Where is the originality?

I was working, some weeks ago, on a assignment with my partner. He is a rock fan and loves music, so much that he is in a band. So while we worked he was listening to a Internet radio station www.181.fm (Eagle Classic Rock). Anyway’s, I’m a hip hop, R&B, rap, contemporary rock, alternative, electronic, fan. Once in while some of the songs played where to familiar to me where I realized that some of the songs a listen to today sample or “cover” from this classic rock songs. Here is some of the songs I remember:

This is not news, most people that are more than casual listeners know this happen. Some even sample from “classical music”. Take for example Jedi Mind Tricks in his song On the Eve of War ft. Gza, which original is from Karl Jenkins – “Palladio I – Allegretto”. But it made me wonder how difficult is it today to be original or is it productive to try to do it. Apple has done a business on being “original” or trying to be “original”, to the point where some copy from them in one way or another. The evidence can be seen on how many click wheel (from iPod) or touch screen (iPhone)  clones we see around. Today most mobile manufacturers focus is touch screens, and before that most mp3 manufacturers tried to out done the iPod.

The point… well its hard to be original because we are overloaded or bombarded  with so much information. So all that information is what makes our “inspiration” comes from somewhere. Although it maybe be argue that nothing in the world is purely original, but today in this age, how much of what we come up is it ours and how much is from everybody?

Well.. at least you know they come from Cartoon Stock.