears weekend after weekend and gets \u201clocal famous\u201d. Sometimes, like in the case of every artist that has entered X-Factor\/Australian Idol\/The Voice etc\u2026 You cover a song so well, it takes off and you enter the world of the professional music industry bypassing the normal \u201cstruggle-street\u201d approach but very rarely does this translate into a successful career. Except in the case of Daryl Braithwaite\u2026 (argh\u2026 no\u2026 I won\u2019t ride that horse in this article\u2026)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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