Refuse yourself to become a prisoner to your past self, your past artistic style, etc.
Who is benefitted by genres?
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It seems that only compilers, historians, or art critics are benefitted by genres.
Why? The purpose of a genre is to make an artist generic and understandable/”classifiable”.
Why classify?
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The nerd gains great pleasure, a feeling of superiority when they classify someone into a certain category or genre.
Useful for them, but not for us as individual artists.
I cannot be classified
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I cannot and refuse to be classified. I like to do everything. I like to rap, make videos, make photos, write, blog, etc. By confining myself into a genre, I lose the ability to grow new wings.
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You’re the same. Refuse to let yourself trap yourself into your own mental and artistic prison.
#antigenre
ERIC