re: #326 ObserverArt

How can something classical last hundreds of years, and yet we can’t discover and rediscover and mess with something that is less than 30 or so?

I think we don’t value what we have now and how it fits in with previous and is another advancement of a how music can be created and styled. And we don’t think it has the ability to last when some of it may well be classics in time.

Take a cross genre song like Willie Nelson’s Crazy. There is a good chance that song will go down in time as a great.

In 1961 it was just a song by some guy too. And I bet someone said “it is not as good as something ol’ Hank wrote.”

Not everyone values things from the past and messes around with them or does something different with them, but there are artists who do, sometimes becoming famous for the new version of an old tune. For example, Vanessa Mae with “Classical Gas” by Mason Williams, or Johnny Cash with “Hurt” by Nine Inch Nails.

(On the other hand, I haven’t gotten famous with my hammered dulcimer version of “Classical Gas,” so there’s that. /s)

Vanessa Mae - Classical Gas

Johnny Cash - Hurt (Official Video) HD