http://faerye.net/post/originality 2003-09-25T15:20:48+00:00 http://faerye.net/post/originality#comment-578 2003-09-25T15:20:48+00:00 2003-09-25T15:20:48+00:00 <p>That&#8217;s true&#8230; another possible contributing factor to the cachet of the singer-songwriter is that fact that, increasingly, collaborations are the rule. Movies, comic books, TV shows, are all collaborative&#8212;increasingly, even the non-web comic strips are. Perhaps the single creator idea is more important as it becomes more rare. And, of course, it&#8217;s not usually applicable to music, once you add in musicians and producers and so forth.<br /> <br /> And watch who you&#8217;re calling odious, trumpeter!</p> felicity http://faerye.net/post/originality#comment-573 2003-09-25T13:02:51+00:00 2003-09-25T13:02:51+00:00 <p>Anne Harris here. Lurrrv your site, dahlink. Classical instrumentalists aren&#8217;t expected to compose at all to be famous and considered virtuosic, eh? It&#8217;s enough for them just to conquer the vituperative violin or the odious oboe. Also, Elvis&#8217;s voice makes me MELT, and if it bothers a body that he isn&#8217;t a singer/songwriter, one should just think of him as Elvis and special offstage friends. Maybe the issue is that the performance is inauthentic because whatever is being expressed is someone else&#8217;s? Collaboration is a bootyful thing, dontcha know?</p> cherry bombshell http://faerye.net/post/originality#comment-572 2003-09-24T22:01:04+00:00 2003-09-24T22:01:04+00:00 <p>Bah, you listen to him a while, and he grows on you. LIKE FUNGUS!<br /> <br /> And on your dancing feet. LIKE TOE FUNGUS!</p> felicity http://faerye.net/post/originality#comment-571 2003-09-24T18:06:37+00:00 2003-09-24T18:06:37+00:00 <p>That remix of &#8220;A Little Less Conversation&#8221; is the only thing Elvis Presley has ever been involved with that I can stand. Well, that and Lisa Marie, who&#8217;s actually pretty talented.</p> wonko