{"id":1247,"date":"2020-07-19T11:19:20","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T18:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2020-07-19T11:52:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T18:52:44","slug":"creepy-creators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/creepy-creators\/","title":{"rendered":"Creepy Creators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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It’s impossible to separate the creator from the creation. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The reason I don’t like cover songs is the same reason I don’t watch Woody Allen movies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

When someone straight up plays a cover song, no matter how much flare they put into it, I am snooze town! I would rather hear the original. The original got popular because it was rad. Part of that radicallity is it felt like it was true to the person creating it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know that my mind is frail. I know that the original singer might have not written it. They might have been forced into doing the song by a producer or whatever. I also know that there’s an easy trick for making a cover song matter to me. All you have to do is introduce the song like “My mother died when I was 12. She used to sing this song to me. It got me through her death. It made me push to get through school. It comforted me through my divorce. I hope it gives something special tonight to someone listening…”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s each beholder’s story<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We don’t directly experience the thing that entertainment creators make. We experience the story we attribute to the creation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is a diagram that’s maybe not helpful<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Great entertainment traditionally has controlled the story to make it the same for everyone. Now, it’s still helpful to serve the audience a story on a platter, but we as creators don’t control all of the viewer’s story. The viewer’s story includes…<\/p>\n\n\n\n