Is Mindless Creation Allowed in Music? Guess not!

Mindless Creation Inspired by Prof. Aishman

In the early 1900’s, circa 1916-1920 during World War 1 lived an art movement called ‘Dada or Dadaism’. This movement at its time, and even now looking back at it was powerful because of its lack of a message and of course inadvertently having one. The Dada movement existed in various forms such as visual arts, literature, theatre, and graphic design, but the intent behind the movement was to go against the grain of what was considered acceptable forms of art, creating what was called anti-art. The movement was displaying its disapproval with the war, and the manipulation of the ruling classes to make this war exist.

Before this movements manifestation it was as if arts only purpose was to appease those looking by giving them something they could connect with or understand. Knowing that art could not exist without a purpose unconsciously limits its diversity. So to have a movement that says were going to make art and be aware of all the rules and intentionally not abide by any was unheard of.

So a few days ago I was reading the blog of one of my professors and the first line of his blog posed the question, “Whatever happened to mindless creation?” What was even more ironic was early that day before I began to read his blog, I was speaking to a few peers and they were all enthralled about the hip-hop culture but disenchanted by its current state. NO ONE wants to hear another lean with it rock with it, do the heizman on that Ooo, Crank that soldier boy, or anything about doing the cupid shuffle song. But honestly that’s the problem with current hip-hop, it parallels the issues of art during the early 1900’s, people were forced into believing that arts only function had to pertain to aesthetics, or some type of implied or covert message, but how about Not! What if hip-hop doesn’t always have to be saturated with a fight the power message, or the need of one voice, one person, and one mic to make a change? What if you just make music to make it? Allowing the listener to interpret what he or she wants from the music, or not even interpret anything at all just listen, and accept what is heard at face value and it be ok. Don’t get me wrong, I’d choose Naz’s first LP over some of this pop music any day but that’s not the point I'm trying to make. My gripe does with us not understand this current form of music’s importance to the movement as a whole, you can still have fun making music, and you don’t have to instill some profound message in your song for it to be worth listening to. You can make music simply because you love it and you’ll still be accepted as an artist in your own right. Your mindless creation is what makes you an artist and because you’re not doing what some, maybe even most feel you should be doing with your music, it doesn’t lessen your caliber as an artist it simply makes you an individual, and what’s so bad about that?

Credits: wikipedia<---- quick research of factual info Steve aishman <---where the inspiration derived from photoawesome <---a website worth going to!