I was absolutely amazed when I was watching the "Everything's a Mashup" series videos. As the videos continued, my mouth dropped, my eyes got bigger, and my face kept getting closer and closer to the screen. I had no idea how hard it is to come by an original idea, but the ideas that we think are original are really just influenced on pervious ideas. How can anyone come up with something new nowadays? What does the term original even mean?
Kirby Ferguson is a genius. He is the one who connected all of these original ideas with other ideas previously made to show the world that nothing really is its own. The main place we see this imitation happening is in music. This is also where we notice it the most because it is normally the beats of sounds that we easily pick up on.
Kirby Ferguson is a genius. He is the one who connected all of these original ideas with other ideas previously made to show the world that nothing really is its own. The main place we see this imitation happening is in music. This is also where we notice it the most because it is normally the beats of sounds that we easily pick up on.
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As you can hear, One Direction's Best Song Ever sounds a little too much like The Who's Baba O'riley. Coincidence? I don't think so. So how does One Direction not get in trouble for copying The Who? In school, we learn about plagiarizing. Plagiarizing is defined as a piece of writing that has been copied from someone else and is presented as being your own work. Even though One Direction did not take The Who's words, they took their beat, which would be considered words in the music world. As students, we get in a lot of trouble for plagiarizing. We could possibly be expelled from school for doing this. One Direction does it, and it becomes the next biggest hit. How can this be explained? How is it allowed? And most importantly, how is this accepted?