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Originally Posted by Gogogonorrhea
But doesn't that reduce the term "genius" to absurdity? Beck just fooling around like "Oh, Salsa rhythms? Well, I've never done that. Let's put it on my next album. A monk's choir? How cool is that, let's do that, too. Etc. etc."
Of course even the work of someone like Beck has its moments, but that's just logical, because if you plain and simple do everything that is possible, then at least sometimes you'll do the right think automatically.
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Very true.
Maybe you won't exactly do something right by being Beck, but you'll still end up with something that might sound acceptably interesting for someone not to turn it off straight away.
Like everything, eccleticism is good in the hands of those who can pull it off, and by the same token sameness can be fine when done well too.