Genres

When was the last time you heard something original? I mean a song, poem, movie or a theatre piece that is not a copy of what have been done. During the past 40 years there are artist born in this industry of entertainment, coming in different shapes and sizes. The most exciting part is when all that is original being the list of the media.

I have been in this industry as a singer, dancer, choreographer, a script writer, a translator and a Director. In my experience I have seen more new fresh blood that are much better then what we see and hear from our media. I have auditioned young and old, non talented also and promising artists. Growing up listening to music that was not much labelled as it is now. It depends where in the world you are and your music is categorised.

In early days there were not much genres of music and film as it is now. Now we have more than handful.The same sounds and the melodies are different can be played or recorded by different artist then from there on your geographical origin will play a pert for you to be categorised. If your music is from outside the west then it is world music. No matter how much you can try to fight equality will never be there.

When did doing the copy version of old songs became the in thing? By so doing you are considered the best producer? When did talking became singing? I have a problem listening to the same people everyday, whilst the world has so much to offer. Why is creativity dying when there are so much schools and academies? When will we stop making finance managers our best Judges of the entertainment industry? When will this plastic music and people get out of our faces? Can the media go back to the real world that was and play real music because there is a lot out there that we are over looking. Theatre should bring new things. Shake spear was thee greatest but we need to move on to see something new that is real. The whole world is doing the same thing, stopping the growth of talent but feeding from the old.

If I was a law maker I would cut down all these genre and just call it as it is. Lets get real and promote good stuff because it is good not because it looks nice.