Has Jamiroquoi Ruined My Life?

[zachdecou]

Imagine you are an artist living in a big city. You relatively new to town, or to your particular art. Now imagine everyone who you show your art to says "man you should check out this local guy. I think you'd really dig what he's doing!". Well, for a long time you don't because you never think to when your online and the thought of cheching him out never crosses your mind when your looking to go see a local show. Then one day, your killing time on YouTube and you think " I've been meaning to check out that guy. I think I'll do that." And you do... Only to find out he does the same thing as you, been doing it waaaay longer, and much better. You begin to realize that all those people who referred you to him were actually saying "it pretty much sounds like your ripping him off in every way."

Something like this happened to me this weekend. I FINALLY decided to give Jamiroquoi a go on iTunes only to be devastated. Now when I listen to the stuff I've recorded, it sounds like a crappy, weak, watered down Jamiroquoi. I used to dig what I was doing...

This ever happen to anyone else? Am I overblowing this?

By the way, it should be no shock that I now LOVE Jamiroquoi! Especially the earlier Stuart Zender stuff. Those are some nasty bass lines!

It's like they say: the sincerest form of flattery is unwittingly ripping someone off... Or something like that.


Zach

[FreaqyFrequency]

Don't view it as them ruining what you did before, but rather as inspiration for a new chapter in your playing. You haven't reached the end of anything. Quite the contrary: you now have an absolutely awesome group to listen to and to pick up ideas from.

Not only that, but you can now introduce those ideas to what you were doing before, thus creating something interesting, and different from what's been done before. They aren't you.

Have fun!

[Dr. Cheese]

I love Jamiroquai too, but don't worry. If your stuff sounds like Jamiroquai, you aren't doing anything that wasn't already done by 1979 or 1980 any way!

[baba]

Originally Posted by Dr. Cheese

I love Jamiroquai too, but don't worry. If your stuff sounds like Jamiroquai, you aren't doing anything that wasn't already done by 1979 or 1980 any way!

Took the words right out of my mouth.....errr...keyboard.

[Fun Size Nick]

What he said

Keep at it - the world needs funk!