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Moderator
what I object to is the idea that he's some kind of singular pop genius or somehow better than whatever he's drawing on
I tend to think both are usually true—Beatles, Kanye, Bowie, whoever.
Where there are two types of greats: those who come up with the formal and aestshetics innovations, and those who can appropriate and synthesize and make a total package. No one thinks Beatles were the first to run a guitar backwards; it's the way they accommodated and synergised it